Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald
, 2008 11:27 PM To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community. I agree, but what we basically have here is game theory: Sure it would help everyone if we *all* stopped, but that's highly unlikely. In the mean time

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread Thomas Morton
dedicated Win32 server mailing list' hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: Re: [hlds] Valve,thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community. Yeah, when valve said they wanted admins to work within the bounds of the tags and they were going to be doing some PR and user education about the tabs

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread P. Bhandal
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nephyrin Zey Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 11:27 PM To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community. I agree, but what we basically

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald
Subject: Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community. how would that have worked?? ;) Some server admins volunteer to run the beta to upgrade their servers to the custom tab??? :D ~ Errant -- From: Spencer 'voogru

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread Roman Hatsiev
mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community. how would that have worked?? ;) Some server admins volunteer to run the beta to upgrade their servers to the custom tab??? :D ~ Errant -- From

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread Steven Hartland
That will just add to confusion. ONE tab is all that's needed with filter options ( all off by default )! Regards Steve - Original Message - From: Saint K. [EMAIL PROTECTED] What VALVe needs to do, is simply implement another tab. One tab 'Internet' with all servers, one

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread Saint K.
' MacDonald Verzonden: Friday, March 14, 2008 10:21 AM Aan: 'Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list' Onderwerp: Re: [hlds] Valve,thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community. Actually it could have been done totally on the clients during a beta test and players could have opt

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread Saint K.
] Namens Steven Hartland Verzonden: Friday, March 14, 2008 11:30 AM Aan: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Onderwerp: Re: [hlds] Valve,thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community. That will just add to confusion. ONE tab is all that's needed with filter options ( all off by default

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread Munra
mailing list hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 9:02 PM Subject: Re: [hlds] Valve,thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community. None of those examples have direct context to this situation. Myself and others can provide proof of how this hurting our servers. Two

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread Matthew Cheale
Saint K. wrote: True, ideally it should just be a filter option, but apparently we're going the tab way. And looking at VALVe, their not likely to revert something they implemented. So somehow we'll be stuck to the tabs anyway. A tab is just a pre-defined filter set and for your average Joe,

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread Andrius Pirus
No, the best one is one tab, but many filtering options and that's all. Why people should find the servers looking in 2 tabs. It's simply annoying. And i think that's not impossible that Valve revert the changes they made and give us back one nice tab with nice filtering functions in bonus.

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread Chris Staley
I think I have to agree with this. It would be best if there was just one tab, but a more comprehensive filtering system. The tag idea is great. It will really help people find the servers that they really want. The custom tab throws a lot of people off though. I work for a GSP and its unreal

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread Matthew Cheale
Andrius Pirus wrote: No, the best one is one tab, but many filtering options and that's all. Why people should find the servers looking in 2 tabs. It's simply annoying. And i think that's not impossible that Valve revert the changes they made and give us back one nice tab with nice

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread 1nsane .
I agree with the One Tab idea 100%. Penalizing us for running Custom/32 Player Servers is definitely not the best idea. On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Chris Staley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I have to agree with this. It would be best if there was just one tab, but a more comprehensive

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread LDuke
sv_tags is a good idea. I'd like to add a tag to it indicating the game play changes my pluins make so that they are easy to find (or avoid). Unfortunately, the way it is implemented now, no server operator would run my plugin if I actually used sv_tags the way it was intended. The default tab

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald
, March 14, 2008 10:26 AM To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community. Andrius Pirus wrote: No, the best one is one tab, but many filtering options and that's all. Why people should find the servers looking in 2

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread LDuke
I'm pretty sure most people who are able to download and install steam are also able to click a check box that has the words Standard Servers Only next to it. Check boxes are a common feature in most applications and many web pages. It's not for hard core gamers anymore than sending an email is

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread Matthew Cheale
LDuke wrote: I'm pretty sure most people who are able to download and install steam are also able to click a check box that has the words Standard Servers Only next to it. Check boxes are a common feature in most applications and many web pages. It's not for hard core gamers anymore than

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald
... - voogru. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kitteny Berk Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 11:17 AM To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community. I agree

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread Andreas Grimm
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 4:26 PM To: 'Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list' Subject: Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community. That'd be fine. Right under the VAC message. 'This server is custom and game

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald
. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andreas Grimm Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 11:43 AM To: 'Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list' Subject: Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community. like i said in another message

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread LDuke
But, that only proves my point. The way it is setup now, he will be joining voogru's example party hat and grapple hook server because it's on the Internet tab. If all servers were shown with an option to show only custom servers, plugins like that would identify what they were and he'd at least

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread Matthew Cheale
Nah, two tabs (all, standard) would be sufficient ;p Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald wrote: There is no other solution to this problem other than to add 3 tabs (internet, standard, custom) or to go back to one tab with all of the new filters. Anything else is beating around the bush and not

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread Kitteny Berk
Only if all was the default. Then valve would get thousands of retards complaining that they keep ending up on servers with weird settings. Any solution for your average gamer has to be what they expect, where they expect it, and most importantly, not involving more than one list - multiple

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread Timothy L Havener
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 4:26 PM To: 'Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list' Subject: Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community. That'd be fine. Right under

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread Timothy L Havener
just click the first server he sees without having to think. - Original Message - From: Kitteny Berk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 11:39 AM Subject: Re: [hlds] Valve,thank you for virtually

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread P. Bhandal
: Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list' hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 10:58 AM Subject: Re: [hlds] Valve,thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community. There is no other solution to this problem other than

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread Don Williams
- From: Timothy L Havener [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: 2008-03-14 12:52 PM Subject: Re: [hlds] Valve,thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community. I think that is the main problem here. Valve is catering to mouth

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Don Williams Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 1:11 PM To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community. Excuse me, 1 tab plus filters. I'm all turned around. - Original Message - From: Don

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread Nephyrin Zey
While saying valve shouldn't cater to idiots might be good for us, you have to remember that they want to make their game the best for everyone. Idiots still have $30. Just don't forget Valve's point of view. ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread Don Williams
PM Subject: Re: [hlds] Valve,thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community. Yeah, I was about to flame you and attack you. Just kidding. Valve is catering to mouth breathing dumbies who don't have the collective intelligence of a pile of walnuts. They need to stop making the game

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread Don Williams
That is true. Without the idiots we wouldn't be where we are now. - Original Message - From: Nephyrin Zey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: 2008-03-14 01:38 PM Subject: Re: [hlds] Valve,thank you for virtually

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald
Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community. While saying valve shouldn't cater to idiots might be good for us, you have to remember that they want to make their game the best for everyone. Idiots still have $30. Just don't forget Valve's

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread P. Bhandal
wins. - voogru. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nephyrin Zey Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 1:38 PM To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread [BT]Black V
-Original Message- From: P. Bhandal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 15 March 2008 07:33 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community. Spot on once again Voogru, you ought to work at Valve! ;) On Fri

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread StrontiumDog
I like the tabs. A lot of people are vocal about not liking them. I thought I'd just say that I do like them and thought they were a good idea. ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit:

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald
-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list' Subject: Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community. Well personally, I like the tabs, but I'm an average gamer who only plays about 2 to 3 hours a night I don't want to play dustbowl 24/7 (de_dust anyone) i don't want instant jib

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread Kevin Ottalini
@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 2:15 PM Subject: Re: [hlds] Valve,thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community. Well personally, I like the tabs, but I'm an average gamer who only plays about 2 to 3 hours a night I don't want to play dustbowl 24/7 (de_dust anyone) i don't want

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald
server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community. Perhaps all the custom servers are seeing a drop in attendance because players are actually choosing to play on Vanilla servers (I know I do). Many players I know use a 3rd party serverbrowser

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread Steve
. $.02 - Original Message From: StrontiumDog [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 3:22:39 PM Subject: Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community. I like the tabs. A lot

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread [??R] The-/iller
@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 3:22:39 PM Subject: Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community. I like the tabs. A lot of people are vocal about not liking them. I thought I'd just say that I do like them and thought they were a good idea

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread P. Bhandal
Subject: Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community. I like the tabs. A lot of people are vocal about not liking them. I thought I'd just say that I do like them and thought they were a good idea

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-14 Thread Robert Whelan
] To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 3:22:39 PM Subject: Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community. I like the tabs. A lot of people are vocal about not liking them. I thought I'd just say that I do

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-13 Thread 1nsane .
-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] I'm sure Valve would say No Problem and be very happy that you are enjoying the new update. :( On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Timothy L Havener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. -- [ Picked text/plain

RE: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-13 Thread Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald
:( -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy L Havener Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 2:41 PM To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community. This is a multi-part message in MIME

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-13 Thread Timothy L Havener
killing our servers you are killing your game. - Original Message - From: 1nsane . [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 1:49 PM Subject: Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community. -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart

RE: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-13 Thread Saint K.
it to them. You aren't just killing our servers you are killing your game. - Original Message - From: 1nsane . [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 1:49 PM Subject: Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community. -- [ Picked

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-13 Thread Cc2iscooL
-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] If you had enough regulars, your servers would stay full. For instance, on Friday Night, I like to run party mode on my servers, which places them on the custom tab. I can still keep them full from the time it starts up until about dying gaming

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-13 Thread Kitteny Berk
Timothy L Havener Verzonden: Thursday, March 13, 2008 8:05 PM Aan: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Onderwerp: Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community. It's not just valve. A lot of game devs seem out of touch with gamers lately. Valve has always been the best developer

RE: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-13 Thread Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald
] Namens Timothy L Havener Verzonden: Thursday, March 13, 2008 8:05 PM Aan: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Onderwerp: Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community. It's not just valve. A lot of game devs seem out of touch with gamers lately. Valve has always been

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-13 Thread TheHeartSmasher
-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] I would also have to agree on this change hurting the overall community of TF2. Partitioning the two types of servers vanilla and custom is something that should not be done to help all servers servers an equal chance by listing all of them on

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-13 Thread Timothy L Havener
don't like it. - Original Message - From: Cc2iscooL [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 2:35 PM Subject: Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community. -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] If you had enough

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-13 Thread Kitteny Berk
@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community. It's not that bad yet. Valve haven't told me i need to pay them and jump through hoops to host a server with stats on... Yet. Saint K. wrote: One would almost think EA is involved

RE: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-13 Thread Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald
and I don't like it. - Original Message - From: Cc2iscooL [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 2:35 PM Subject: Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community. -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] If you had

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-13 Thread Munra
- Original Message - From: Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 4:23 PM Subject: RE: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community. You pulled the words right out of my mouth. -Original Message

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-13 Thread Timothy L Havener
PROTECTED] To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 4:24 PM Subject: Re: [hlds] Valve,thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community. Valve always here your going kill the game Community They heard it when css came out They heard it when steam came out They heard it when

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-13 Thread Timothy L Havener
even more. - Original Message - From: Munra [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 4:24 PM Subject: Re: [hlds] Valve,thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community. Valve always here your going kill the game Community They heard it when

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-13 Thread Nephyrin Zey
confusing people even more. - Original Message - From: Munra[EMAIL PROTECTED] To:hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 4:24 PM Subject: Re: [hlds] Valve,thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community. Valve always here your going kill the game

Re: [hlds] Valve, thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community.

2008-03-13 Thread Steve
: Thursday, March 13, 2008 4:24 PM Subject: Re: [hlds] Valve,thank you for virtually destroying my TF2 community. Valve always here your going kill the game Community They heard it when css came out They heard it when steam came out They heard it when they shut down the won servers. I am more