COMPRESSION!

[SchmaIsDumb]

After a few week of playing on a few servers, my ISP emailed me to ask me why I was chewing up so much bandwidth. Your game is written inefficently and the traffic is totally uncompressed. If it's a problem for me as a client, then surely it is a problem for the servers. If the server's cant afford the bandwidth...then your game fails. Fix it. Dont be dumb.

 

[Seth1483]

Hey, nice name, might need some revising though >_>

Schema is working on many thing with the game all the time, currently bandwidth optimization isn\'t his priority. Working out game breaking bugs and adding features to give the game more depth are usually more important than you not having a very high bandwidth limit.

 

[SchmaIsDumb]

Working out game breaking bugs? You mean adding a worthless laser pistol? How did the new faction permission block figure in to fixing game breaking bugs?

 

[Seth1483]

Maybe read a few words past the game breaking bugs, it kinda answers your question.

 

[SchmaIsDumb]

I\'m sure going to enjoy that faction permission block when servers are too expensive to run.

 

[Archer6621]

I see plenty of servers running more than fine... A lot of servers aren\'t really limited by this problem.

You are just mad about your problem, so you make a rage thread, that\'s all what is going on here.

 

[Seth1483]

Yeah, pretty much. It just aggravates me to see someone who flat refuses to enjoy a FREE game.

 

[SchmaIsDumb]

Archer, talk to someone who actually runs a Starmade server.

 

[Archer6621]

I am running one

www.starmade.windoom.com


You stating that I should talk to myself? Interesting thought...

 

[SorryButNO]

Seth you don\'t understand..

20 people on a server > 500Mbps bandwidth

One guy in one fucking sector with a decently sized ship logs in? > WELL FUCK YOUR 1GBIT PORT!

I\'ve had to decompile code and have people look at it to tell me that Schema is:

1. Sloppy

2. Ignorant

3. Retarded

4. All of the above

5. It gets worse

6. And worse

7. And worse

As a guy managing servers for the ever popular star-made this is becoming a problem, when a 32 slot active server can chew up 500Mbps constantly and indefinitely with the only reason it is capped at that point is because Schema stores every piece of data in a unique file essentially buttfucking the shit out of the I/O and jamming up the network even more then THERE IS A PROBLEM.



Game breaking bugs? This IS a game breaking bug. I don\'t expect anything to come of this game when people cannot run servers worth shit. Guys I know want to go all out and host 10+ 64 slot servers, but that literally isn\'t possible given the resource raping that this game forces upon you.

 

[SorryButNO]

And you don\'t host on your own server, you pay VeryGames and they get to handle this clusterfuck of resource wasting going on, how about you ask them how much bandwidth you\'re chewing up for them?

 

[SchmaIsDumb]

I\'d like to come to your server Archer. I\'ll make a 1000 block ship and lag everyone out.

 

[Seth1483]

I know several people who run them, the only problem the encounter is people spawning massive ships. I have a friend who works at SMProhosting and he says the only serverside problems that are really bad are the few times there are no serverside updates.

 

[Archer6621]

Nope, it\'s running on our own box, from the Windoom team, not affiliated to any shitty starmade server services that give you no control at all, and we have unlimited bandwidth usage.

We run other servers on it too.



Also, pretty cute you made an alt to support yourself, only to make it look obvious.

 

[Archer6621]

Go for it mate.

 

[SorryButNO]

Le sigh. The community is already filled with kiddies that know jack shit about the technical side of running a server.

Let me whip out one of the many exploits for the game and slap you all around, give me a few hours.

 

[Trollerbobman]

i got a ship that has 1 mill blocks on MP, doesnt lag server

 

[Trollerbobman]

shut up, all you do is whine.

shcema has made a wonderful game for this world, lots of people like it but your just one of the douchebags that doesnt care about all the work hes done for the game and for us.

shut up and get off this game.

 

[Archer6621]

It\'s not that I don\'t think you have a point... Because you do.

You just bring this point in such an ugly way, that people simply don\'t like and get mad about it.



Everybody, servers and clients, would benefit from compression...

 

[IAgree]

Schema knows about the problem. He\'s admitted that he doesnt know how to fix it and yet wont allow people to help him. Thats pretty indefensible.