What''s the purpose...

Tue Aug 19, 2003 2:07 am by Bishop

Of playing MP if every time you get a character up to speed, the server goes away or dies. Sometimes because of cheaters. Sometimes because the admin(s) just don't want to maintain the server. It makes a person want to stick to SP only. At least the "universe" is still there when I get back. Now, I know it's a hard job to maintain a server and also quite tedious but every decent server and some not so decent servers are now history. This is getting to be very disheartning and a tad bit ridiculous.

Am I the only one who is irked that Elite is up and down more than a playground seesaw?

Bishop

Tue Aug 19, 2003 3:33 am by moby

This is what we "pay" for playing free server.
Considering Elite: That server has high popularity, and there is also a price to pay for it - hackers enjoy to crash it. So it is balanced, popularity - hackers, free server - "seesaw".

You sound like someone that want to crawl in box. No, be patient.

Tue Aug 19, 2003 5:12 pm by admiral_tolwyn

i agree with moby - it looks like pay-to-play is the new big fashion, even blizzard is going that direction with WoW. the only way you can keep pay-to-play out of it is by having a setup where you connect to specific servers that are owned by players, not companies - freelancer, jedi knight ii, and so on. places like ESO (place to play age of mythology), battle.net (blizzard's massive network), and the zone (crappy old-fashioned microsoft microsoft version of battle.net) are all moving to either making you pay to connect, or making you pay by the hour.

the upside to battle.net, and eso (although not so much the zone

) are that they are fairly stable, and relyable. the downside is that having those huge networks of servers all over the world with T-5000 connections is expensive, so they are all making you pay for it.

luckily there are games like mohaa, jk2, and fl, where you run your own server, and while it is free, you sacrifice stability. persoanlly ill take free-but-unstable over pay-to-play but reliable.

Edited by - admiral_tolwyn on 19-08-2003 18:12:35

Tue Aug 19, 2003 11:34 pm by Bishop

Well, I must say that I never expected to see that side of the issue. I stand corrected. I suppose that we all are getting what we "pay" for...

Thanks for the input guys,

Bishop...

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