How Many Ns Servers On Steam Now ?

Browser_ICE · September 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">(just curious 'cause I don't have steam)</div> In my internet NS server list, I have about 100 servers with filters on (dedicated, not empty, <200 ping).

I don't have steam but I'm curious to know how many NS servers are accessible through it.

MrMojo · September 2003

Last time I checked there were 20 ( not empty, not full).

bLuISh · September 2003

abouy 60 servers total, 10 have people playing on them

Browser_ICE · September 2003

What's the average ping of those servers ?

Sirus · September 2003

Ping is relative to location.

Unknown · October 2003

I'll stay with WON as long as I can.

Javert · October 2003

there's about an average of 15 servers and 50 people spread all over them (most are empty, one might have 15/15). I'd wait out, but you may want to start downloading the triple digit MB's.
"It's not impossible, it's inevitable."

Catpoker · October 2003

i wish more people would come to steam,

only 5 or 6 servers are full of people by the time i get on (11:30 PM CST)

Shockeh · October 2003

Well, you can't blame the ops for the servers being empty, you can only blame them for the servers not being there....

DarkFrost · October 2003

Might be a wise move to play on the steam servers, for the sole reason - there are less people in the NS steam comunity, and that means (like the old UK NS community) you get to know everyone and not like now where i see my old friends one at a time on a server, instead of all at once <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'>

Browser_ICE · October 2003

When I started playing NS over a year ago, my internal server list in HL was about 130 with filters on.

Few days after 2.0 came out, it jumped to 200-250 with same filtering applied.

Nowawdays, I get 90-100.

I just hope the drop of servers isn't due to people being scared of the steam thing (or because of 2.0X) for leaving the NS community online gaming. Tell me it's because they moved on to steam. Prety please !!! :-(

So now under WonID, I have less servers with 2.0X then what I had with 1.0X !!

Creepie · October 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DarkFrost @ Oct 1 2003, 04:09 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Might be a wise move to play on the steam servers, for the sole reason - there are less people in the NS steam comunity, and that means (like the old UK NS community) you get to know everyone and not like now where i see my old friends one at a time on a server, instead of all at once <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'>  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
True - true: the UK NS scene does appear to have gone down the bog a bit recently. In terms of numbers that is. Can usually find a good game though. Don't have many friends online though so that bit doesn't worry me <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'> Maybe its cos I'm a marine chomping, res whoring, sensory lovin alien soab !

Epidemic · October 2003

I can only get 6-10 servers on steam (no filters) and only 4 worth playing on

EDIT. Probably because when I'm playing, most americans are in school <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

Forlorn · October 2003

Why even move to steam right now?

Wait for the offical NS patch for steam first, silly.

someone · October 2003

My server is steam powered. Its a 14 man server untill we can get it on a better connection. Pings are pretty steady on it. Come by and check it out (IP in sig)

Unknown · October 2003

Our server will go Steam this Friday, hopefully enough clients will make the transition as well.

torque · October 2003

There seems to be a decent handful of NS servers at any given time; it's just that most of them are empty. ><

Haunted · October 2003

I'm sticking to WON for as long as possible, as steam left a bad taste in my mouth.

Solex · October 2003

My normal server went steam about a week ago and it has been nothing but trouble. Server stability is fine but client stability is abysmal. I have fixed most of my sprite errors and adjusted my text sizes but there is nothing I can do to fix all the crashes and games that I get dropped from. I normally expect to get dropped either after a map change or just after the round starts.

My situation is not an anomoly. All of the regulars on my server have the same issues with steam. My suggestion is to wait it out until the official NS / Steam patch is released.

I_play_ns_naked · October 2003

whats this talk about steam...i'm not sure exactly what it is...u may have metioned it before but i'm too lazy too look! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

Jaml · October 2003

Steam sucks i mean why should i be so stupid to download a serverbrowser that is bigger than halflife and ns together? ASE does the same job with only some megs so as long as won works steam is a no no for me.

Browser_ICE · October 2003

<b>Let's not divert the discussion to "steam sucks". My post isn't meant for that.</b>

I'm asking not only for me but for the community of how many NS servers are there in Steam.

No matter what happens, all NS servers will go to Steam.

If there aren't that many servers in Steam or almost no players at all, then how do you expect to have the crossover to it done in a clean and easy way ? The more people and servers there are on Steamed NS servers, the quicker and easier the bugs will be spoted/fixed, the less people will complain about it.

So far, we've had mostly server admins answering my post. Can we have players answering too ?

How many players are playing on Steam ?

Browser_ICE · October 2003

If the NS Steamed servers are mostly empty, how about coming up with something to influence people to go play on Steam ?

Starting small tournaments ?

Training sessions ?

Strategy trainings ?

NS developer teams playing in there and inviting the community to join them ?

The more people play on NS Steamed servers, the faster bugs will be found and reported, the easier the transition will be. Just for that, I think I'll go on steam after all and not wait until the last minute.

Epidemic · October 2003

Oh, I need to know the IP of some <i>populous</i> server, I'm having the steam bug, so I cant get any list of servers <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

PolyMorph · October 2003

Steam does blow purple monkey balls though, its forever trying to update, and always frigging stalls during the update, meaning that i can't even get to the server browser for the most part.

Oh yeah, whats up with the damn fugly looking text/font they chose?
Its so fugly and big.

PolyMorph · October 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Epidemic @ Oct 7 2003, 09:39 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Oh, I need to know the IP of some <i>populous</i> server, I'm having the steam bug, so I cant get any list of servers <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
<img src='http://www.cdaccess.com/jpg/shared/front/large/populous.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

Schwerkraft · October 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>How many players are playing on Steam ?</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>

As a player i can say that i have quit playing NS. There is simply no Steam-support for NS. It does not appeas in the "My Games" menu. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'>
Only the following entries are listed:
- Counter-Strike
- Day of Defeat
- Half-Life
- Team Fortress Classic
- Deathmatch Classic
- Opposing Force
- Ricochet
- Dedicated Server

So there is no option to launch and/or update Natural Selection. Hopefully there was only an error during my installation of Steam!? If there was no error, then NS will going down very soon... at the latest when WON will be shut down.

snow · October 2003

i see about 48 servers through the steam
though when i refresh, the amount changes (not much)

i only see (a decent amount of) people on freaks unleashed.
Our server is on steam as well, but my wife and i have to play each other for about 20 minutes before people begin to join

Schwerkraft check out the tech support forum they have it stickied for you to play ns in steam
Eventually it has been said NS will be supported anyway

it would be great if more people started to go over to steam i only had one issue (not steam related) and it was taken care of in the tech support forum

Schwerkraft · October 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (snow @ Oct 8 2003, 02:30 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Schwerkraft check out the tech support forum they have it stickied for you to play ns in steam
Eventually it has been said NS will be supported anyway
</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
Thanks for the tip. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'> I will try to read and understand (because my native language is not English).

EDIT: It works! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

Trevelyan · October 2003

DONT GET STEAM

if you have it i recommend uninstalling it.

Browser_ICE · October 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Browser [ICE] @ Oct 3 2003, 01:26 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <b>Let's not divert the discussion to "steam sucks". My post isn't meant for that.</b>

I'm asking not only for me but for the community of how many NS servers are there in Steam.

No matter what happens, all NS servers will go to Steam.

If there aren't that many servers in Steam or almost no players at all, then how do you expect to have the crossover to it done in a clean and easy way ? The more people and servers there are on Steamed NS servers, the quicker and easier the bugs will be spoted/fixed, the less people will complain about it.

So far, we've had mostly server admins answering my post. Can we have players answering too ?

How many players are playing on Steam ?  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Guys, I do not want any discussions about how Steam sucks.
I do not want advices about removing Steam.
I do not want any discussions about other games.
If you want to discuss those topics, then start your own thread.

Please stick with the purpose and subject of my thread.

How Many Ns Servers On Steam Now ?

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