Let's don't let this topic die.
2013/8/28 dan <[email protected]> > On 26/08/2013 04:07, Mart-Jan Reeuwijk wrote: > >> I do not agree on your assumption. >> >> Most players use their favorites, they have a bunch of them in there, for >> various mods within the game. >> Personally, I have like 80-100 servers in there, I really wouldn't notice >> a server dropping off cos they changed IP. >> > > Well you wouldn't really have to notice it would you? Most of the time > Robert must be crying because > you're not on his server you're on one of the other 99 in your favourites > list. So your argument > doesn't really solve Robert's problem does it? He wants you to have one > favourite server - his. > > Please, at least use some common sense before replying. > > What assumption do you disagree with? I'm saying in order to have 100 > servers in your faves list > you must have found and joined those servers at one point without them > being in that list. You cannot argue > with that, it's a simple fact. > > So, if you've only 99 servers (and it's clear you don't know if you have > 80 or 100) panic! > No don't panic, do exactly what you did to find those 99 servers to find > the missing one. > > Or just play on one of the other 99. > > It's clear from your point of view there are far more servers than you'll > ever have the time to play on > even if you spent 24 hours a day playing tf2. There will always be empty > servers if there > are more servers than people. Valve can't do anything with DNS to change > that. > > > > As there are enough other servers to play on, I would not need to "find" >> that server again in the server browser. I just go to another favorite >> server. Why? See pinion story, most non-favorited has pinion in a very >> intrusive way enabled. >> > > Exactly. There's nothing special about servers. Nothing at all that makes > them worth chasing rather than playing on a new one > or a different one. Nothing that makes much sense adding 100 of them to > "favourites". You can find another server to play on as easily as > you found a server and added it to faves in the first place. > > > > So, after years having a server in somwhere in my favorites, with a vague >> familiarity of the server name, ppl won't go looking for a missing server >> that changed IP. >> >> Now apply above to other players. And add to that that often server >> owners cant move IP to a new box. They lose their player base there. >> > > No they don't. The player base is the same. Whether people originally > joined their server via quickplay or the browser, people will again. > If there are players around. > > The server is easy to find as it was before. The guy like you with 100 > servers in his faves isn't playing on their server much is he? > Not if he's forgotten all about the server, the name and everything. If > anyone plays on a server regularly enough to care about finding it > when it goes awol then they know what server they are on. > > If you were really involved in the community of one or two servers and > really loved playing on them, you'd know the community and you'd > know the servers. > > All you have is lots of faves in your list that you've added but rarely if > ever play on and so, as you say, you really have no > idea what servers you've added - but you haven't really been a significant > part of their player base either - because > one guy can't be a significant part of the player base of 100 servers. > > > -- > 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
