Topic: Help Shecky's Super Server (Read 67 times)

SHECKY25 · « **on:** February 02, 2004, 11:26:00 AM »

Whats up fellow gamers and hackers. My name is Shecky and I would like to announce that the past week I have been running a dedicated server under the Xtag SHECKY25. It has not been on 24/7 but I will try to keep it up as long as possible. I am writing because I have some questions about my set up and R6.

   I am running off a cable connection and my numbers are higher then what is expected for a cable connection. My speed tests are clocked at best at 3/1 Mbit. Which is almost 4 times higher then what my isp provider advertises. I dont understand why nor am I about to question my provider about this circumstance. So as long as I have these speeds I will put them to go use.

   The questions I have are:

1.   What should my settings be for enable packet caching
2.   Does the maps loop or will I have to restart
3.   Can I set a limit for the ping of the players so if the exceed they will be kicked
4.   What maps do you guys want to see
5.   The settings you guys want on R6

   When testing and talking to the players I noticed that I max out around 10-12 players when the pings are reasonable, but I am not on it all the time so any feedback would be great. I also set xlinks max players to be 16 just in case people forget to sign out.

   I am going to be trying to get my friends into the scene too, but I still need to mod up there boxes. There are a total of 6 guys I am gathering up. This should be done by the end of the week and hopefully I can start getting my team together. They are not big time gamers so we will see if they get into it or not. I will be putting their names up soon so you guys can respect them in my server and help guide them along. Also you might occasionally play against my girlfriend which some of you already have and she isnt to shabby at the game so keep your guard up. I also am still learning so inform me to things such like using .50 calibers is a no-no and nobody likes sharpshooter.

   Cant think of anything else to add right now, but please give me feedback or correct anything that I am saying or doing wrong because I sure is hell dont know everything. Also, I cant say how long I will be doing this and my computer isnt solely used for serving games so it wont be up all the time. I also like to play links 2004 so I will shut it down occasionally to play other games too.

Okay, thanks for the help

-SHECKY
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boxorox · « **Reply #1 on:** February 02, 2004, 03:02:00 PM »

Shecky: Thanks for your efforts, as an avid xlink user, I truly appreciate what you are doing.

I will answer some of this, but some of it is a matter of opinion.

1.I don't know.
2.You can add maps to the list when you setup the server, the list does not loop. Ten rounds is good for a map.
3.no, but it would be cool.
4.all of them.
5.no launchers, no 50cal.rifle, Friendly fire on, punish off, thermals off, 10player games, 5 min. rounds

I like sharpshooter, but you are right, most don't.

6 guys equals clan>bring it on

thanks
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flat235 · « **Reply #2 on:** February 02, 2004, 02:44:00 PM »

Heet · « **Reply #3 on:** February 02, 2004, 06:23:00 PM »

wow thanks shecky! Ive been on there but had a good bit of lag (no offense), and it was only like 3 people so I havent been back but i'll be on tomorrow night and let you know if its improved. Thanks again.

SHECKY25 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 03, 2004, 05:28:00 AM »

Well, I have been ruining into a couple of problems with both of my xboxs. On one of them it sometimes will hang on the loading screen right after I pick the maps I want to run. On the other one during game play it will come up with a dirty disk error and I can only assume this happens doing the loading of the map when it switches maps. I dont know because I am either at school all day or at work and I dont see it happen.

Thanks for the feedback guys, I will try my best to keep it up and ruining. Hey flat235, if you get that room up and going on Kai I will move over because I keep hearing how awesome Kai is. Also if it is planned to drop high pingers then that will be nice too. I am sure if the dedicated servers switch over the R6 people will go too.

Heet, was there that much lag with only 3 people. That doesnt sound to reassuring. I am hoping it was because my girlfriend was maybe online with a combination of the other people having high pings.. we will see.

And thanks again guys..

-SHECKY
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Heet · « **Reply #5 on:** February 03, 2004, 10:17:00 AM »

It was only one time, cant let that really decide anything. I will join if i see it up! Thanks again.

llsevenll · « **Reply #6 on:** February 03, 2004, 10:33:00 AM »

Thanks for the effort sheck, your girl really likes that nade launcher huh?

Anyway, most people leave because A there's no one there B there are too many people and it's lagging.

Sharpshooter is corny, shit I got my record score of 29 kills on your server. I could get 29 kills all day and still hate sharpshooter. If you know the spawn areas you can win every time.

Try limiting it to 4on4 games (8 people Team Survival), I think you will get a much better response.

Friendly fire should be left on at least so when someone is caught cheating the other playes can go to his/her side and make a point by team killing them. There are lots of cheaters that go into your server and true's server, the reason is because everyone usually tries to join one of our severs(XR8D) and if we catch them cheating or just being an ass we kick them, so you usaully wind up with our leftovers.

Can't think of anything else, I'm being shot at, gotta go!

Thanks!

Heet · « **Reply #7 on:** February 03, 2004, 03:30:00 PM »

Playin with 6 people right now and no lag. What ever you did you fixed it.

Froggie · « **Reply #8 on:** February 04, 2004, 02:10:00 AM »

I tested tha maplist loop thing and it's NOT true that the maplist will run out. The list will keep repeating.

llsevenll does have a point here and the cheating and being an ass thing will be the worst enemies of a dedicated server. I hope team Xlink get's Kai done very fast so it will be possible to run the xlink engine on the server and use clients to control the xlink connection. Using this it will be possilbe to have multiple admins who can ban/kick players. That way it will be much easier to keep control over the server.

I also noticed that most of the time it's not the connection that's causing lag, but it's the CPU of the pc that's maintaining the Xlink connection or the pc used by the client. By testing a bit with some configs I came up with the following 'fist rule' (dunno if that's correct english, if not forgive me, I'm dutch

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No. of players + 1 * 100MHz <= CPU freq

Ofcourse this all depends on what CPU you're using. My Duron 1200 gives me roughly the same performance as my 1GHz Thunderbird. When playing with more then 8 players TRUE-is starts to lag if I use my 1200 Duron. I'm currently in necociation for an AMD XP 1700+ to power my xlink server. As soon as the CPU upgrade is done I should be able to host a 12-14 player server, since my bandwidth isn't the limiting factor.

So keep that in mind when starting a dedicated server.

I also noticed that my xbox shuts down after a few hours of hosting the server. I wonder if that's because of the heat or some other problem. Is there anybody experiencing the same?

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SHECKY25 · « **Reply #9 on:** February 04, 2004, 05:10:00 AM »

Wow, thanks for all the help guys!

First to Heet, I am glad to hear I wasnt lagging with 6 people connect. When watching the server and listening to complaints I see lag when someone with a really high ping joins up and wont leave. And just one really high ping can screw things up really bad, and to add to things recently the kick command will not respond. I dont know if this is on my side or the xlink side. When I first started serving I was able to kick now I cant.

Secondly to ||seven||, yes you are correct my girl loves the nad laucher ( no sexual pun intended well ..maybe a little)

. She doesnt have the best abilities to aim so she can just launch a nad and have a better chance for a kill. .. I wish there was a way to rotate team survival with a couple of sharpshooter rounds in there to mix it up a tad. I also notice more people able to connect without lag when its on sharpshooter. I guess its because there is less talk during the rounds I dont know. I will enable team kill on the settings. Could someone define cheating on R6? I read somewhere there was a hack or something. So, is that what you are referring to as cheating.

Thirdly to Froggie, I am running a AMD XP 2100 with 512 memory. I also noticed my xbox turning off after about 5-8 hours. If it is due to over heating I am going to bump up my fan speed to see if that changes anything. I always thought it was turning of because of my puppy fighting with it. I have it on the floor because my cat five cable is only 2 feet long and my router is on the floor. I will be getting a longer cable form work today so my pup wont be wrestling with my xbox anymore. I think he is more of a gamecube kinda guy.

Lastly, I think I figured out my loading problem. (long story). I have two xboxs lets just call them box A and box B. Box A originally had R6 on the hard drive and then I ftp R6 from A to xbox B. So I then started to server off of xbox A, But I ran into the problem of dirty disk error with xbox A. SO I decided to run the game off of xbox B but I figured it wont be any different because it is the same exact copy so it will do the same. BUT it didnt, it ran fine for 8 hours plus with out ever giving me any dirty disk error message and it has ruining for over a week. BUT what xbox B does is it will not load from after selecting the map rotation screen. I will have to try over 10 times before it will finally load. I kept wondering why it is such different problems with the same copy of R6?? I came to the conclusion it was due to the Bios because they are different on each box. Box A has the Xecuter 47something. Box B has the newest Bios with the xbox live disable feature , and every time I start R6 the cannot connect to live error come up, which is good because thats whats it is suppose to do. I came to the conclusion when R6 figures that it cannot connect to live it wont be able to connect to system link. SO I decided to disconnect my cat 5 when I boot up R6 then connect it when I start me dedicated server. It works perfectly fine now. So any one with the same problem can do the same thing to fix it. Also a side note, I have noticed it hanging at the first loading screen too when I have it connected, so disconnected the cat 5 if this happens to you too.

Thanks again guys

SHECKY

Heet · « **Reply #10 on:** February 04, 2004, 05:22:00 AM »

Shecky see if you set the xbox to auto power off in the ms dash...that may be it. Again thanks for running these dedicated guys. Its a great thing.

Froggie · « **Reply #11 on:** February 04, 2004, 11:59:00 AM »

Hey, I haven't tought about that autopower off thing. That might be it.
I'll be running my own server tonight. It's laying open on the floor with a 92mm fan on the cpu heatsink so I'll have a hard time sleeping tonight

Anyway, if it still shuts down tonight I'm gonne try the auto power down setting. <

chilin_dude · « **Reply #12 on:** February 04, 2004, 10:57:00 AM »

Heet · « **Reply #13 on:** February 04, 2004, 03:41:00 PM »

ew...if its on your floor open becareful with your mcpx chip. They are known to fry if boxes are on and open for long periods of time..... <

SHECKY25 · « **Reply #14 on:** February 04, 2004, 09:58:00 PM »

Tonight was the first time I actually sat down and played a few games on my server. I was astonished on the behavior of some of the individuals that will stay unnamed. The environment I would prefer my server to be is one that is open to the public and welcomes all levels of gaming and from different ethnic backgrounds. There was countless bashing of individuals who were either newbies and/or spoke with an accent. I will not tolerate ignorance on my server. Trash talking is more than welcome if and only if both parties know that it is done with humor and good intentions. Just because your inside your own home where you usually behave as you please doesnt give you the power to come into my server and act like the D I C K head you are.
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