I don't expect to get a highly populated server just by making it quickplay-ready. I just asked because there was a significant "population drop" which happened like from one day to another. Before, I had full servers for at least 6 hours a day.
Am 25.04.2012 12:58, schrieb Jesse Molina: > > Basically, what Valve gaveth, Valve taketh away. > > This sounds like an expectation problem. I doubt you have done anything > "wrong". > > Quickplayers are like "friends" on Facebook. You can have hundreds of > them but not one of them will come to your funeral, or maybe even notice > you stopped posting. > > Instead of feeling unsettled because your quickplay traffic went away, > work on building a local community of regular visitors. Have some > angle, such as your locality, a common interest, or gameplay style. > > > > speaker wrote: >> I have two vanilla tf2 servers running, each registered, logged-in, vac >> enabled, with positive reputation. Some administrative sourcemod plugins >> are installed, settings/cvars and mapcycle are according to Valve's >> quickplay requirements. >> >> Starting somewhere in February, lots of players joined immediately and >> each day I had full servers for hours. But since mid-March it seems >> that quickplay is not bringing players to my servers anymore -- almost >> nobody has been playing there. >> >> Any ideas what could be wrong? >> >> -- >> Server #1: 176.9.40.77:27015 - Reputation Score: 11937 (not banned) >> Server #2: 176.9.40.77:27025 - Reputation Score: 834 (not banned) >> >> #1 [SM] Rank: 5514 Total Connects: 108652 Total Minutes Played: 7044 >> #2 [SM] Rank: 19184 Total Connects: 7562 Total Minutes Played: 564 >> >> Custom tags are "athera,vanilla" >> >> Plugins and extensions on both servers: >> >> [SM] Listing 25 plugins: >> 01 "Player Commands" (1.4.1) by AlliedModders LLC >> 02 "[ANY] Automatic Steam Update" (1.4.1) by Dr. McKay >> 03 "Basic Comm Control" (1.4.1) by AlliedModders LLC >> 04 "Basic Commands" (1.4.1) by AlliedModders LLC >> 05 "Basic Info Triggers" (1.4.1) by AlliedModders LLC >> 06 "Sound Commands" (1.4.1) by AlliedModders LLC >> 07 "Client Preferences" (1.4.1) by AlliedModders LLC >> 08 "Basic Chat" (1.4.1) by AlliedModders LLC >> 09 "Anti-Flood" (1.4.1) by AlliedModders LLC >> 10 "Reserved Slots" (1.4.1) by AlliedModders LLC >> 11 "Admin Menu" (1.4.1) by AlliedModders LLC >> 12 "Nextmap" (1.4.1) by AlliedModders LLC >> 13 "Map Nominations" (1.4.1) by AlliedModders LLC >> 14 "SteamTools Tester" (0.7.1) by Asher Baker (asherkin) >> 15 "MapChooser" (1.4.1) by AlliedModders LLC >> 16 "Rock The Vote" (1.4.1) by AlliedModders LLC >> 17 "[TF2] gScramble Team Manager" (3.0.11) by Goerge >> 18 "Basic Ban Commands" (1.4.1) by AlliedModders LLC >> 19 "Admin File Reader" (1.4.1) by AlliedModders LLC >> 20 "Basic Votes" (1.4.1) by AlliedModders LLC >> 21 "SwapTeam" (1.2.5) by MistaGee Fixed by Rogue >> 22 "Updater" (1.1.4) by GoD-Tony >> 23 "TF2 Class Restrictions" (0.6) by Tsunami >> 24 "Very Basic High Ping Kicker" (1.4) by msleeper >> 25 "Admin Help" (1.4.1) by AlliedModders LLC >> >> [SM] Displaying 12 extensions: >> [01] Automatic Updater (1.4.1): Updates SourceMod gamedata files >> [02] Webternet (1.4.1): Extension for interacting with URLs >> [03] TF2 Tools (1.4.1): TF2 extended functionality >> [04] BinTools (1.4.1): Low-level C/C++ Calling API >> [05] SDK Tools (1.4.1): Source SDK Tools >> [06] Top Menus (1.4.1): Creates sorted nested menus >> [07] SteamTools (0.8.2): SteamWorks for SourceMod. >> [08] Client Preferences (1.4.1): Saves client preference settings >> [09] SQLite (1.4.1): SQLite Driver >> [10] SDK Hooks (2.1.0): Source SDK Hooks >> [11] cURL Extension (1.3.0.0): cURL Extension >> [12] Socket (3.0.1): Socket extension for SourceMod >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
