Server rental / Australia
Amb
Join Date: 2012-11-09 Member: 168647Members, Reinforced - Supporter
Join Date: 2012-11-09 Member: 168647Members, Reinforced - Supporter
Comments
We have enough shitty 24 player servers so I urge you to get him to reconsider. It's bad enough with GON trolling the ausns2 community with their terrible servers that are always full.
that's not the point. The point is that there are no Australian server hosts that does NS2 atm. multiplaygameservers.com is the only one that does.
Amb, you getting NBN any time soon? You could host your own server if so. (just don't make it a 24 slot one) :-p
http://forums.unknownworlds.com/discussion/127178/official-server-request-western-australia#latest
They show up, but get poor performance end game
Monash outperforms any of them by far and wide. You then have a bunch of official servers which also hold up well.
The rest is pretty much forgettable. So unless you plan on somehow drawing the population from the 4-5 full servers each night and having performance equal to that of an official box, I don't see the point tbh.
There are enough other servers to serve the community if these were to go away however (Monash, AusNS2, Kid's servers, etc..)
There's plenty of servers for casual players to drop in, and many regular pubbers are still figuring out where they prefer to play.
I'd have a wait and see approach on this one.
Yes IGN should hang their head in shame....seriosuly they used to offer some of the better servers going around....I blame iinet merger (as I cant think of something else to blame it on...ideas?)
UWE official are not bad but only being 16 players means games are often 4 v 4 which is crappy.
Cull the number of servers and increase size (assuming they can cope at a similar level to monash...else leave them as is).
One Network in Nzud and Monash both offer good servers (with monash being the bee's knee's of servers) at player counts up to and including 24+.
because those servers are sh!t, majority of pub players want to play in big games (aka 20+)
Oh and Multiplay prices are insane, no ability to auto update servers either. (And they're never updated when a patch goes live).
Stay away.
Would be cool to see more community ones but from what I understand there's only 2 companies that host and they both suck dick, I wish Kid would bring back the 100 player server or 48 player server, that is definitely the way to play NS2.
Have played on IGN (damnit I am old and stuck in my ways...I still call telstra telecom) 16 players and they would have server ticks dropping down to sub 20 in combat.
Endar through Monash has put up the best servers I have played on....when endar when a little mad and opened it up to 100 players we finally saw the stresstest of monash (from memory they dropped to 15-20 ticks with 60-70 odd players....I have seen IGN 16 players return this sort of tick rate.
Saddens me to see nodes gaming servers deliver such poor performance...they used to be some of the best servers in aus.
I just auto-retry monash #1.