Rct. Tsoul wrote:
Now to run multiple dedicated game servers, about how many should I run per computer, asuming all player slots have connections 24 hours a day, once I get this figured out I will start a gameserver hosting company.
that depends on your computers, the server settings(# of slots)... any decent pc should be easily able to handle 5 et/tce servers, if u have enough ram and a good pc, >10 are possible without problems as well since et servers dont have high system requirements.
im not sure though if starting a hosting company for ET/TCE would be a good idea. tce doesnt really need more server tbh, there are plenty, and i dont see the demand in ET anymore either...
Rct. Tsoul wrote:
Next, I know there are tricks to makeing a dedicated server run greate, such as setting max frame rates and minimum pings, so that the data stream just does not take the shortest path to the strongest connection and lag the rest of the players
in tce you usually dont set minimum pings. this isnt cod mw2 where a host is picked and thus has a big advantage. the server has the ability to give everyone a good ping depending on the distance from client to server(nowadays the i-net speed isnt important anymore coz basically everyone has probably at least 1mb/s^^). obviously players close to the server's location will have a lot lower pings then for example players from europe, but you cant help that. max pings can be set but unless you wanna exclude whole continents(which is not recommended) i wouldnt do it.
restricting the max fps for the clients normally happens via punkbuster restrictions e.g. pb_sv_cvar com_maxfps in 45 125 which specifies the valid fps range of 45-125fps to avoid buggy gameplay/engine exploits for too low or too high fps.
u cant really do anything wrong with tce servers, they are simple^^
some settings:
set sv_maxRate "25000"
set sv_dl_maxRate "100000"
set sv_allowDownload "1"
set snaps 40
set sv_timeout "360"
set g_antilag "1"
set sv_floodProtect "1"
set sv_minping "0"
set sv_maxping "0"
set sv_fps "30"
i assume u have some server config already, if not then tell me some settings u wanna have (gametype, timelimit, custom maps/files?,...) and i'll set up a config.