Hello,

I am from Frag Syndicate and I would like to get in contact with somebody from Gametracker about some ranking ideas we have.

Currently we are running 12 TF2 servers but this will grow fast
up to approx 100 and we want to run some special ranking events.

Therefore I really want to get in touch with somebody off gametracker to see if we can use gametracker ranking system or we must stick to the ranking we run ourself.

Greetings,
Revdutchie

You'd have to check the ranks for your servers on the website for each individual server and compare. There would be a number of servers between your servers (eg. if the best was 50th (=1st for you) and the second best was 78th(=2nd for you)), but you could easily figure out relatively who is the best.

I don't see why it would be a problem to use that as a ranking system, as long as you are not saying that GameTracker is a sponsor or try to hold GameTracker liable if there is a temporary scanning error that hurts your competition.

burn,

I think you missed my point, or I did not explain it clearly.

We are going to run special events on our servers soon. Those events
can have for example a 2 hour span in whitch people can win prizes.

Currently we are running our own ranking software on our servers and we can adjust it to our needs, but I was just wondering if gametracker wants to be part of it and is open for discussion on how to setup. That is the reason I wanna exchabge thoughts with somebody of gametracker.

Revdutchie

So you are trying to rank players over a two hour span? GameTracker ranks players by scores, but you can also rate them by kills/min or some other factor, depending on which game and whether you are scanning the server or parsing logs.

You should be able to get a lot of info from https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Server_queries and links near the bottom, if that is the type of help you are looking for.

Burn,

First of all I wanna say thanks for responding on my post.
But I have to point something out.

In 7 weeks we got 15.000 players on our 7 servers (we have 12 but others are not really advertised)

We are going to expand to approx 100 servers within 2-3 months. that will give us approx 100K+ players a month.

As of that I just want to talk to somebody of gametracker in what way we can have a co-operation between Frag Syndicate and Gametracker and that can be in more then 1 way.

Why is it so difficult to just discuss this on a private basis through mail or skype or whatever ?

Revdutchie

GameTracker is not looking to sponsor, give out ranking/tracking code, etc at this time. There is not time to work on side projects like this for each user and GT is not a consulting service for other users to set up their own tracking systems.

Adding 100 servers in such a small period of time sounds pretty risky, but if you are willing to make such an investment, you can try for that. Additionally, getting a flow of over 100,000 players on your servers in a months time will be quite the task for you to maintain and start up each server, especially since it does not appear that your website or GameTracker team page has little activity.

Please understand that GT cannot give out or code a tracking/ranking system for you (you have not been too clear on what exactly you want, so as you can imagine I cannot give you the most perfect answers).

burn wrote:

(you have not been too clear on what exactly you want, so as you can imagine I cannot give you the most perfect answers).

I understand that, but I am not going to discuss our ideas and what
we exactly have in mind on an open discussion forum.