[G&T]The unofficial PA Gaming Server

dem0nseed · December 2003

Okay, interest is pretty high from what I've seen, so let's get this ball rolling.

Please suggest (in this thread) 3 games you'd like to be on a game server.

After this thread is complete, we'll have a final vote to see what makes the cut.

KEEP IN MIND THAT MODS COUNT AS A SEPARATE GAME, SO TEAM FORTRESS CLASSIC AND COUNTER-STRIKE DON'T COUNT AS 1 HALF-LIFE SERVER.

My suggestions are:

Battlefield 1942
Desert Combat
Call of Duty

P.S - Gonna try and get alphamonkey to give this the sticky treatment.

ecchi · December 2003

Because pings increase with distance.

dem0nseed · December 2003

ecchi wrote:

Because pings increase with distance.

True, but with technology nowadays it doesn't get that bad.

I've played in European servers and gotten 80 pings instead of 40, which is perfectly acceptable.

Funky_Monk · December 2003

dem0nseed wrote:

ecchi wrote:

Because pings increase with distance.

True, but with technology nowadays it doesn't get that bad.

I've played in European servers and gotten 80 pings instead of 40, which is perfectly acceptable.

I can deal with a ping of ~120 or so. What you dont realise is Oz is on the completely opposite side of the world to the US. While Europe is just around the corner. SO usualy my pings to any US server are of the 300-500 variety.

Hell i get pings of ~100-150 going from me to Sydney or New Zealand.

I got 512/128 DSL btw

ecchi · December 2003

Depends on how many hops you need to take. I never play anywhere outside my half of the US because the pings just get too bad.

Funky_Monk · December 2003

ecchi wrote:

Depends on how many hops you need to take

Exactly. Getting out of Australia is ugly. To play shadowbane in Asia (servers in Hong Kong) the connection was routed through to Calafornia then Tokyo then Hong Kong. They since fixed that but thats just an example.

Mulletude · December 2003

I would recommend setting a ping cap that kicks people who get above like 140-160 ms or so.

Remington · December 2003

Call of Duty all the way (please allow swearing... PLEASE)
Desert Combat would be sexy
aaaand... oh, I dunno... lets go with... Vanilla Battlefield 1942

Straylight · December 2003

Desert combat
Halo
Raven shield

Zombies Tossed My Salad! · December 2003

A ping cap would be a good idea it would limit the number of players and also keep the game from lagging so much. Also we may have to invest in some anti hack programming.

Chad Sexington · December 2003

BF 1942
Desert Combat
Eve of Destruction

Funky_Monk · December 2003

Poon-Hound wrote:

I would recommend setting a ping cap that kicks people who get above like 140-160 ms or so.

you hurt me Poon
You hurt me in ways you could never undertsand

The Deliverator · December 2003

I am amazed noone has mentioned Natural Selection
BF'42 and DC are good for me too.

Shogun · December 2003

EverQuest.

That's right, I said it.

FinnMcCumiggan · December 2003

<_<

>_>

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Halo.

ecchi · December 2003

Hacker Forge wrote:

A ping cap would be a good idea it would limit the number of players and also keep the game from lagging so much. Also we may have to invest in some anti hack programming.

Yeah, 'cause 56kers don't deserve to game.

A laggy player does NOT lag the game. If that is the case, whatever engine you have been playing is not fit for online play at all.

It's not really "investing" in anti-hack programming... it's free. And I'm more inclined towards the whole 'active admins who permaban all cheaters' approach.

1up · December 2003

Unreal Tournament, UT2k3, Ut2k4. I must be the only that plays these.

poop one · December 2003

1up wrote:

Unreal Tournament, UT2k3, Ut2k4. I must be the only that plays these.

UT is *still* the best out of all of them.

Bikkstah · December 2003

Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
Call of Duty
Battlefield 1942 + Expansions.

deadonthestreet · December 2003

Er, Natural Selection?

Älphämönkëy · December 2003

*stickied*

Good luck setting this bad boy up.

wayne · December 2003

Call of Duty...but I don't own it yet

Dog · December 2003

double dash (yes it does have a online feature, but its not with nintendo)

Leetness Incarnate · December 2003

Natural Selection
Savage
Tribes 2

Dick · December 2003

Natural Selection
Soldat
Call of Duty

dem0nseed · December 2003

We'll keep this up until it hits at least 50 replies.

And these are for PC games ONLY.

Because you don't pay to host a P2P game.

Q_Prime · December 2003

counter-strike

cs isnt that bad when you dont have a bunch of babies complaining that camping isnt fair.

spamrat · December 2003

Well, I do already have a Helbreath server up for anyone who wants to join. As I mentioned in this thread.

SniperGuy · December 2003

BF and Desert Combat!

For BF, do we include RtR and SW?

Diamondback · December 2003

Counterstrike
Day of Defeat
Cardboard Tube Showdown

Monoxide · December 2003

ZaPpA wrote:

double dash (yes it does have a online feature, but its not with nintendo)

Yeah, uh, we know. The idea itself was born in this very forum.

I vote for
BF1942
Savage
UT2k3 or CS, whichever.

Zonkytonkman · December 2003

BF 1942
Counter Strike

ummm... serious sam 2 anyone?

wombat · December 2003

Day of Defeat
BF 1942

Aaaaaaaaaaaand...

Tribes 2?

or am I alone on that one?

Simethos · December 2003

Call of Duty.

DiannaoChong · December 2003

Desert Combat++++++

count it as 3 votes plz. also, my ping can jump with alot of people on a server, and I have cable. no ping limit, its lame, ill be going along fine and then it spikes for a second and I get kicked and have to wait like 5 minutes to rejoin and load the map. what kind of line will the server be on?