Curious about max population

[Mady]

Was reading server info on EQEmu site:

Worldserver Name: Project 1999 - Classic Legit PVE Progression
Server Version: 0.8.0
Server Status: UP
Players Online: 407
Average Players: 469
Max Players: 903

Isn't it around 850+ at prime time now? What happens when that 904th person tries to log in. Que lines.

As the title says I'm just curious. Not playing a Chicken Little here.

*EDIT -

Never mind, it's early morning, my reading comprehension is off. Rereading after I posted, I'm sure that means the max that has been on.

Move along please, only thing here is the village idiot. O/

[Cfred0-]

dnt log off.

[Yukona]

I think you are confused... It's not max players allowed... It's max that have ever been on at once. So when player 904 logs in, the new max will be.... 9@d. :)

[Crimsonghost]

When I saw this I thought maxed ALLOWED was 903 too...Thanks for clearing this up, I can now sleep a bit better at night )

[toddfx]

http://toddfx.com/img/909.jpg

[Rael]

So what's the max players *allowed* at the moment? 2-3k? Is Rogean's server equivalent to a 1999 SOE server?

[Rogean]

SOE Didn't run the game on a single server. They were clustered to probably a dozen or two physical servers.

It's hard to tell exactly what type of setup they had.. they may have just had a physical server run the same zone for every game server.

There currently is no cap on allowed players.

[Itchybottom]

It's hard to tell exactly what type of setup they had.. they may have just had a physical server run the same zone for every game server.

I actually discussed this back in the day, after being yelled at for sending a tell directly to a GM. Oh no, I ruined their reply button... According to GM-Lead Admin Akkirus in mid-2000, Rallos Zek ran 15 zones per physical server (which were running Katmai core Xeons on Windows NT) and were due for an upgrade "in the coming months". I never spoke to him after the fact, and Lady Daegarmo during some undead event at a later date in Qeynos Hills said she had no idea about the new hardware or OS, it "wasn't her thing". I do know most of their bulk bandwidth was provided by Akamai, so you can only imagine the expenses involved to keep just one server chugging along.

[Rogean]

They probably use akamai for stuff like patch files or media downloads, websites, etc.. which makes sense, they are a CDN. But for the game servers themselves I believe they run their own data center using a few tier 1 backbone providers.