hear hear. shame vavle will probably ignore it Timo Hilbertz wrote: > great posting, /signed ! > > > ics schrieb: >> There are some things which are rather disturbing. Like news and >> information about latest outbreak (yes, downtime of services) >> >> No news about steam being offline, except a small note on forums done by >> forum moderators. Every external site, mostly related to gaming had news >> about steam network being down due to storm or something. Why not post >> it directly into steam news section the make it clear? Got something to >> hide? The forum post besides stated that everything was ok and it was >> not. All the valve fanboys (=forum moderators) rushed to post news about >> everything being ok too soon and started locking up topics about the >> current issues at hand. Cant people talk about it? At that time, linux >> servers were not working. Steam clients for users were, but there were >> only like ~3000servers online, those including the ones that havent been >> rebooted yet and if they were, they would not come back online due to >> steam problems. What i heard, windows srcds were working fine and this >> shows how many servers more there are actually are running on linux. No >> notification ANYWHERE for the people who RUN THE SERVERS. Not even from >> the forum moderators on srcds windows and linux section. How about >> setting a separate news section for technical news if current steam news >> is inappropriate? Yeah srcds is free, however servers are not where it >> gets ran by server admins. Most of the latest updates have been >> extreamly hostile towards the people who run the servers. Many features >> available where disabled and most of us dont like that. Besides, >> co-location of servers in other continent, for example at europe would >> not be that hard nor it would cost too much. All you need is a duplicate >> server farm of the original located in europe relaying data. >> Even if it would be just for the auth-servers 0:0 and 0:1. Set up >> adverts to cs source servers and im sure server operators will become >> even more hostile towards the whole community. It feels like we are >> being kicked to the head time to time with no information about what is >> becoming. I understand its Your game but We play it and run it on our >> servers. You are depending from Us as We are depending on You. Players >> are like sheeps and they do what they are told to do and accept the >> updates as great ideas or feel them as bad as they are, not being able >> to do anything about it except quit playing. Well we can do the same, >> accept changes or go closing servers. We aint that far yet though. Well >> players paid about the game already so why would they be important >> anymore? Running servers is becoming more pointless if we cant decide >> what features we want to run and what not. Players can decide which >> servers do they play, they can swap themselves to another server if they >> dont like the current one. Besides, if you integrate adverts to the >> servers and get all the profit, then why would you think most of us >> would like to look adverts on our servers which were free from adverts >> before? Make us buy a srcds without adverts? I will not run a server >> with adverts to players, even if they are not "disturbing" ones. Text >> adds might be tolerable, but not if they get spammed every 2 mins. >> Generally i dont want to see adverts while i play. >> >> New year is coming. Maybe it would be good idea to ask the community >> what they want to see in CS Source in the future so it wont turn against >> Steam and its games. As far as i can see, i picked up 50 servers today >> at random to see how many servers actually use Dynamic Pricing. Shocking >> or not, or maybe i just hit the wrong servers at random but 7 out of 50 >> used DWP only. Maybe it wasnt such a good feature at all as it havent >> worked ok for months like we all know who have been monitoring the >> system. Also good idea would be correct the steam client and CS Source >> flaws which include: >> >> - Random logging out from steam after you quit the game and next time >> you try to start gamee, it only shows pre-loaded. (Trick to restart >> steam to see new games on webstore?) >> - Disappearing favorite servers list (yes it really is disappearing and >> appearing at random or is this feature ment to make players not so >> dependant from few servers and play on others too?) >> - Cant log in, removing the ClientRegistry.blob is the only solution. >> - Rebuy issues on CS Source caused by Dynamic Pricing? When you hit >> rebuy, it doesnt buy defusal kit or kevlar every time as it should be. >> Also kevlar shows that you can buy it if you have no money for it. >> - Scoreboard bug on CS Source - right after you die, go spec and back >> and receive 1 kill as reward. Works every time. >> >> These are the ones i encounter time to time myself when i play and >> others have reported to have same issues. Every day someone asks at IRC >> help with steam because it doesnt start. We always tell them to remove >> the *.blob after trying steam restart few times and removing *.blob >> really helps. Some are not that critical but they are annoying. I >> propably forgot few but these came up to my mind. I hope this is not >> becoming a flaming fire between the community and valve, but more of an >> discussion operner about the upcoming features. Im sure creating more >> changing of ideas between community would be a good idea. How about >> doing a survey through steam about what players want? >> >> -ics >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >> > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > >
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