Where is the WCU server?

It’s broke ATM.

…again

yeah go figure

I’m not sure he’d be able to fix it either. Liam will probably have to apply his special touch to get it working again.

The 24/7 *should* be up. If not msg me on steam.

just reinstalled cs:s…re-addicted…noob again…need old wcu friends to play with…anyone around?

chantz? hello?

yea, i recently became re-addicted…just in time for finals…whoops.

so, no one plays? no servers active? im dyin here, i miss you all! well, some of you…

Smugleaf said:

CS:S has lost a lot of popularity on campus

It probably doesn’t help that they’re over a month out of date and the PC VP doesn’t care enough to have even appointed a CL to run them.

On that note, can we get someone who cares to run for the position next time? I’m sure felix cares about minecraft but considering he can’t even get that running on the server I’m not really sure how he plans to sell himself as being experienced or driven enough for the job. Only 1 of WCU’s 30 game servers are up-to-date and running. 31 if you count the minecraft. Even you have to admit that is unacceptable.

Hell the only reason that one server is running is because it’s the alumni-run TF2 server. It’s full 24/7 btw.

Smugleaf said:

Even before Felix was VP, it wasn’t popular.

 

Also, the minecraft server is fine.

Before Felix it was at least up and had a handful of regulars. In fact, it was actually picking up steam until felix took over and left it to deteriorate. <_>

FPS servers will not populate themselves, they need CLs to maintain and populate them. Since Felix didn’t appoint any CLs, guess what happened. Valve pushed out an update, no one updated the CS or CSS servers for 2+ weeks, and when they were finally updated everyone who was playing there had already moved on. That’s gameservers 101, it happens every time and is the fastest way to kill a server.

Also, just as an FYI, the minecraft is not up. I just checked. What you’re playing on is being run from a dorm room because felix couldn’t figure out how to get it to run on Atari. Instead of googling to find the solution he just assumed it was a problem he couldn’t fix and gave up. Just like all the other servers that are down, the problem is extremely simple to fix. You just have to care enough, or know enough, to fix it.

But hey, don’t take my word for it. Go ask felix. When he tells you the problem you’ll probably facepalm at how simple it is.

Back to CSS:

The server is outdated and by now probably broken. Since no CL was appointed, you’ll need to contact the PC VP to get it fixed. I wish you the best of luck with that, he doesn’t check the forums anymore.

Smugleaf said:

Yes, because CS:S had huge turnouts at most of the LANs the year before he took office. /rolleyes

You don’t understand. Hopefully you will some day.

Smugleaf said:

I am aware it’s run on his computer, and frankly, that’s fine by me. As long as I have a reliable server with friendly people on it, I wouldn’t care if it’s hosted in North Korea.

You’ve obviously never played on a “reliable” server in NK. If you had you’ve narrowed down your expectations more.

The point of a server being on Atari isn’t that it’s simply “up”. There’s much more too it than that. Do you intend to play on our server over the Christmas or summer breaks? I hope not, felix’s computer won’t be on campus. Even if it is, most UNC schools are cutting off power to the dorms for the winter break. The point of having Atari is that we have a unified presence online that doesn’t change based on who’s in office or what time of the year it is. All our servers are on the same IP and thus easy to find. They’re all on the same machine and thus easy to manage. They’re all on the same subnet, unfirewalled, unmonitored and unfiltered by ITS, thus better to play on. Atari is 1 hop from the main connection, Reynolds is 7 hops. Atari has a backup diesel generator, Reynolds does not. We have a $5,000 server sitting on a unmetered private gigabit connection, essentially a $13,000/month connection, and you’re fine with using a measly quad-core, or less, sharing a gigabit connection with 250 other people?

I think I’m starting to see why you guys never get along with alumni. Our expectations and desires are in a totally different league than what you’re playing in.

Is CS:S still played any at LANs? I want to come to the next one for some sc2 and hopefully CS:S freeplay. =]

CS:S servers are out of date again. Just thought I’d let you guys know.

Lemm said:

Anyone know if a student would be interested in running the CS:S Servers…

 

I’d love to start playing again.. but I don’t have near the time to organize a CSS community / maintain the servers. I could help out with plugins though.

I think we should have 2 up at all times, tell me how and I will keep them up.

Just dropping in right quick and saw this. 2 thoughts and I’ll be back out in the wilderness another several months.

1 – keeping servers up-to-date wasn’t as big a deal when I was around, in what, 2007-2008? maybe that’s become bigger with the new steam update demands, if you can’t access a “old” server with a “new” client. Sounds unfortunate.

2 – yeah you’re going to need some admin staff to keep the server chugging. I had to stay into it at least once every couple of days to gauge the server satisfaction and see any tweaks that might help (including the surprisingly successful termination of map voting back then). However, it also makes a big difference having server regulars. My pool of players was admins (CL = me, and whatever I called my priviledged peoples with admin rights and toys), WCU students, and the public community. The admins were pretty reliable, the public were my #2 group for keeping the server populated (students take off for class, but the dedicated public did great keeping us above just a bot scrimmage), and students were the #3 crowd. However, I’d say on average there was a fair tie between WCU students and the public number wise, with the admins being only a handful. Measure out the current server that way (maybe break it up into daytime and evening “shifts”), and see if you can get some regular attendees there. Take these measurements, because you may have to tweak the server to tailor it to those crowds to keep them coming back. Having regulars made all the difference in keeping the WCU server popular and well-appreciated back then. That point precisely is where your admins come in. You need them to pop the server and develop an admin staff, and to make sure to keep that core group of people happy so they stay there However, that should just be a lesson for the future, y’all are shifting into summer gear and will be so-so for a while.