I am sorry for the rant. I happy now. I just read on msn that heidi montag is divorcing spencer. Dibs
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 8:15 PM, tom nikitopoulos <[email protected]>wrote: > 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
