" Do you really think UK players will play on Italian servers? Man they have 1000+ decent servers in their country, they won't event think about connecting to one..."
Players tend to come from all over the place for servers in Europe which can be seen if you geo-ip profile your own players. Below is an example snapshot of players on our UKCS TF2 servers from yesterday. As you can see, they come from a wide area and pings stay low with good connectivity. Moment in time snapshot: http://images.ukcs.net/10002/tf2world.JPG I think prioritising the list winding outwards from the location of the server would be a good thing, but not to stop at a country's boundary. The master list could hold long/lat in the record, and then its a simple bit of maths to work out distance between two co-ords allowing sorting by distance. Ping is an approximation of that which they may think is better - they'd say its not distance its ping thats important. However, during a full server list refresh the pings obtained tend to be totally wrong due to the overload on the clients connection doing all the pings. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J. Miribel Sent: 24 March 2008 13:16 To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Server redirect I still wonder why you can't use a dns instead of an IP... We should have a cvar like sv_favname... Lets say its blank by default -> favorites menu memorizes the IP of the server When server admin sets something in like sv_favname "host.domain.com", then favorites memorizes the dns name... On the same kind of issue I still wonder why VALVe still uses their out of date server listing stuff... I have to wait 5 mins to see half of the servers of my country... I really think VALVe should geolocalize the player's IP and send the server list depending on the players country... I've been using goelocalization databases for quite a while now, thats really easy to implement... Too bad its not done already.. Do you really think UK players will play on Italian servers? Man they have 1000+ decent servers in their country, they won't event think about connecting to one... Best regards Julian Andreas Grimm a écrit : > Hi, > > valve is still working on the function, that server admins can change ip > addresses of gameservers without losing them in the steam favorites ... > > my tip: change the servername and post the new ip address ... and add server > messages, for example with mani's ad's messages, every 30 seconds, that the > server is out of date and it has a new ip address ... > > i have done this a lot of times and it worked very well ... > > in css there are possibilies to pop up a dialog to ask a player if he wants > to connect to another server ... but im not sure how it works, never tried > that ... but a plugin could make it: check www.sourcemod.net > > good luck > andreas > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eirik > Nilssen > Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 3:30 PM > To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list > Subject: [hlds_linux] Server redirect > > > Hi guys, hope you can help me out here. > > After experiencing a lot of problems with some of our servers hosted by one > of our communitys sponsors, we have decided to host them ourself. The > problem is, that these servers are our most popular. Changing IP on a > popular server is always risky business, so I wish to keep the old servers > up a month or two, but making it redirect all traffic - with a message to > the user about whats happening. > > Have been browsing the net all day, but all links regarding "redirect" > concerns file download. > > All input would be gratly appreciated! > > Best Regards > Eirik S. Nilssen > _________________________________________________________________ > Søk fra enhver webside med kraftig beskyttelse. Få Windows Live Toolbar > GRATIS i dag! > http://www.toolbar.live.com > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ 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
