I don't think school can explain it all. Our most popular server is emptier than last school year. And our less popular servers are filling up more than usual.
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Erik-jan Riemers <[email protected]> wrote: > Dont forget that when it goes towards the end of the year, player count > drops. Don't ask me why, but if you have hlxce or something with a couple > of years, it usually becomes less at the end of the year. For instance > summer ended and I noticed a decrease of about 30% pretty normal since all > the kids go back to school. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert > Paulson > Sent: zondag 14 oktober 2012 9:18 > To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list > Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Quickplay not activating? > > This is just a guess. I think Valve made quickplay changes to value ping > more than the number of players on a server. > > This means that popular servers that used to be filled all day began to > empty out sooner as the people that logged in later became further from > with the server's time zone. > > So at 8 pm, there are more people logging in farther away from your server > and Valve's quickplay chose to send them to an empty server with lower > ping rather than to your server which still had people playing in it. > > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Daniel . <[email protected]> wrote: >> I've noticed a heavy drop in quickplay traffic even before the new MvM >> content update. >> My servers fill up very late and empty out early always around the >> same time. >> It's like at 20:00 (08 pm) the servers get kicked out of the quickplay >> pool and they just empty out, they still show as registered though. >> >> 2012/10/14 1nsane <[email protected]> >> >>> Also don't forget that Valve's recent update added more MVM content. >>> This made some players go play on valve's Mann Up or community MVM > servers. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Essay Tew Phaun <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> > Yeah I've noticed it has been slower lately but I figured it may >>> > just be slower and not a problem with Quickplay. I thought about >>> > making a post >>> here >>> > on it but I know that Quickplay discussions offend certain people > here. >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > 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 >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
