Adam- So we,admins on this list are best available and only Valve is Official? If this is true (which it probably is) why run your own server? I mean you dont play on best avail servers right?
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Adam Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > From my experience when using best available you end up on some crappy > highly modded server no one in the lobby wants to play on and its > either back to lobby or rage quits. > > One thing that I would like to see is a change so that if you can't > find a server you don't automatically go into localhost mode. So many > people end up on a localhost and don't even know it. > > > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 8:17 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > > The main reason you saw such a big drop in players is because Valve > decided > > to change the default lobby setting from "Best Available Dedicated" to > > "Official Dedicated", so the majority of the players are playing on > Valve's > > official servers and only a minority of people actually change that to > Best > > Available. > > > > > > On 07/30/2010 08:03 PM, tom nikitopoulos wrote: > >> > >> Before the major update like maybe 2 months ago I was high on the > horse. > >> I > >> am small time (I run 10 boxes off of 5 ip's) I had a couple of decent > >> ranked stock l4d2 servers. I was thinking "oh yeah baby!!!!"- I was like > a > >> little kid checking game-monitor.com every two days. Then after the > update > >> monsoon (and maybe college kids leaving for summer) my decent ranked > >> servers > >> went to crap.I thought I had done something wrong,but I wasnt sure. > After > >> this I went on game-monitor.com and checked top ranked l4d2 servers and > >> they > >> were all Valve servers. I was like wth? I realize that sv_region may > have > >> needed some fixin but I dunno. > >> > >> Steven, > >> " but work with us here to help provide a quality service to your > >> customers > >> please!" > >> > >> Who are the customers here? I don't charge for my servers. I not really > >> prepared to do so. > >> Does anybody here pay Valve for the right to run gameservers for Valve? > Or > >> the downloads of files and updates? > >> > >> My point is this- there is no leverage for Valve or Activision to do > >> anything but the way they wanna do it > >> > >> /off soapbox > >> > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
