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Jul 29 2005, 3:46 pm

Keywords: lastrobotstanding

Deadron

Thanks to Nadrew and Mike, the server situation has been addressed.

We now have a copy running on a server provided by Nadrew (links are on the hub page) and I believe will be up and running on Mike's server before long.

My current plan is to make the new servers the "Stable servers". They will have known good versions of the game, while the original server will be the "Test server" -- this will contain the latest changes and potentially-broken code.

I noticed that one of the first results of this was a person logging into both servers at once. This completely defeats the benefit of multiple servers, since it locks other people out so they can't play. Please don't do this! I may add in some checks to prevent it, but in the meantime, if you are noticed doing this you may well find yourself unable to log into any server.

I'm musing on how to bring BYOND Membership into this. My thought is to provide one Stable Server for non-members, and have the Test Server and all other servers be BYOND Members only.

What do you think?

Jul 29 2005, 4:59 pm
Jermman	A server for members sounds great!

Jul 29 2005, 5:20 pm
Tom	Is the host going to provide an option to boot up multiple servers? (You could use Startup() for this). It seems like a waste to restrict things to one game at a time for a game that only allows a small #players to begin with.

Jul 29 2005, 5:22 pm
Popisfizzy	Another feature for members could be a golden robot. nothing special but it would look pretty. I heard someone post something like the golden robot on the forum for members, except it was about ants. i forget who it was though.

Jul 29 2005, 5:27 pm
Deadron	Tom, we certainly could and I've experimented with Startup() before. But we might want to wait until performance has been tuned...right now the game appears to take from 4-13% of CPU...so wouldn't take more than a couple of copies to start being a drag on the system.

Jul 29 2005, 7:35 pm
Erbon	Because it makes me giggle with glee to make suggestions, what about having the observers queue number appear by them? So people can know who they'll be against and thins such as that. Maybe also to know if they'll want to stay and wait or try another server? Just throwing ideas out their as I think of them.

Jul 29 2005, 10:03 pm
Deadron	Good idea. Done.