Where Are All The Servers Going?

VriVri Join Date: 2003-08-11 Member: 19463Members
In the past month Ive seen a decrease in servers, I use to get around 7-14 servers to join with my preference settings set to 100ms or less and ofcourse 2.01, now its like 2-7 all day every day.

Im mainly assuming this because school just started here in Canada, not sure how it differs over there in the US but it must be around the same time, it could also be that some servers are waiting for 2.1?, Im really not sure.

Hows it going with the rest of you? you must have noticed it.

Comments

  • BOZOBOZO Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 3973Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Supporter, Reinforced - Shadow
    My guess is that your using the HL serevr broswer. Try ASE or HLSW, I sure you'll find alot more serevrs.
  • VriVri Join Date: 2003-08-11 Member: 19463Members
    nah im using ASE, been using it for years
  • MrMojoMrMojo Join Date: 2002-11-25 Member: 9882Members, Constellation
    More people playing = higher ms? Maybe?
  • XShrikeXShrike Join Date: 2003-03-30 Member: 15058Members
    Maybe its your connection. When I am home my connection on cable is awsome and I get about 100 servers but, when I am at college since everyone in my apartment complexe seems to leave kazaa on I only get 10 at the worst.
  • typical_skeletontypical_skeleton Join Date: 2003-02-24 Member: 13944Members
    half isn't that bad. some servers have gone. but requiring 100ms from american servers while in canada seems a little extreme.

    try the next one up and you'll get those inbetween. i.e, 110ms, 120ms, etc...
  • PseudoKnightPseudoKnight Join Date: 2002-06-18 Member: 791Members
    For the record, there hasn't been a decrease in servers in the past couple weeks.
  • VriVri Join Date: 2003-08-11 Member: 19463Members
    for the record? maybe on your end, mine has been steadily going down, ah well guess no one really knows
  • MrMojoMrMojo Join Date: 2002-11-25 Member: 9882Members, Constellation
    Just unselect that box, and you'll see all the servers.
  • VriVri Join Date: 2003-08-11 Member: 19463Members
    lol mojo, yes it would.. yet I dont see the purpose of doing so
  • GlissGliss Join Date: 2003-03-23 Member: 14800Members, Constellation, NS2 Map Tester
    <!--QuoteBegin--Vri+Sep 5 2003, 05:40 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Vri @ Sep 5 2003, 05:40 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> lol mojo, yes it would.. yet I dont see the purpose of doing so <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    The purpose would be to find servers.
  • VriVri Join Date: 2003-08-11 Member: 19463Members
    thats nice, doesnt explain anything
  • antifreezeantifreeze The guy with the goods&#33; Join Date: 2003-05-12 Member: 16232Members, Constellation
    edited September 2003
    im regestering 631 worldwide servers.
    226 with a ping of less than 100.

    But its allways been about that for me in england. Plenty of low ping servers
  • ZelZel Join Date: 2003-01-27 Member: 12861Members
    from wisconsin with ASE i see 723 servers total and 211 of them are under 100 ms.

    it may be your connection getting worse showing less with nice pings.
  • VriVri Join Date: 2003-08-11 Member: 19463Members
    no point in responding ppl, i assumed incorrectly for guessing ppl here would know, i guess you'd have to live where i live and know exactly whats up with those servers i use to join that arent up anymore

    god darnit, i want to go back to the US, I use to live in Dallas Texas, now im thousands and thousands of miles away from all the good servers *cries* nooooooo!, oh well <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • FieariFieari Join Date: 2002-10-22 Member: 1566Members, Constellation
    Let me just hijack this thread which doesn't seem to be going anywhere with a similar problem of my own. Hopefully, I can provide enough details that someone'll be able to figure out the problem.

    I use ASE. About a week ago, I stopped being able to refresh servers for some reason... either that, or they're ALL comming back at 9999 ping, which is highly unlikely. 492 servers are pinged, when I hit F5 with only "Natural Selection" selected. None of the version specific boxes are checked, no nationalities are checked. Only modifier is "No Password" which is reasonable enough.

    Despite it saying 492 servers being refreshed, only 8... yes, EIGHT show up. None of them are white, saying they've actually been refreshed... all report a 9999 ping. 95 servers are filtered out, and so when I deselect "No Password", 95 passworded NS servers pop up. None of them white to show that they've been refreshed, all with a ping of 9999. If I hit F5 now, it says it pings 644 servers, and yet only 96 show up, none filtered out, and all still gray with 9999 ping.

    Now, here's the fun part. I can "Add server" manually with an IP address found on these boards or on readyroom.org or whatever, add it to my favorites, select the favorites folder, hit F5, and those I added manually refresh as they are supposed to, turn white, give me an accurate ping, and let me connect. All that good stuff.

    Now, since the servers I've added manually are good servers with competant player bases and the occasional tactical genious commander, I have no problem only playing there... except sometimes these servers are full, and I just want to play. I'd LIKE to be able to see all the servers.

    What's wrong?
  • GlissGliss Join Date: 2003-03-23 Member: 14800Members, Constellation, NS2 Map Tester
    Did you buy ASE? Maybe the scanner load is too high.
  • ZelZel Join Date: 2003-01-27 Member: 12861Members
    it never gets THAT overloaded. im sure you have a filter on that you dont know about, like only servers in luxembourg or soemthing.

    if yout cant find out for sure, theres no harm in uninstalling and reinstalling ASE to default all its options.
  • TalesinTalesin Our own little well of hate Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7710NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators
    You have a filter activated. Favorites is an unfiltered folder, so will show you the servers you put in it, regardless of if they match your global filters (if any) or not.
  • ComproxComprox *chortle* Canada Join Date: 2002-01-23 Member: 7Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, NS2 Developer, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Silver, Subnautica Developer, Subnautica Playtester, Pistachionauts
    <!--QuoteBegin--typical skeleton+Sep 5 2003, 05:14 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (typical skeleton @ Sep 5 2003, 05:14 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> half isn't that bad. some servers have gone. but requiring 100ms from american servers while in canada seems a little extreme.

    try the next one up and you'll get those inbetween. i.e, 110ms, 120ms, etc... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Just gotta say, our connection in Canada is just fine <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> The main problem is really low pinging NS servers require a lot more power, so much I bet some people either dropped theirs, or upped player limits some once they found out their 10 1.0 server could hold 16 players on 2.0 for less server load.

    And guess who usually ends up hosting games of silly mods like ARCHL? Well, me <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • romanoromano Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4296Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Vri+Sep 5 2003, 05:13 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Vri @ Sep 5 2003, 05:13 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> In the past month Ive seen a decrease in servers, I use to get around 7-14 servers to join with my preference settings set to 100ms or less and ofcourse 2.01, now its like 2-7 all day every day. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Perhaps you have your filter set for 2.01a,b or c? The latest 2.01 build is "d", so make sure you're searching for that.
    I'm on DSL near Ottawa, and at 3:06am, have 37 non-empty servers which I ping less than 100ms to.

    <!--c1--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>CODE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'><!--ec1-->1    if clients == "0" remove
    2    if game != "ns" remove
    3    if mp_version != "v2.01d" remove
    4    if ping > "100" remove
    <!--c2--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--ec2-->

    Give that a shot as a filter, and report back :o.
  • ShockehShockeh If a packet drops on the web and nobody&#39;s near to see it... Join Date: 2002-11-19 Member: 9336NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation
    Fieari : To follow the Tech Support process through, first suggestion would be to kill ASE, reinstall, then try again. Does the problem recur?

    What firewalls are in place? Have they had any rules altered? Does your ISP block any ports? Have they changed their policies recently? Presuming all the servers didn't crash simultaneously (lemme go on a limb here <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo--> ) we then have to travel down the circuit & see where the problem first appears.
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