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Re: GameTracker
Goodness I'm wrong about more things than I like to be wrong about. At least I can admit it!
So {CG} seems to want to hover at 210 or so and {MHM} is way up at 350 or so. This will need to be fixed. I think once you get in the top 100 that basically means you have at least 1 player playing for about 18 hours each day. That what it looks like when I view the ones I have listed as suggested and supported {HOH} servers. I think about 3 of them are always in the top 100 of which 2 are usually in the top 50!
So {CG} seems to want to hover at 210 or so and {MHM} is way up at 350 or so. This will need to be fixed. I think once you get in the top 100 that basically means you have at least 1 player playing for about 18 hours each day. That what it looks like when I view the ones I have listed as suggested and supported {HOH} servers. I think about 3 of them are always in the top 100 of which 2 are usually in the top 50!
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Rank: 120 on 04-19-12.
This may be the best rank {CG} has had in the last several years. Don't know to be honest. I'm still shocked it is higher that it's sister server {MHM}. I'll take it but I still think GameTracker is messed up. I see reports saying {CG} is being played but I never see people playing unless I am playing too. I will play more to see for sure. LOL! I have also noticed that I can have up to 8 players at once and GameTracker only shows I had 4 at best. This happens often. Why is that?
This may be the best rank {CG} has had in the last several years. Don't know to be honest. I'm still shocked it is higher that it's sister server {MHM}. I'll take it but I still think GameTracker is messed up. I see reports saying {CG} is being played but I never see people playing unless I am playing too. I will play more to see for sure. LOL! I have also noticed that I can have up to 8 players at once and GameTracker only shows I had 4 at best. This happens often. Why is that?
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Yeah, GameTracker doesn't seem too accurate.
Also, I noticed that it seems as though the more max players a server has 12, 16 or more, the higher in rank - or easier to get higher rank.
Also, I noticed that it seems as though the more max players a server has 12, 16 or more, the higher in rank - or easier to get higher rank.
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I think there is something to that too HOOK. Did we already discuss that or is this the first time? I feel you are totally right. It may have more to do with that if you have two identically named servers and they are the same in every other way as well MasterServer has to list them somehow. It will list the one with a higher player slots first or highest alphabetically. Notice I have jacked up the max player count on all of my servers to 16 instead of 12. That was why!
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Yeah, I've been watching a few servers with different amounts of total server slots.
About the same amount of players - but, the rank of the higher amount of slots server gets a much higher rank at GT.
About the same amount of players - but, the rank of the higher amount of slots server gets a much higher rank at GT.
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I am still confused by it all and have stopped watching too closely but I am still interested in what it says. I think it works like this:
First it ranks all of the servers based on whether or not they have a single player on the or not. A server with 1 player on it for 10 hours gets about as much recognition as one that has 1 player on it for 10 hours. But then when it is a tie it looks to see on average which server had more players during that same time period and awards an extra point to the one that has more. Then there is also another extra point assigned for servers that have a player on it for either 12 hr of each day and another extra for a full day of use.
I think it works on some sort of system like that. The biggest variance you can make on your server the fastest is to have it have at least one player on it all day long. Do that for 5 days straight an your server will be in the top 100 for sure.
First it ranks all of the servers based on whether or not they have a single player on the or not. A server with 1 player on it for 10 hours gets about as much recognition as one that has 1 player on it for 10 hours. But then when it is a tie it looks to see on average which server had more players during that same time period and awards an extra point to the one that has more. Then there is also another extra point assigned for servers that have a player on it for either 12 hr of each day and another extra for a full day of use.
I think it works on some sort of system like that. The biggest variance you can make on your server the fastest is to have it have at least one player on it all day long. Do that for 5 days straight an your server will be in the top 100 for sure.
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Yeah, that sounds about right - judging by watching some servers.
Also, of course, there are still those servers that employ loyal users to sit in them.
And also those that use the fake players too.
But I guess when you see those things happening, you can just assume that those servers in question are WAY lower in actual rank than they indicate and advertise.
That is what I do!
Also, of course, there are still those servers that employ loyal users to sit in them.
And also those that use the fake players too.
But I guess when you see those things happening, you can just assume that those servers in question are WAY lower in actual rank than they indicate and advertise.
That is what I do!
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Madness...
I haven't done squat to my server in about 5 years and it is near the top 100 rank! Funny and stupid I say. It is obvious to me I think that you go up in rank about 25 servers for each average of 12 more ours 1 player put on your server a day. I'm saying that I bet that if I logged in myself and did not boot myself each day for 12 hours each day my server would go up to a rank of about 75. If I left the player logged in all day, that would be another 12 hours on average and my server would rank around #50 I suspect.
That is crap man! I'm unsure how to grade servers better but there must be a way. I just looked a second ago at GameTracker for the first time in a while and see that we are down to about 670 servers now. I was at rank 120 a month ago or so. Now suddenly I'm near #100 with this server? HOOK is right. I could easily turn up the heat here and jump way ahead in the rankings. If I move my servers to another provider to save some money I may refuse to log them back in with GameTracker. It is a pain too if I recall and I also know I don't deserve for this server to be listed within 100 points of HOOK's server.
CG doesn't deserve to be in the top 300 in its current condition. back to funny and stupid that it is and I'm glad to see it get played still. Maybe that is it. I played it 2 nights and a bunch of folks showed up and played for an hour so GameTracker is projecting what it thinks it is capable of maybe? LOL!
I haven't done squat to my server in about 5 years and it is near the top 100 rank! Funny and stupid I say. It is obvious to me I think that you go up in rank about 25 servers for each average of 12 more ours 1 player put on your server a day. I'm saying that I bet that if I logged in myself and did not boot myself each day for 12 hours each day my server would go up to a rank of about 75. If I left the player logged in all day, that would be another 12 hours on average and my server would rank around #50 I suspect.
That is crap man! I'm unsure how to grade servers better but there must be a way. I just looked a second ago at GameTracker for the first time in a while and see that we are down to about 670 servers now. I was at rank 120 a month ago or so. Now suddenly I'm near #100 with this server? HOOK is right. I could easily turn up the heat here and jump way ahead in the rankings. If I move my servers to another provider to save some money I may refuse to log them back in with GameTracker. It is a pain too if I recall and I also know I don't deserve for this server to be listed within 100 points of HOOK's server.
CG doesn't deserve to be in the top 300 in its current condition. back to funny and stupid that it is and I'm glad to see it get played still. Maybe that is it. I played it 2 nights and a bunch of folks showed up and played for an hour so GameTracker is projecting what it thinks it is capable of maybe? LOL!
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Re: GameTracker
It makes perfect sense if you consider that the amount of players has badly dropped off in the past year. Almost no one plays pick up anymore, everyone gathers around a half dozen servers. This leaves the rest of the server pool to be easily improved with only a small amount of playtime. I've been preaching this exact thing for a while and only now is it becoming apparent, even to those who really thought I was wrong about it. I'd rather not be right on this but it is what it is I guess.
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One thing that Hermskii is dead wrong about...
His server DOES deserve to be in the top 100 - or even top 50!
A good number of players on CMM comment how much they love playing on CG also.
I agree with those players too - you have a great server with some of the best maps in the business!
His server DOES deserve to be in the top 100 - or even top 50!
A good number of players on CMM comment how much they love playing on CG also.
I agree with those players too - you have a great server with some of the best maps in the business!
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Yup, and right now your name means everything. Hardly anyone server-shops any more. Instead they visit places they know and since you both have been around since Moby "Expletive Deleted" was a minnow, your place is assured
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Ahahaha! Moby "expletive deleted". LOL.
Did the forum change it for you or did you type it in that way? I have a forum bad word filter that is on but I never really tested it and I'm guessing it doesn't work based on how many folks got banned for cussing before.
Did the forum change it for you or did you type it in that way? I have a forum bad word filter that is on but I never really tested it and I'm guessing it doesn't work based on how many folks got banned for cussing before.
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No, I just typed it like you did. I wasn't testing the filter, that's just a common saying from my neck o' the woods.
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Remember that character in books named "Expletive Deleted" Tracey? Is that how his name is spelled? There! The forum bad word monitor just got tested. I see it worked too! Cool!
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Oh yeah, and then there is that old movie called "The Bank "Expletive Deleted""
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