L4D brbu Server?

[Vandamguy]

do we even need a dedicated server?

we require additional vespene gas for an 8 man

i tried hosting one last night and it was good for me , but versus was being a whiny bitch.
rumsfald observed that it got a bit chuggy when it was spawning hordes of zombies (cpu bottleneck)

[Versus]

I heard versus can be way more satisfying

thx

i tried hosting one last night and it was good for me , but versus was being a whiny bitch.

I don't have the screenshot, but EVERYONE except you was red about 1/3 of the time. :-\

[Vandamguy]

I don't have the screenshot, but EVERYONE except you was red about 1/3 of the time. :-\

i dont have a screenshot of you hosting an 8 man on your EEE .... because you didnt!

[|GW|Chimp]

The Grey Wolves server has been up and running well.  We did 8 man Versus the other day with no problems.  I'll get the IP and post it here so that you guys can direct connect to it if you want.  We're server admin noobs so we're still setting it up, but hopefully we can add preferred slots and such as time goes on.

[Surf314]

The Grey Wolves server has been up and running well.  We did 8 man Versus the other day with no problems.  I'll get the IP and post it here so that you guys can direct connect to it if you want.  We're server admin noobs so we're still setting it up, but hopefully we can add preferred slots and such as time goes on.

Can you associate your server with one of our steam groups as well?  I posted the group # for brb4dead somewhere.  Someone invited me to the group lotus and they have a shit-ton of servers up.

[|GW|Chimp]

What's your Steam GROUP ID?

I'll pass it along to Slick.

[Vandamguy]

581766

[Surf314]

when we get this will wedge stop acting like a grumpy old man?  I might pitch in $12 for that.

[Vandamguy]

found a second l4d server hosting company
http://billing.veeservers.com/signup.php...ackage=936

asking 16/mo for a public 8 man

anyone else found another server co?


and could we make a decision about this, i'd like to bang up some versus mode

[Surf314]

What are the greywolves running and are they happy with it?

$16 is $4 more than the other....but they offer a 4 mans for $8 which the other does not.  Maybe we should do a 8 mans with the first company and a 4 mans with that one and then when our initial investment runs out pick the best company for longer term.

That'd be $20 a month?  Hmm but that one doesn't seem to do clan pay or anything so....I dunno?

[|GW|Chimp]

What are the greywolves running and are they happy with it?

$16 is $4 more than the other....but they offer a 4 mans for $8 which the other does not.  Maybe we should do a 8 mans with the first company and a 4 mans with that one and then when our initial investment runs out pick the best company for longer term.

That'd be $20 a month?  Hmm but that one doesn't seem to do clan pay or anything so....I dunno?

Well, the server is gone now .

I just spoke with Slick - he got tired of the L4D server system and felt like he was wasting money paying for it.  His gripe was that there was no really easy way for everyone to just get on our server and play together.  He also felt there weren't enough controls built in to easily change rotations and game types, etc.

He told the company last night that he was discontinuing it.

Sorry about that, just got the news now .

[Surf314]

I've been hearing that a lot from people running servers.

[|GW|Chimp]

I went ahead and ordered a server from Gameservers.com. 

It's $12/month for an 8-man PRIVATE server.  It must remain passworded at all times.  I will let you know when it's set up and will provide the password for the GW and BRB guys.  I'll also give RCON access to the GW guys, and any BRB guys you feel can handle it.

Since it's passworded that means once it's set up as a Steam Group server theoretically only we can play on it, so we should have no problem in always having a server available for us.  Between GW and BRB we should be able to field an 8 man Versus game pretty easily.

[Surf314]

Cool post the link for the clan pay too.

[Vandamguy]

I went ahead and ordered a server from Gameservers.com. 

It's $12/month for an 8-man PRIVATE server.  It must remain passworded at all times.  I will let you know when it's set up and will provide the password for the GW and BRB guys.  I'll also give RCON access to the GW guys, and any BRB guys you feel can handle it.

Since it's passworded that means once it's set up as a Steam Group server theoretically only we can play on it, so we should have no problem in always having a server available for us.  Between GW and BRB we should be able to field an 8 man Versus game pretty easily.

chawsome

sorry to hear slick got burned on his server, but you're right most of the time with a public server you're paying for other people to play. It's not like they actually give a shit which server they're on.

for the chimp cage© It will be a wait and see approach, but my inital thoughts are we should see if we can get that one consistently full between the two groups , makin it worth the money, and if so , then we(BRB) could kick in some cash to extend that servers lifespan.
or , if the server is too busy and peeps cant get on we could spring for a #2 (probably from gameservers , since priv is cheeper)

[|GW|Chimp]

Wow, that was fast, they set that shit up lickety-split.

Still fucking around with the config files.

8 Players Left 4 Dead - Private [8.9.31.130:27015]
Password: "gwandbrb"

I added both the GW and BRB Steam Group IDs to the config file, let's see if they show up.

Going to continue to keep futzing with it.

[CaffeinePowered]

BrBU! Now has a Chicago Server

8.9.31.136

pw: littlecart

[rumsfald]

ok, i must have missed the boat here. How come i can't add Chimps or Caff's ip to my Steam->Server-> favorites tab?

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ok, i must have missed the boat here. How come i can't add Chimps or Caff's ip to my Steam->Server-> favorites tab?

It does add, just won't show until you switch to the favourites tab of the in-game server browser.

[rumsfald]

[quote author=rumsfald link=topic=1729.msg50846#msg50846 date=1227315043]
ok, i must have missed the boat here. How come i can't add Chimps or Caff's ip to my Steam->Server-> favorites tab?

It does add, just won't show until you switch to the favourites tab of the in-game server browser.
[/quote]

Yes, this is correct.

to repeat in case you are as dumb as I and didn't get it on first try....

...If you add servers to favorites via desktop Steam app, you WILL NOT see the servers
...But, if you lauch L4d and type "openserverbrowser" in console you WILL SEE these on the favorites tab.

Much love to Budr for straightening me out.