Re: [hlds] Advertise a server using account ID

2014-03-05 Thread Doctor McKay
DNS-based favorites wouldn't work if you moved ports in addition to hosts. I have accounts on all of my servers but I don't bother to set up domain names because that's a waste of time. It would be far easier to provide steam://connectid links. Dr. McKay www.doctormckay.com On Wed, Mar 5,

Re: [hlds] Hack that circumvents TF2 ban vote?

2014-02-10 Thread Doctor McKay
All a client has to do is disconnect and rejoin the server when they're about to be kicked by a vote and the ban won't take effect. Dr. McKay www.doctormckay.com On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Dominik Friedrichs d...@forlix.org wrote: I was just playing on a Valve TF server with an

Re: [hlds] Important changes to TF2 coming soon

2014-02-06 Thread Doctor McKay
with the same basic respect as everyone else (assuming I behave appropriately), or I'm not. Don't use me to populate your servers then throw me away. On 6/02/2014 6:25 PM, Doctor McKay wrote: It's not like people discriminate against Quickplay users when determining someone to kick for a reserved

Re: [hlds] Important changes to TF2 coming soon

2014-02-05 Thread Doctor McKay
Process, Snakewater, and Standin are listed in the mapcycle_quickplay_cp.txt that ships with the game, so it's safe to bet that they're Quickplay-eligible. Degroot Keep and Hydro are not eligible, nor are any Arena maps. Dr. McKay www.doctormckay.com On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 11:50 PM, Yun Huang

Re: [hlds] Important changes to TF2 coming soon

2014-02-05 Thread Doctor McKay
It's not like people discriminate against Quickplay users when determining someone to kick for a reserved slot. It's not unreasonable for donors to be given priority access to the server that they are financially supporting (same with admins as they're supporting it with their volunteer efforts).

Re: [hlds] Mediated Discussion about Quick play change

2014-01-26 Thread Doctor McKay
A member of my community received a response from Fletcher in reply to an email: We’re hoping the nuclear option isn’t permanent, because it isn’t ideal. I cannot promise anything in particular or any time frame, but I can say that we are looking for better solutions to this problem. We

Re: [hlds] Mediated Discussion about Quick play change

2014-01-26 Thread Doctor McKay
. Saint K. *From:* hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] *On Behalf Of *Doctor McKay *Sent:* Sunday, January 26, 2014 11:43 AM *To:* Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list *Subject:* Re: [hlds] Mediated Discussion about Quick play change

Re: [hlds] Mandatory TF2 update released

2014-01-24 Thread Doctor McKay
I agree. The checkbox should read Include community servers instead as long as it's going to be a default. Even as it is, the label is incredibly misleading. Official servers only. Even if I'd been playing the game for a month I wouldn't uncheck it because it seems to imply that it's bad. What

Re: [hlds] Mandatory TF2 update released

2014-01-24 Thread Doctor McKay
Quickplay is flawed. It just is. But as long as it exists, it needs to remain unbiased against community servers or the game as a whole *will* suffer. On Jan 24, 2014 1:31 PM, AJ Palkovic aj.palko...@gmail.com wrote: Although I do unfortunately have to agree with Mr. Olsen, I do find it amusing

Re: [hlds] Mandatory TF2 update released

2014-01-24 Thread Doctor McKay
So hats servers? Dr. McKay www.doctormckay.com On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Mtvnoob mtvn...@gmail.com wrote: it is important for user-generated content to continue running. it is NOT important for user generated servers and content to demand the enabling of HTML so they can force ads,

Re: [hlds] Mandatory TF2 update released

2014-01-24 Thread Doctor McKay
, serverbrowser_internet, serverbrowser_friends and steam. -ics Doctor McKay kirjoitti: I agree. The checkbox should read Include community servers instead as long as it's going to be a default. Even as it is, the label is incredibly misleading. Official servers only. Even if I'd been playing the game

Re: [hlds] Mandatory TF2 update released

2014-01-24 Thread Doctor McKay
$120 / month is not unreasonable for quality hardware. Dr. McKay www.doctormckay.com On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 7:03 PM, David H davidaap1...@gmail.com wrote: You spent 1800 dollars on server hosting in 15 months? Damn,you must have some overpriced servers.

Re: [hlds] [hlds_linux] [Regression] Horribly inaccurate player counts from Steam.

2013-12-26 Thread Doctor McKay
Just for the record, I have not noticed any player count discrepancies in my TF servers, nor have any players reported any discrepancies to me. Dr. McKay www.doctormckay.com On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 8:33 PM, Fletcher Dunn fletch...@valvesoftware.comwrote: I'd start my investigation by

Re: [hlds] [hlds_announce] Mandatory TF2 update released

2013-12-19 Thread Doctor McKay
These emails are all fake and spoofed. Dr. McKay www.doctormckay.com On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 11:25 PM, Peter Jerde peter-h...@jerde.net wrote: On Dec 19, 2013, at 22:13, Eric Smith er...@valvesoftware.com wrote: We've released a mandatory TF2 update. It seems to be taking an awfully

Re: [hlds] IP Tunneling Doesnt Work With SRCDS

2013-11-25 Thread Doctor McKay
Make sure you're allowing all traffic on port 27015 UDP as well as TCP. Dr. McKay www.doctormckay.com On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 3:10 PM, 3Turtles 3turt...@videotron.ca wrote: I know this isin't exactly the place to ask about this, but i dont know where else to ask: I got an IPSec tunnel to

Re: [hlds] FYI tf2 added another vpk file

2013-11-24 Thread Doctor McKay
There's actually 11, as it starts numbering at 0. :) Dr. McKay www.doctormckay.com On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 9:53 PM, Peter Jerde peter-h...@jerde.net wrote: For those of you who run servers by symlinking files, it might be useful to know TF2 has once again split its vpk files, such that

Re: [hlds] Is there a cvar controlling Eternaween?

2013-11-22 Thread Doctor McKay
Any update on this? Still haven't successfully used a spell on a private server... Dr. McKay www.doctormckay.com On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 5:02 AM, Doctor McKay mc...@doctormckay.com wrote: And here's a triple-post, but I have new information. So far, I've been unable to use the Eternaween

Re: [hlds] Is there a cvar controlling Eternaween?

2013-11-22 Thread Doctor McKay
, apparently. I haven't had time to test that yet myself, but if valve-based voting is enabled it's supposed to work. - Peter On Nov 22, 2013, at 3:16, Doctor McKay mc...@doctormckay.com wrote: Any update on this? Still haven't successfully used a spell on a private server... Dr. McKay

Re: [hlds] [hlds_linux] Where is my traffic coming from?

2013-11-14 Thread Doctor McKay
at 10:39 AM, ics i...@ics-base.net wrote: Quite surprising results. Well not really. I just assumed quikcplay connected players count would be higher but it does seems that ~70% of our players join through favorites. Thanks for the plug-in! -ics Doctor McKay kirjoitti

Re: [hlds] Is there a cvar controlling Eternaween?

2013-11-12 Thread Doctor McKay
wants to call a vote, not coming from any user. The vote also failed the first time, but I was able to re-use the item to call the vote again immediately afterwards, which should probably be fixed. Dr. McKay www.doctormckay.com On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 2:29 AM, Doctor McKay mc...@doctormckay.com

Re: [hlds] Where is my traffic coming from?

2013-11-12 Thread Doctor McKay
Fletcher gave me a heads-up yesterday before announcing it (thanks!). Here are the values that I found: Quickplay, use # : quickplay_# Quickplay Beta/MvM Quickplay : matchmaking Server Browser - Internet Tab : serverbrowser_internet Server Browser - Favorites Tab : serverbrowser_favorites Server

Re: [hlds] Where is my traffic coming from?

2013-11-12 Thread Doctor McKay
! MySQL support for the plugin would be great. Sent from my iPhone On Nov 12, 2013, at 12:29 PM, Doctor McKay mc...@doctormckay.com wrote: Fletcher gave me a heads-up yesterday before announcing it (thanks!). Here are the values that I found: Quickplay, use # : quickplay_# Quickplay Beta/MvM

Re: [hlds] Is there a cvar controlling Eternaween?

2013-11-11 Thread Doctor McKay
Also got that error on my registered server running 2Fort, with no other players online besides me. It's also behind a firewall (meant for local testing) if that means anything. Dr. McKay www.doctormckay.com On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Peter Jerde peter-h...@jerde.net wrote: On Nov

Re: [hlds] Is there a cvar controlling Eternaween?

2013-11-11 Thread Doctor McKay
Sorry for double-post, but also got the error on my registered, Quickplay-eligible server on Dustbowl, 22 players in-game. The spell and Halloween/Full Moon mode were both inactive. Dr. McKay www.doctormckay.com On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 2:26 AM, Doctor McKay mc...@doctormckay.com wrote: Also

Re: [hlds] An open letter to Valve about MOTDs

2013-11-10 Thread Doctor McKay
as a whole. But i guess there are too many idiots among us and little time for Valve to check who is good and who is bad. -ics Doctor McKay kirjoitti: I really couldn't have said it better myself. Dr. McKay www.doctormckay.com http://www.doctormckay.com On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 4:05 PM

Re: [hlds] An open letter to Valve about MOTDs

2013-11-08 Thread Doctor McKay
I really couldn't have said it better myself. Dr. McKay www.doctormckay.com On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Robert Paulson thepauls...@gmail.comwrote: Servers don't need ads much like TF2 didn't need to become free-to-play. It is just a different model of revenue, one that server owners

Re: [hlds] Coming soon: changes to TF HTML MOTD support

2013-11-07 Thread Doctor McKay
Nobody forces you to go on servers that have ads. I fail to understand how the fact that some servers might use advertisements affects you personally when you can easily ignore them. Dr. McKay www.doctormckay.com On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Saint K. sai...@specialattack.net wrote:

Re: [hlds] Coming soon: changes to TF HTML MOTD support

2013-11-07 Thread Doctor McKay
in quickplay can benefit from that adds crap in background window. Who was the real winner here? No one. -ics Doctor McKay kirjoitti: Nobody forces you to go on servers that have ads. I fail to understand how the fact that some servers might use advertisements affects you personally when you can

Re: [hlds] Coming soon: changes to TF HTML MOTD support

2013-11-07 Thread Doctor McKay
. -ics Doctor McKay kirjoitti: Nobody forces you to go on servers that have ads. I fail to understand how the fact that some servers might use advertisements affects you personally when you can easily ignore them. Dr. McKay www.doctormckay.com http://www.doctormckay.com On Thu, Nov 7

Re: [hlds] An open letter to Valve about MOTDs

2013-11-07 Thread Doctor McKay
On one hand, TF2 is free. On the other, even if you did pay for the game, none of that money goes to the person hosting the servers you play on. Unless you're paying for the server yourself, the ultimate control of the server is up to whoever pays the bills. Dr. McKay www.doctormckay.com On

Re: [hlds] An open letter to Valve about MOTDs

2013-11-07 Thread Doctor McKay
I agree with this, for the most part. I don't honestly have much of a problem with the fact that Valve wants to prevent Quickplay servers from being able to display advertisements to players. However, it would be great if it could be done in a way that doesn't break ***everything*. As you say, if

Re: [hlds] Coming soon: changes to TF HTML MOTD support

2013-11-06 Thread Doctor McKay
I agree with this, but I don't know how easy it would be as it would likely require edits to the browser itself. It would certainly be the best compromise, benefiting all parties involved. Dr. McKay www.doctormckay.com On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Paul ubyu@gmail.com wrote: Disabling

Re: [hlds] Coming soon: changes to TF HTML MOTD support

2013-11-06 Thread Doctor McKay
Communities with many servers may wish to use this to keep their text MOTDs up to date: https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=229395 Dr. McKay www.doctormckay.com On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Fletcher Dunn fletch...@valvesoftware.comwrote: We’re making two changes to TF HTML

Re: [hlds] Hide server from certain IP's?

2013-10-22 Thread Doctor McKay
Use iptables or a similar firewall to drop all traffic from his IP. Dr. McKay www.doctormckay.com On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 6:12 AM, Jason Tango jtrun...@outlook.com wrote: Hello, We've had several DDOS attacks in the past several weeks. We now know the IP address of the person who is

Re: [hlds] Problems caused by connecting server favorites to IP address

2013-09-30 Thread Doctor McKay
Requiring registration for all servers would be unnecessary. Instead, the client could just store the server's account ID instead of its IP address if it's registered. Valve wants people to register their servers to help them to track stuff better, but currently the only benefit to registration is

Re: [hlds] Noclip exploit

2013-09-08 Thread Doctor McKay
This should be sufficient to disable coaching on your server until Valve fixes this: https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=225765 Dr. McKay www.doctormckay.com On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 5:07 PM, davidaap1...@gmail.com wrote: They dont have make those video's so that Valve fixes it,

Re: [hlds] Floating Intel glitch

2013-08-29 Thread Doctor McKay
Do you use the SourceMod plugin AFK Manager? Dr. McKay www.doctormckay.com On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 8:47 PM, Jason Tango jtrun...@outlook.com wrote: Has anyone else seen this old glitch resurface? We've had a half dozen players using the floating Intel Glitch on 2Fort over the last few days.

Re: [hlds] hlds Digest, Vol 28, Issue 24

2013-08-29 Thread Doctor McKay
I'm going to try to communicate with you in a medium that you will understand. http://i.imgur.com/jXhJ7e9.jpg Dr. McKay www.doctormckay.com On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 3:14 PM, ElitePowered . elitepowe...@gmail.comwrote: English motha f*ck@, do you speak it? On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 3:00 PM,

Re: [hlds] Floating Intel glitch

2013-08-29 Thread Doctor McKay
We've experienced an issue where if the player holding the intel is moved to spectate by AFK Manager, they won't ever actually drop the intel and will keep it while they noclip around the map in spectator mode. Dr. McKay www.doctormckay.com On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Jason Tango

Re: [hlds] Mandatory TF2 update released

2013-08-22 Thread Doctor McKay
http://api.steampowered.com/IGCVersion_440/GetServerVersion/v0001 will show you the current server version of TF2 and the minimum allowed version. Replace 440 with your app ID for a different app. Dr. McKay www.doctormckay.com On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Ross Bemrose rbemr...@gmail.com

Re: [hlds] Mandatory TF2 update released

2013-08-22 Thread Doctor McKay
If your script prefers XML, you can append ?format=xml to get an XML output. Dr. McKay www.doctormckay.com On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Accid[e]nt accid...@sipa.co.uk wrote: Doctor McKay, that's exactly what I needed, thanks! The format means I can script the update too... hmmm. nice

Re: [hlds] Valve - Replay FileServer Protocol

2013-08-11 Thread Doctor McKay
It's worth noting that using HTTPS for replays is pretty much a waste of CPU cycles. Replays are not sensitive data, and no sensitive data will be transmitted in the replay downloading process. Dr. McKay www.doctormckay.com On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 2:54 AM, ics i...@ics-base.net wrote: It can

Re: [hlds] hlds Digest, Vol 28, Issue 36

2013-07-21 Thread Doctor McKay
Please... if you're going to contribute to this mailing list, stop replying to digests and subscribe to the full thing. Also, it's his choice how he wants to run his server. Dr. McKay www.doctormckay.com On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 3:04 PM, ElitePowered . elitepowe...@gmail.comwrote:

Re: [hlds] Idle Servers Dead

2013-07-19 Thread Doctor McKay
But in making it more difficult and more expensive (read: power) Valve significantly reduces the prevalence. Also keep in mind that a bunch of folks who were idling in textmode did it because it was easy and wasn't frowned upon -- now Valve has made their position clear so a bunch of casual

Re: [hlds] hlds Digest, Vol 28, Issue 15

2013-07-11 Thread Doctor McKay
Perhaps you should remove your fake players mods. Linux servers are working fine for me. Doctor McKay http://www.doctormckay.com mc...@doctormckay.com ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https

Re: [hlds] Mandatory TF2 update released

2013-07-11 Thread Doctor McKay
Try validating your server. I've had this issue a couple of times when a stock map was updated and validating fixed it. Doctor McKay http://www.doctormckay.com mc...@doctormckay.com On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 9:45 PM, Jason pctool...@gmail.com wrote: pl_upward -- we had a server where all

Re: [hlds] hlds Digest, Vol 28, Issue 17

2013-07-11 Thread Doctor McKay
I'm sure they're very sorry that their continued maintenance of a ~7 year old game is so inconvenient for you. Doctor McKay http://www.doctormckay.com mc...@doctormckay.com On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Rob r...@4umail.net wrote: no need to keep updating this fucking game all the time

Re: [hlds] TF2 MOTD and Quickplay

2013-06-17 Thread Doctor McKay
Can we please get back on topic? This isn't about how people pay for their servers, this is about detecting people who join through Quickplay. Dr. McKay On Monday, June 17, 2013, Paul wrote: I'm not stating that 'my community' is not donating, I'm merely stating what I know is and always has

[hlds] TF2 MOTD and Quickplay

2013-06-16 Thread Doctor McKay
want to consider preventing servers from opening webpages on Quickplay-joining clients entirely, not just preventing the panel from being redisplayed. Doctor McKay http://www.doctormckay.com mc...@doctormckay.com ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list

Re: [hlds] TF2 MOTD and Quickplay

2013-06-16 Thread Doctor McKay
a hidden page, then check if the page was loaded). If there was some way to detect this, then I wouldn't necessarily want this change to be made. As it stands, however, there is no way to determine whether or not a client is able to view an MOTD window. Doctor McKay http://www.doctormckay.com mc

Re: [hlds] TF2 MOTD and Quickplay

2013-06-16 Thread Doctor McKay
instead. N-Gon is correct in that none of my servers run ads (I got rid of Pinion shortly before they implemented the forced waiting timer). It would certainly be good to know how effective Quickplay is, and this is one way to do it. Doctor McKay http://www.doctormckay.com mc...@doctormckay.com

Re: [hlds] TF2 MOTD and Quickplay

2013-06-16 Thread Doctor McKay
(backpack.tf Price Check, SteamRep Checker (Redux)). Doctor McKay http://www.doctormckay.com mc...@doctormckay.com On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 7:33 PM, ced lo loranger...@hotmail.com wrote: Yeah im seriously tired of those useless post... Leave the Motd alone and if your not happy with, just move

Re: [hlds] TF2 MOTD and Quickplay

2013-06-16 Thread Doctor McKay
(dunno how practical it'd be though, since player_connect is an engine event). This is an example of the XY Problem ( http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=542341). I have a problem, I thought of one solution, that one solution isn't possible, and I asked if it could be. Doctor McKay http

Re: [hlds] NO to in game advertising

2013-06-05 Thread Doctor McKay
that forces advertisements on its players is of poor quality, why would you consciously choose to play on it? Regardless, this is a discussion for SPUF/SPUD, and it's already been beaten into the ground several times over there. Doctor McKay http://www.doctormckay.com mc...@doctormckay.com On Wed

Re: [hlds] NO to in game advertising

2013-06-05 Thread Doctor McKay
, but that's what it was like before. On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 8:33 PM, Doctor McKay mc...@doctormckay.comhttps://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cmfs=1tf=1to=mc...@doctormckay.com wrote: Evidently, Pinion has implemented procedures to delay the game for players who block their ad server

Re: [hlds] NO to in game advertising

2013-06-03 Thread Doctor McKay
This mailing list is for server operators, not for players. Please take it to SPUF or SPUD if you want to discuss this. Doctor McKay http://www.doctormckay.com mc...@doctormckay.com On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 11:49 AM, big john brewskii...@gmail.com wrote: What the hell is this random mumbo

Re: [hlds] CS:GO Triggering Anti-Virus - Threat name: Suspicious.Cloud.7.F

2013-05-02 Thread Doctor McKay
After doing a bit of research, it appears to me that Suspicious.Cloud.7.F just means that it's a file that Norton *thinks* is suspicious. You should get a non-bad antivirus program. Doctor McKay http://www.doctormckay.com mc...@doctormckay.com On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Robert Whelan

Re: [hlds] hlds Digest, Vol 25, Issue 98

2013-04-26 Thread Doctor McKay
visit: https://list.valvesoftware.**com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/**hldshttps://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds -- Doctor McKay http://www.doctormckay.com mc...@doctormckay.com ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences

Re: [hlds] TF2 SteamPipe Beta spray issues

2013-04-25 Thread Doctor McKay
this? __**_ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.**com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/**hldshttps://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds -- Doctor McKay http

Re: [hlds] Counter-Strike:Source has been converted to SteamPipe

2013-04-18 Thread Doctor McKay
I would imagine the memory usage increase might be due to the new VPK filesystem. The server has to mount the VPK files. Doctor McKay http://www.doctormckay.com mc...@doctormckay.com On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Nicholas Hastings psycho...@alliedmods.net wrote: This list is no place

Re: [hlds] Mandatory Team Fortress 2 update released

2013-04-18 Thread Doctor McKay
An increased FOV gives some players an advantage over spies, which rely on stealth. If leagues want to continue to allow increased FOVs, they can disable VAC on their match servers. Doctor McKay http://www.doctormckay.com mc...@doctormckay.com On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Brian br

Re: [hlds] Counter-Strike:Source has been converted to SteamPipe

2013-04-16 Thread Doctor McKay
No. You absolutely must download the new server via SteamCMD (or another third-party tool). HldsUpdateTool WILL NOT work anymore. Doctor McKay http://www.doctormckay.com mc...@doctormckay.com On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 7:06 PM, Felipe Fujihara felipete...@hotmail.comwrote: Well, is there a way

Re: [hlds] Fresh install not starting

2013-04-12 Thread Doctor McKay
Worked fine for me using your command-line. Make sure you run it a few times. On the first run HldsUpdateTool has to update itself. Doctor McKay http://www.doctormckay.com mc...@doctormckay.com On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Bruno Garcia garcia.bru...@gmail.comwrote: This is my command

Re: [hlds] [hlds_announce] Source engine games Steampipe conversion schedule

2013-04-02 Thread Doctor McKay
Ladies and gentlemen, the one person who still uses Hotmail: Mr. Crapware Wardon, aka Steve Gonzolos. Doctor McKay http://www.doctormckay.com mc...@doctormckay.com On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Steve Gonzolos steve.go...@live.com wrote: this is getting old. stop spamming this mail list

Re: [hlds] 32 Slot Server

2013-04-01 Thread Doctor McKay
While I agree that a mailing list isn't the best system for discussion about servers, it at least has a slightly higher barrier to entry than the Steam forums/discussions. If the forums were the only place for server admins to discuss, then a lot more regular users (non-admins) would end up

[hlds] 32 Slot Server

2013-04-01 Thread Doctor McKay
The mailing list isn't usually this chaotic. I'm sure it'll be brought under control shortly. You can just subscribe to hlds_announce, as that contains pretty much all of the useful information. Alternatively, since you're using Gmail, you can set up a filter to route all messages from domains

Re: [hlds] Better Idle Managment

2013-03-31 Thread Doctor McKay
Yup. I use mp_idledealmethod 1 and it sends to spectate then kicks if they're still idle. I'm not sure how long it waits before kicking, but it works fine for me. Dr. McKay On Sunday, March 31, 2013, Paul wrote: I'm pretty sure mp_idledealmethod 1 doesn't just send them to spectator. The

Re: [hlds] Better Idle Managment

2013-03-31 Thread Doctor McKay
sending any data (which can happen due to lag). sv_timeout controls how long the server will wait before determining that the client is gone and dropping them from the game. Doctor McKay http://www.doctormckay.com mc...@doctormckay.com On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Harsh Baid harshbai

Re: [hlds] 32 Slot Server

2013-03-31 Thread Doctor McKay
not that the server can't handle more players, but that the gameplay changes when more than 24 players join. Doctor McKay http://www.doctormckay.com mc...@doctormckay.com On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Harsh Baid harshbai...@gmail.com wrote: So i have recently heard somewhere that any player slot above 24

Re: [hlds] Suggestion and query regarding MOTD

2013-03-30 Thread Doctor McKay
Yes. Players have the ability to prevent anything from loading in the MOTD panel besides plain text. Players don't have the ability to block servers from opening the panel in the first place, but neither do players have the ability to get around fun commands such as drug, slay, freeze, etc. The

Re: [hlds] (no subject)

2013-03-30 Thread Doctor McKay
of customers?! I know why, because it's an outright lie. The a-holes collecting pinion funds started the lie to legitimize themselves. I suppose this is a lie too? http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=32478884postcount=11 Doctor McKay http://www.doctormckay.com mc...@doctormckay.com

Re: [hlds] Suggestion and query regarding MOTD

2013-03-30 Thread Doctor McKay
This isn't necessarily true. A malicious server could open a webpage in the client's Steam overlay browser that's hosted on their own website and uses JavaScript to POST something to steamcommunity.com, like a Steam group join request. Doctor McKay http://www.doctormckay.com mc

Re: [hlds] Suggestion and query regarding MOTD

2013-03-30 Thread Doctor McKay
I'm sorry, are you missing the green name and the Valve logo on those forum posts? That means it's an official Valve employee speaking. Doctor McKay http://www.doctormckay.com mc...@doctormckay.com On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 12:24 AM, Crapware Wardon crapware.war...@hotmail.com wrote

Re: [hlds] Suggestion and query regarding MOTD

2013-03-30 Thread Doctor McKay
in order to provide servers to some areas. It's not difficult to figure out. If you want to debate this further, please go to the official Steam forums ( http://forums.steampowered.com) where you might find your target audience. Doctor McKay http://www.doctormckay.com mc...@doctormckay.com On Sun

Re: [hlds] Suggestion and query regarding MOTD

2013-03-29 Thread Doctor McKay
or partially break if this change was made. Doctor McKay http://www.doctormckay.com mc...@doctormckay.com On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 2:27 PM, 1nsane 1nsane...@gmail.com wrote: Where did you hear this rumor from? On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Paul ubyu@gmail.com wrote: Disabling

Re: [hlds] Mandatory TF2, DoD:S, and HL2:DM updates coming

2013-03-19 Thread Doctor McKay
Non-SteamPipe clients will be able to connect to servers that have updated to SteamPipe, correct? Doctor McKay http://www.doctormckay.com mc...@doctormckay.com On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Fletcher Dunn fletch...@valvesoftware.comwrote: We will release the server and an optional client

Re: [hlds] ATTENTION ADMINS AND VALVE: Scammer/Thief: Elite| Mamo

2013-03-02 Thread Doctor McKay
These are the risks you take when installing a closed-source server plugin from an untrusted source. Dr. McKay On Saturday, March 2, 2013, Todd Pettit wrote: He tried to sell it to me. I told him no. He wanted $900 dollars for fakeclients he somehow controls from a server. The photobucket

Re: [hlds] Server bans

2013-02-25 Thread Doctor McKay
If all of your servers run on the same box, you can perhaps symlink banned_user.cfg. Dr. McKay On Monday, February 25, 2013, big john wrote: He's talking about something similar to sourcebans so you can ban a client from all your servers. Not from all servers. Valve could add a server cvar

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-20 Thread Doctor McKay
there that are for donations, I saw one and it was outdated, and another is still being built. I was waiting, but I am thinking I might just build it myself. On 02/19/2013 04:38 PM, Doctor McKay wrote: SourceMod has a built-in admin API. The admins.cfg and admins_simple.ini files are loaded by admins

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-19 Thread Doctor McKay
I haven't seen any Pinion ads in TF2 servers (then again, I only go on Mann Up servers). To the extent of my knowledge, Valve only uses Pinion in official L4D(2) servers. And yes, it is your right to block anything you can. It is also the right of the server to deny you from playing. Dr. McKay

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-19 Thread Doctor McKay
The most recent version of the official plugin has a flag immunity feature. I personally really like Bitcoin. You can find a lot of info at http://weusecoins.com and http://reddit.com/r/bitcoin Dr. McKay http://www.doctormckay.com mc...@doctormckay.com On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Harsh

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-19 Thread Doctor McKay
/disabled folder. More info on that is available here http://wiki.alliedmods.net/SQL_Admins_(SourceMod). Doctor McKay http://www.doctormckay.com mc...@doctormckay.com On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Cameron Munroe cmun...@cameronmunroe.comwrote: ** Yes, but you need to create a system

Re: [hlds] Wonkagamings servers blacklisted? after recent update?

2013-02-19 Thread Doctor McKay
Have you tried turning it off and on againhttp://www.wonkagaming.com/index.php?pageid=servers ? Doctor McKay http://www.doctormckay.com mc...@doctormckay.com On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 6:36 PM, HLDS Digest h...@wonkagaming.com wrote: after recent update I noticed a couple of my ip ranges

Re: [hlds] Wonkagamings servers blacklisted? after recent update?

2013-02-19 Thread Doctor McKay
They've been down since the TF2 update yesterday. Doctor McKay http://www.doctormckay.com mc...@doctormckay.com On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 8:24 PM, List User l...@redspeedservers.com wrote: Probably getting DDoSed. And it's not a regular blacklist, it's a wonkablacklist. =) On 2/19/2013 7

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread Doctor McKay
Just find a server you like and stick with it. Works fine for me. Perhaps you might want to go to SPUF for your specific needs. Dr. McKay http://www.doctormckay.com -Original Message- From: Will Dueck Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 7:40 PM To: hlds_li...@list.valvesoftware.com Cc:

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread Doctor McKay
that lock people into watching the motd and cause player crashes shouldn't be eligible for quickplay imo. Shouldn't be that hard to code up a generator that reads the master list and parses out a blacklist file for those servers with the public cvar set. On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Doctor

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread Doctor McKay
if this is helpful to anyone http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=126315742 On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Doctor McKay li...@doctormckay.com wrote: Only problem with that is, Valve has official partnered with Pinion and endorses what it's doing. According to one of the Pinion reps

Re: [hlds] Update tool overloaded?

2013-02-18 Thread Doctor McKay
That tends to happen when an update is released, but it usually doesn't go on this long... Dr. McKay http://www.doctormckay.com On Feb 18, 2013, at 9:21 PM, List User l...@redspeedservers.com wrote: Is the update tool overloaded right now? Can't get any updates...

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread Doctor McKay
FYI, everything from IP 173.212.4.32, which you can see by viewing the message headers is spam from forged email addresses. You can spot it pretty easily. It reeks of 12-year-old immaturity. Doctor McKay http://www.doctormckay.com mc...@doctormckay.com On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:41 AM, T

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread Doctor McKay
It's not him. Doctor McKay http://www.doctormckay.com mc...@doctormckay.com On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:44 AM, evan otten evan...@gmail.com wrote: Todd I agreed with you somewhat until you turned into a asshole. STOP SPAMMING MY E-MAIL WITH YOUR BULLSHIT On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 9:40 PM

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread Doctor McKay
(and not being verified). Also notice how the IP addresses don't match up? Everything from the surry.net domain is spoofed. Doctor McKay http://www.doctormckay.com mc...@doctormckay.com On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:53 AM, Jenner LaFave jen...@jfave.com wrote: Just FYI, someone is actually

Re: [hlds] Reminder about server tags

2013-02-12 Thread Doctor McKay
I second this. I just had an issue applying tags in a plugin due to the truncation issue. At the present moment, it's not feasable for plugins to force tags (such as respawntimes, friendlyfire, etc) since the tag might end up getting cut off. Dr. McKay http://www.doctormckay.com -

Re: [hlds] Reminder about server tags

2013-02-12 Thread Doctor McKay
: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 1:35 AM Subject: Re: [hlds] Reminder about server tags Cut off from view or cut off from quickplay? Are truncated tags searchable? Sent from my iPhone 5 On Feb 12, 2013, at 10:32 PM, Doctor McKay li...@doctormckay.com wrote: I second this. I just had

Re: [hlds] Alias Existing Commands

2013-02-05 Thread Doctor McKay
There’s really an easy solution: disconnect and blacklist servers that you don’t like. Just because servers do things that clients don’t like doesn’t mean that the functionality should be removed from the game. Doctor McKay http://www.doctormckay.com From: James Haikin Sent: Tuesday

Re: [hlds] Alias Existing Commands

2013-02-05 Thread Doctor McKay
On this I'm going to have to disagree. Clients are more than welcome to disconnect from servers that do things they don't like, and even blacklist them. Server owners should still maintain control over how their servers operate, even if what they do is unpopular. Doctor McKay http

Re: [hlds] Alias Existing Commands

2013-02-05 Thread Doctor McKay
Doctor McKay http://www.doctormckay.com -Original Message- From: suckysoftw...@hmamail.com Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 6:02 PM To: Hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: [hlds] Alias Existing Commands Hi doctormcay, well please save my friends and I some time by kindly providing

Re: [hlds] Alias Existing Commands

2013-02-05 Thread Doctor McKay
By the way, whoever spoofed my email address to try and unsubscribe me from the mailing list, grow up. Doctor McKay http://www.doctormckay.com -Original Message- From: Doctor McKay Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 6:19 PM To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re

Re: [hlds] Alias Existing Commands

2013-02-05 Thread Doctor McKay
of servers to deny you from playing based on your blockage of advertisements or custom files. I don’t like it, but I’m in favor of the right. Doctor McKay http://www.doctormckay.com From: Mart-Jan Reeuwijk Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 6:39 PM To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list

[hlds] SourceTV/Replay and sv_shutdown command

2013-01-08 Thread Doctor McKay
is empty? Doctor McKay http://www.doctormckay.com___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds

Re: [hlds] Name Tags / Description Tags

2013-01-08 Thread Doctor McKay
Someone could possibly write a plugin that queries the Web API for a user’s items and checks if any have inappropriate names. If any do, deal with the player accordingly. Wouldn’t work if they have a private backpack though. Doctor McKay http://www.doctormckay.com From: Pizza Sent: Tuesday

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