Looks like the only servers with a positive user score as are Valve servers. Not a single community server in your list has a positive user score.
Does seem like Valve has a score boost once again. On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Invalid Protocol < invalidprotocolvers...@gmail.com> wrote: > Valve changed something in the last days, because allmost all their servers > hosted in Europe have the best quickplay score. They said long time ago > that > "community servers are competing with Valve servers on an equal footing for > quickplay customers", but this is bullshit :( > > The results of a test can be seen here: http://imgur.com/a/BET7L > > I'm not a "noob" because I have more than 1000 hours idling or playing TF2. > The servers are sorted by their quickplay score and the last page has only > Valve servers. The log contains "Found 2560 total servers, 1579 met minimum > score threshold, 25 will be sent to GC for scoring" message, so only Valve > servers are considered when choosing the destination for user. I really > don't know how a community server can get any quickplay traffic. > > As an observation, some maps are considered as being "new user friendly": > ctf_2fort, pl_badwater, cp_dustbowl, pl_goldrush, cp_granary etc... > > -----Original Message----- > From: hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com > [mailto:hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Adam > Nowacki > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 1:55 PM > To: hlds_linux@list.valvesoftware.com > Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Suddenly very low server population > > I forgot to check the numbers earlier. > > On 2012-04-25 10:18, speaker wrote: > > 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 > > [SM] Reputation Score: 390964. Banned: false. > [SM] Rank: 421. Total Connects: 2071767. Total Minutes Played: 259972. > > Server is hosted in OVH France, mainly for Polish players but there are no > restrictions other than 250ms ping limit. I've attached a hlx graph for > today - server was receiving new players even late at night, mostly foreign > and with higher ping so I assume from quick play. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
