Not really for this list but this includes issues for running a server and i'm pretty sure some of you are thinking why your servers sit on empty while some people complain that there are no free servers to play on.
I am wondering how lobby system picks the servers that it keeps assigning people? Random? Based on some ranking system? Right now there is a rush time on Steam network Passing over already but this seems to have impact to L4D and finding a server. It's PAIN right now, atleast in this part of the world. I checked the servers count, there are over 5500 servers that my server browser found in-game. Only _half_ of them have players and still i just spend 30 mins trying to get into one free server. Alone, with other people and so on. Different guy hosting lobby but no. Ive been monitoring servers in my country out of interest (23 total for L4D) and only 3-4 of them have players per day. 1 has players almost all the time, the other has players most time of the day and then the few random ones. This leaves 19 free servers and the goddamn lobby system seems to ignore these and 3000 other free servers completely and doesnt let me play on any server or it gives me a server with high ping from around the world if it for some reason happens to find a server after all. I dont know how the system works but i would say that this is a major issue. Now, i've been tracing the thing and looks to me as if the servers that have been there from the start, are the ones that are given to players. For those who just started hosting servers, they are sitting empty and no players are on them because lobby seems to ignore these completely. In my opinion, the system doesnt assign nearby servers to you, it uses Valves own ranking to do that. So if that in-game ranking which shows on "server banner" is used, the system fails to give free servers for those who need it when there are lots of people. World wide server rank #225, Total players served 5945. These are the stats that most popular server in this country gets and its almost all the time full. The 19 others which have no players at any time are just sitting there, ready to serve but lobby system does not assign people to these servers. Why is this? If i where to host a lobby and lobby selects server according to my own ping, it should throw me in to one of these servers, right? No, doesnt seem to work that way. Anyone got more "inside" information about how the system really works? Game seems to be unplayable right now at this hour of the day and the past 3-4 hours too. -ics _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
