Thread: Valve Master Server Upgrade

I don't get it... how is this an improvement in any way?

The list is now just sorted by distance... which means, in general, TTP will be much lower on the list for major population groups than it was before.

Anyone who really cares about their latency is just going to sort by ping anyways.

Originally Posted by Langrad

Just saying last two days servers have been dieing out around midnight-1am.

seems a constant during the week i myself wish the servers had an earlier start

Earlier start is easy, just get in there are start priming.

We can get one from empty to full in less than a map generally.

Originally Posted by QuickLightning

I don't get it... how is this an improvement in any way?

The list is now just sorted by distance... which means, in general, TTP will be much lower on the list for major population groups than it was before.

Anyone who really cares about their latency is just going to sort by ping anyways.

One of the major new features is the new Masters should return dedicated servers ordered by their geographical distance from the player requesting the server list, making for lower latency and better connections.

Other features: quicker querying times (load of master server list completes quicker and sorts quicker), etc

Originally Posted by QuickLightning

Earlier start is easy, just get in there are start priming.

We can get one from empty to full in less than a map generally.

i've tried a few times around 12-1 om mountian but it always ends in fail

Originally Posted by Bunni

Originally Posted by QuickLightning

I don't get it... how is this an improvement in any way?

The list is now just sorted by distance... which means, in general, TTP will be much lower on the list for major population groups than it was before.

Anyone who really cares about their latency is just going to sort by ping anyways.

One of the major new features is the new Masters should return dedicated servers ordered by their geographical distance from the player requesting the server list, making for lower latency and better connections.

Uh... and that's exactly what I referred to.

Sorting the list differently isn't going to help TTP really. "Better connections" refers to the fact that you should be connecting to servers closer to you, which anyone sorting by ping will already be doing.

:3

Originally Posted by QuickLightning

Originally Posted by Bunni

Originally Posted by QuickLightning

I don't get it... how is this an improvement in any way?

The list is now just sorted by distance... which means, in general, TTP will be much lower on the list for major population groups than it was before.

Anyone who really cares about their latency is just going to sort by ping anyways.

One of the major new features is the new Masters should return dedicated servers ordered by their geographical distance from the player requesting the server list, making for lower latency and better connections.

Uh... and that's exactly what I referred to.

Sorting the list differently isn't going to help TTP really. "Better connections" refers to the fact that you should be connecting to servers closer to you, which anyone sorting by ping will already be doing.

:3

they never went around boasting anything, this is a maintaince/service upgrade. They are updating the master servers, before somethings broken, before there are problems; this is what ea should be doing and taking notes from.