"...SM plugin that they use to create these 25 fake connections sm_ps_version 0.3." That's a psychostats plugin.
And fake players aren't some sort of a secret. There's been a public plugin out for those since 07-16-2008. You can get it here: http://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=74304 It's for Metamod: Source. On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:51 AM, D3vilfish <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
