GuildWars Poll

[danm]

What I would like to see is the ability to buy special "targeted" TLs for your city. Raiding in Cazic? buy a "cazic translocator" for your city. Yeah, he's got to be defended, but then, that's the whole point, aint it?

I also have an idea that getting some kind of additional bonus for participating in PvP would encourage folk to spread out less... I havn't come up with any really good way to do it that wouldn't require lots of coding or be terribly abusable just yet, tho.

current thoughts:
"Guard Vouchers" give the winner in pvp combat a credit slip that can be used by their guild leader to purchase population. Worth maybe 100pp/level of victim. To avoid abuse, tie vouchers to the guild of the victim. Any time you use a voucher from a guild, your guards all become KoS to that Guild. (not perfect... but might be sufficient, and shouldn't be too hard to implement)

I am really enjoying this server. THANKS! I really hope it continues to be successful, and doesn't drive anyone into bankruptcy/insanity to operate.

danm

[vuke69]

Image...

I was just wondering, what kind of hardware & bandwidth are you running now?

And what would it take to host 200-ish players?

Would a dual 2.8 Xeon, 2GB ram, on a 1.5/1.5 sdsl line be able to handle this?

Actually, I just punched some numbers into the calculator, and I would need at least twice that bandwidth. (assuming about 16kb up & down for each player)

Anyone have a spare $20,000 a month for a DS3? You would have almost enough bandwidth for 3000 players.

Why does bandwith have to be so damn expensive...

[Slayer02]

2GB ram? Do you use windows? If so, that's not a wise choice, windows cannot usefully manage ram above 1GB so after that it's wasted, but will be useful when a new OS comes out....

[DeletedUser]

I run it off of a vDSL and 103 people were only taking about 80k of my 125k of bandwidth. I have 4 computers:
Athlon XP 1700+ 1 gig ecc ram (Main ZoneServer)
Athlon 600 Mhz 512 SDRAM (Second ZoneServer)
P3 733 Mhz 256 SDRAM (Third Zone Server)
P3 450 Mhz 384 SDRAM (Mysql, World server)

[tiddyman]

RIP

[pepsi1]

Guildwars will be back, that I'm sure. Image is a great guy and it was by far the best server out there. Only played for a bit but this server had too much going for it. Guildwars, once it's ready, will be back and better than before. Everyone just needs a little patience and to quit bitching!

[Crythen]

Image tries his best to make his server the best, and so far no complaints. I can understand and sympathize with why he took his server down, but that doesn't mean In have to agree with it :(

It just gets to me, I just got my warrior to 50, gained his epic and got him a RBB, aswell as a few other nice trinkets (such as eye/brain of cazic, and pauldrons of ferocity, jboots, etc) he wasn't the best but damnit he was mine and now I can't even get on him :(

It just gets to me how we spent so much time and then without warning he takes it away, even if it is temporary. For thoes of us who didn't exploit or cheat it seems as if were being punished along with thoes who did. I know, however, that it's his perogative and that I shouldn't even be complaining, since it wasn't a right, but a privelage to play on GW.

I'm sure it's the best for the server, what he did, I just think we deserved a warning before he did it. It just seems too spontanious for me.

Image, if you're reading this, please know that thoes of us from GW appreciate what you do, and we all pray that you will bring back the server ASAP. It was a privelage to play on GW, and EQEmu isn't the same without it. Like french toast without any syrup :P It's good, but not THAT good.

My analogies are the best! :twisted:

Praise GW, the best server ever! :worship:

..... Wow look! It's a santa emotonic for no apparent reason! Weeeee! :arrow: :santa:


..... It's too early to be posting. <cry> <yawn>

[Edgar1898]

Image released the db, so just ask someone that downloaded it to send your character to you.

[Dead-Soul]

Hey Image can you tell us how many zones you had running on each of your servers please? thanks in advance

[Manchukwo]

Image released the db? Where? On IRC? To who? Man I really *really* want a copy of that...

[Crythen]

I'd ask for my character if I saw the point in it. I can easily re-produce him on any of the hacking servers, and the other legit servers aren't stable enough nor ever have any zones running (or if they do their completly unpopulated) so I see little point in bothering.


Look! It's that damn santa emotonic again! Holy crap, how does he keep getting in here! :santa:

[Dead-Soul]

I am currently working on a Legit server and i might use the GW player database so the people that played GW can come to my server and use there old chars

working on populating the citys right now hto and its taking a while =\

[vuke69]

Originally Posted by image

I run it off of a vDSL and 103 people were only taking about 80k of my 125k of bandwidth. I have 4 computers:
Athlon XP 1700+ 1 gig ecc ram (Main ZoneServer)
Athlon 600 Mhz 512 SDRAM (Second ZoneServer)
P3 733 Mhz 256 SDRAM (Third Zone Server)
P3 450 Mhz 384 SDRAM (Mysql, World server)

Sorry to bug you again, but could you tell me how many zones on each server, and how much ram & proc usage? Whats the disk usage like?

I may as well let you all in on what I've got running through my little mind...

Four 2U/AXP 2000+/512MB diskless zone servers booting from an nfs share (linux of course) Approx $400 Ea

One 4U/AXP 2000+/512MB/4x18GB 15K RAID 5 MySQL/NFS/World server Approx $800

Being able to host all zones and support 2-300 people for only about $2400..... Priceless

Now I just need to scrape together the money.

[Dead-Soul]

I was thinking about this setup:

AMD Athlon XP 1800+ 512mb ram / Windows 2000 (MySQL and World Server)

AMD Athlon XP 2800+ / 1gig ram / Windows 2000 (Zone server #1)

AMD Athlon XP 2800+ / 512mb ram / Windows 2000 (Zone server #2)

not sure on 3rd system yet =\

[pepeyes]

Me and two other friends plan on joining the guildwars server, but as of right now with 40 people on, we cant join any of the zones to create characters. I can see the problem that is being faced, ... I guess what I am getting at, is Do you want the server to grow, or just keep the community there?... translocators etc. will most likely work for the current community, but if you want it that way, I would like to know, so we don't try to join the server. Otherwise a new server or asking for donations to upgrade the current server might be a better choice. I really want to join the guildwars server, and would appreciate a step in the expansion of it, but it is all really up to image...

Pepe (the "yes" at the end of my name was just added because my name was taken)