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Second TF2 server increased to 30 players.
April 9, 2008 - 12:56 PM
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The second TF2 server (tf2.voogru.net) has been upped back to a 30 player server.
The server was still downsized to a 24 since of the custom tab issue. I have decided to screw it and go back to 30 players.
Also, I have been doing an experiment against the custom tab vs the internet tab to see just how many people load servers on the custom tab.
You can see the results of this experiment in real time here: http://www.voogru.com/server/queries.php
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Servers downsized to 24.
March 7, 2008 - 11:08 AM
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By: voogru |
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Valve has recently released an update to TF2.
There have been some past updates that move certain servers to the "Custom" server tab, this tab at the moment is a death sentence to servers. Players do not know about the tab and there will be tens of thousands of players who will never even click on this tab.
I worked around this by lying to the valve master server about what tags the server had.
[quote=Valve]We'll be doing some work to educate players on the new Custom servers tab, using both PR and user interface changes. Now that the Internet/Custom servers system is in place, we'd like server admin to work within it. We'll be delisting servers with custom rule sets that deliberately work around the system.[/quote]
It seems valve wants to maintain two lists of servers rather than simply adding the tags as a filter option on the main server list. For the good of our servers, I no longer lie about the tags to the master server, as a result the 2x 30 players were moved to the "Custom" tab.
After being moved to the custom tab, they were empty for the longest time since they were launched. So I have put them down to 24 player servers (they will be 24's after next restart). Depending on how full these servers are I may launch another 24 player server so we don't lose player capacity.
There is no point in running a 30 right now. It will never be at capacity with valves server apartheid.
This is just temporary until valve fixes the server lists the way they should be done. I along with a lot of server ops will be protesting the change until it's fixed and I have some aces up my sleeve for how to do that.
More info: http://www.mail-archive.com/hlds@list.valvesoftware.com/msg25298.html
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New Servers
February 24, 2008 - 3:03 PM
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By: voogru |
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Hey everyone,
We have a new box for our TF2 servers. The current box will be going down on March 3rd (but feel free to play on it till then otherwise it's a wasted box!).
Currently, the new servers are 3x 30 player servers available at:
tf.voogru.net
tf2.voogru.net
tf3.voogru.net
The old tf2 servers can be reached at:
oldtf.voogru.net = Old 24 man.
oldtf3.voogru.net = Old 30 player.
Remmeber to add bookmarks to the new servers so you don't need to look through the cluster of servers to find them!
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It's probably time for an upgrade...
February 6, 2008 - 6:34 AM
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By: voogru |
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So, for the past two and a half years I've been chugging along with my current system:
1. Single core Athlon 4000+ (biggest mistake I ever made, should have went dual core!)
2. Abit AN8 Motherboard
3. 2GB OCZ Ram
It has served me well, but it's just time for it to go sleep with the fishes.
You see, I put quite a heavy tax on a system.
My task bar usually ends up looking a little something like this.
But a majority of the time, I'm running:
1. Multiple instances of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
2. A TF2 Client
3. TF2 Dedicated server instance (with MSVC attached as a debugger in edit & continue mode)
4. That little thing we call... Steam.
And then all of my normal programs (Remote Desktop, IRC, FTP, AIM, STEAM, HLSW, etc etc.)
I'm sure you know what happens when you alt-tab out of TF2. Well, think about that.
Except you’re also running a dedicated server instance and applying code changes (compiling).
Oh, and dont forget your using 2.4GB of memory. On a system with 2GB of memory.
Yeah. Not fun.
So who wants to help me upgrade?
Right now, this is what I am looking at:
CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115017
MOTHERBOARD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813127030
RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145176
I'm not even going to bother with the video card, because I need a CPU/MEM/MOBO more then anything and I'll worry about the video card later. I'm fine with my current video card which is a 7800GT and runs TF2 respectively.
Though, I need help upgrading. So from now until I finally get an upgrade, anybody who donates $10 or more will receive a special 'flag' on their account. (Donation must be $10 or more in a single transaction)
This flag will give access to additional donator features once they are in. You see what I have been doing with party hats; you just wait and see what other aces I have up my sleeve.
I will most likely give donators with this flag access to an entity created especially for them. It will be non-gameplay enhancing but something fun, and only people who donate during this time will receive it. After I finally manage an upgrade, no one else will get this particular flag on their account. So these people will have access to features not everyone will be able to receive.
I'm always open to suggestions on what to give donators. And I'll try to do anything that’s possible.
The whole idea here is to run a server like no other community, a faster system would enable me to work faster and pump out more code.
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Reserved Slots, -V- and You
October 29, 2007 - 6:50 PM
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By: Beowulf |
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Just a quick clarification for our donators that don't know how to activate their reserved slots/can't connect to the server from the Steam Server window.
#1) Launch Team Fortress 2 manually from your Steam -> Games window.
#2) To activate your console, go to Options -> Keyboard -> Advanced Options and click the box marked "Enable developer console" if it isn't already, then click "Ok".
#3) Open up your console by pressing the tilde key (~).
#4) Choose your server:
#4a) If you want to connect to the 24 player server, type "connect tf.voogru.net" (or the server IP) into the console and press enter.
#4b) If you want to connect to the 30 player server, type "connect tf3.voogru.net" (or the server IP) into the console and press enter.
As a helpful note, your reserved slot activates as soon as the transfer takes place, so if you've just finished donating and no errors occured, you're all set to play and just follow the steps above. If you're in game when you donate your reserved slot activates when you reconnect to the server (i.e. a quick rejoin and you're all set).
Regardless, we look forward to seeing you all on our servers and encourage you to wear a -V- (the unofficial, official Voogru tag) if you play on our servers a good deal, -V-'s mark community members and we're always looking for good players to join us.
Here is the list of donators. Refer here to ensure that you've been added if you donated:
http://voogru.com/?v=v
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TF2 Servers Up
October 3, 2007 - 5:25 PM
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By: voogru |
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Thanks to the donations, we now have our very own TF2 server!
No shortcuts!
No 'special deals'
This entire box is OURS, and will remain so as long as we can afford to maintain it. I will probably try to find someone willing to rent out the additional space we don't need to help pay for the server.
I have setup 2 TF2 servers.
One of them is standard, the other one is 2fort only.
tf.voogru.net
tf2.voogru.net
I was going to put a low gravity server for kicks, but it appears there is no sv_gravity cvar anymore (wtf?).
The plugins will hopefully come shortly, just waiting for the proper SDK updates from valve. They gave some stuff out, but forgot to give out other stuff thats still needed. It seems they made some rather large changes, but the code will port over once I have all of the updates.
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TF2/FF Server Donations
September 19, 2007 - 2:49 AM
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By: voogru |
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I've said earlier that the TF2/FF servers were temporary.
Due to some issues, I have pulled the TF2/FF servers from the box I had, as with anything that's free, theres always a catch.
Now I'm aiming to secure enough donations to startup our own TF2/FF server again
The server will be similar to what we had with NS, server in Dallas Texas, with similar capability, but aiming to put 2GB of ram on it with a dual core proc.
It's going to be around $180 a month, I'm willing to put forth some of that money from my own pocket, but I'd like to see some interest from other people as well.
There will be of course, tracking of all donators and how much they donate, and those who donate will recieve extra perks, such as reserved slots, once the server is up.
I will be setting up the donation system within the next day to auto-magically keep track of donations.
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New CS:S Server
March 9, 2007 - 7:53 PM
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By: voogru |
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Hi everyone,
I'm going to try and start spending some time back in HL2 servers again, I intend to run a possible FF server when FF is released, in order to prepare myself I am going to try to allocate some extra time fiddling with the Source engine & server modifications.
In order to do this, I have decided to temporarily run a CS:S server, and then make it not suck with various gameplay changes. This is intended to be a temporary server, if enough donations start to come in from this I will move it to a dedicated box and possibly run more servers.
In order to encourage donating, there will probably be a donation system that uses the ingame money system for CS:S, as well as very expensive toys that players can buy, so there would be a gameplay advantage to donating, but not out of reach to players who don't donate at the same time.
Right now the server is running blank, but by monday I will try to put in a gameplay modification to start saving all of the money a player does not spend, meaning a long term player will be able to amass a fortune & then spend it all on toys.
The server IP is: 67.19.104.222:27015
or css.voogru.net
Right now there are no donation toys, however, everyone who donates using the paypal button on the site will be elegible to use the donator toys once they are in. Most likely players who donate will recieve X thousand dollars in game for every dollar donated, but I am open to other ideas.
Please let me know if you donate so I can make sure the automated donation system is working.
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Rules And Regulations
September 27, 2006 - 1:27 PM
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By: Chronopolis |
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Spammers & advertisers, you will be banned on sight
September 27, 2006 - 12:33 PM
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By: Tekish |
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Yes, you. I'm talking about you people who register an account, make one post to some sort of affiliate or advertising link, and never post again. I'm letting you know that you will be banned the moment that this spam is found anywhere on the forums. Content of this type is not only not permitted, but unwanted as well.
You have been warned.
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