After reading over 2000 mails in this list today this is what I have to say about this issue...
CPU usage is the really big reason. At the very least the CPU usage should be as .0c, preferable lower than that. Michael Ressen has a good point when he declare that we as admins can not afford to upgrade the servers hardware all the time. So CPU usage is a great deal for us admins. Ive been running a csserver from aprox when cs turned 1.1.. Back then I could run 4 servers on my dual p3 550. 2 public and 2 match servers. After each of your release there have been a big jump in cpu usage. Things where added that did not need to be added. like the voicecom. Several others where on the market allready when you added that feature.. We all remember roger wilco and teamspeak, which still some use... that jump made me go to 1 pub and 1 match. The thing is... You have the world leading game on your hands.. The CS mod have more online players than any other game or hlmod COMBINED! (according to gamespys stats).. The player likes how the game are... the game dont need any new features, we like it just the way it is... We could care less for some fancy riotshield or changing sounds... Why spend resources on adding more features to the game, when the real effort should be directed towards fixing bugs, security issues, optimizing and supporting the community... We as admins ARE half-life / counter strike. Without us you will not have the amount of players that you currently have... CPU usage is not the only problem though.. One other thing that are really a big issue is the latency. The players wants and loves the low latency. Latency you could only get when using pingbooster 3 on .0c. I could not get the same low latency on .1x as on .0c. nomatter what pingbooster option I choosed to use. I tried all the different suggestions that where posted on this list with no help... I for one can not figure out how you can replace an option with something else. its like replacing the f flag on tar with z. since the new pb3 option is different than the old you should have called it pb4. I would love to see the old pb3 option back. If you dont want it in the system you should have made pb3 obsolete and left todo nothing. You cant get any smoother and better gameplay than pb3 on .0c. As many have stated: clans will not play on servers that have .1x on the server. The bottom line is that you really need to learn how to listen to your users.. You should be able to get a lot of responces and feedback with that huge amount of users you have in your posession... with users I really mean admins... Since admins are more reliable as source than your average player Joe. So here is something for you to listen to: Please fix so the latency are lower without the cost of high CPU usage... The latency should not be much higher than the actual icmp ping.. And last of all I want to quote on thing that nailed it from Michael Ressens post: "Anything that can be done to aid in the load issue we're facing is going to be the most welcome relief to us." Regards, Bjorn -- You never get a second chance to make a bad first impression. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
