For someone claiming to be so logical there is distinct lack of reasoning. "I think I played TF2 for at least 2000 hours, possibly 3000 before quickplay appeared on servers that were nearly always full.How did those people join the server? Do you think they all had comp sci phds or something?"
Before Valve shrunk the size of the TF2 Browse button by 1/2 and stuffed it under Quickplay and MvM, everyone who played TF2 was forced to learn how to use the browser. Sure a server will recover, but it will take as long as half a year and sometimes won't even return to its original size. Even if someone knows how to favorite a server, who wants to dig it out of 10,000 TF2 servers? Personally I wouldn't want to either. I will try to make this my last reply to you, because your claims can all be refuted with the same answer: All the assumptions you keep making don't line up with the evidence everyone here is telling you. On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 7:36 PM, dan <[email protected]> wrote: > On 25/08/2013 23:37, Robert Paulson wrote: > >> I don't know how many times I have to repeat this but you can make all the >> "logical" assumptions you want and assume that most players are smart and >> aren't lazy (lol?). >> > > I wouldn't go as far as saying they are smart. > I just think they are no more or less dumb than you. > > And specifically I'm not assuming they are smart enough to join a server, > I've a ton of evidence that shows they must be smart enough to do it. > > As I asked, can you find and join a server? If so, what makes you think > you have some special skill that others do not? > > I think I played TF2 for at least 2000 hours, possibly 3000 before > quickplay appeared > on servers that were nearly always full. > > How did those people join the server? Do you think they all > had comp sci phds or something? > > No. Any buffoon can play a computer game. Just as any buffoon can run a > server. > > As I said, some of those servers I played on right at the beginning are > still there. They appear > right at the top of the server browser if I sort by ping, just > as they did 6 years ago. I can see they are there from their > description which has remained more or less the same for all > that time. > > The company running them has a presence on the web that if they > "disappeared" you could go and see why. > > There's no need at all for them to appear in the history or favourites > section > to find them. > > Besides I remain unconvinced that a server which has > changed host or other significant things like that, should be seen as the > same server in any case. > > Indeed, if you want to go down the route of having some kind of identifier > for a servers I think Valve > would be wise to consider when that identifier should change. Seems to me > that > a server being on the same IP shouldn't just been seen as the same server > that someone added to their > favourites if significant changes to the config or installation have > occurred. > > If you want to blather on about community, you can't > in the next breath claim that your entire community will disappear > the moment your server changes ip address. > > If you have any semblance of a community attached or related to your > server, > you should have plenty of ways of communicating information about changes > to the server > to them and they should have plenty of motivation to look for you. > > -- > Dan > > > ______________________________**_________________ > 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
