It is still a major problem and has been since the protocol switch nearly a year ago.
I believe no one even knew about it until I mentioned it 4 months afterwards, when I started tracking the appearance of servers on the master list and finding random ones disappearing after every steam downtime. Being disconnected from quickplay is also a problem. Most server owners probably don't realize why their servers are emptying out in the middle of the day so that is why not many people talk about this. I stopped talking about this every time because I got tired of saying the same thing, not because the problem has gone away. Last week it happened 2 times in 1 day. Valve should give a higher priority for fixing this. This is not just something that server owners care about, it creates a jarring player experience when the server randomly empties out, and one of 3 things happen. 1. The player has to waste time searching for another good server, not knowing if the next server he joins also has the same problem, but due to luck did not empty out as fast. 2. The player waits out the drop in players, not realizing he is probably going to waste the rest of his free time. 3. The owner kicks everyone on reboot. There are already rumors of private plugins being able to solve these issues without a reboot. This should not be necessary. On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Cameron Munroe <[email protected]> wrote: > As you can see not very many people commented on this so once again, I don't > think it is a major problem anymore. It usually happens when a Tf2 update is > released though.. > > > On 9/5/2012 6:14 AM, Chris Brunelle wrote: >> >> No it hasn't. This is still an ongoing problem. >> >> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Cameron Munroe >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> This seems to have been fixed awhile ago. The issue now it seems is >>> either >>> with the servers being overloaded on valves end, or bad connectivity on >>> server/client sides. >>> >>> >>> On 9/4/2012 5:14 PM, Essay Tew Phaun wrote: >>> >>>> Care to like, ever fix the issue with the servers losing steam >>>> connectivity >>>> and being assigned the system IP and uh, losing steam connection for >>>> random >>>> reasons and not reconnecting without restarting and like having it >>>> randomly >>>> not find your steam account? >>>> >>>> It takes a lot of work to get servers going sometimes and nothing is >>>> more >>>> infuriating than when they empty out due to bugs that have been reported >>>> multiple times and aren't being fixed. >>>> >>>> Thank you >>>> ______________________________**_________________ >>>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>>> please visit: >>>> >>>> https://list.valvesoftware.**com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/**hlds_linux<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<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 _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
