Server Update Mailing List

ZEROibisZEROibis Join Date: 2009-10-30 Member: 69176Members, Constellation
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<div class="IPBDescription">Toss us server admins a bone</div>Please I beg you to give us server operators a heads up for these updates. We like to provide servers for people to enjoy this great game on but they can not play on them if they are not updated. I used to check twitter to see if there was going to be an update but recently it appears that us server operators are expected to be in game 24/7 waiting for updates.

Please do something like what Valve did with its mail list to give us a shout out that either an update is coming in a few hours or that one is released. We all got cell phones with internet and it we can get a regularly formatted message saying an update is out our phone can explode so we can run to the computer and get the server up so people can play.
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  • TechnIckSTechnIckS Join Date: 2007-01-14 Member: 59616Members
    +1
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  • LofungLofung Join Date: 2004-08-21 Member: 30757Members
    but we are still in beta?
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  • CoTTonCoTTon Join Date: 2005-02-28 Member: 42773Members
    ^

    +1

    Had no idea till 5 people on my list called my cell while I was at work.
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  • ZaggyZaggy NullPointerException The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-12-10 Member: 24214Forum Moderators, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Onos, Subnautica Playtester
    This seems like a good idea!
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  • ZEROibisZEROibis Join Date: 2009-10-30 Member: 69176Members, Constellation
    They gave advanced warring on twitter this time and actual gave us a news post. Still though it would be great if there was an official notice as to where server owners should query update news from so we can configure our phones to notify us of an update before or as soon as it is released.

    What is the good news here is that they are continuing to fix bugs and make optimizations very fast!
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  • LofungLofung Join Date: 2004-08-21 Member: 30757Members
    unless they optimize it for multiple cores or some major improvement in coding, i am afriad we arent going anywhere..
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  • krazekraze Join Date: 2012-10-26 Member: 163744Members
    I think the easiest and most reliable thing to do would be to get the updates posted to Steam news.
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  • ZEROibisZEROibis Join Date: 2009-10-30 Member: 69176Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=2031776:date=Nov 21 2012, 09:00 PM:name=kraze)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (kraze @ Nov 21 2012, 09:00 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=2031776"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I think the easiest and most reliable thing to do would be to get the updates posted to Steam news.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    I do not think they want to spam steam news with that. Think of the hotfix, that is something server operators need to know asap to update but people reading steam news do not.
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  • krazekraze Join Date: 2012-10-26 Member: 163744Members
    <!--quoteo(post=2031790:date=Nov 21 2012, 06:26 PM:name=ZEROibis)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ZEROibis @ Nov 21 2012, 06:26 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=2031790"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I do not think they want to spam steam news with that. Think of the hotfix, that is something server operators need to know asap to update but people reading steam news do not.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    A lot of games use Steam news for that. It is kind of what it is for;

    <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/news/" target="_blank">http://store.steampowered.com/news/</a>

    They also have a blog; <a href="http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/" target="_blank">http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/</a> where they post the updates that you can subscribe to.

    Lastly there is Twitter and Facebook.

    I am not opposed to a mailing list but there are current methods of knowing about an update.
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  • ZEROibisZEROibis Join Date: 2009-10-30 Member: 69176Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=2031900:date=Nov 22 2012, 12:35 AM:name=kraze)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (kraze @ Nov 22 2012, 12:35 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=2031900"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->A lot of games use Steam news for that. It is kind of what it is for;

    <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/news/" target="_blank">http://store.steampowered.com/news/</a>

    They also have a blog; <a href="http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/" target="_blank">http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/</a> where they post the updates that you can subscribe to.

    Lastly there is Twitter and Facebook.

    I am not opposed to a mailing list but there are current methods of knowing about an update.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Which of those had an announcement for build 231? Other than twitter the others where also posted hours after the update.
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  • krazekraze Join Date: 2012-10-26 Member: 163744Members
    What I am getting at, is there is no need to create a new source just update the current sources faster.
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  • Taylor89Taylor89 Join Date: 2012-11-23 Member: 172980Members
    This would be great, I was searching all over assuming there was a mailing list.
    Or a feature that auto updates would be even better!
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