For those of you who want a free, easy to use image banner for your server statistics, check out our new handy monitor!  Find it under the "Server Monitors" tab of your server info page

What's special about our new handy monitor is that it's vertical - so it will nicely fit into nuke sites and other pages with a side bar.  In addition to displaying player count for the past 24 hours, it will display a map pic for map the server is currently running, as well as a pic of the next predicted map.  Did I also mention how beautiful it looks?  See for yourself!

We have added full support of COD4 this week - go ahead and set up your monitors, or find players and servers on our search tool.  Happy Gaming!

Since our database issues last weekend, we worked around the clock to get everything back up and running.  We have replaced hardware and added in some extra redundancy this week to prevent this issue from happening in the future.  Thank you to all subscribers for your patience and understanding during this time!

We are pleased to announce that all services are now fully functional, and have been for a couple of days.  If you noticed your ranks looking a bit suspicious this week, they should now be looking correct.  If anyone is continuing to experience any issues, please contact us via the Helpdesk. 

If anyone has been having issues with ranks or unique player counts not updating, this should be fixed now.

Also, we were experiencing some intermittent uptime issues with the website which should now be resolved.

Please contact us via the Helpdesk if you experience any issues!

We have added support for Quake World and Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45.  These are untested on our system, so in the unlikely event that you run into an issue, please contact us via the helpdesk with details so we can fix it.

Also, a reminder that we added support for TF2, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars and Unreal Tournament 99.  Again, let us know if you have any issues with these games when you create monitors.

There are other games we're planning to add, so if you have any special requests, now is the time to ask.  When you put forward a request, it's really useful for us to have an IP, Port and Query Port for a server so that we can run tests, so please include this information for one of your servers when you ask for a game to be added.

Happy gaming!

There have been quite a few updates since the last blog entry, so here's a summary of changes:

- A new monitor is in development.  This monitor is perfect for small spaces, especially on nuke sites, but will complement anyone's page.  It's called the Dynamic Monitor, and there will be a free and Exclusive version.  Exclusive users will be able to edit almost any aspect of it, including size, colours, background images, and most importantly, auto-refreshing options.  See an example at Battlefield Brothers website!

- The new Handy Monitor has been released, and is a massive improvement on the old style.  Live server info is included as before, with some usage graphs.  The monitor links back to the server info page for more detailed info.  The look of the Handy Monitor is more up to date too.  Coming soon is a larger version of the handy monitor with more info in it - stay tuned for more news on this!  Find your Handy Monitor under the Free Tools tab on your server info page.

- The search tool on the home page has been improved, with a slightly different layout which should be more intuitive.  More importantly, the search results show more info in a different layout, which is a big improvement.

- New games supported are TF2, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars and Unreal Tournament 99.  More ganes are coming soon!

- Countless bug fixes!

Stay tuned for more news coming soon.

We have started the first of many changes to the server info pages.  Keep your eye out over the next week or two for new changes!

As you can see below, the server name section has a new design that includes the game logo.  Below the map pic image, we have also posted new statistics to show you the number of unique players tracked on the server in the past 7 days, as well as the number of player hours tracked.

Another big new addition on the server info page is the server ranking percentile bar.  This shows you how your server ranks compared to the other servers running your game in your country.  If you're ranked in the 99th percentile, only one percent of servers are ranked above you.  If you're ranked in the 25th percentile, 75% of servers are ranked above you.  Cool, huh?!

As you can see in the screen shot below, Exclusive Subscribers don't see ads on the website, not that you need another reason to upgrade! 

 

As always, we welcome feedback, suggestions and questions.  Please contact us via the helpdesk to add in your two cents' worth!

To find your server info page, just hit the homepage at www.serverspy.net and use the search tool to find your server.  Click on the "View Detailed Stats" link - simple as that.

The server info pages on ServerSpy.Net now auto-update every 10 seconds, allowing you to view real time information easily - even watch a clan match from the website!

In due course, this feature will be available on our Server Monitor tool for webmasters, so keep your eye out for this exciting development.

Create your monitors and view your stats now for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl - this game is now supported!  Exclusive Subscribers can create their own custom skins for this game with the flashy monitor, so subscribe today.

Below is an example of a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. monitor - you can see it live here

Also, don't forget that you can find a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. server or look up your S.T.A.L.K.E.R. player ranks on our new search tool. 

The new ServerSpy.Net search tool is here!!

After much development, the server and player search has today been launched.  Go to www.serverspy.net to check it out!

Search for servers by game, country, and also by the number of slots free - an incredibly useful and intuitive way to find your next game.  You can also find players by name, by game and whether they're online... so whether you're out to view your own player stats, or whether you're trying to find your clan members to play with, its quick and easy.

This new service is in beta, so if you have any questions, comments or problems with the search, please contact us on the helpdesk.

Happy Searching!

We've now added support for Battlefield 2142!

The one service that has yet to be support is Gamlauncher - however we plan to provide launcher support later this week.

We will be scanning the master list for the main game when it comes out (not the demo).  However you can use our monitors for a demo server, but the player ranking etc are will come to life the moment the game goes live.

Feel free to contact us should you notice any possible bugs or if you're having difficulty setting up your services.

We have fixed a bug that was causing some scores in AA to show as a negative number. 

Player ranks show the past 7 days of activity, so it may take up to a week before you no longer see negative scores in the player ranks tables, but all scores in the live server monitors should now show correctly.

We will be offering 9 lucky Exclusive Subscribers a free beta key to the new Battlefield 2142 game.  To enter the prize draw, go to our competition page and register your entry. 

 

Not an Exclusive Subscriber yet?  Don’t worry!  Sign up today and you can still enter.  The draw takes place on Saturday 9th September, so all entries must be received by midnight on Friday 8th September.  Rumours are that the beta testing will end before October, so you'll want to be planning some intensive 2142 gaming!

 

A huge thanks to Hypernia for passing on these beta keys!  Hypernia will be offering fantastic deals on Battlefield 2142 ranked servers when 2142 is released, so head there first to grab your server.

 

Get your FREE Player Monitor!

 

This is a new tool for both gamers and webmasters.  Following on from the phenomenal success of our Player Stats, you can now get a Player Handy Monitor!  Stick this on your website or in a forum post so that your friends can see if you’re gaming, what server you’re in, together with some of your vital gaming stats.

 

To get your player monitor, just go to our Player Stats and look up your name – then copy the monitor code on the page!  Remember, this doesn’t work so well if your player name is not unique, so it pays to be creative J

 

 

This is a brand new service, so please remember it’s in beta!

It appears we have some Canadian downtime due to our Toronto routing pop having technical problems. Hopefully this will be corrected momentarily.

 

Edit: This problem should now be resolved.

GameSpy (the licensed technology for query protocols for BF2) has been changing their query protocols for BF2 since the recent patch. Initially they upgraded their protocol to a more secure and DoS protection system.

This morning it appears as if they have reverted back to the older insecure protocol. What does this mean for ServerSpy? Well all Server Monitors and Stats will be effected. We do currently support both protocols, however as gamespy keep switching between the two and its becoming troublesome for us to keep track on what is the current versions.

So if your BF2 server monitor currently appears as down, but you know its up - this will be due to EA/DICE and GameSpy's fickleness to decide on what they plan to do.

ServerSpy.Net has been developing some great player rankings stats over the last few months, and we have taken it one step further at army.com.  You can now see our rankings of BF2 gamers, and their movements in the ranks.  We're planning to add these stats to the ServerSpy.Net site, as well as add them for other games, so keep your eye out...

Last week we posted the new version of Gamelauncher up at the ServerSpy.Net Gamelauncher page.  Its a vastly improved version of our classic tool, now supporting hundreds of games.  To install the new Gamelauncher, you will need to have the .Net2 environment installed on your PC.  This can be downloaded at Microsoft if you don't have it already, but will come installed as standard on the forthcoming Microsoft Vista operating system.

The great features of the new Gamelauncher include: the support of 100s of games, together with the easy addition of new games supported; automatic detection of installed games on your PC; the storage of relevant usernames and passwords for your games; the sorting of recently joined servers by recently played or most played.  In addition, the server stats at ServerSpy.Net for these servers are linked directly from your Gamelauncher.

You can now officialy disable the channel and user privilages flags on the Temspeak Monitor.

Simply add or modify the SCRIPT call as follows:
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" src="http://share2.serverspy.net/bin/tmon.mpl?tid=3&noud=0">
</SCRIPT>

So simply add &noud=1 to the end of the src call

We've recieved our new core database server. This new server will be mainly responsible for the player ranks and stats that you can see either on our player search or player rank services. We'll also be using this database server to enhance our general game tracking statistics!

We actually don't delete any data we have at ServerSpy.Net. Every time a server is queried we store that result directly to our databases. This enables us to keep track on how well people are playing or how active servers are.