Classic Graal for iPhone

DustyPorViva · #1 01-23-2010, 10:03 PM

While a 500 playercount is impressive and all that, and certainly cool to brag about... is it really worth the strain on the server and players? How would something like having dual servers work out? 250 players on each server, with synchronized data(your account data is shared between them, so you don't lose progress between the two servers). I mean, seriously... is 250 players REALLY that different than 500, in the grand scheme of things? It's still a crap load of players, more than enough to establish a fun community with. Such a set-up could probably help with a lot of the lag and such that the servers might be handling processing all that data.

I mean, if the servers can handle the 500 playercount find then by all means dismiss this. I have no interest to splitting a server that is having no lag problems.

12171217 · #2 01-23-2010, 10:13 PM

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Originally Posted by DustyPorViva

While a 500 playercount is impressive and all that, and certainly cool to brag about... is it really worth the strain on the server and players? How would something like having dual servers work out? 250 players on each server, with synchronized data(your account data is shared between them, so you don't lose progress between the two servers). I mean, seriously... is 250 players REALLY that different than 500, in the grand scheme of things? It's still a crap load of players, more than enough to establish a fun community with. Such a set-up could probably help with a lot of the lag and such that the servers might be handling processing all that data.

I mean, if the servers can handle the 500 playercount find then by all means dismiss this. I have no interest to splitting a server that is having no lag problems.

With everything so community-based, since there's no real content, players might piss themselves crying.

DustyPorViva · #3 01-23-2010, 10:14 PM

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Originally Posted by 12171217

With everything so community-based, since there's no real content, players might piss themselves crying.

That's the thing though, 250 is still way more than enough to have an established community. This is something done in just about every other MMO out there to lessen the server loads. To ease the pain, could have the 'server list' show how many of your friends are connected to each server.