Comments on: Servers, What’s the Point? – Part 2 http://procrastinationamplification.com/servers-what%e2%80%99s-the-point-%e2%80%93-part-2/ Punditry on MMOs and games in general. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:08:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: scrusi http://procrastinationamplification.com/servers-what%e2%80%99s-the-point-%e2%80%93-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-61 scrusi Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:44:38 +0000 http://scrusi.de/pa/wordpress/?p=48#comment-61 What makes my comment system so crazy? Should allow you to sign up with a variety of accounts and shouldn't ask you to do any captcha or anything. If there are issues I'd love to know of them so I can fix them. (Or ditch the whole system and go back to standard blogger stuff. Since noone seems to use CommentLuv anyway ;))<br />------------<br />@single server instancing: You might like monday's post, would look forward to your insights as to why this is so bad. I know it has issues (and not seeing your friends is the main one) but I hope I have some solutions for that on monday. What makes my comment system so crazy? Should allow you to sign up with a variety of accounts and shouldn't ask you to do any captcha or anything. If there are issues I'd love to know of them so I can fix them. (Or ditch the whole system and go back to standard blogger stuff. Since noone seems to use CommentLuv anyway ;) )
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@single server instancing: You might like monday's post, would look forward to your insights as to why this is so bad. I know it has issues (and not seeing your friends is the main one) but I hope I have some solutions for that on monday.

]]> By: scrusi http://procrastinationamplification.com/servers-what%e2%80%99s-the-point-%e2%80%93-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-59 scrusi Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:52:59 +0000 http://scrusi.de/pa/wordpress/?p=48#comment-59 your comment authentication system is pretty crazy.<br /><br />Anyway, yeah. I understand servers being separate, because in something like wow, you don't want the entire game's horde population squeezing into at AH in ogrimmar. Eventually as servers die out, they're merged, which is normal. But with wow, they just don't die out. It just keeps trucking.<br /><br />The worst thing, I think, is having sharding within a single server itself. Like having parallel versions of the AH, so even though you and a friend are in the AH, you're in AH 534 and he's in 227. <br /><br />although, I guess in the end, that's exactly what being n different servers is doing, but with single server instancing, you see them SOEMTIMES, just not consistently. your comment authentication system is pretty crazy.

Anyway, yeah. I understand servers being separate, because in something like wow, you don't want the entire game's horde population squeezing into at AH in ogrimmar. Eventually as servers die out, they're merged, which is normal. But with wow, they just don't die out. It just keeps trucking.

The worst thing, I think, is having sharding within a single server itself. Like having parallel versions of the AH, so even though you and a friend are in the AH, you're in AH 534 and he's in 227.

although, I guess in the end, that's exactly what being n different servers is doing, but with single server instancing, you see them SOEMTIMES, just not consistently.

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