Need option to "ban servers" from serverlist

[zybork]

I guess we all experienced it - there are servers that just suck for whatever reason and you would like not to play there again. So it would be great to have an option like "disfavour this server", where it gets removed from your serverlist permanently, and thus prevents you to stumble into it again.

And please do not discuss why server xy is soo bad, I just liked to have such a feature. Thank you.

[Knowitall66]

I would suggest you just build up a list of favorites and then you wont need to browse all servers.

[Syntac]

I believe he means more of a blacklist than a whitelist. No such feature exists yet, but if you pester the devs enough, who knows?

[Amanieu]

Get your own master server.

[zybork]

...or maybe I'll just hack the client and contribute the changes back to the project. But I'd have to dig into the source for that purpose, it is by far more efficient to ask a dev, for they can do it in 15min.

[Paradox]

Or 15 years...

[Caveman]

If you can't remember the servers where you don't want to play, then the number of "bad" servers is too high.
And that is not a server-side problem, that is a problem with you.
Go populate your favorits or stop playing.

[zybork]

Cavemen: The number of servers I don't want to play is about half a dozen to a dozen maximum. If you call this "too much", then you should go try count the number of servers available, and you will realize that their number exceeds the number of actually shitty servers by far. So, next time:

Think before writing.

[Caveman]

nope, you think before writing.
The masterlist is nothing you have write-access to.
So either populate your favorits  or stop playing.

If the answer is not what you wanted to here, tough shit for you.

[Hendrich]

I guess we all experienced it - there are servers that just suck for whatever reason and you would like not to play there again. So it would be great to have an option like "disfavour this server", where it gets removed from your serverlist permanently, and thus prevents you to stumble into it again.

And please do not discuss why server xy is soo bad, I just liked to have such a feature. Thank you.

Cavemen: The number of servers I don't want to play is about half a dozen to a dozen maximum. If you call this "too much", then you should go try count the number of servers available, and you will realize that their number exceeds the number of actually shitty servers by far. So, next time:

Think before writing.

[Paradox]

Caveman, did you take an asshole pill recently? Looking over your recent posts, it seems that all you do is troll now.

[Kaleo]

Caveman, did you take an asshole pill recently? Looking over your recent posts, it seems that all you do is troll now.

PMS

[Caveman]

Not really, It's just that only shit questions pop up.

[benmachine]

You'd all do well to follow Khalsa's advice regarding not replying to trolls.

zybork: somewhere on my todo list is changing servercache.dat into a human-readable and editable servers.conf which will sort out things like favourites, maybe passwords/admin auth, etc.
If you submit this to Bugzilla (set the severity to 'enhancement' please) then it may well get done if/when I get around to it.

the rest of you: giant who cares.

[zybork]

Okay, this means that there are other plans which means I do not have to take the effort to dig into a project written by somebody else 

Question: In which way are the favourites related to the servercache? If it just marks IPs or something, it should be not too hard to implement a blacklist.

[Cadynum]

In the meantime you can always just block the IP's of the unwanted servers with your firewall.

[zybork]

Don't I get the list from the masterserver? I guess this would just make problems when trying to connect, but not prevent the entries from being shown. Maybe i'll try it out some time.

[kevlarman]

Don't I get the list from the masterserver? I guess this would just make problems when trying to connect, but not prevent the entries from being shown. Maybe i'll try it out some time.

you get a list of ip:port 6-tuplets to query from the master, but the list is created by requesting the serverinfo of each server, those that don't respond won't be displayed*
*unless they're already in servercache.dat, then they will be displayed with somewhat strange information

[zybork]

So this is not a clean solution. Well, I think I'll skip it then.

[Kaleo]

I don't see why you would need to "ban" a server from your serverlist. If you don't like a server, don't connect to it.

[Bissig]

He wants to clear out the display of too many a shitty servers. I guess. And maybe the haxxed once popping up recently named: ---->HACKED<----

[benmachine]

So this is not a clean solution. Well, I think I'll skip it then.

I think it'll do fine so long as you get a new list after firewalling anything.

[tuple]

For an ugly solution that may cause you to break things and which I wouldn't recommend, block those server IPs at your firewall.  You're client can't communicate with them, you're client won't show them.

Again, this is a really F*cking stupid solution, so don't do it.  But if you're really that hard pressed...