The reason why you are seeing so many quickplay players now is because most people haven't rebooted their servers to fix the "account : not logged in (Cannot locate owner's steam account)" problem that happened after the update yesterday.
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Michael Tharp <[email protected]>wrote: > On 11/30/2011 02:00 PM, Eric Smith wrote: > >> We've released an optional update for TF2, DoD:S, and HL2:DM. The notes >> are below. >> > > Were there any registration/quickplay backend changes since yesterday's > update? My server has for the past month or so been struggling with > quickplay traffic almost never coming in reliably. But immediately after > applying this update and restarting, the server filled within 3 minutes > even though it was just an "optional" update so there shouldn't have been a > server shortage. Previously it was reporting in "status" as registered and > people would still come in in small bursts once there were 4-6 players but > it was unreliable. Now it filled instantly at 2PM Eastern time after > applying an irrelevant update and has stayed full since then. The only > strange thing is that immediately before I shut down the server (which was > empty) to apply the update, the status had changed to this: > > account : not logged in (Cannot locate owner's steam account) > > But I have never seen this until today, and just this one time, and of > course after restarting the server it logged in normally and traffic > immediately came in. Absolutely no configuration changes were made in the > interim. In case anyone at Valve wants to poke around, the account_id is > 409. > > Thanks, > -- m. tharp > > > ______________________________**_________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/**mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux<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
