Where Are All The Servers Going?

Vri · September 2003

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.

BOZO · September 2003

My guess is that your using the HL serevr broswer. Try ASE or HLSW, I sure you'll find alot more serevrs.

Vri · September 2003

nah im using ASE, been using it for years

MrMojo · September 2003

More people playing = higher ms? Maybe?

XShrike · September 2003

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_skeleton · September 2003

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...

PseudoKnight · September 2003

For the record, there hasn't been a decrease in servers in the past couple weeks.

Vri · September 2003

for the record? maybe on your end, mine has been steadily going down, ah well guess no one really knows

MrMojo · September 2003

Just unselect that box, and you'll see all the servers.

Vri · September 2003

lol mojo, yes it would.. yet I dont see the purpose of doing so

Gliss · September 2003

</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'> lol mojo, yes it would.. yet I dont see the purpose of doing so  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
The purpose would be to find servers.

Vri · September 2003

thats nice, doesnt explain anything

antifreeze · 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

Zel · September 2003

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.

Vri · September 2003

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 <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

Fieari · September 2003

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?

Gliss · September 2003

Did you buy ASE? Maybe the scanner load is too high.

Zel · September 2003

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.

Talesin · September 2003

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.

Comprox · September 2003

</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'> 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...  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Just gotta say, our connection in Canada is just fine <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'> 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 <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

romano · September 2003

</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'> 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.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
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.

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

Give that a shot as a filter, and report back :o.

Shockeh · September 2003

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 <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'> ) we then have to travel down the circuit & see where the problem first appears.

Where Are All The Servers Going?

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