Is still possible to fake the players in the browser, however you need to
ask yourself if is worth it anymore

2012/5/4 1nsane <1nsane.pw@gmai...>

> Certain communities worked around that.
>
> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Invalid Protocol <
> invalidprotocolversion@gmai...> wrote:
>
>> Few months ago Valve made some changes and is not possible anymore to
>> fake the number of connected players. The servers can report whatever they
>> want, but the value displayed in Internet tab is retrieved from Valve.***
>> *
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> *From:* hlds-bounces@list... [mailto:
>> hlds-bounces@list...] *On Behalf Of *proto type
>> *Sent:* Friday, May 04, 2012 7:58 PM
>>
>> *To:* Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
>> *Subject:* Re: [hlds] Policy of Truth??****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Feels like they penalized some servers not the others. Groups like Lotus
>> and ProTF2 are not only running BOTS and fakeclients but ProTF2 is also
>> using credit mod which i thought was against Valve's TOS. ****
>>
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