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Dureus

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Any strings attached?
« 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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« Reply #1 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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« Reply #2 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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« Reply #3 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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« Reply #4 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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« Reply #5 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.
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