Keeping the players shouldnt be too hard i'd imagen. I believe its all within the servers ability and the quality in which the work was done. It depends on the vibe you get from playing it. I plan to be Desperately working to get that old world vibe that there used to be- As well as challenging. Vox and Naggy wont be farmed. Neither were they back in the day, they were too damn hard. Let alone the gods.
But like i said, i believe its all in the vibe you get from playing. I'm going to try and embrace that as much as possible.
And if its good enough, some might even dump Live for Emu. I know i will end up doing so as soon as its nearly stable.
As for having that many people...
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for that i would say a 4-10MB/s connection and about 20 computers. all 1ghz or better.
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I plan on having 100-500 people on guildwars within the 1st week. and yes i plan on pulling some tricks to get that done
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How many computers are going to running guildwars???
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I ran GuildWars on a 1 mbps connection, it had 4 computers, a P3 450 with 384 SDRAM, Athlon 600 MHZ with 512 SDRAM, P3 733 with 256 SDRAM and an Athlon XP 1700 with a gig of ecc pc2100 ram. Please note that I always was in high CPU use, memory use AND bandwidth use. There was lag unfortunately but I made it as minimal as possible. But this is back in 0.4.4, now we have very impressive compression which kills bandwidth usage and the code has been getting revamped to be more generous on the cpu.
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Image, if i had over a gig SDRAM on each computer all P3's would that make much of a noticeable difference from that set up? I guess it's kinda hard to tell for the time being how much of a set up i'd really need. I guess i'll find out eventually, as long as its under eight computers i think i can handle it. It'll be expensive but i could use a pretty big hobbie for a while to take some time off of my hands.