The system (lobby server search) doesnt even work all the time as it
should. It searches from all servers out there close to one that started
the search, if they have certain campaign installed and give the first
server that is free and is a match (has campaign installed that is
searched for). Or Should give. Some Valve person can correct me if i am
wrong but i remember someone saying that the one who performs the lobby
search, gets data (list of available servers) from master server in
fragments.
Then the data shown in sv_showtags output is read (or the master server
has already that and it can be looked into on the fly) and if there is a
match, all head full. If the fragment of servers does not contain valid
servers, server searcher gets more of those fragments from master server
(it was 50 servers per fragment or so). This keeps going at what, 30
seconds? At this time, usually 2 things happen. No servers are found
from the ~200-300 it can go through before the search timeouts and local
host game is started automatically or the search will never end and no
free servers are found that has particular campaign installed that the
user wants to play.
So, if there are only few servers around with particular custom
map/campaign that the players want to play and search server for it, it
will never get to that point and ends up being played localhost instead.
Also the search fails if the players are from US and the servers that
has that addon installed, are from Europe. I have a good example of
this. I got many friends over US that end up being playing on localhost
because there are no free servers in their continent and the search
fails. I know for a fact that there are 11 servers on Europe, some that
were even free at that time when the server search was initiated.
-ics
25.4.2011 13:58, Eric Riemers kirjoitti:
I know bullit 2 is true. It sends the addons map to the master server, so
that public players wanting to play a certain custom map can also end up on
your server (which is a good thing because customs hardly have enough
servers sometimes) I have not seen that message of "too much" but I only
have a few, there are some addon maps which crash and make your server 100%
cpu or even give other characters strange habbits (like floating zoey)
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[mailto:hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of realdreams
Sent: maandag 25 april 2011 8:12
To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list
Subject: [hlds_linux] L4D/L4D2 Lobby reservation
Hi,
I don't know how exactly lobby reservation works. Yesterday I saw a couple
lines in console saying reservation failed because map doesn't exist. Can
someone explain how lobby match making system works in l4d/l4d2?
1. How does master server pick server for lobby? When does it happen?
I notice mm_dedicated_force_servers doesn't not reserve a server until the
game starts. And no reservation information in console unless there is an
error.
01:58:02 L 04/25/2011 - 01:58:00: World triggered "Round_Start"
01:58:02 L 04/25/2011 - 01:58:00: [META] Loaded 0 plugins (1 already loaded)
01:58:02 L 04/25/2011 - 01:58:00: Preventing spawning
01:58:03 L 04/25/2011 - 01:58:00: server_message: "quit"
01:58:03 L 04/25/2011 - 01:58:00: Log file closed
01:58:03 L 04/25/2011 - 01:58:00: server_message: "restart"
01:58:03 L 04/25/2011 - 01:58:00: Log file started (file
"logs/.................log") (game "left4dead2/left4dead2") (version
"4490")
01:58:03 L 04/25/2011 - 01:58:00: Loading map "c1m1_hotel"
01:58:03 L 04/25/2011 - 01:58:00: server cvars start
2. I used to have a lot of addon maps and every time I restart the server
console says something like too many addon maps, not advertising blahblah
map. So servers actually send available map list to master server? And those
maps not advertised normally never get used? What can explain that lobby
reservation failure(map doesn't exist on server)
3. Does server have control over lobby reservation? I know lobby reservation
can be removed with sm plugins. Can server modify lobby information like
permission(friend only/ public), game mode( from what I remember if lobby
reservation exists, forcing game mode change on server sends all players
back to lobby) and full/ not-full. I am not sure if there is a flag for full
or only number matters. If a server has more than 8 slots, can players join
the server via quick search in game? l4dtoolz can patch match making and
shows more available slots in steam group servers. Will master server send
players to a server that already has 8 players(like 8/16)?
Thanks.
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