Perhaps blues name database should be carried over to green?

[DMN]

Originally Posted by romomike [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm fairly sure people will be able to differentiate between names on two separate servers. You have a forum handle, that nobody can take from you. You'll be fine.

What the hell does the forum name have anything to do with? And it will be quite easy for people to confuse names and to claim they are person "x" from blue.

it goes both ways, too. If you made a character on green with anything similar to the name bvmmy/bummey you'd spend the rest of your days responding to "book up?"tells.

[Jimjam]

I'm Spartacus!

[Izmael]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Servers share databases all the time (in fact, the standard setup on any sufficiently advanced site is to have your database on a completely separate server from your application server, and then have multiple application servers since you tend to need to scale them up faster than you need to scale database capacity).

So while I know nothing about P99's setup, I'd be amazed if there was any technical reason preventing it. But whether this is actually the staff's vision for Green is an entirely separate question.

Red and Blue don't seem to share their databases. Most likely Green won't share its database with anything else, either.

I'm not even sure sharing databases or even just tables between servers is even that practical. EQEmu uses MySQL and there must be some amount of locking going on, most likely not meant to be shared between servers at all.

[Bardp1999]

Name trolling in game is already VERY prevalent

[kotton05]

I’m actually not playing green other than I have about 10 accounts ready to make every name I can remember.

[ZiggyTheMuss]

Originally Posted by DMN [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What the hell does the forum name have anything to do with? And it will be quite easy for people to confuse names and to claim they are person "x" from blue.

it goes both ways, too. If you made a character on green with anything similar to the name bvmmy/bummey you'd spend the rest of your days responding to "book up?"tells.

Weird, it’s almost like it’s a different server.

[DMN]

Originally Posted by ZiggyTheMuss [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Weird, it’s almost like it’s a different server.

Weird, it's almost like you had a point.

[Freakish]

When you make dumb names like I do you don't worry about people stealing them.

[Jibartik]

We'd all be named variations of Jibaner! I am 100% ok with this! I hope they do! It would honestly be cool cus all the new players with guises would be named Xiiltith meanwhile all the old timers be own the names like Ruby Breastplate and Tunnel Rattattat

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Izmael [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Red and Blue don't seem to share their databases. Most likely Green won't share its database with anything else, either.

I'm not even sure sharing databases or even just tables between servers is even that practical. EQEmu uses MySQL and there must be some amount of locking going on, most likely not meant to be shared between servers at all.

Again, I can't speak to P99's specific setup, but what I can say is sharing databases (and every table in them) between multiple other servers is extremely practical, whether it's with MySQL, PostgreSQL, or any other database (even NoSQL ones like MongoDB).

Again, the standard setup for any small to medium sized website you visit (ie. not gianormous ones like Google or Amazon) is:

• multiple application servers (the servers running your app's logic ... the equivalent of Blue, Red, and Green)
• multiple web servers (servers that just serve static files like images and HTML)
• some load balancers to distribute the traffic between them
• a single database server

Crucially, you want to avoid having multiple DB servers as long as possible, because multiple DB servers are a giant PITA (you noted "locking" issues; multiple DB servers have much more of that kind of problem). Even that's doable though (there are ways to split DBs between multiple servers), it's just a hassle you want to avoid as long as you can.

So again, all the major (but not super-major) websites you visit work by sharing a single database server (quite possibly with a MySQL database) between multiple application servers ... unless of course they're so small they only have a single app server. Speaking in generalities, there's no technical reason why P99 can't do the same.