Bringing attention to two minor server problems

[nossr50]

I've personally sent private messages to some of the eGO's and eG's on steam, and some moderators/admins here on this forum about something I've noticed lately. There are servers we have that seem to have all in game references to hlstatsx broken, hlstatsx may be working in the background, or it might not be working at all.

Servers I noticed that aren't working properly (There could be more)
Gravelpit
Dustbowl

Servers that seem to be working properly (At least somewhat)
Convoy
Gold Rush

I don't usually play the other maps, so I can't comment on those.

There's a good reason why I would like this fixed soon (within 30 days?) To help populate the servers, and because it's sort of fun to see your kill death ratio with "session".

The main reason players frequent a server is to see familiar faces, their ping is good, and usually hlstatsx. It's a pretty big hassle for most players to go to our stat tracking website when you normally can see it in game, I don't know if it would actually make our servers more populated (considering they are full up until midnight), but it would give people more incentive to stick around.

One thing I noticed was one of our goldrush servers would display how many points someone got when they killed someone else, and that quickly became spam (either that was unintentional server options or some bug...) now you can only see the point gain when you kill or get killed, which is much better; but it only works on some of our servers.

I honestly don't know who does maintenance, I've asked around and some people have suggested someone to me that is "really busy" so I've come here to hope that he or she sees my message.

I don't personally care for the messages about points, but the in game commands like "stats", "top10", "session", and "statsme" should be working on all servers and not just a few. I believe seeing the point messages would probably make people stay around longer in the harder to populate servers, or longer when the servers are near empty at night.

And this may or may not be coincidence, but several admins on the servers I've been to with broken hlstatsx (which may be still recording player stats and activities in the background) have reported their admin menu not to work, someone posted a fix for that by rebinding your number keys earlier, but it might be time to give the servers a tune up. If I'm not clear, when I say broken, I'm saying that either the commands aren't working, or the commands and the stats tracking isn't working, and I don't know which one it is because I'm not familiar with the stat tracking system.

On a last note, the same servers with hlstatsx malfunctioning also have very old messages that appear during gameplay, things like "sign up for admin it's free" or "You may be dominating on our 24 man server, but can you handle 32?", on the other servers like convoy or goldrush it says things like "Welcome nossr50" and "Go to the eGO desk for a complimentary service of pwn" and maybe some other things, it would be nice to update these seeing how we don't have 24 man servers, and those are being displayed on our 32 man servers.

Thanks for taking the time to read this, I hope you can find the time to update the servers I mentioned since I play on them a lot

3rd Edit: Made it easier to read, fixed some spelling and grammar.

 

[Booster37]

I'm pretty sure the stats work on Dustbowl. I know it doesn't appear in the chat like in Gold Rush, but it works.

 

[nossr50]

I just updated my post to be more clear, here is one of the things I changed

If I'm not clear, when I say broken, I'm saying that either the commands aren't working, or the commands and the stats tracking isn't working, and I don't know which one it is because I'm not familiar with the stat tracking system.

I'm sorry for making the post hard to understand, after reading it again I made some changes

Edit: One of the things I was trying to address was if the stats were working but not displayed, they should be fixed soon (within 30 days works for me) because of the motivation they add for players to come back or keep playing.

 

[Endiment]

It's true that Gravelpit doesn't work. The 'rank' command is broken.

 

[Ephyu]

I, for one, wish HLX wouldn't pop up how many points you gained or lost every time you kill or die. It'd make people worry a lot less about their rank and have more fun, and be less inclined to run away and hide instead of fight.

However, yes, a few of the servers have issues with commands not working. Be assued, however, that the stats are being tracked in the background.

 

[blizbiggy]

[quote1211307881=Ephyu]
I, for one, wish HLX wouldn't pop up how many points you gained or lost every time you kill or die. It'd make people worry a lot less about their rank and have more fun, and be less inclined to run away and hide instead of fight.

However, yes, a few of the servers have issues with commands not working. Be assued, however, that the stats are being tracked in the background.
[/quote1211307881]
I usually don't pay attention to my points in-game. Usually I check out my stats online every so often to checkup on how I'm doing. My main focus is to get the team to play as a team and dominate DJSatan and Tanooki

 

[Glorious]

It's good for eGO members to say that stats do not matter, because in all honesty we aren't in the community for stats. However, the nossr50 brings up a valid point; a large portion of the "general public" frequent our servers just because of the stats. It's cool to see someone that hops on our servers because they like us and have fun with us, but its not always the case. Maintaining the Stat System does draw people back continuously. The reason I started playing ego servers was because I had an amazing session and decided to see how high I could keep my K ratio. I ended up staying for the people, but hey, that's just one example.

I understand HLStats might be a crappy program/website to work with, but I do agree that keeping it up to date would boost our player retention rate. Just my two cents though. Also, I understand that council has a lot going on so this doesn't have to necessarily be a priority, but it is always nice to have goals.

 

[nossr50]

There is actually a user option you can type into console so you do not see the point messages, it'd be nice if the server allowed you to say something like !show or !hide to turn it off and on, but that might be going above and beyond the call of duty.

Glorious hit the nail on the head, I don't care if I'm rank #111,777 or #1, but I would like all our servers to have an attractive appeal and at least seem like they are kept up to date, we have many admins, that's why I joined and play on only eGO servers, but what originally interested me was the stats, it was fun for a while but I know first hand why people would join this server over others: ping, stats, active admins, and eventually the familiar faces.

 

[blizbiggy]

I dont remember why I joined eGO... One of the admins got me to signup when I was playing on convoy. It was a good decision and its fun to play with everyone on our servers.

 

[nossr50]

Weird, my post ended up here. (Meant to post what was here somewhere else)

 

[nossr50]

Lately some of the servers have had some major lag spikes, seems really odd since it's never high latency and only lag spikes.