Steam Cloud connection ? - Games

I have these 2 questions that keep bothering me: 1. Why is it so hard for servers to reconnect to Steam Cloud once they drop the connection? I'm fairly sure that idling more than 5 hours on a server without getting 1 normal drop is due the server and has nothing to do with random. 2. Why can't apps such as Source Tools implement an automatic recognition system of the server's state in relation to Steam Cloud and automatically reconnect to another "healthy" server ? I think I have fair solution to detecting if a sever has lost connection to Cloud. If 30 minutes pass without anyone in the server getting items than that is a clear sign of connection loss. Can't Source Tools read the news log from that actual server ? (messages as in : "XXXX has found xxxx") If there are no such messages, that's all you need to know.

Is this about Idleing? And my server is perfectly fine reconnecting to the steam cloud. Stop "being bothered", and go play the game.

[QUOTE=Donnie;21289639]2. Why can't apps such as Source Tools implement an automatic recognition system of the server's state in relation to Steam Cloud and automatically reconnect to another "healthy" server ? I think I have fair solution to detecting if a sever has lost connection to Cloud. If 30 minutes pass without anyone in the server getting items than that is a clear sign of connection loss. Can't Source Tools read the news log from that actual server ? (messages as in : "XXXX has found xxxx") If there are no such messages, that's all you need to know.[/QUOTE] Servers like SourceOP are filled with spectators. The more idlers use ST, the more idlers will be spectating. Spectator drops don't show in the chat text. So that's a problem... OH and also because drops in the chat text don't appear in the console. [QUOTE=Donnie;21289639]idling more than 5 hours on a server without getting 1 normal drop is due the server and has nothing to do with random.[/QUOTE] You'd be surprised. I've been idling on the same server since Friday evening, so almost 48 hours now. There were only two incidents where my PC crashed and my LAN cable got loose. There were a few 4~5 hour periods of zero drops, then drops occurred again, yet the server never restarted, and I never restarted [long periods were not right after the two incidents I mentioned]. [code] 04/09/2010 21:16 --------------------- START --------------------- 04/09/2010 22:33 - Killing Gloves of Boxing 04/10/2010 1:29 - Razorback 04/10/2010 2:11 - !!!!HAT!!!! Hustler's Hallmark level 51 04/10/2010 2:48 - Chargin' Targe 04/10/2010 4:10 - Pain Train 04/10/2010 5:03 - Ubersaw 04/10/2010 6:24 - Killing Gloves of Boxing 04/10/2010 8:11 - Buff Banner 04/10/2010 8:37 - Chargin' Targe 04/10/2010 9:02 - Gunboats 04/10/2010 9:55 - Eyelander 04/10/2010 16:45 - Jarate 04/10/2010 19:33 - Huntsman 04/10/2010 20:30 - Dead Ringer 04/10/2010 21:25 - Backburner 04/10/2010 22:21 - Jarate 04/11/2010 2:18 - Natascha 04/11/2010 3:45 - Pain Train 04/11/2010 7:31 - Flare Gun 04/11/2010 8:27 - Pain Train 04/11/2010 8:55 - Blutsauger 04/11/2010 9:22 - Eyelander 04/11/2010 10:26 - Ubersaw 04/11/2010 14:36 - Chargin' Targe 04/11/2010 15:02 - Ubersaw 04/11/2010 15:28 - Scottish Resistance [/code]

[QUOTE=BeefMcGraw;21295833] drops in the chat text don't appear in the console. [/QUOTE] damn I totally didn't knew that! :-/ anyway you created a jem of a program there! I can idle on my laptop now without video card strain! Thx :)

[QUOTE=Donnie;21297039]anyway you created a jem of a program there! I can idle on my laptop now without video card strain! Thx :)[/QUOTE] Thnx, but your right about trying to detect if the server has steam cloud connectivity. So far, I don't know how. Nothing special appears in the console even with developer 2, it would probably require somebody with real programming skills to build a detector that I could embed in Source Tools.