Anyone got Natural Selection?

[Daniel]

Depends..

I've seen Dual AMD Athlon MP 2000+, 1.5gb DDR PC2100 ECC RAM, and some SCSI harddrives handle over 100 players.

 

[is0lized]

Wow, thats not bad, If they charge $3 per player, that's $300 minus whatever costs are..

 

[MN-Carl]

Originally posted by is0lized
Wow, thats not bad, If they charge $3 per player, that's $300 minus whatever costs are..

Hmmm

Your looking at around $299/mo+ for a dual xeon 2ghz, 1-2gb ddr, 2x120gb or 2x73gb scsi, 1000gb+ transfer from rackshack. Excluding setup.

 

[Daniel]

The Xeons are ok for gameservers, but the MP's are much much better.

 

[MN-Carl]

Originally posted by Daniel
The Xeons are ok for gameservers, but the MP's are much much better.

That very much depends. Its like saying Cogent is okay for mass downloading. :biggrin2:

 

[is0lized]

Well, the game business doesn't seem like a good market unless you have tons of customers

 

[MN-Carl]

Originally posted by is0lized
Well, the game business doesn't seem like a good market unless you have tons of customers

Yeah --> or onces willing to pay reasonable fees.

I would say the following structure would suit:

Public :
$0.50 per GB usage
150-200GB per 18 server.
$0.50 * 150 = $75/mo
$299 / 5 = $59.80
$75 + $59.80 = $134.80

Note: That depends on the game, cpu usage of the server deamon and also bandwidth usage of each user. Remember that excludes staff and any extras.

 

[Daniel]

In any case, I've turned my West Coast UCG server into a 24/7 Aim Maps only server. It's getting really good traffic now.

66.111.38.70:27015

 

[is0lized]

What do you mean by "aim" maps?

Also, what maps does it have so i can download them, since downloading them from the server is slow

 

[Daniel]

http://www.drunkmonkeys.net/pafiledb/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=6

Unzip that into your maps directory.

Aim maps are basically maps that test your aiming ability.

They are usually very small maps and you need to aim fast and shoot to stay alive.

You will see if you play on my server.

 

[is0lized]

Thanks, i'll take a look some time later, when are you on there?

 

[Daniel]

Originally posted by is0lized
Thanks, i'll take a look some time later, when are you on there?

When there's people on...

 

[is0lized]

What time range is that?

 

[Daniel]

Usually during the day...

 

[is0lized]

Well, that was a great time frame

I'll see what i can do

 

[is0lized]

Server still up?

 

[MN-Carl]

Originally posted by is0lized
Server still up?

Which server

 

[is0lized]

NS

 

[MN-Carl]

Originally posted by is0lized
NS

Yes but its screwed up big time.

 

[is0lized]

How? WHy not re install it?