03-16-2005, 11:45 PM
As some one on a "bad"server I think there is more than that.
I suspect that even the "good" servers could crash for the reason you mentioned. Every MMORP I ever played except Planetside tended to crash or fail once you put several hundred people fighting all in each others LOS. PlanestSide only avoided this by very minamal graphic variation and have simple combat interactions.
This is for the fairly obvious reason that every actions from a character has to be relayed to every other character that can see it in combat. This makes the server load increase expodentially as plyers bunch together.
Of course this problem can be lreduced with better coding or more powerful servers.
The "bad" servers though have issues spreading accross the whole server. Some of the bad server only have medium populations even but they seem to be sharing resourses whith high population servers. Sometimes its the item server that lags on these clusters while the others appear to work fine.
Im not saying that the quote I linked is correct, I am just pointing out that I disagree with your reasoning.
I suspect that even the "good" servers could crash for the reason you mentioned. Every MMORP I ever played except Planetside tended to crash or fail once you put several hundred people fighting all in each others LOS. PlanestSide only avoided this by very minamal graphic variation and have simple combat interactions.
This is for the fairly obvious reason that every actions from a character has to be relayed to every other character that can see it in combat. This makes the server load increase expodentially as plyers bunch together.
Of course this problem can be lreduced with better coding or more powerful servers.
The "bad" servers though have issues spreading accross the whole server. Some of the bad server only have medium populations even but they seem to be sharing resourses whith high population servers. Sometimes its the item server that lags on these clusters while the others appear to work fine.
Im not saying that the quote I linked is correct, I am just pointing out that I disagree with your reasoning.