Dedicated Servers?

[Dannythm]

Setting the personal jabs aside, since they're amusing but tend to become tiresome in the end...

It was not a personal jab, it was a honest advise so posting in the Lodestone get's overall better and constructive.

Then don't play a MASSIVELY Multiplayer Online RPG.

Mind you, you're perfectly able to create your little tightly knit community regardless of the number of people on the server or with access to the server. That's what linkshells and free companies are for.

5000 people for each server is massive for any game world and it can help create a good community, but having a mega-server or something among those lines with 25k+ people makes it harder. And I think it's easier to build a good LS when the overall community is smaller and the game content is harder than in a casual environment with thousands of people, but to each it's own.

You know a little about software development of MMORPGs? I'm afraid it's not the same thing. MMORPGs are extremely complex animals, with thousands of elements interacting with each other.

If you aren't able to "test thousands of different configurations for your system in short times" you're simply developing something more complex than a database.

There's a reason why MMORPGs are released with a massive amount of glitches and problems compared to other games. And that reason resides in their complexity, that impacts balancing, testing and every other area of development in a rather large way.

I work with systems way more complex than MMO's daily, and I assure you those are not just databases, so I know quite well how all the processes involved in developing, deploying, configuring, testing and teaching to use any given system involve, this is why I tell you, if SE knows their stuff, and I'm pretty sure they know, if they do this they will do it all right. I could start a long techie post as why I think this won't involve much effort and cost development even when delivering new content, but I don't think much people could appreciate it.

But again. This thread is definitely moot. I know it won't happen. You know it won't happen. The OP knows it won't happen. And it's ultimately a very good thing that it won't happen.

And because it won't happen it's not worth discussing? What happens with freedom of speech man! If you don't like this, don't read it and don't comment on it. It's not right that OP had to put this in his thread:

so thought i'd throw out an idea i had, this will be my 3rd thread and my last 2 were a flunk and this one probably will be as well lol. but i figure maybe it's a good idea that people would like to see.

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i'ma probably have like 4players in this thread at all and they will all say they hate the idea like my other 2 ideas lmao but i figure this has got to be a really good idea and concept that all mmo's can take a step back and look at as being part of any mmo. what you guys think? would you like this or no and why the heck not?