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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Staga on November 01, 2001, 09:21:00 PM
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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 ]
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Thats great..really but I just got dumped and can't get back in. MA show's 287..anyone else?
Tumor
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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.
:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
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Just tested, I was online in one second with 291 another guys.
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2Late AFAIR HTC's servers have still long way to go before hitting limits. You might want to download pingplotter (http://www.pingplotter.com) and check if your problems are related to your own connection or ISP.
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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 (http://www.pingplotter.com) 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.
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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
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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!
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Yep 300 is a nice number. No warp or connex issues that I could see. WTG. :)
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and it'll only get better :)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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
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Getting great connections here :)
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Yeah I when I went in to the MA last night Staga it said 299 and I was number 300. Talk about feeling privleged and honored.
WTG HTC!! :)
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Originally posted by J_A_B:
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.
J_A_B
this has been done. MA is under new server and goes thru a diff gateway than skuzzy (so far). MA Backup and Alt backup are still thru skuzzy and are a seperate MA completely - i was getting a wonky host queue in MA so tried the "backup" and ended up in baltic with no one else there and countries in a diff rotation than what was currently in MA at the time.
No one was using it of course, as everyone wants to be where the numbers are.
then there's the Combat Theatre as well.
the 2nd MA has potential to test out a few new experiments, but then again... people go where the #'s are.
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No need for a second arena, the servers are fine they just need more bandwith.
Try a alternet route if your having connection problems, its not the server its your connection timing our from data loss.
[ 11-02-2001: Message edited by: Am0n ]
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I had a rock solid connect last night with narely a wiggle in the Netstat signal line. First time in a while. Thanks HTC!
Westy
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2late4u, the new server is in a different location on a different connection to the other servers. Its more than likely an issue at your end.
SKurj
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If AH is to keep growing, it'll need a second "main arena" sooner or later.
Besides, who wouldn't like some additional variety?
How to populate it? Cap the population on the original arena. Yes, there'd be a few whines at first, but it'd settle down once people got used to the new setup, provided the alternate arena isn't something that the average player hates (like the CT).
J_A_B
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I was getting 17 to 18 ms access pings last night with 300 people on. No lag or nothing. Connections were great!