Bye,Bye Werner?

[Nephilimuk]

Yep, I'm stuck in England with non-english speaking people. I don't even know what most of the people in the north are going on about half the time.

I am also from England and fail to comprehend southern shandy drinking poofs; especially when they get over excited on TeamSpeak because their Horlicks did not come with the right coloured drinks umbrella....

[Mastachief]

To be honest if the euro servers get hosted in Germany, I (in the UK) would probably get a better connection to the U.S East coast.

This all smells very fishy. If it is all outsourced and segregated this game will fail hard and fast.

I do however seem to recall that the werner servers were leased from a 3rd party.

[BlazingSun]

Originally Posted by Mastachief

To be honest if the euro servers get hosted in Germany, I (in the UK) would probably get a better connection to the U.S East coast.

I highly doubt that.

[Mastachief]

my connection to gemini is 103ms and 0%loss

[ThGlump]

Originally Posted by Mastachief

I do however seem to recall that the werner servers were leased from a 3rd party.

Thats pretty usual. Why have your hardware all around the world, when you can use some from local datacenter. I highly doubt anyone have problem with that. But only if its HW and in everything else is soe in charge and its their system.

[ringring]

Originally Posted by Mastachief

To be honest if the euro servers get hosted in Germany, I (in the UK) would probably get a better connection to the U.S East coast.

This all smells very fishy. If it is all outsourced and segregated this game will fail hard and fast.

I do however seem to recall that the werner servers were leased from a 3rd party.

I never imagined that SOE would manage the servers themselves.

I did think they would manage the game tho, which obviously could be done remotely from SD.


ps to Higby, still no update on the situation?

[BlazingSun]

Originally Posted by Mastachief

my connection to gemini is 103ms and 0%loss

I just did some ping tests to the London area from Vienna ... 35-45ms with 0% loss. The new server (should it be in germany) will be even closer to you. I think the ping will be the least problem that we'll have with a german server.

[Mastachief]

Originally Posted by BlazingSun

I just did some ping tests to the London area from Vienna ... 35-45ms with 0% loss. The new server (should it be in germany) will be even closer to you. I think the ping will be the least problem that we'll have with a german server.

My ping to cologne is 85ms and i always tend to see a little loss to europe. Its all about the routing(it routes around the uk before it leaves).

So only time will tell really. I just don't understand why they would have it in the Netherlands again it made the most sense.

[Shogun]

Originally Posted by Mastachief

So only time will tell really. I just don't understand why they would have it in the Netherlands again it made the most sense.

because the server tends to slow down a lot when it is high on dope ;-)

[Sighpolice]

bump for any new info? marketing = cool, outsourcing servers and receiving 2nd rate treatment = bad seems to be the general response here but with little clarification

[DaddyTickles]

Bump for Higby to keep his promise.

[texico]

Hate to sound negative, but after the treatment PS1 got from the suits it wouldn't surprise me. Too bad they're not as awesome as the set of devs we've got.

[Higby]

Hey guys -

We definitely haven't forgotten about you. We're still hammering out details and expect to have an official announcement soon.

[Vancha]

Originally Posted by Higby

Hey guys -

We definitely haven't forgotten about you. We're still hammering out details and expect to have an official announcement soon.

The fact that there's anything to announce already sounds rather ominous...

The words say "official announcement", but my mind reads "damage control".

[ringring]

Originally Posted by Vancha

The fact that there's anything to announce already sounds rather ominous...

The words say "official announcement", but my mind reads "damage control".

Possibly not. There probably just working on getting the 'i's crossed and the 't's dotted, getting it checked over by two sets of legal teams and then released to us as a fully rounded FQA that answers every question that we may possible ask, ever.