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I’ve voted for both dedicated – this should give both servers a performance boost and allow us to be flexible with the games we run. Not so bothered about running 2 games on the same box simultaneously – esp if it means dropping the player slots down. 2 separate boxes should give us what we need. Assuming we can afford it.
eeeew 16 player servers.. *washes*
aye.. 2 dedicated then so we can keep the 32 player servers.. we can always just change the server as and when needed so its not imperative to have more games on one
@=xdc= magicker wrote:
i dont understand the question
what do we have now?
what does a dedicated do?
Go and join Max & Insane in the corner, don’t forget the pointy hat 😛
heh just a read all the replies and have gotten confused. I voted to leave bf server thinking it was already dedicated, and considering we all still have a soft spot for the game it’s maybe worth keeping. I would love a tf2 server dedicated as well, and would be able to contribute towards it (though I could really do with a job first).
Hmmm right here it is!!
Dedicated Server = The game server application
Dedicated Machine = The actual machine the Dedicated Server runs onAll games where there is a server and a client (you) are dedicated servers. so every multiplayer game that is like this is running on a dedicated server!
The odd one out is RTS games and some odd games like the TOCA Race Driver series, these games are peer to peer with one of the peers being the server for everyone and also a client at the same time for the host, so its not dedicated!
What Phart is talking about by dedicated server is that we have a machine that we can controll and run our selfs and put on different game servers that we want.
The current BF server is not dedicated as we can control that server application but we dont have access to the actual server machine to mess with mods and games on that machine. We most likely share that machine with another clan.
The current popular vote is to have 2 dedicated machines that we can do what we like with game and mod wise. most machines can handle 2 x 32 player servers thus it would give XDC 4 servers at a time with 32 players on each max.
By doing this we could have a BF2 server (FH2), a BF2142 server, a TF2 server and a COD4 server.
Because the machines are dedicated we could have 4 TF2 servers if we wanted! or we could have 1x BF2 64 player server and 1xBF2142 64 player server as we control the actual dedicated machine and not just the dedicated server!
Got it!
@=xdc= magicker wrote:
and what do we have at the moment?
We have 2 dedicated servers where we can admin it. in both cases probably another clan is sharing the server machine with our servers. We dont have access to the machine that having a dedicated machine would allow us to do.
so we dont have much flexibility and its in the hands of MPUK to sort out changing games and mods.
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