Fork to avoid cat people and IC obssesive players

[Karyuu]

You will be able to talk/meet with everyone that has PlaneShift running, not just those on your server.

[neko kyouran]

I haven\'t played RS, since it was still in it\'s infancy, but how they handled multiple servers then (not sure if it the same now) was that no matter which server of the world you were on, you could still tell who was online no matter which server they were using and you could communicate with them. Example:  1st player: dude, what server you on?  I\'m on server 2.  2nd: I\'m on server 1, switch over.  1st: Alright.

I believe PS is to be set up similar.

Edit.  Gah, Kary, you type too fast, or my refresh is slow.

[Karyuu]

Hit Preview before Reply to see if anything new has been posted below :P I usually do that. Besides, you add useful information regardless of what I post.

There should be no reason to switch servers or ask someone to do that, I think. Besides just \"the hell of it\" ;)

[neko kyouran]

Originally posted by Karyuu
There should be no reason to switch servers or ask someone to do that, I think. Besides just \"the hell of it\"

Now this may be a bit of a stretch, but back in the day that I played RS, there was still a bit of roleplay.  If people were on different servers, they couldn\'t do things together.  So one switched. Make sense?

[Karyuu]

Hm, I think so. However, this won\'t be the case for PlaneShift - you\'ll not only be able to talk to everyone everywhere, you\'ll be able to play with them and do things together. There will basically be no need to switch servers.

[neko kyouran]

Alright.  That is a much better way to do it anyway.  So the servers shall be nodes in a cluster then?  Each sharing the load.  Sorta like multiple processors on a single board? I really like the load balancing idea.  But then if it were to be that way, then why even the multiple servers upon the client load up?  The only reason I see is if you live physically closer to one than the other and you want to reduce LAG times. (smaller ping response times) But even still, all the servers will be communicating with each other and the clients to show everyone accross every server.  It would only be as good as the slowest server with the most lag yes?  

I guess doing it this way would make more sense to me if, upon cleint logon, you just simply logged into the PS network, and not select an individual server, since that\'s really what a person will be doing anyway.  Sure, the multiple servers could be listed to show the user the current status off them (up/down/etc), but really, but they would just connect to the PS network, not indivdual server.

Or am I thinking about this in the wrong way?

Also, although I do expect that there will be a time where multiple servers will be neccessary, (I don\'t mean this in any negative way) this will be far off, since the one server right now seems to be more than enough to handle peek times.

[lanser]

Originally posted by chronokun
 because you hate them cat-people and just want to level up without having to always be IC andhave a lame IC name? or perhaps anything else you dislike?

Why fork PS there are plenty of free online games out there go and play one of them and leave us Enkidukai alone to our obsessive IC\'ness

[stfrn]

Well, from a coding perspective:
Laanx is fine for capacity. Barring server bugs, we could hold quite a bit more players then now.
We already have plans for mulitple servers, which seamlessly let all players interact with anyone on any server. Of course, this has not been finished as there is no need.
You can \"fork\" planeshift- if you use none of the art, maps, setting, or rules. So you could make a game without Enki, but you would have to remove pretty much everything else, including our wonderfull combat system ().

[defender43]

If you want a game that doesn\'t give a darn about IC and there aren\'t any enkidukai, try RuneScape. If you want a pay-to-play game, what the heck are you doing here?

[Isra]

I propose a guild whit the sole purpose of providing powerlevelers whit max weapons , armor , all glyphs and enaugh money to max up there stats and skills...this way they will leave whitin a few days , as they will have achieved there purpose in the game...maxing up
 .....and maybe the poor rogue in the forest will get a few free minutes to fetch a beer and a weapon to defend himself

[zanzibar]

Originally posted by Isra
I propose a guild whit the sole purpose of providing powerlevelers whit max weapons , armor , all glyphs and enaugh money to max up there stats and skills...this way they will leave whitin a few days , as they will have achieved there purpose in the game...maxing up
 .....and maybe the poor rogue in the forest will get a few free minutes to fetch a beer and a weapon to defend himself

Heh, yeah.  The other part of the problem is people who ~try~ to stay in character, but every other sentence is something like \"Omg!  I can\'t fight her, she deals 300!\"



If you don\'t want to stay in character, just play runescape, or tibia, or counterstrike, or whatever the popular game is these days.  It really is that easy.

[Irick]

Originally posted by Drey
Enkis aren\'t to be trusted!

...Theres too many of them

too many of us? how can you have to many Enkidukai? we be Purr-fect!

[zorbels]

Blah ... Drey loves us enki\'s. He is just having a grumpy day. Don\'t listen to him!

[steuben]

yes. ps with out enkis would be like... well there is nothing to describe it with, such would be the horror. besides the fenkis are nice to watch.

[Jonah]

Medi-evil racism.

That\'s all I have to contribute to this thread.  Medi-evil racism.