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Your Server Sucks (and here's why)
Port:
--- Quote from: Treti on December 29, 2012, 04:20:57 AM ---There have been a lot of threads lately about how stuffty servers are. Why dont you guys just stop complaining and ACTUALLY make your servers ( and others ) better.
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well me and bushido just had a long discussion about some great ideas and let me just say you're going to see a good server soon
fred da kiko:
--- Quote from: Treti on December 29, 2012, 04:20:57 AM ---There have been a lot of threads lately about how stuffty servers are. Why dont you guys just stop complaining and ACTUALLY make your servers ( and others ) better.
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Trust me, i would, but my computer can generally only run a server for about five minutes before everything freezes up and i need to force quit via task manager.
Dglider:
Well I enjoyed reading that.
I hope you make more of these Bushido. The way servers are run currently is just ridiculous. I think the stuff really hit the fan around the time Badspot introduced that No-More-Port-Forwarding update. For me atleast, such a large influx of new servers made the average population of my server go down considerably. With less of a crowd I felt less and less inclined to stay at my server, and thus maintained it less. My server now sits in a dusty old box on my E:/ drive. Filled with glitchy old add-ons and ancient ban-lists. Occasionally I'll take it out for a spin, but it's just not the same anymore.
My point is, the average quality of server has gone down considerably. 40% dont care about their clients, another 50% don't even know what they're doing, and the final 10% are actually just fine.
I wish there was a Blockland Training school. The learning curve is huge, and the resources for several sections of gameplay are either nonexistent, or hard to find, or unclear.
--- Quote from: Treti on December 29, 2012, 04:20:57 AM ---There have been a lot of threads lately about how stuffty servers are. Why dont you guys just stop complaining and ACTUALLY make your servers ( and others ) better.
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I am personally busy with other projects. Also, so many reasons.
- The average loading time between different servers has increased. (more disconnects)
- The amount of attention required to get a person to sit through the load time is also getting larger.
- My inclination to hang out with 12-year-olds grows smaller every day.
- The engine changes have reduced the amount of diversity between servers.
- The engine changes have increased the amount of idiots hosting(they couldn't figure out port forwarding, and now they don't need to.)
- Blockland Launcher Increases load time, making it harder to test if a server will work properly.
- Nickelodeon has finally taken affect on the youth. Making those 12-year-olds I mentioned earlier act like 9-year-olds.
- Also why the forget would you want to be covered in green slime.... ever....
Those last two may not actually have anything to do with this. But I thought I'd mention them anyway.
Blocki:
I always rage when I fired a rifle and for no reason suddenly aimed 60° NEXT TO THE loving TARGET which resulted in not killing him
Pliny:
While it's quite satisfying and interesting to see this kind of discussion, there's only one problem; nobody's going to do anything. People have said it already, but still. A hundred players could (and probably will) read this, get inspired, start building, and bail out after the first baseplate. It's great that so many folks are interested and want to be active or want to do something or see that there's a problem, but the final outcome is still the same, and nothing changes. It really goes without saying that whatever "change" comes will be a single server or two that's short-lived at best.
On the other hand, if the thread's goal is only to alert people to this perceived issue instead of actually getting them to do something, then you've done all that you wished and (hopefully) more. However, it's a foolish thing to get one's hopes up on the internet.
TL;DR It's a good thought and a great discussion but personally I don't think anything is going to really change for all that's been said. Thanks