PlaneShift

Gameplay => Newbie Help (Start Here) => Topic started by: Dureus on August 15, 2003, 10:17:59 pm

Title: Any strings attached?
Post by: Dureus on August 15, 2003, 10:17:59 pm

This looks a sweet as game, but there are loads of mmorpg\'s out there and they all cost money to play. and im only a 15 year old and my perants think its a waste of money. I havent seen any fee things at the moment. is there any?

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Post by: acraig on August 15, 2003, 10:47:22 pm

PlaneShift will be always be a free game.  The catch is that since we all work on it in our spare time then progress often comes in spurts so you have to be patient ( but most people are :) )

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Post by: Dureus on August 15, 2003, 10:55:36 pm

Sweet, shame i cant program. thx, i think i just found the perfect game :).

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Post by: Bartman on August 23, 2003, 10:12:34 pm

Now this all sounds nice in theory, but how will you get a decent server for free?  I understand it\'s easy to write free software, but there isn\'t such a thing as free hardware or free bandwidth, or am I wrong?

The reason I mention this is because I just downloaded the game and the lag was really terrible.  I can imagine this will only get worse as more and more people play this game.

But otherwise: a very promising game!

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Post by: Caldazar on August 24, 2003, 10:45:18 am

The server is sponsored by fragnetics. The server is excellent, and if the game lags its your computer/the client/the code that\'s not optimized.

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Post by: Bartman on August 24, 2003, 03:49:57 pm

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Originally posted by Caldazar
The server is excellent, and if the game lags its your computer/the client/the code that\'s not optimized.

The server itself might not be the problem, but the connection to the server.  I tried pinging the server planeshift.fragnetics.com, and it gave a packet loss of 60%, so it\'s really a miracle it even works.

By the way, is there an in-game way of viewing connection stats, like there is for framerate?  This might give some more accurate values.