I've noticed i've had to get about 10+ people on a new server for quickplay to kick in and new players start to join.
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 4:58 PM, ics <[email protected]> wrote: > Sometimes the error "not logged in (Cannot locate owner's steam account)" > bumps in middle of the map, disconnecting the server from steam but > sometimes it automatically connects back after map change. I also had one > server sitting without connect to steam servers but after reboot it > connected back just fine. > > All it takes is 1 player at the server to get it filled up or someone > joining it and matchmakign starts bringing up more players. Yesterday after > the mandatory update, i kinda was pretty quick to update and all servers > went full asap from players all around the world. It's just luck mostly but > having positive reputation score seems to help. Doesn't matter if it's > 10000 or 10 million but having that positive is the key. For example i have > one server which has "only 100k" while the other has 6,8 million and still > the 100k one is far more popular and full earlier than the other. Maybe > because it's pretty new (~4 months or so) and the other is pretty much old > as TF2. > > -ics > > 30.11.2011 23:41, Russell Smith kirjoitti: > > My server hasn't been struggling for quickplay players the past month. >> But, I have noticed that it seems like immediately following a server >> reboot the quickplay system is more likely to feed you a bunch of players. >> >> For example, my server was empty for about 10 hours last night during off >> peak hours throughout which the status showed as logged in. Since it was >> still empty this afternoon I rebooted the server and grabbed the optional >> update, after which the server filled up nearly instantly. >> >> On 11/30/2011 12:59 PM, Michael Tharp 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<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<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
