Ok this is almost the last straw for me hosting TF2 servers - first you basically kill anything to do with the community but rather than deal with those few select that abuse something you take everything away from everyone. To not be able to run what introduces contracts and to require to play only on official servers really kills community servers that could host these much better than poorly run Valve servers.
You say you are looking at the situation with Community servers but I find this very hard to believe and nothing more than propaganda to save face. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Schoenick Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2015 5:23 PM To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list; [email protected] Subject: [hlds_linux] Community Servers and the Gun Mettle Update Hey guys, with today's update we're introducing a few new features that will impact servers, and I just wanted to give you guys a heads up. There is a new quickplay category, featured, that represents the featured maps for a given campaign. In order to have your server in this category, you need to be running the mapcycle mapcycle_featured_maps.txt, and have the special string 'featured' in your quickplay tags. Today's update also introduces contracts, which currently require players be on official servers to complete. Unfortunately, our current setup makes it very difficult to restrict features like this other than in an all-or-nothing manner, and we determined this was necessary to protect the system from immediate abuse. We agree this is not ideal. We are continuing the look at the situation with community servers and how we can better support passionate communities, but currently have nothing to announce. - JohnS _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: 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
