Please listen to this! This would REALLY make L4D that much better. (Also better LAN Party support???)
Morgan Humes -----Opprinnelig melding----- Fra: [email protected] [mailto: [email protected]] P? vegne av Kevin J. Anderson Sendt: 13. februar 2009 15:22 Til: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list Emne: [hlds_linux] l4d matchmaking improvements/community Re: Tf2/l4dupdates? The solution to the L4d matchmaking system is to take the group server system a step further. Actually set up the system to reliably only take your lobby to specific open servers, and also make it possible for a smaller group of friends to join a game in progress together. 2 friends wanting to play together is almost impossible without setting up their own lobby and hoping it fills. l4d is designed for small games (4-8 duh) and therefor makes a "community" hard to be created around it. taking the steamgroup servers and search key a few steps further would go a long way. (making them work reliably and properly being obvious) Maybe once you have a lobby, and open search, you should have the option to choose choose from the steamgroup and search key servers that are available, giving you the option to use a public one if none are available. Even set it so that you can look at which server gives the best average ping for all the players in the lobby. make it more obvious, easy than it is to get players to join the server's group, if they enjoy playing on it. Maybe at the end of the campaign or map level, add a "join this server's group" button during the score tally, or "add this server to your favorites" Personally, I have my own dedicated server and steam group mong that my friends and I play on (mong.tv). As we come across cool players, we add them to our friends lists, and even to our steam group. All of us doing this has managed to gather quite a group of people/community, that allows us to always get 3-8 "friends" into a game pretty much every time one of us wants to play. Its usually closer to 8, and the pubbers who join generally comment on how fun the server is. It should however be much easier/obvious to select a server from the lobby that belongs to your steamgroup/search key. Kevin Kev _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
