will there ever be 2000 player battles? - Page 4

RoninOni · 2012-08-13, 02:20 PM

Originally Posted by Joomba

Not everyone who has an account will be on at the same time. People do things other than play video games.

Imagine a 6000 person server: over time, players will quit. Eventually, the server will be "full" but have almost nobody available to play.

FFS a server can have ANY NUMBER of registered players, but only 6000 ACTIVE LOGGED IN PLAYERS (split over 3 continents... this will grow over time as well) at a time.

If a server is over capacity, you can either wait or load a character on another server.

goZiva · 2012-08-13, 02:39 PM

I think the precise number is 2100 for each continent. 6300 per server.

Snipefrag · 2012-08-13, 02:43 PM

Originally Posted by Scotsh

If you are indeed an experienced software developer as you pretend to be you would know that there are lots of reasons for design decisions. Technical plausability being only one of them.

I'm not pretending, 5 years as C++ developer working on client/server products in the broadcast automation sector writing framework, drivers, UI's and integrating with SQL/PL databases + degree in computer science probably entitles me to some opinion. If only on the 'plausibility' of maintaining 6000 people on a single server + chat + w/e. If I feel given enough time that I could do it, then I'm sure the PS2 devs could also ! It makes no difference to me if someone trolling PSU doesn't believe me.

Originally Posted by Scotsh

Another reason might be they don't grant this meta server as much resources as they do for continent servers or they combine several of them on one machine and scale it accordingly.

So they are going to limit capacity on the servers because of cost cutting measures?! Is SOE really that hard up

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Originally Posted by Scotsh

It's not a fact, you don't know, i don't know, maybe even the devs don't know yet. It's an assumption you made, nothing more and that's all i was pointing out.

I actually said That facts as we know them right now are, we know that they are aiming for 2000 people per server, they are going to have 3 continents per server. That equals 6000 people, they have never mentioned that they are going to artificially limit server numbers, sure.. This is possible, but its never been mentioned. I would much rather be limited to playing on one continent or sitting in a queue to get on a second continent with my outfit members than just being told I cant log into my server when there is continent spaces available. You're right, its an assumption. But its not an unreasonable one. Quite pedantic aren't you?

Scotsh · 2012-08-13, 03:02 PM

Originally Posted by Snipefrag

You're right, its an assumption. But its not an unreasonable one. Quite pedantic aren't you?

I am in certain aspects, developing software is one of them actually.
Let's recap:
All i was pointing out was that one little line in your posting, explicitly labeled "facts" was not a fact but an assumption. I didn't even accuse you of being wrong on this. It may have been possible that somewhere was an offical statement regarding total server capacity i have missed.

Next time please don't be so ignorant and snarl up on someone, who actually shared your opinion on the thread as a whole, when you havn't read the thread entirely.

Mordecai TR · 2012-08-13, 03:26 PM

Also people are not going to a certain base or continent because that is their favorite one. They are always going to go where the battles are. Planetside had more continents and smaller continent POP caps, those battles were more often then not plenty big.

Snipefrag · 2012-08-13, 03:31 PM

Originally Posted by Scotsh

I am in certain aspects, developing software is one of them actually.
Let's recap:
All i was pointing out was that one little line in your posting, explicitly labeled "facts" was not a fact but an assumption. I didn't even accuse you of being wrong on this. It may have been possible that somewhere was an offical statement regarding total server capacity i have missed.

Next time please don't be so ignorant and snarl up on someone, who actually shared your opinion on the thread as a whole, when you havn't read the thread entirely.

A certain amount of snarling was needed to bring this thread under control. Its alarming how much misinformation was floating around, it needed someone to be specific and decisive to bring it to a close. I'll snarl up less if you be less defensive about your posts, feeling insulted just because someone hasn't read your posts? come on.

FortySe7en · 2012-08-13, 05:06 PM

Originally Posted by Snipefrag

feeling insulted just because someone hasn't read your posts? come on.

Brilliantly Played.

Hunterzen · 2012-08-13, 05:39 PM

Originally Posted by Scotsh

Next time please don't be so ignorant and snarl up on someone.

Really? Have you even been reading your own comments? Snipefrag has been nothing but polite and informative. He's not the one calling people ignorant or faker.

Papscal · 2012-08-13, 05:46 PM

Originally Posted by FortySe7en

222 players in a base battle isn't massive? Interesting. When is the last time you took 222 people and put them in the same room with guns.

Think about that.

222 players in and around a base is profoundly different than a room.

Scotsh · 2012-08-13, 05:49 PM

Originally Posted by Snipefrag

feeling insulted just because someone hasn't read your posts? come on.

If you answer to these postings? Of course its rude if you insinuate things, i clarified before, simply because you haven't read it.

Originally Posted by Hunterzen

Really? Have you even been reading your own comments? Snipefrag has been nothing but polite and informative. He's not the one calling people ignorant or faker.

Good thing you chose to only quote the first half of that sentence, otherwise someone might get the context

SpottyGekko · 2012-08-13, 05:58 PM

If a continent can hold (up to/at least/around) 2000 players, how can the game prevent all 2K from descending on the same base mega-battle ? Spawn timers ?

It may be self-regulating though, because players will probably flee from battles where they're getting 5fps...

Toppopia · 2012-08-13, 06:00 PM

There is the mission system that will supposedly draw people away from big conflicts. But i want to see a 3 way ceasefire so all 2000 people descend into the middle of the continent, then 1 person gets trigger happy

Bye bye server for a while. Might actually cause it to explode

adddemon · 2012-08-13, 06:06 PM

two THOUSAND, man, that is a lot, even if 1% of the player base were in bombers, that would mean that base is getting hit with 20 bombers at the same time, that's a lot of kills.

the real question is, will you be alive long enough to savor it?

FortySe7en · 2012-08-13, 06:27 PM

Originally Posted by Papscal

222 players in and around a base is profoundly different than a room.

Not really. The way planetside has always been designed is CQB style. Sure there are open areas to fight in, but the majority of what makes planetside, well, planetside, is the intense fighting in close quarters.

222 players in a single base at a single time is very overwhelming.

Drakkonan · 2012-08-13, 06:32 PM

Originally Posted by RoninOni

FFS a server can have ANY NUMBER of registered players, but only 6000 ACTIVE LOGGED IN PLAYERS (split over 3 continents... this will grow over time as well) at a time.

If a server is over capacity, you can either wait or load a character on another server.

I have another great solution. They're called sanctuaries. One can wish, right?