Not sure if it is just me but the servers seem to be running great.

Discussion in 'Planetary Annihilation General Discussion' started by warrenkc, September 25, 2014.

  1. warrenkc

    warrenkc Active Member

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    Having a blast!
    Thanks Uber.

    Although I don't build up thousands of units, I still enjoy it very much.
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  2. cdrkf

    cdrkf Post Master General

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    The servers have been getting better, we've been practising 4 v 4 games for the clan wars and it's noticeable that the game is handling large numbers of units better :)
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  3. Timevans999

    Timevans999 Active Member

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    This game is an utter waste of time and it runs awful on my super computer
  4. cwarner7264

    cwarner7264 Moderator Alumni

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    You should start a thread in the support forum with your dxdiag.txt attached - people have been able to get massive performance increases by following advice given in those.
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  5. Timevans999

    Timevans999 Active Member

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    why the **** would I do that?
  6. Timevans999

    Timevans999 Active Member

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    I think the game is shite remember
  7. bengeocth

    bengeocth Post Master General

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    Well then don't bitch about it ******* go do something that isn't just being an ***
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  8. doud

    doud Well-Known Member

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    No. I've retried a game against one single AI. I manage to dominate AI who had a few units left and i had a total of roughly 500 units (among them a pool of 400 kbots).
    Moving the 400 kbots alltogether to take AI down simply led to a very very noticeable sim lag.
    So no, as far as i'm concerned the servers aren't better.
    And huge battles with tons of units are not ready yet :(
  9. brandonpotter

    brandonpotter Well-Known Member

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    Why are you still here then?
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  10. cola_colin

    cola_colin Moderator Alumni

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    Knowing how the servers runs up to 8 game in parallel this kind of "it works great" and "it works not great" probably is just random happenings based on luck: Either you get a server to yourself or you share it with 7x 10 player FFAs
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  11. squishypon3

    squishypon3 Post Master General

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    Yep, so if you feel like doing a huge game, go play PTE, where no one's playing. *snickers*
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  12. planktum

    planktum Post Master General

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    Uber need to fix this asap! If it requires more servers to make sure we don't get time dilation during games of a reasonable size, then they need to provision more servers! Either that, or accept the bad game reviews and community dissent.
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  13. doud

    doud Well-Known Member

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    Well i put all my hopes in offline servers where at least all my core/threads can be dedicated to the sim. Well except that the client is allready a bit hungry :)
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  14. planktum

    planktum Post Master General

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    I don't care about offline servers. I want Uber to provide a smooth online experience like they promised. I don't want to host my own servers. We need a quality online multiplayer experience like what you get with StarCraft 2.
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    squishypon3 Post Master General

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    To be fair StarCraft 2 is being hosted by Blizzard, a multi-billion dollar company, they can afford pristine servers and such.. :p
  16. EdWood

    EdWood Active Member

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    Well, I agree with Planktum, sometimes we use the same maps though, have roughly the same amount of units and the experience is acceptable, other games are not... the question I have is like, what are other players doing on the same server with their game, can they influence my game?
    We had a situation like this during the alpha when people were able to host 20v20 or higher games... the server became useless, even for other games/instances.
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  17. planktum

    planktum Post Master General

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    You can't use that excuse. If you are going to develop a game like this then you need ALL your ducks in a row. You shouldn't build a game based on large battles (with thousands of units), if you aren't going to have the infrastructure to support it.
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  18. meir22344

    meir22344 Active Member

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    At the moment both singleplayer and multiplayer games are running on the same servers, when we get offline survers the online survers should clear up because most singelplayer games will be offline
  19. planktum

    planktum Post Master General

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    The game has been released. We shouldn't have to wait for offline servers to be able to enjoy online multiplayer. This is not a bug, it has nothing to do with continued development of the game. It is simply a case of running too many games on too few servers.
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    meir22344 Active Member

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    I never said it was a bug I said that both the singelplayer games as well as the multiplayer games were running on the same servers because people can't play singleplayer offline which impacts people playing multiplayer on the same surver, this is an issue that should clear up when offline survers are released.

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