Server EXEs

Let's say someone has a beefy computer, or an extra one. Just run the server exe on it and, with proper port forwarding and a few extra buttons in-game, we might be able to play with something a bit more in our control.

Plus LAN games.

and you can rent servers to people who don't have that option.

Yes. We will have server access. Sometime.

However, the main issue with servers though isn't the server power. You don't need a super beefy computer to run the server. One of the biggest components is the upload speed, which most residential internet connections do not have enough upload from what I hear.

On this topic, I'll be offering server rentals with server slots all across the world.

Thanks for clarifying. And if someone needs a server, I will direct them to you. Thank you!

Yep, the current servers are computers with an octo-core processor, with 16GB of RAM. There's a server being ran for each CPU (So eight servers per computer) with each player taking it's own thread on each CPU (That could be wrong but I believe I've heard it before). The only problem with this is that because these CPU's are multithreaded sometimes servers with a lot of load borrow from other servers. (That is why you could have a game with very little units yet very high lag), and this also means that each server only has one CPU and has to share the 16GB of RAM, eventually that one CPU has too much load and lag begins to start.

Now then, this means it'd be easy, super easy even, to run a server on your computer. Even if you had a single core CPU and 4GB of RAM easy, though there'd be less wiggle room. Though of course people don't have computers such as those and instead have computers much faster, running a server on a computer with a duel, or quad core, eight gigs of RAM should be very easy.

I believe it's one game per core, so each server is running 8 games simultaneously.

Yep, that's what I said.

My upload speed is less than a megabyte and my download is ~12mbps. I looked up my nearest exchange. TURNS OUT IT'S APPARENTLY WITHIN A KILOMETRE OF MY HOUSE .

But I guess it's functional. Sometimes.

While those are not that good numbers they are not that bad either tbh. The house of my parents has like 2mbit/s DOWN. No idea about the upload, but it is tiny.

Yeah but then on the Star Citizen chat we got to talking about it once and one of the mods is in Canberra with the NBN. She gets 100 god-damn megabytes down. The worse part is my friend had similar numbers but then he ISP said "we think that's too slow" and got ~30mbps. On top of that another friend got a massive boost because Foxtel or someone came into his street and installed cable connections or something. Everyone gets good internet but me .

I feel with you, 2.5 years ago I got vdsl with 36mbit/s and for some unknown reason it has broken down to 25mbit/s by now. 11mbit randomly lost. Oh those damn cables. Though I think for all things I do 12mbit/s would be fast enough. Lower limit, but fast enough.

And you know what? Until very recently I worked for a local ISP and spent my days programming tools to manage the connections of all sorts of little villages that setup fibre connections that have like 100mbit/s stable, with profiles to provide 500mbit/s as well :S Damn I live in the middle of the city, why can't I....

When I lived in England on base I had ~300kb/s down, I wished I had a mb/s down.

Now I have about two mb/s down... Buuuut- 10GB limit, after that limit is reached... 50kb/s AT MOST, it can get down to BYTES PER SECOND. Ridiculous.

Now THAT is a serious limitation. My parents actually were offered some weird LTE internet solution with super high speeds, but the fine print showed like 25gb limit a month. Bad offers, really bad offer. Why offer a connection with 50mbit/s if you actually are not allowed to fully use it for more than an hour or two?

Agreed... It lasts me at most 2 weeks, if I'm REALLY careful, that means I basically can't use it at all.

I can't wait to mooove, moving to Hawaii around December or so, so yay!

My respect, I just checked and on the brand new router I just got last week I already have like 17GB of traffic.
Hawaii... do they have better internet there? Have fun, December is not that far off anymore

Oh much better, do you wanna know the ridiculous price I pay for the internet I have?... Something around 60$+ in Hawaii I'll be getting around 50mbp/s compared to my current 14mbp/s without any limits, for the same price!

60$... well yeah. I'd pay that much for a fibre connection, though nobody offered me that so far. So I stay with the "staff only" tariff of my former workplace :>

As someone who's leeching off of the wifi at the university I attend, Im loving my 60MB/s upload rate.(Download is somewhere in the range of like 130-150? I dunno. Ill do a speed test tomorrow.)
Id love to host some servers.

Oh im there man.. I have a max of 0.4MB upload speed hahaha.... the fraking pain I live on a daily basis on the net is terrible

It'll be easy, provided you have the upload bandwidth. From what I hear, it takes a lot of upload speed and most people do not have that kinda internet.

Here in the Czech Republic the internet is quite cheap. I've got 100 Mbps down and about 16 Mbps up for 20$.