[cod] Server port & in-game browser

[George Poteat]

Server List Tip

This isn't your answer, but.....

If your server isn't showing up, I have learned a "defect" in the system. When you first hit REFRESH, look at the number of servers, then hit (tap, not hit  ';o)  ) it again several times and watch the number of servers! I have searched for certain servers and have had to do this before they show up! Try it, you'll like it!

=CSA=GrAmPs
66 year old gamer  ';o}


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Phloam 
To: cod at icculus.org 
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 7:16 AM
Subject: [cod] Server port & in-game browser


Hi, 

I've been wondering how the in-game browser gets filled with servers? It seems to me that the server's port numbers do mather in terms of who gets displayed first. For example, our public server has been running on port 28960 since january. If our clanmembers are not playing on it, we don't get many 'outsiders' to join. A few weeks ago, someone told me to change the port to 28950 because that way it should show up faster in the in-game browser. Sceptic as I was, I did change the port and noticed a substantial rise in the amount of 'strangers' joining the server, even when it was empty. Last week, my provider noticed the 'hack' (lol) and changed the port back to 28960. Since then the server's occupancy is back to what it was before...

Do any of you guys know how the in-game browser gets filled and if there's ways to get your server to show up faster (if even at all :-))). I guess part of the problem is that a lot of people are tired of waiting for the list to fill up completely and just press ESC after a few seconds. That way they don't get the whole list which makes it usefull to know if there's a technique that makes your server show faster.

N-lighten me please,

S//|R>Sedna
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