problems with connecting

[lowzeewee]

Yeah Gob, is it Lou Castle that you mean ?

I read an interesting interview with him about him moving to LA.

and about the game servers for EA games.He said that it costs alot of money and resources to maintain the game servers.

So that maybe answers the question as to why the Emp server is so bad.

Reading between the lines of his interview, it seems that EA games want to charge a monthly fee, for playing online games.

I wonder if EA would sort out the server problems if players of EMP were prepared to pay a small fee ? :(

Say if it is $300[underestimating... ;)],and there are 15 players[i think I am exaggerating],would you pay $20 a month to play?

[ken124578]

No.

[Apollyon]

FUCK that! I mean really. Money grabbing pathetic excuses for human beings. >:(

[jeff2429]

For all of us what u say loyal to Dune in playing. How many yall still try playing the WOL and who switched to Olaf's server?

[Chris Longpre]

:) Hey All!

Just a quick comment on connection issues. Since the Blaster worm made its debut, I've had intermittant connection problems on various web sites, game sites, and other internet traffic. This is both from home (cable modem) and work (T1).

When an email virus infects such a large number of machines, and they are constantly emailing themselves to *everyone* on that machine's address book, and they are actively scanning IP ranges, looking for open machines to link to, it creates a lot of packets flying around the internet. A WHOLE LOT.

Now, when your un-infected machine is just trying to connect to a game site, some of the machines that pass your packets along the line to your final server destination, will be so busy handling all this junk-virus traffic, that your packets will not get serviced, and expire. i.e. a lost packet. This causes lost connections, page not available, and other errors.

Sending packets to any server, will 'hop' accross a number of machines, could be 5 or 6, or 20+. It all depends on where you are connected on the internet, and where the final destination is. Hence, you may have good connection with Battle.net, but lousey with gamespy.com. Your traffic is routed along different computers in those 2 cases.

Anyways, it seems to have gotten a lot better in the past 4-5 days. I can finally play DAOC & UT-2003 again, and my business web traffic is much more steady.

Virus' suck.

Game On.

~Chris

[Atomic Mitten]

Interesting. Well EA contacted me last night and their rep has now passed on the addresses I provided him with to his NOC?

He says he will let me know as soon as he gets a reply.