Survivor is running on the regular PTT server, CTF is running on the new one. Let me know how the expirence is. If there's no lag I'll expirement with adding a 2nd TT Server on the new machine.

Game is smooth,smooth as I've ever seen it! NO lag present,not even in combat or if you ram into things.

Amazing. Absolutely amazing. No lag at all. Perfectly smooth. Like heaven. Anyway, got to go and play! YAHOOO!!! XD

YES!! Just played an AWESOME game of CTF. Tied… great way to come back to it.

Absolutely great. :D Just finished a game of CTF, tied as well. Lagged maybe once, but it was a second or less.

^ We were in the same game :) :) I did see a VERY short freeze… but were fine for the most part. SOO much better then before.

The short freeze may have been me messing around on the server... I was poking around a bit. Glad to hear it's working out. The CPU utilization is only at 50% or so. So I think I'll be able to host another game as well.

Yah there isn't as much lag as before (which is a very big improvement!), but there is still too much lag >_<
Too much as in, it'll freeze up like every 30 seconds or so, and firing rate is random. I dunno if maybe it's because of the extra traffic cos of the holidays, if it's the server, or if it's just me...

But anyways, this is a vast improvement. (Though I've only seen Survivor up...haven't seen CTF up today)

Hola Dan me like!

Warriors... Come out and play-yay! WARRIORS!!! COME OUT AND PLAY-YAY!!!!!

Survivor is still on the origional PTT server, im going to try moving it over to the new server sometime in the next day or so and just let this server do website stuff.

Ya thats cool did fast visit in the ctf server just and didnt see the lag sign at all. All you need anymore are other players to there.
I would like to make a request. Is it by anymeans possible that you can get rid of some maps in survivor. I cant stand some of this maps. They are just terrible, hopefully the ones who made them understand me and dont get upset now. I dont know if you Dan, yourself visit there often and have seen all of them, but some of this maps takes a pretty long time to load up and the maps arent worth of waiting. Im mainly talking about the maps which have been added to survivor last time.

Woohoo! Great job to Dan and all who donated.

Nice work Dan. Nice to be able to get back into survivor and lay the smack down on Paco.. _{well.. Until the end of the game.. When he pulled ahead... *cough*}

I moved survivor to the new server, so now CTF and Survivor are running on the new box. Let me know how it goes. I logged in and didn't notice any lag... It will be nice not to have to take the site down to host CTF Matches ;)

Hi Dan
Just an FYI
I have been running two servers on a lesser machine
for about a month now with no significant loss in performance
Although there is a break point
I had the Gameserver hosting 2 maps and I had my lappy hosting a new mod
while I was playing on my desktop. When ppl were downloading the mod
and I was playing sk from Australia everything lagged out. So I shut the mod down
and the issues cleared up.
Thanks for the new TT games and thanks so much for a wonderful website
Roo

O Dan
btw have you thought of serving up the Survivor maps for Preload?
(maybe in the "Other Stuff" section)
U know Eliminate the Wait!!!
lol
just a thought
Roo

Rooster its that way every time, even if you have been on that mod. B)

That's not true. The first time you join to a game, loading will be longer than the next time you join that map. The loading time will be slightly shorther. At first time the game loads up datablocks, objects and lighting. When you join to same map again it will anymore load only datablocks and objects. The game creates itself a.ml file at first time you load it(.ml stands for mission lighting? ).

Triv, ML stands for Mission Lighting and are kinda of classed as Game Cookies. I do have a mum which works for IT, she should know!

I just played lag free CTF!!!!!!!!!! My donation is on the way!!! I had forgotten how much fun it is lag free..OMG its a pleasure Thanks Dan..you rock!!

Woot! The periodic lag spots are gone.

WOW, thanks Santa!.......I mean Dan!. Lag free ctf. Sigh......... Been away for awhile. Hope my skills come back. Guess it's donation time. Thanks Cat for the mail.
Boy I missed getting shot to hell by you guys.

BTW concerning Paypal, I want my ptt name to appear as the person sending the donation. I couldn't find any feature to change the name. Any help?

If your making donations, be sure you are logged into PTT. If you are not it will just take your name from paypal. I can make the switch, but I have a situation that DEMANDS my attention. If all goes well I'll let you know what it is tomorrow :D

AWESOME dan

Christmas comes early for me

B

GOD I LOVE THIS GAME!!!! (CTF that is)

Dan,
If you get some time… do you think you can check out that kick script for team killing?? I was just in a few games, and there was this guy "boom" that was constantly team killing, but never got kicked. Afterwards, if we were smoking a few of us would take each other out to get a new tank since nobody was getting kicked for it. If no that, I would like to suggest a having a few moderators, preferrably Dash's admin script. It's a really nice script and it's already done for you :)

I tried it out for the first time. It was... Amazing. This game type is truly amazing! I will see if I can scratch together any money and send it to an address by mail, considering I don't have PayPal.
Can someone help me figure out where to send it? Or give me a page with the information? Thanks everyone!

A new CTFer,
PIP

Admin codes for usual and trusting players is definitely a necessity. Someone came in as a heavy and just started randomly driving around the map. After he was asked if he's playing… he became MIA. Next game, he was still in but still MIA. Normally, if in Dash's servers… I would be able to kick him so that a new player could come in. This time we're just stuck with it :( So everyone left.

During last season's CTF tournament, -z- had some really cool scripts loaded up that addressed 90% of what y'all are talking about.

^ Explain please :)

Hola Dan!

Me would like to ask if there is a way to add Frantic map game play in CTF?
Or perhaps a way to rotate between the CTF Frantic and Lush maps like it worked before?

Miss 'em. 8o

Nice playin' with yall... It's been fun havin' CTF back :P

Last edited: Sunday, November 28, 2004 at 8:34:19 PM

I'm not sure my stuff will be compatible with -z-'s admin system at all. But It's available if needed. There is an admin system in place now on that server, -z- used to use it all the time.
I think that is what chief is talking about. The only problem is -z- is gone and there are no other admins.

^ Yeah :(

^^ There WAS a frantic map that was actually pretty good, it was a variation of Receptor's Ridge. I don't know if it's just not there anymore, or I just happened to haven't been there while it's come up.
Come to think of it… there was also a few spooky maps too. I think something might be different now… I've only seen lush maps so far.

I havn't figured out the admin stuff yet, z had a really slick system. It had a UI on the client with TT styled dialog boxes and everything. I will have to figure it out soon.

Been a while since I last played CTF, and had some real good games with both El Fuego, and V2 Tanker today. NO lag present, and some really nice smooth gaming.

Good work,

SK

Is it me....I can't see either one of the PTT servers?

No I can not see them either ! B)

Awesome

@dan, HOW THE [excerpt deleted] DID YOU GET THE PTT SERVERS TO BE LAG FREE??? Is it a script? Or is it just the fact that PTT is running at... Lemme see... 4000MHz?

Pretty much, a lot of PTT members chipped in and we got a dedicated server from hypernia.net. It's on a triply redundant backbone that automatically routes connections down the pipe with the lowest ping. Plus it's a pretty fast Hyperthreadded server with an 800mhz Front Side Buss.

Just a note. Sometimes I have to refresh the server screen a few times to even see ctf. Anyone shed some light on this?
CTF is empty a lot. I hope this isn't the reason.

They said something about dropped packets, I need to look into that

I have been having the same problem sporadically - but only on spooky terrains?