Trans Air Continental?

[Madfish]

Theres also technical reasons in regard to server design. It's an easy way to maintain the server structure if you limit what anyone could ever possibly see by limiting it to land areas (continents). It also means you don't have single points of redundancy; a continent can go down without effecting the entire world.

[Hamma]

Indeed.

[Matuse]

Actually, I would hope that each continent is run off more than one machine. Undoubtedly they have some method of load sharing, with several back up machines available to take up the slack when there is a sudden influx of forces to a given area.

No single computer is going to be able to handle the terrain, game code, and 600 people all fighting in a small area.

When they say the USWest Server, what that really means is a server farm of probably 40-50 individual machines.

[SpacemanSpiff]

We may actually see some server lockdowns, as some of these outfits look exceedingly organized and passionate about the game. I doubt continent lockdowns will be the only thing to worry about.

[Peacemaker]

As old as this news is it still bums me out! when i first saw the galaxy i was thinking ill get two galaxies together and pickup an AMS (which i found couldnt be carried by a gal later on )and find a continent with an island off of the coast, land there and set up a temporary base of operations.

[Irnbru]

the kiwi wins!!!

[Kilgs]

GHOST!!!

Could you send me that map?

[email protected]

[Shryn]

http://www.3dactionplanet.com/planet....asp?id=418191

Peacemaker: Be easy, dreams can come true. Acording to the map above Cyssor (Lower left) is a continent with several island portions. I'm sure an aircraft could fly out to one of them because even though it's an island it's still part of the main continent.

I don't know how you'd get an ams out there though, unless a combat engineer can build something suitable.