What's the deal with Internap?

[Sarge]

What does this new deal with Internap mean for gameplay?

[Vortech]

Originally Posted by Sarge

What does this new deal with Internap mean for gameplay?

Basically they've partnered with Internap for a few reasons.. The press release says they'll be utilizing:

• Performance IP™
• Content Delivery Network (CDN)
• premise-based route-optimization technology
• international data centers to support its rapidly growing business

Internap has international data centers which RTW will be housing APB servers. A major benefit of having multiple servers is lower latency/lag to players. Secondly they'll be utilizing some proprietary intelligent routing software to maintain/improve connectivity for players. While IMO they scaled things down announcing the 100 player limit this partnership has shown they have big things in store for us.

[Stainless]

Sounds interesting.

[Fluffyandevil]

im guessing this has something to do with Latency on servers?

[h0bzz]

Hopefully this game blows up, and when it does. RTW will be prepared.

[Stormray]

Originally Posted by h0bzz

Hopefully this game blows up, and when it does. RTW will be prepared.

Any EA game you can think of has never been ready for the mass player input at day 1. NFS: Shift, Bad Company 2... all had server issues. Bad ones. Like... hours of downtime bad ones.

[Soziele]

Originally Posted by Stormray

Any EA game you can think of has never been ready for the mass player input at day 1. NFS: Shift, Bad Company 2... all had server issues. Bad ones. Like... hours of downtime bad ones.

Dude Bad Company 2 STILL has server issues. It sometimes doesn't communicate round results to the stats server properly, and alot of people are having their unlocks and ranks wiped. It fixes itself in a few hours, but it's major annoying.

[Stormray]

Originally Posted by Soziele

Dude Bad Company 2 STILL has server issues. It sometimes doesn't communicate round results to the stats server properly, and alot of people are having their unlocks and ranks wiped. It fixes itself in a few hours, but it's major annoying.

Agreed. I've quit BC2 until there's some notable change.

[Killerbee]

Originally Posted by Vortech

they scaled things down announcing the 100 player limit

In each zone or server? Maybe its stupid question, but since the game is one of kind iam curious.

[Ranaro]

Originally Posted by Killerbee

In each zone or server? Maybe its stupid question, but since the game is one of kind iam curious.

100 per Zone. 100,000 per server.