16-32 Player FFA and Team Games On Weekends

Here's the CPU benchmarks I often use when comparing CPUs:

• Multi CPU Systems: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/multi_cpu.html
• High End CPUs: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html
  
• Single Thread: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html

For single thread performance the quad core i7-4790K @ 4 GHz is 27% faster than the 2690 v3 in those benchmarks.

More than 4 cores are actually used so I'm not sure how the fastest single thread quad core would compare to slower single thread 6 or 8 core CPUs in actual use.

I'm thinking for smaller multiplayer you would want the fastest single thread i7 quad core with sustained performance and no thermal throttling where the slower i7 extreme with 8 cores might have an advantage in bigger multiplayer:

• http://ark.intel.com/products/family/75023/4th-Generation-Intel-Core-i7-Processors#@Desktop
• http://ark.intel.com/products/family/79318/Intel-High-End-Desktop-Processors#@Desktop

Network bandwidth and quality will be the major issue eliminating most home and even business internet connections for bigger or global multiplayer.

To host big worldwide multiplayer games you'll probably need access to a tier 1 data centre network in the US ideally on the west coast to be central for all countries.

Is it possible that the gmt times or utc times are placed in the first post. Thanks in advance.

Then we can make schedules.

Normally I only update with confirmed times. Added unconfirmed but highly likely times.

Is there a way to watch replays of these games? (I see you mention replay files for download, but where do I find them? Sorry, for being dull.)

Later today there will be a way to download replays for installation in your local PA directory.

The utc times or off course without summer time included. Say like me. I live in Netherlands. That's utc +1 but summer is also +1 so that makes me utc +2 in summer but for now winter time is still here. Lol always confused with summer and winter time lol

Replays from last weekend will be uploaded to: https://palobby.com/replays/

Server has been provisioned and will be available in next hour.

I'm down, most any time on Sat, FFAs are fun but some big team games would be really sweet!

Shameless plug

mikeyh has been kindly hosting super-sized games for the past 24 hours, and they have been of exceptional amounts of fun

there is game up RIGHT NOW (10:00 UCT, or London Time) if you've missed out and want a game

how do you connect to these things?
And is there like a notification thingamagic?

You need the PA Stats mod to be able to see them. And the notification thingamagic is this thread. (And probably also PA Chat, which is automatically enabled if you have PA Stats.)

See original post. You can also use the Faster Server Browser mod.

16 replays from this weekend are now available to download and watch from: https://palobby.com/replays/

Sadly we lost the replay for one of the big team games when the server froze. #purple-won

My favourite is the 10 v 10 team on Annihilator.

Server will be online for Clan Wars Showdown and we will be hosting games after the event.

Just going to chime in on a similar theme; I too run custom server games from time to time. I've just updated PA on laerad.net's server (32GB RAM, quad core Xeon E3-1270 v3 @ 3.5GHz), so will host a game shortly when I have an hour or so to spare on PA. Please let me know what kind of games you are interested in:

FFA?
Team games?
1v1s on HUGE planets?
Combination of the above?

Also, what time is best for you? Be sure to state your timezone!

Mike I think your server events need a some better marketing. May you can use this video for inspiration.

I'm going to say that you should probably try to avoid this because of client side RAM usage. You can't get a size 3000 with 16GB of RAM and still expect to play on it. Not to mention that the framerate takes a hit as well.

I wonder if it would be possible to host modded games so that they don't lag the servers and crash on this.

I was thinking more like 700 (like Amplus) to maybe 1000/1100.

Very curious for huge planets past the PlayFab 1300 limit though. But yes, you'd want a lot of RAM if you did that.

Server stats from Clan Wars Showdown:

• peak RAM usage of 54GB (most of this is history)
• peak network of 52Mbits/s
• peak CPU equivalent to 9 of 24 cores (48 threads)
• typically CPU bound on 2-4 cores