As of the recent update I have been seeing a few problems, and frankly you are the only one that can fix them. (they were working fine until you updated it.)
-- As of the recent update(s) I am getting massive lag spikes on some of my servers, if not a group of them. I have checked the server with the most problems and it is happily running along at 0.00 load. I have updated the server to the most recent updates, restarted servers, and fully reboot the actual box to no avail. I am thinking it is just something that got loose again in the code. -- Steam Servers, I still see on occasion days where the Steam Servers that my servers connect to for items, VAC, etc. Keep having issues. After looking more and more into the issue, I can only fully come to the conclusion that you are the only one who can fix such an issue. As it seems either you restarted the server, or it had a problem. This is a massive annoyance to players as suddenly they all bring up rumors to fix the issue, mostly to no avail. If people are paying to buy your keys to open your mannco creates, then at least give them a proper item system so that they can actually where the stuff that they have opened. Now this is to an issue that never has been fixed. -- When I started http://www.gaming-servers.net/ I had all my servers running with replays. People loved it, and were constantly downloading replays of there favorite moments. However, after more and more replays couldn't actually be made into physical movies due to crashes I shut them down. The other reason for the shutdown was because if you ran a remote FTP for replays, and that FTP server had a hiccup, then BOOM your server crashed. Not only is this a horrible thing, but it made servers useless if an outage happened anywhere along the path to the FTP server. So can I please ask that you patch this issue by either soft turning off replays, or maybe caching the files on the local server until the FTP session can be reestablished. I would love to re-enable replays, but that is what is holding me back. -- The market. Yeah, the TF2 market is a mess with bogus price lists .... http://tf2spreadsheet.blogspot.com/ namely. It is rather upsetting that the TF2 team has done little to mitigate this scamming center, or at least played it off, by calling it a scam. It edits the values to the owners wishes and has NO actual proof on prices. I have even looked through the massive list of Steam APIs and I can't find a single reference to current trade prices, what has been traded for what... etc. It is absolutely sad that you, the TF2 Team, have let your product become into a black market. The more and more I look, and the more and more I just get fed up with trading. So I ask, why don't you do something about it? Why don't you make an api so we can actually get a list of the most recent 100 trades? Why don't you make an API to tell us what a reasonable price is? Why don't you throw http://tf2spreadsheet.blogspot.com/ off the cliff, from what they massively deserve? It just simply is so sad, I guess I just take better care of my works then you because I want to be proud of them. On a side note about Pizza and Pinion in General. -- I am not happy at all about the new system. I don't, and never have wanted to force my players to watch an ad, but someone has to pay for the servers. When I started http://www.gaming-servers.net/ I had the goal of not having the faults of lotusclan. Namely abusive donators. I have preached about this before, yet people still don't get the fact that I don't want to have http://www.nighteam.com/ donator rights where you pretty much have to get Prem. to play. Not to mention I cater to what the rest of you all throw out, Kids. Yes they have no money, but don't they deserve a place to have fun as well? Do we get hissy fits, yes, but that fully comes with a gaming server no matter where you are. So this was really my only means of actually making a substantial dent in the cost to run my servers. I was proud of what pinion initially was, but yes it is slowly fading. However, thankfully they have given us the option of hiding the MOTD with people who have a certain CVAR. This can be used perfectly to remove ads for players who care, and those who don't have the money. In the end it is a win win. Now to you Pizza, I know you may think everything is back in 2007, when TF2 didn't have scammers, or trading, and wasn't free to play, but that game is long gone, someone has to move with the time. You may claim that my servers are horrid, yet they are full on a 24/7 basis in most cases. I would send you a list of my gametracker results, but sadly I had to recently move a bunch of my servers, to get the best for my players and I think if they keep coming back, then so what. Does it really matter so much that they had to watch 30 seconds of an ad? Probably not considering they usually play for over 2 hours. So please don't be a TF2 Nazi and claim that only donator is allowed, as it isn't. Valve fully supports the idea of pinion, and I have embraced it to provide for a younger crowd, everyone is happy. (Sorry for any misspelling, or grammar issues, I have been on the internet too long.) -- Cameron Munroe _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
