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Elite_is_salty

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Over 300 servers only right now. 

 

You may ask, what's the problem?

 

The problem is, the playerbase if fairly small for that number of servers. And TBH, while I'm SO PLEASED with the current number of regulars even though there was only few minor items added in this period, I don't think there will be a major boost in the very near future, so one may consider the high number of servers a not-so-economical choice.

 

I think if the number of servers remains in the 100-150 domain, and the money can be used to hire a programmer or something, it would be much more beneficial for all.

 

Just a thought.


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I kinda agree with this, many empty servers but at times, there is just a randomly large amount of people on for some reason.

 

I think this issue lies within the American servers right? I see lots of empty ones there but its similar to the Asia-Oceania region. There are a few empty Singapore and Tokyo servers at times when Sydney servers are all full. I really don't want to play on any other server than Sydney :/


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No matter how many servers there are, none of them are available ...


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Costs of programmers vs servers don't compare in this case. Think they just have hardware capability (im not an expert on servers) to have that much and prob they could do even more. So lowering sever quantity will not result in some new features  :pirate:


Edited by dorobo, 29 April 2015 - 05:17 AM.

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I kinda agree with this, many empty servers but at times, there is just a randomly large amount of people on for some reason.

 

I think this issue lies within the American servers right? I see lots of empty ones there but its similar to the Asia-Oceania region. There are a few empty Singapore and Tokyo servers at times when Sydney servers are all full. I really don't want to play on any other server than Sydney :/

 

Agreed. This is a real issue that I feel needs to be addressed soon. While many regions have too many servers, Australia, AUSTRALIA, an ENTIRE continent, has 2 TDMs, 2 DMs and 2 Sieges. No MAs. While I do agree that "may as well not have something that no one would use", Australia does need at least 1 more TDM. And MA. Please, at least one Missile Assault. 



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are they true servers? or just running instances on the same machine?



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I think they are physical servers, but I do know a few are probably the crappy AWS cloud servers.

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I think they are physical servers, but I do know a few are probably the crappy AWS cloud servers.

 

Given the utterly crap performance of the past several days I suspect there have been experiments with the AWS servers. 

 

Which should stop. 

 

Because they are crap.



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Two things:

 

1. Would you paste in a few of the specific server names that have been performing poorly?

2. Yes, you're right - there are more servers than are necessary.  We're going to consolidate some of them soon.  The Steam frontpage traffic spiked things up pretty high, and we didn't wan to spend time getting all set up to add more servers more than we had to.  It's good you're aware of the cost :)


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