I agree whole heartedly, especially with lotus.clan and there 25 fake connections as can be seen by this screen grab. http://devilfish.t35.com/lotus.clan.jpg Filling a server in this way doesn't give the client a good gaming experience yet does fill there servers, I have highlighted the only information that I believe to be the SM plugin that they use to create these 25 fake connections sm_ps_version 0.3. Hopefully valve will look into the lotus.clan like they did with the Q.clan and manually remove them too. As a Server administrator with over 5 years of experience I find people like this almost as frustrating as it must be for the clients that join such servers.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Octo Sent: 09 April 2009 03:17 To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Server Ranking Their current system will obviously clear out a lot of the garbage redirect servers, but I think they'll need to plink a few of the higher profile servers which lie about player counts in order to get the point across that they are serious about the users experience. Some of these servers have been lying for such a long time, they've amassed enough regulars where they score above valves threshold, which sucks for everyone because their regulars would play anyways, and the newer players still get the crappy join -> huge difference in claimed vs real players -> quit frustrated. As someone said before there is a lot of 'racing to the bottom' between servers operators, and as long as they see that places like Lotus Clan can get away with it, people are going to continue trying to do it. Maybe Valve is planning on another wave of master server list drops right before the sniper update to teach them all a lesson =) I am very happy that they did wipe out a lot of the spamtastic fake servers though. Kudos for that. On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 08:34:05PM -0500, Cc2iscooL wrote: > They had said before that previously it was manual and that they were going > to make it automated eventually but it hadn't been done yet. > > I'm assuming they're still doing it manually as I've not seen any other > updates. > > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Carl <[email protected]> wrote: > > > So, is the server score in effect? There seem to be more and more > > servers that falsify their players. Any word on this? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
