[Astridax]

Hey guys, I'm having some trouble with quickplay and wondering if you had any advice.

According to cl_gameserver_list my server standing is good and the trend upwards fast.

I used to run a very popular server before that used quickplay and it was always full.

However I shut all my servers down for around four months and started again, due to various reasons.

However this new server never seems to get players. I've tried with tf_mm_servermode 1 and tf_mm_servermode 0 and both can be equally as buggy as each other.

With servermode 1, I can't seem to fill the server beyond 14 players and with 0, nothing happens at all.

I understand that the server needs to be seeded by players (my admins) to work, however with 10 players we were still getting very slow if any connects. It suggests to me that they connected via the server browser and not via quickplay. My tags suggest that I am registered.

I fairly sure on my old servers for each map change it used to say,
"Game server authentication: SUCCESS! Standing: Good. Trend: Upward Fast" or something similar.

However on this new server, it only seems to say that when starting SRCDS.

Do you guys have any idea?

[Happy DODs player]

One of my top visited Quickplay gameservers died out in a couple of weeks. Even when there play 5 till 10 men it hardly gets filled up.

So goodluck hope yours get notiched

[Astridax]

Could it be a plugin or maybe a cvar that is stopping it? My server isn't quite the same as it once was, I remade it entirely. I have checked all the things mentioned in the steam community post about Quickplay.

One thing that occurred to me, do you guys by any chance know the port and IP used to communicate to the Quickplay servers?

Also can someone confirm to me how often that line appears in their log files (see first post).

I've considered switching out the current server ID and using the one from my old server. Not sure whether servers go significantly down in ranking due to inactivity or being down.

I'm going to use a few commands suggested here:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.game...e.server/41501

tf_matchmaking_spew_level 4
con_logfile qpdebug.log

[AeroAcrobat]

18:41:49 tf_matchmaking_spew_level
18:41:50 Unknown command "tf_matchmaking_spew_level"
18:42:02 find tf_matchmaking
18:43:03 con_logfile
18:43:03 "con_logfile" = ""
          - Console output gets written to this file
18:43:22 find matchmaking
18:43:22 "tf_mm_strict" = "0"
          game notify
          -    0 = Show in server browser, and allow ad-hoc joins
            1 = Hide from server browser and only allow joins coordinated through GC matchmaking
            2 = Hide from server browser, but allow ad-hoc joins
         
         "tf_server_identity_disable_quickplay" = "0"
          game archive notify
          - Disable this server from being chosen by the quickplay matchmaking.
         "matchmakingport" = "27025"
          - Host Matchmaking port

So whats "matchmakingport" ? It's 27025 for all of my servers but I still get quickplay traffic.
As for the commands on top: They look useless to me ...

edit: looks like I need to asign an individually port for every server .... never heard of this command before >_<!

[captaindeterprimary]

Yea have noticed that my tf2 stock servers have been dying out. I don't get 5 players a day now, but they do hang around for 3+ hours.

[Dr. McKay]

Paste the contents of your sv_tags.

[Astridax]

Originally Posted by Dr. McKay Paste the contents of your sv_tags.

[SM] Value of cvar "sv_tags": "TESTCFGTAG,_registered,adventure,alltalk,bro ny,colt,community,cp,filly,fun,koth,mapvote,m lm,mlp,pl,replays"

Some of these are really old and I really need to remove a lot of them since it really isn't a brony community as much any more. Oh well .

[Astridax]

Originally Posted by AeroAcrobat 18:41:49 tf_matchmaking_spew_level 18:41:50 Unknown command "tf_matchmaking_spew_level" 18:42:02 find tf_matchmaking 18:43:03 con_logfile 18:43:03 "con_logfile" = "" - Console output gets written to this file 18:43:22 find matchmaking 18:43:22 "tf_mm_strict" = "0" game notify - 0 = Show in server browser, and allow ad-hoc joins 1 = Hide from server browser and only allow joins coordinated through GC matchmaking 2 = Hide from server browser, but allow ad-hoc joins "tf_server_identity_disable_quickplay" = "0" game archive notify - Disable this server from being chosen by the quickplay matchmaking. "matchmakingport" = "27025" - Host Matchmaking port So whats "matchmakingport" ? It's 27025 for all of my servers but I still get quickplay traffic. As for the commands on top: They look useless to me ... edit: looks like I need to asign an individually port for every server .... never heard of this command before >_<!

Mine is 27025 as well. The only real reason I wanted to know is I wanted to see if I could check if the port was even open. I transferred this installation of debian over from another server and we had some problems with the network interface files.

Actually can someone merge these posts. I'm too used to being a mod and merging them myself on my forums :/. Forgot I can't really do that here. Sorry for the double post.

[Dr. McKay]

Originally Posted by Astridax [SM] Value of cvar "sv_tags": "TESTCFGTAG,_registered,adventure,alltalk,bro ny,colt,community,cp,filly,fun,koth,mapvote,m lm,mlp,pl,replays" Some of these are really old and I really need to remove a lot of them since it really isn't a brony community as much any more. Oh well .

Well, it doesn't appear that you have anything that would disqualify you from Quickplay.

In my experience, it's possible for a server ID to be "dead" and not send any players. Try generating a new one.

[napalm00]

Use fake clients like 100% of the quickplay servers nowadays lol