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G33X Nexus Entertainment => Requiem for Innocence => Current Projects => Precursors => Topic started by: ryguy_1617 on December 16, 2005, 07:45:44 pm

Title: # of Servers?
Post by: ryguy_1617 on December 16, 2005, 07:45:44 pm

Also, how many servers are you thinking of having?

Title: Re: # of Servers?
Post by: ryguy_1617 on December 17, 2005, 07:03:58 am

...and will they be assigned to areas of the country like: US East, US West, US Midwest, US Mideast, etc.?

Title: Re: # of Servers?
Post by: Rosencrantz on December 17, 2005, 09:55:39 am

Shards or servers?

(Not that I can answer this question, but I think this is a valid question).

For reference I heard somewhere that a single shard of UO has around 10 servers.

Title: Re: # of Servers?
Post by: Morgul on December 17, 2005, 09:36:31 pm

It all depends on the hardware. However, we're going to have one location for our servers, and then seperate them into nodes which contain an area of the universe in game.

Title: Re: # of Servers?
Post by: ryguy_1617 on December 18, 2005, 07:00:43 am

Ah, ok. Yea...unfortunately, I don't know the difference between shards and servers...that's one of the areas I don't know too much about : P

Title: Re: # of Servers?
Post by: Rosencrantz on December 18, 2005, 04:02:07 pm

By shard what I mean is somethign akin to a "logical" server. Basically the world that the players play in. For instance, World of Warcraft has well over 100 shards (which people sometimes also call servers, hence the confusion), whereas Eve Online is a single shard. In Eve Online all the players of the game play in the same virtual world. Each shard is often made up of seperate nodes, which are then made up of several physical servers.

Title: Re: # of Servers?
Post by: ryguy_1617 on December 18, 2005, 05:00:45 pm

Ok I understand now. I think I meant shards then.

Title: Re: # of Servers?
Post by: Morgul on December 18, 2005, 06:23:30 pm

No, there will be one shard. However there would be multiple nodes.

Title: Re: # of Servers?
Post by: ryguy_1617 on December 18, 2005, 06:39:08 pm

Ok, sounds good, so this will mean that all the players will be playing in the same univese...like on eve, right?

Title: Re: # of Servers?
Post by: contingencyplan on December 18, 2005, 06:52:56 pm

Yup. We'll have it split up, though, to where different people in different areas of the universe will be on different servers. But there's only one shard - only one instance of the in-game universe.

Title: Re: # of Servers?
Post by: ryguy_1617 on December 18, 2005, 07:09:29 pm

Ok, I think I get it now.