I was looking at my server stats today and I noticed that on one of my servers it had said "This server has been detected to report fake or
idle clients and it is not eligible to be ranked."

http://www.gametracker.com/server_info/94.23.158.232:27017/

I don't understand why the rank was disabled, the server doesn't contain faked or idle clients. Infact if you joined the server, you'd see that all of the players in the server actally play the game, chat and move. They're not idlers, they're not bots and there most certainly not fake.

Why are you guys picking on the trade servers all of a sudden? I've happened to notice alot of trade servers have been getting deranked lately for no reason.

Still no reply...

Trade maps are just like the idle/achievement maps right? If so, players in that situation are idle and are not much different than using bots to increase rank.

During the Mann Conomy update http://www.teamfortress.com/mannconomy/ trading was introduce to Team Fortress 2. Since then most of the active players of tf2 go to trade servers to find people to trade hats and weapons with, some trade servers are more popular than others, depending on who goes there and what is offered on a daily basis.

Heres an video of proof that these servers DO not contain idlers nor bots.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjgKEP443MM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY2mm502Q6w

Now will you please re-rank the trade servers.

They do not have any idlers what so ever.

They don't really seem to be playing, so I don't seem much of a difference compared to actually playing the game. It's a difficult choice to pick one side or the other, and no matter what side is picked someone will not like it. It is what seems to be the most fair for other TF2 servers.

They are playing, the map still has open spaces and combat areas. Its just nicknamed trade_ so it would attract those that are looking to trade along with wanting to play the game.

What's up with gametracker anyways? They rank my server 25th and Game Monitor ranks it 7th. Something is wrong here.

wargod63 wrote:
What's up with gametracker anyways? They rank my server 25th and Game Monitor ranks it 7th. Something is wrong here.
I could name three reasons: The ranking algorithm is not exactly the same, both website do not scan at the exact same moment each time, and GT could have a more complete list of servers.

burn wrote:
wargod63 wrote:
What's up with gametracker anyways? They rank my server 25th and Game Monitor ranks it 7th. Something is wrong here.
I could name three reasons: The ranking algorithm is not exactly the same, both website do not scan at the exact same moment each time, and GT could have a more complete list of servers.


is not the same beause in game monitor is maybe 120.000 server !! but u see that in gamemonitor is no skaning the real good servers all the strong and populate server is here in GameTracker!!