Author Topic: Congratulations HTC; 300 players OnLine (Read 477 times)

Staga · « **on:** November 01, 2001, 09:21:00 PM »

Not sure if I have ever seen that much people in here

btw ping was solid 165-175ms without packet loss and I couldn't see anyone warping thought I heard couple guys saw some warping planes.

[ 11-01-2001: Message edited by: Staga ]

Tumor · « **Reply #1 on:** November 01, 2001, 09:24:00 PM »

Thats great..really but I just got dumped and can't get back in. MA show's 287..anyone else?

Tumor

2Late4U · « **Reply #2 on:** November 01, 2001, 09:26:00 PM »

Yea, congradulations...I CANT LOG IN TO THE MAIN ARENA AGAIN.

2 nights ago it was the main arena being over loaded and the download speed for the new map being 300 baud. Now there are 300 people in the main arena, and I get booted back to the sign in screen over and over.

I can log in fine, and get into the other arenas fine, but the server is not up to the task of 300 people.

Staga · « **Reply #3 on:** November 01, 2001, 09:27:00 PM »

Just tested, I was online in one second with 291 another guys.

Staga · « **Reply #4 on:** November 01, 2001, 09:31:00 PM »

2Late AFAIR HTC's servers have still long way to go before hitting limits. You might want to download pingplotter and check if your problems are related to your own connection or ISP.

2Late4U · « **Reply #5 on:** November 01, 2001, 10:22:00 PM »

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Originally posted by Staga:
2Late AFAIR HTC's servers have still long way to go before hitting limits. You might want to download pingplotter and check if your problems are related to your own connection or ISP.

You'll notice, I said I could log into any of the emptie arenas with no problem. Training, duel etc....its only the main arena with its 300 people, logs in fine with password in under a second, but when I try to enter THAT arena, it sits there for 20 seconds, then back to the password screen again.

1-20 people duel arena=fine

300 people=no connect

Not too dificult to see where the problem is.

AKSWulfe · « **Reply #6 on:** November 01, 2001, 11:07:00 PM »

298/330 people online when I logged in.

Logged in just fine. Flew just fine for 2 hours.

I don't think it's HTC's end that's having a problem.
-SW

Pongo · « **Reply #7 on:** November 01, 2001, 11:50:00 PM »

I was off and on several times at 295 -305 people with no connect prob at all. Game seemed to be playing fine too.
(except for release 4 frame rate issues)
wtg on 300 HTC!

funkedup · « **Reply #8 on:** November 02, 2001, 12:05:00 AM »

Yep 300 is a nice number. No warp or connex issues that I could see. WTG.

moose · « **Reply #9 on:** November 02, 2001, 12:35:00 AM »

and it'll only get better

moose · « **Reply #10 on:** November 02, 2001, 12:40:00 AM »

On a side note:

When AH was $30 a month, seeing 150-175 players in MA during weeknights was the usual for me.

Now with it being $15 a month, we're hitting 300 people?

I would think that the business moves have paid off and that htc has covered the initial decrease in revenue quite quickly.

Achieving what they have with only 6 staff it looks like this company will go very far if the growth rate continues at it's current pace.

Zigrat · « **Reply #11 on:** November 02, 2001, 12:42:00 AM »

i got killed tonight in a BS lag kill where sone guys nose was 30 degrees off shot and he killed me. that hasnt happened to me in like a year.

Raubvogel · « **Reply #12 on:** November 02, 2001, 01:20:00 AM »

Saw alot of funky lag stuff. Planes jumping 300-400, planes dying 20 seconds after you hit em, etc. I like the numbers....hate the lag.

oboe · « **Reply #13 on:** November 02, 2001, 03:39:00 AM »

Sounds like critical mass for a second arena to me.

Maybe its time to look at changes to the CT that would make it more popular?

J_A_B · « **Reply #14 on:** November 02, 2001, 04:07:00 AM »

I agree that it's time for another arena. Several suggestions:

1. The obvious (and boring) choice is to simply create a second MA identical to the first. A waste of resources, IMO.

2. I wouldn't mind seeing a second MA with no night-time and slightly closer bases, perhaps with RPS added in the first MA (one MA could slightly more "realistic" than the other). Everyone would be happy with this outcome.

3. Or perhaps have one MA "europe"-style, with the other being "pacific" style? This worked well in AW, and IMO would work even better in AH.

4. An easy fix might be to modify the CT so it becomes popular, but this might involve turning it into nothing more than a "team-planeset" MA.

5. A FA-style "country-based planeset" arena might be interesting, but there'd have to be quite a few plane additions for it to be fair at all.

6. Perhaps a "mid-war" arena, with post-summer 1943 planes either perked or completely unavailable. Such arenas, however, have consistently proved unpopular in other sims.

Given a choice, I'd vote for either #2 or #3, or maybe #5 once the planeset could support it.

J_A_B