16-32 Player FFA and Team Games On Weekends

Hey everyone,

I'm making my https://palobby.com/ SoftLayer bare metal custom server available on weekends for loosely organised big games.

ie not official tournaments

Players need to have the following mods installed:

• Faster Server Browser client mod (remember to change your region filter to any)
• Game Invites client mod
• PA Chat client mod

PALOBBY CONNECT has been added to the start menu as simple alternative to the connect buttons client mod.

Please UNINSTALL the Unlimited Players client mod if you have it installed.

Games are announced in PA Chat so use one of the following:

• PA Chat client mod
• PA Stats client mod
• https://palobby.com/ (Chrome or Chromium required)

Time brackets for games are loosely scheduled to make sure we get enough players and games are open to anyone who wants to play.

We alternate between the following:

• FFA vs team
• random mixed vs experienced players vs uber level, etc

For mixed games in stable my custom game redirector sever mod can be used with a proxy game to make games available to random players without the mods installed.

For those interested in the server CPU specs the current provision is:

• Intel Xeon E3-1270 v3 @ 3.5GHz with 32 GB RAM
• http://ark.intel.com/products/75056/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E3-1270-v3-8M-Cache-3_50-GHz

Previously the following was used:

• Dual Intel Xeon E5-2690V3 @ 2.6 GHz with 128 GB RAM
• http://ark.intel.com/products/81713/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2690-v3-30M-Cache-2_60-GHz

If you're interested post a reply with any of the following:

• time bracket on weekends for games (including timezone)
• map suggestions
• casters / streamers
• any other ideas

Replays are available at https://palobby.com/replays/

Schedule

• after Clopsey 13 2v2 16th January 18:00 UTC / 10:00 PST / 17th 06:00 NZT (check PA Chat)
• 13th January 21:00 UTC
• 13th January 00:00 UTC
• no games around Clash of the Titans 19th September 18:00 UTC / 11:00 PST / 20th 06:00 NZT (check PA Chat)
  
• around Mystery Mayhem 22nd August 18:00 UTC / 11:00 PST / 23rd 06:00 NZT (check PA Chat)
  
• around Big Bang Finals 18th July 18:00 UTC / 11:00 PST / 19th 06:00 NZT (check PA Chat)
• 12th June from 21:00 UTC / 14:00 PST / 13th 09:00 NZT (check PA Chat)
• 5th June no games (but check PA Chat)
• 29th May from 19:00 UTC / 12:00 PST / 30th 07:00 NZT (check PA Chat and depends on server disconnect issues)
• 22nd May no games (but check PA Chat)
• 16th May from 19:00 UTC / 12:00 PST / 17th 07:00 NZT (check PA Chat)
• 9th May before and after Binary Stars 19:00 UTC / 12:00 PST / 10th 07:00 NZT
• 2nd May (check PA Chat)
• 25th April (check PA Chat)
• 18th April from 19:00 UTC / 12:00 PST / 19th 07:00 NZT
• 11th April after Clan Wars Showdown 20:00 UTC / 13:00 PST / 12th 09:00 NZT
• before and after KOTP 11:00 UTC / 04:00 PST / 29th 12:00 NZT
• 21st 21:00 UTC / 14:00 PST / 22nd 10:00 NZT
  
• 15th midnight UTC / 14th 17:00 PST after evil twins finals

Has anybody checked what the save+load changes mean for the replay load code? It has to work somehow...

I'd be up for playing in large games on weekends at any time. I'm partial to team games, but would play FFA too. I'm in the Eastern Time Zone, but could play earlier or later to accommodate those in other time zones. Would not be able to make it from time to time, depending on family obligations, but otherwise, I am open to most time slots.

It would be cool to use these events to expose people to new Server Mods from time to time as well.

I'd love to see these; we can get some 8 vs 8 vs 8 vs 8 games working!

Sounds good. Work weekend but any time after 9/10 should usually be fine, GMT.

Awesome sauce, sign me up. I agree with mangomango, games with multiple large teams would be fun. Like huge interplanetary FFAs with 5-10 players on each team.

Def intrested, I'm in us central, pretty much anytime after 2pm is good for me.

How about every clan turns up with a group of their players. Whoever is online and just play a random crazy game. Make it dynamic alliance so the smaller clans can band together against the bigger clans.

Always up for a big FFA game, usually available on the weekends. I'm on Central US Time and would be open to play after noon.

For those interested in the server CPU specs the last provision was:

• Dual E5-2690V3 2.6 GHz
• http://ark.intel.com/products/81713/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2690-v3-30M-Cache-2_60-GHz

$2100 12 core processor, nice

God Damn I wish I could play one of those.


I've yet to play one as they lag too much.

I have this (not AS good) : http://ark.intel.com/products/63697/Intel-Core-i7-3930K-Processor-12M-Cache-up-to-3_80-GHz

Great idea @mikeyh, i'd be up for these games if i can play at that time.

Yes I would be interested in a massive FFA.

Do you even game bro? I have one of these
http://i.imgur.com/0k9wBka.jpg

I like big games and I can not lie. Those other brothers don't know why.

But wait... it says the max RAM is 764 GB, how much does it really have?

Server is online and we will host some ad-hoc games after the evil twins finals around 22:00 UTC (14th) / 15:00 PST:

• http://exodusesports.com/tournament/evil-twins-finals/