but its not about how many you can kill its about objectives! and generally the more players you have the more spawn raping goes on… 
oh well no sd staff have replied anyway so doubt this post will actualyl change anything so doesn’t matter what I put lol
Splashdamage Server
Fusen
(Fusen)
#41
Locki
(Locki)
#42
Right now we are all sharing a half mbit ADSL! (You can imagine the pings/gameplay 
we can’t really get more than one or two people to play and then everyone else has to stop surfing/downloading while we do.
There are a bunch of us that are really looking forward to playing more often on the SD server again. We’re just waiting to move offices as we’ll have a better internet connection there. We’re hoping to put either a 2-4mbit leased line, or a 8mbit ADSL in - we should have moved by the middle of February.
Regarding the maps/mods used, there are two reasons we run vanilla ET; firstly that it allows us to quickly test new code when we hear there’s a bug and secondly it ensures that someone completely new to ET can get on and play right away without downloading anything else.
I’m surprised to hear that the server is degrading though. I think its a 2.5 GHz P4 with a 100mbit FDX connection and a gig of ram - the performance should be fantastic. If any of you ever see the ping turn yellow or red in the server browser, do let me know. It indicates that the server is lacking CPU. It could be that just recently we have been doing some database work on the box, but thats only short term.
As for the map pack, Wils has become our co-coordinator for this and he’s been talking to Pack this past week. We expect to have something more solid on this shortly.
Paul/Locki.
pgh
(pgh)
#43
Heh and w00t.
The server itself Paul is running top notch… there has only been a couple of times the past few months (Im there nearly every night/second night for a few hours) and only twice noticed a slowdown and a few twitchy ‘needing a restart’ things and even when it does this, within the hour its restarted and what not and running top notch again.
I think when they say degrading were just talking about the players themselves. I know for a fact everyone will agree that there is a great bunch of regular players:
[ul]
[li] Clan eQ (Salteh, Shrike, Digibob, Evilasmo, B5k (Ew :)) etc)
[/li][li] Clan ABS (Levi, Zoomee, Sven, Croaker etc)
[/li][li] Clan LSR (Props to our boys Dante, Doddsy, Scorp, Soul etc)
[/li][li] Clan EFG (Grimmy, Sauron)
[/li][li] Brevik, Blushing_Bride, Nasty_MF, Adhocc, Moi, Psycho Al etc
[/li][li] Few other random clannies and peeps I cant remember
[/li][/ul]
Speaking of which, whatever happened to Veng and Englander?
And when the bunch are playing the games are challenging, fair, fun… more or less worthwhile and enjoyable to play… if somethings up an Admins there or players know whats decent to callvote and vote on etc… it just seems to have got to a stage where peeps are whining alot more, playing silly and generally taking the fun out of it. Obv nothing can be done but hope its just the Comedown from the Christmas period. ( :blah: )
There can be a few suggestions im sure:
[ul]
[li] As you mentioned m8, a map pack or two would be great.
[/li][li] Theres an eQ Server lying empty, cant you make this Public as a SD ETPro possibly and then its just a case of shoving a passy on it for eQ to practice on. (Mind ALL leagues/cups etc endorse ETPro, not main)
[/li][li] Increase the ammount of afk kick - Peeps sitting with a MG or Mortar have complained about gettin inactive kicks :o and its a bastard say if the door rings or phone goes 
[/li][/ul]
Im sure the others might have a thing or two to say… :o
Ps. Any chance of a news update of whats been happening etc? Would be nice to see you lot @ QuakeCon again this year and another DevDiary like from the Q3f.com Site.
Psycho_Al
(Psycho Al)
#44
On the issue of the server, the Pigster isn’t always there when it goes wrong. (It’s because his anti-me devices have been failing recently). I play every night between 7 and 10 and there have been about… half a dozen(?)… certainly four or more occurences of major server splutter. Pings 999ing for almost everyone and, once or twice, mass ejection of people. This has been in the last month (possibly including the last week or two before Christmas week) so it may well have been the database work you mentioned.
Now I realise no server is ever physically perfect and I can remember much more regular and terrible issues with the Barrysworld & Wireplay Q3F servers back in the day, but since you mentioned it…
(Brevik’s usually there when this happens too, or at least more so than Pgh. Maybe the server lurves Pgh and merely throws a tantrum when he’s not there? 
)
Sauron_EFG
(Sauron|EFG)
#45
I didn’t know Grim played on SD. :eek2:
(And I didn’t know we were a clan either, but I suppose it looks that way. :moo: )
Rage (now Silent Rage) and fgwone are two other names that comes to my mind, and we shouldn’t forget the almighty Lekdevil.NL. 
pgh
(pgh)
#46
Maybe the server is the voices in my head… o.0
Strange tho, cos, if your there im there Al… Then again, you spend most of the time idling alone waiting for peeps to join… :>
Just my luck then I spose im not about when things go wrong… or maybe its me l33t ub3r ‘h4x0r’ skills. Then again, I’ll go with you two and say the Database Work. Also Al m8, gimme a shout later on IRC (Top secret Anti-Al hack fixes innit \o/), finishing up ere at Half 4ish and providing the snow doesnt kick in anytime soon will be home and sorted for 5ish… got Savage @ 7pmish then see if we can get some scrimms goin down afterwards, gonna say to one.soldier.
Locki
(Locki)
#48
We’re pretty sure it was the recent database conversions/migrations that were affecting performance.
Sauron_EFG
(Sauron|EFG)
#49
The hop over the Atlantic ocean adds less than 100 ms, so most of your 400 ms is spent in the US.
Bludd
(Bludd)
#50
LOL, well, either here or over there someplace
I live in Maine so I’m as close to the UK as you can get from the US.
Sauron_EFG
(Sauron|EFG)
#51
I ping ~130 ms to US east coast servers from Sweden, so to me it sounds like there’s something weird with your internet connection/routing…
O2.iceman
(O2.iceman)
#54
I certainly haven’t seen quick fixing of the all the bugs introduced in 1.02
Fusen
(Fusen)
#55
ya was wondering the same as bani… and couple of times its been said no more updates but why would you try and find bugs then?
Sauron_EFG
(Sauron|EFG)
#56
Locki: it happened again last night at 22:38 CET. Several players (all?) lagged out, and the upper graph in the lagometer was all yellow.
imported_admin
(imported_admin)
#57
That would have been because of some work I was doing on the server, apologies. A process went to town on the CPU 