Putting Our Ages On Shards

[Robert The Rebuilder]

I'm glad to see input from the shard owners about this.

Zrax, you bring up an interesting point. Will someone who visited a shard that has fan-created content and then visits a "normal" shard (e.g. D'mala) cause any problems? Or is that what your new client does?

And how does Volcano provide access to the new ages: a new book in Relto, pedestals placed somewhere, new entries in the Nexus, etc?

[Kedri]

We're in the beta-testing stage now, and we just got a book in relto working.

It's going to be a patcher. We're hoping to make the data movable if someone wants to go on D'mala.

[ShadowDude]

[quote="Robert The Rebuilder"]Zrax, you bring up an interesting point.  Will someone who visited a shard that has fan-created content and then visits a "normal" shard (e.g. D'mala) cause any problems?  Or is that what your new client does?

[Starfyre]

[Starfyre]

Zrak, How can one get their ages added to your server? That would be my main concern. There are four ages here at Age Builders (two still waiting in the wings for now) and two still being worked on.

Also how would your server handle Ahra Pahts? As new shells are finished more of the City will be opened which means updated files would need to be downloaded.

[Zrax]

Currently, ages can be put on the data server by just asking me to do so . However, I realize this is somewhat inefficient, so after the project is released and any initial bugs are worked out, I've been thinking to create an interface of sorts for age developers to upload new versions and patches to the server... However, my main concern there isn't really the uploading or maintaining of the ages, but rather the fact that the server they're on right now (my server) is *really* slow for uploads... For setting up a management system or FTP or anything like that, it'd be easy to do, but I'm hoping we can find a faster server before we release it...

Hmm, I seem to recall AgeBuilder hosting UAM data here; you all wouldn't, perchance, be interested in helping with the Volcano Dataserver too would you? XD

[zib_redlektab]

i'll volunteer the tomato server (my server) if no others can be found.

the specs are:
Intel Celeron D 340 2.93GHz Processor
Motherboard: Mach Speed Matrix P4M800 Via Socket 478 MicroATX
Memory: 512M Ultra PC3200 DDR RAM
OS: Ubuntu 5.04

its run here in my house, and my internet plan has (i think) unlimited bandwidth, as long as the bill keeps getting paid.

http://tomatoshard.servegame.org:8081
(it has to be 8081, port 80 was blocked by my ISP :rolleyes: )

it's not extremely fast, but it hasn't let me down yet. i run my shard on there, so i know it can handle some traffic (yeah, it was never stress tested, but still).

[Starfyre]

[quote="Zrax"] Hmm, I seem to recall AgeBuilder hosting UAM data here; you all wouldn't, perchance, be interested in helping with the Volcano Dataserver too would you? XD

[Robert The Rebuilder]

Zrax: One key thing on the agreement that Kedri and J'anim received is that the ages are to be made available on a UU shard server. Does Volcano supply a modified server as well as a client, or only a new (patched) client?


EDIT: Removed secondary question that is answered on this thread.

[Tsar Hoikas]

Just a patched client.