HLStatsX Premium

[GTFO. al]

After many months of struggling with the ranking system we've moved our gameservers to the HLStatsX Premium service which appears to be running far better.

The main issue before was that the sheer number of servers we have (>20) places a lot of strain on any dedicated server in place to run the stats database leading to flaky recording and/or many kills going undetected entirely which was far from ideal and undermined the entire point of stats tracking.

After a few days of using the HLStatsX Premium service we've found the tracking to be far superior so we'll likely to be keeping it running. However it does cost extra money so anyone out there with a few Pounds spare to donate are appreciated. As always you'll get a reserved slot for a period depending on the size of donation. For more details see our Donate page.

Thanks to everyone for their continued support.

[Sepp]

Are you still able to customize the settings on there?

If yes it would be nice to have the setting to disable the messages (hlx_display 0) stored in the database.

[DataStorm]

Is there any way to customize the language used, cos it gives all the messages in dutch instead of english for me (while the game shows english text, voicecommands are english, etc...)

Yes, I have disabled them with:
say "hlx_display 0"
wait 100
say "hlx_chat 0"

In each "classname".cfg to keep it silent. cos for some reason the teamchat is filled again with those messages again after a short while. As I frequently change classes, this works for me :P (or indicates I need to change classes again, lol).

[GTFO. G]

I hadn't planned on posting about this yet, since there are still a few things to iron out and answers for the obvious questions above. Al must have got a bit excited.

Sepp, no not yet - unfortunately. I've told them this is something we need, and you'll have to enter that command everytime you join.

Datastorm, for getting your messsages in english, use hlx_lang_uk

[Sepp]

Sepp, no not yet - unfortunately. I've told them this is something we need, and you'll have to enter that command everytime you join.

np...not a big deal. I´ve bound a key for that for the moment.

Datastorm, for getting your messsages in english, use hlx_lang_uk

Thanks for that.

Is there any official FAQ or guide for the available commands?
Can´t find anything on the hlstatsx page...

[GTFO. G]

Not yet Sepp, strange they dont list everything on their own site either. I'll re-announce a post with all the info when I have it though.

Oh also, the language setting is persistent - you don't have to type it every time.

[DataStorm]

thnx G, great ;)

/edit: no-go, the command does not work, typing error?
/edit 2: it must be hlx_lang uk (space instead of underscore, I just tried it, seems to work ;) )

[Ste]

However it does cost extra money so anyone out there with a few Pounds spare to donate are appreciated.

Just donated again, I always give you a extra fiver, (even if I am short of money) I know its not much but "Every Little Helps" as the slogan goes.

But I do miss the TF2 awards, I don't play for the points these days, I like to see how many ubersaws I can get! etc..

[DataStorm]

the hlx_lang uk command is NOT a perm setting, had today dutch again:

Tired of waiting to join our servers? Get a RESERVED SLOT!
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Join Our Forums @ www.gtfogaming.co.uk
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Console events uitgeschakelt
Globale chat uitgeschakelt
Tired of waiting to join our servers? Get a RESERVED SLOT!
Tired of waiting to join our servers? Get a RESERVED SLOT!

bit tiresome that NOTHING sticks

[McGinge]

Appreciate the effort into updating this system, cheers guys :) (you've always got my donation).

[GTFO. al]

the hlx_lang uk command is NOT a perm setting, had today dutch again:

Tired of waiting to join our servers? Get a RESERVED SLOT!
Tired of waiting to join our servers? Get a RESERVED SLOT!
Join Our Forums @ http://www.gtfogaming.co.uk
Current Map: ctf_sawmill
We are recruiting, join our forums @ http://www.gtfogaming.co.uk.
Console events uitgeschakelt
Globale chat uitgeschakelt
Tired of waiting to join our servers? Get a RESERVED SLOT!
Tired of waiting to join our servers? Get a RESERVED SLOT!

bit tiresome that NOTHING sticks

those aren't HLStats messages

[DataStorm]

Console events uitgeschakelt
Globale chat uitgeschakelt

those are responses I get from "hlx_chat 0" and "hlx_display 0"

[r3loaded]

DataStorm, try changing TF2's language to English, I reckon hlstats must be auto-detecting the language you're using. Right-click TF2 in the steam games list -> Properties -> Language tab.

[McGinge]

DataStorm, try changing TF2's language to English, I reckon hlstats must be auto-detecting the language you're using. Right-click TF2 in the steam games list -> Properties -> Language tab.

I'm English living in Germany, with that language setting being set to English, and still got German HLStatsX messages; had to use the console command above to set it to English.

[GTFO. G]

Part of the admin framework has some geoip which detects your country. If people want the messages in English they can be forced to English. For non English native speakers, I would have thought getting the messages in your language would be better?

[DataStorm]

DataStorm, try changing TF2's language to English, I reckon hlstats must be auto-detecting the language you're using. Right-click TF2 in the steam games list -> Properties -> Language tab.

I HAVE it in ENGLISH, told already in my first post in this thread. I really hate it when games are in dutch. All on my system is ENGLISH, Windows Vista, Steam, the game, whatever, only the localisation of windows is set to dutch (date/time and input language on keyboard). Often games are translated in dutch and then I have to buy 'm in the UK or in the States to get 'm in ENGLISH.

The reason why I dont want 'm in english? Translations SUCK BIG TIME. the translations they choose can be interpreted often in so many ways that when something is going on, you often cant find the right english error message back on the internet. Other times the translations are not in any way close to what the original text was, so it is really guessing what they might have meanth.

[diz]

Part of the admin framework has some geoip which detects your country. If people want the messages in English they can be forced to English. For non English native speakers, I would have thought getting the messages in your language would be better?

But the translation is total crap. They probably used google translation, cos I can't image anyone doing such a bad translation. It doesn't even display fonts correctly. And I still got other messages in English.

-diz