What do you as a client want from a game server host?
So there is clients out there who pay more for quality, I thought the industry got to a point it was so over saturated that. Then again i guess its more of the younger age groups who run the game servers who don't want to spend their pocket money's worth or mummy and daddy's credit cards and want everything for nothing.
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Ping Problems on trickery 2K4 server?
Went onto the CTF server this afternoon, game froze as per usual, but when it came back id been kicked for ideling, basts. Whats more, I was the only one on the chuffing server.
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Ping problem, maybe vista?
Just zonealarm running, yes others are connected but turned off now and problem persists. Also, its seems to get worse as more people are on screen.
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Is host selection random?
What if its ten randoms and thus no party leader? Or what if there are TWO parties of five, thus two leaders? Isn't there some way to determine which of the two would be a better host?
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Could a truly random number be generated using pings to psuedo-randomly selected IP addresses?
The best source of randomness on commodity hardware I've seen, was a guy who removed a filter or something from his webcam, put opaque glue on the lens, and was then able to easily detect individual white pixels from cosmic rays striking the CCD. These are as close to perfectly random as possible, and are protected from external snooping by quantum effects.
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