On 09/12/2011 16:07, Andrew DeMerse wrote:
You guys are confusing different systems, here.
Well you're right to note the initial reason for the scoring was
different, but I think you're wrong to conclude that the systems are
completely independent
Here there are several references to score :-
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=2825-AFGJ-3513
I note my server during quiet periods when people join, see it's empty
and leave, the trend report usually says 'Downward fast'
Whereas, when you have a busy server over the weekend, with people
stopping on for hours or more and the server full, it says 'upward fast'
Whether you get quickplay players though, as I said in my previous post,
has, ime far more to do with whether there are player around in the
first place.
Since the configuration of my server hasn't changed they haven't
adjusted the score based on anything I have done.
It seems fairly easy to conclude that they are using the same basic
negative score on join, positive point per minute of play to score
quickplay servers.
But they are using the score for something else - together with a bunch
of other factors, to pick a server for someone to join, as you say, it
isn't to blacklist or delist servers.
(Although they can delist from quickplay for e.g abusing the halloween
gifts system, presumably that's the good /bad standing setting)
They might have tweaked the numbers or the algorithm. But I doubt they
are doing anything substantially different for the base score before
it's modified by the other factors they mention in the support article.
If only because the words up and down quite obviously refer to a
numerical score and there isn't really a lot you can do to decide if a
server is "good" or not, using the data valve have, other than looking
at the length of time people play on it.
--
Dan
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