Good clarifications.
Yes, many players don't realize that each "server" is actually many
servers. Last fall 175 to 200 players could crash a "zone", Verant
seems to have beefed up the servers as the performance has become much
better and I've seen other reports of a zone having 300+ players.
This brings up a point of interest for me. I read Java Developers
Journal somewhere that Java couldn't support more than about 200 clients
(if you are designing your server such that each client gets a separate
server thread). Is this true? And if so this is one of the issues I'd
like to address in our group.
Again this is getting away from Java 3D specifically. Could someone
from Sun comment on just how much of this "off topic" information they
are willing to tolerate?
I have thirteen people signed up so far, they seem to be pouring into my
mailbox by the hour.
- John Wright
Starfire Research
Steve Pietrowicz wrote:
>
> >Each world server is divided up into areas called "zones". Each zone can
> >support approx. 250 players before it crashes.
>
> Believe it or not, Greater Faydark had 350 people in it when the new server
> came up. I wouldn't have wanted to be around that!
> :-)
>
> >A player can move their
> >character from zone to zone within their world servers, but can never
> >(unless Verant/Sony decides to "split" a server) move a character from one
> >server to another. If a player wants to play on a different server, they
> >have to create a new character on that other server. And each player is
> >allowed to have 8 characters per server.
>
> One more addition: Each "server" is actually a cluster of machines, not
> just one.
>
> >Corysia Taware
> >Druid of the 29th Circle, Karana
> >http://www.chilipepper.com/moonshadows/bios/corysia.html
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "John Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> >Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 8:20 AM
> >Subject: [JAVA3D] MMORPG
> >
> >
> > > Fred... MMORPG means "Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game".
> > > In essence it's a game where hundreds or thousands (or in the case of
> > > Everquest 200,000+) players all interact in a common virtual world.
> > >
> >
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