New faster RP Server!

[Rhisen]

It tells me that server's not available but it doesn't download anything

[kaerli2]

Seriously, what are you Americans complaining about, when it doesn't affect you. Here in New Zealand, where things are relatively close to Singapore, I enjoyed som good ping times, now I won't. But I'm not griping, and yet you gripe because the change doesn't leave you better than before, just the same.

Wrong! My ping to the new RP server is about half to two thirds that of the old one (Midwest US).

My real complaint is that my PS-computed ping to EzPC from school hovers around 300-350 steadystate in PS.  Weltall did mention serverside troubles with the NPCClient as a possible cause of such bizarre behavior, as using ping from the command line shows a much more realistic 50ms.

[Vakachehk]

WHAT! are you saying the server will now be slower since I am closer to Singapore than Europe. If it is anywhere that the server should change it should be Africa since that is the center of the world... or Antarctica

[apyj13]

Will there be a server status webpage (http://laanx.fragnetics.com/) like we had with the old server?

[Earowo]

what makes more sense to me, is have two diffrent rp servers, on seperate halves of the world, but they are linked chat-wise
meaning they can be in a guild or send tells, but you cant see em, or interact, just alk,
i've seen a lot of bigger games do that when they get to many people for the servers, or they feel they should make more to benifit everyone
but it makes sense to me, a server for north america/ south america mabey one for europ/part of sia, and africa, then one more towards the edge of asia that reaches australia, all "linked" chatwise like i said, guild/tells/channle/allience should be linked in this, and technically the accounts should be loggable on any server, as not to limit who you can rp with

this is the best way i can think of to limit arguing and griping

[weltall]

WHAT! are you saying the server will now be slower since I am closer to Singapore than Europe. If it is anywhere that the server should change it should be Africa since that is the center of the world... or Antarctica

bad idea africa lacks the infrastructure to even hold their own bandwidth
http://manypossibilities.net/african-undersea-cables/

[weltall]

what makes more sense to me, is have two diffrent rp servers, on seperate halves of the world, but they are linked chat-wise
meaning they can be in a guild or send tells, but you cant see em, or interact, just alk,
i've seen a lot of bigger games do that when they get to many people for the servers, or they feel they should make more to benifit everyone
but it makes sense to me, a server for north america/ south america mabey one for europ/part of sia, and africa, then one more towards the edge of asia that reaches australia, all "linked" chatwise like i said, guild/tells/channle/allience should be linked in this, and technically the accounts should be loggable on any server, as not to limit who you can rp with

this is the best way i can think of to limit arguing and griping

your arguing is the ping with such ways you'll get even a worse situation as ping will double as a minimum plus a master server will have to be chosen anyway and that will get double the actual real ping (which will be different than the one to the sub server) and anyway singapore was bad for anyone except singapore due to the fact their blackbone added a delay of 200ms

[Sarras Volcae]

akkaido, earowo's from washington. don't stereotype a whole country from one idiot's opinion. washington is barely the usa.

maybe ps will be playable now

[Vakachehk]

akkaido, earowo's from washington. don't stereotype a whole country from one idiot's opinion. washington is barely the usa.

maybe ps will be playable now

If there was no Washington there is no USA because there would be no government.

@weltall Then the Antarctic caution is could freeze.
@weltall/Earowo Well large websites like Bebo, Facebook, Myspace, etc do that.

[Raekh]

If there was no Washington there is no USA because there would be no government.

ROFL! Vakachehk, you are outstanding, once more!

[weltall]

akkaido, earowo's from washington. don't stereotype a whole country from one idiot's opinion. washington is barely the usa.

maybe ps will be playable now

If there was no Washington there is no USA because there would be no government.

@weltall Then the Antarctic caution is could freeze.
@weltall/Earowo Well large websites like Bebo, Facebook, Myspace, etc do that.

antartic is even worse there aren't enough people to make valid to invest in sea cables.

you are comparing a website with a game
1) in these sites roundtrip time while important is a bit different: they cache the data in various servers and each server has his own cache too so it's possible to exchange informations on need but most of the times you will pick the local cache (it's more probably you will ask about people in your country than people in another for example, just like google will likely keep european languages based content in europe while other languages outside it etc) this isn't possible in a game due to how it should work (are you going to duel with the computer? ) that data must be delivered asap and caching options aren't possible. The maximum it could improve is the menu reactiveness about your char (eg: spell, guild listing), as for chat you'll have the same problems of  irc servers (what others see is not what you see) due to the fact the message has to be delivered and so it could be showed before for one and after for another. obviously for pvp this isn't possible ordering is important so actual ping increases with the different servers between two players and you need an albitrator server: where who has the best ping will be priviledged

[Mogweh]

  WOW, what an improvement!  

Linux Kubuntu 64bit 10.04

Mainboard: ASUS A8N-SLI DELUXE
CPU:   AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
GPU:   nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600] (rev a2)
RAM: 2 gig (400Mz)

Not sure why, but before, lag effected my typing into the input box. Letters would appear a fraction of a second after I typed them. Would the devs really have made a client that sends each character to the server as it is typed??? Now when I type, the letters appear immediately and when I hit enter it posts and I see the result straight away!

When I walk around it's smooth and responsive.

I truly hope this and future developments help rekindle the dwindling RP community.

[weltall]

WOW, what an improvement!  

Linux Kubuntu 64bit 10.04

Mainboard: ASUS A8N-SLI DELUXE
CPU:   AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
GPU:   nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600] (rev a2)
RAM: 2 gig (400Mz)

Not sure why, but before, lag effected my typing into the input box. Letters would appear a fraction of a second after I typed them. Would the devs really have made a client that sends each character to the server as it is typed??? Now when I type, the letters appear immediately and when I hit enter it posts and I see the result straight away!

When I walk around it's smooth and responsive.

I truly hope this and future developments help rekindle the dwindling RP community.

nope only on enter message roundtrips from server. your case is you got better drivers or you've changed something on your os, or it's the basic placebo effect

[bilbous]

Actually here in central Canada (Ottawa) the new server has a lower ping than even EZPC. Ping time at EZ shot way up after 0.5 but seemed to have come back down somewhat last night to around 250msec, skylab was nearly half of that.

Should we be concerned that the new server is named after a space station that wound up smeared across Australia? While it may fly high for a time I hope it doesn't crash hard like its namesake.

[kaerli2]

@Vakachehk: You should really check if Earowo's from Washington, D.C. or Washington state...

@Mogweh: it's probably your framerate

@bilbous: something is buggered with EzPC that jacks with the serverpinger ping (aka what PS shows you as the ping).  The REAL (ICMP) ping is a whole ton lower