Renting a server on the official company seem to cost 50-100$ a month, good thing you can run your own server. Might just get my old desktop from the basement and give this a try. Most games these days don't allow this anymore for a good reason really, so...
As long as the game is not too expensive I'll give it a go. I'm not paying full price 50$ for this thing though.
In a new developer blog on the CE site, the devs revealed a number of details about servers and mods. Funcom has partnered with Pingperfect that will host both the official game servers and the private servers that can be rented by players, a service that can be utilized immediately to reserve space for the game's launch at the end of the month.
Servers will be able to accommodate up to 70 players per server with the idea to increase that number at full release.
Funcom will be setting up official servers in the following categories: Purist, Relaxed, Hard Core, Role Playing, Experimental and Random. These servers will be wiped every 30-days.
Players can also set up private servers with admins able to modify and alter gameplay to suit their own particular wishes. Settings enable admins to determing PvP, sandstorms, what is lost on death, day/night cycle, health / stamina of players, resources, experience and resource respawn rates. Adjustments can be made on the fly as well.
Funcom will provide full mod support as well and will be available at the start of Early Access. A special Unreal Engine editor will be available for download that will allow a full suite of tools to create mods. The team has plans to reveal more in the near future.
From this info and the article it seems that players cannot run their own servers on their own hardware or other rented server space. That means in order to play the game we would need to be on the 30 day wipe cycle servers or pay an additional ongoing fee to play. How much is that fee?
This pretty much wipes the game completely off my radar. If that's the case then Funcom can fuck right off. They screwed me out of Lego Minifigures this way. They made a niche multiplayer game and then closed servers a year later screwing everyone out of what they paid for the game.
They should provide the server package to run the game anywhere you want how you want.
Yeah from how I read it, we can either play on the official servers with the specified rulesets and be subject to the 30 day wipes, or pay to rent a server if we want our own rules and no wipes.
They screwed me out of Lego Minifigures this way. They made a niche multiplayer game and then closed servers a year later screwing everyone out of what they paid for the game.
I think before the close they even pulled a f2p-b2p switch, which was puzzling... the whole idea was a f2p game where you pay for the additional Minifigs - and then months later, "oh, btw we're now charging for the game too". (but maybe I remember wrong, only dabbled with Minifigs for a week, maybe)
Funcoms track record on game problems is sorded at best. There most likely will be problems coming down the road after release.
This is an early access...if you expect no issues please do not get the early access. There is enough complaining on sites like this we don't need people complaining about a bug during the early access...the rest of us who understand what an early access is will report those bugs to Funcom.
Setting up a private server is incredibly easy. A copy of Conan Exiles purchased through Steam comes packaged with a dedicated server tool. Once the game exists in your library you can install a private server on any machine from Steam. Head to your Steam library, go to the tools menu and find Conan Exiles. From there you can install your private Conan Exiles server and set it up. You can find an example of some of the server settings in the image below.
Setting up a private server is incredibly easy. A copy of Conan Exiles purchased through Steam comes packaged with a dedicated server tool. Once the game exists in your library you can install a private server on any machine from Steam. Head to your Steam library, go to the tools menu and find Conan Exiles. From there you can install your private Conan Exiles server and set it up. You can find an example of some of the server settings in the image below.
Another good use of my personal server at work, already setup with SteamCMD for things like this.
Keeping in mind that Dark and Light original a decade ago was also overhyped, totally didn't deliver what they promised and never fully released... I wouldnt give a cent for this new one
As in never fully released , What do you mean , because i played it for 2 years ??
Uhm, the recommended GFX card is pretty high end... 1070 or AMD with similar performance is hardly not anything everybody own. I think that will turn some people off the game.
Perhaps now but by the time 'early release' is over and the game officially releases the 1070 will be pretty cheap.
Pretty cheap is highly subjective - to some $2000 is cheap to others $100 is expensive. I doubt that 1070 will be under $200 any time soon.
Yeah, the 1160 and the 1250 should have about similar stats when they release in the future but there will be a time before an average PC can run the game at recommended specs.
It isn't the first time FunCom have high specs, AoC got a lot of complains for the same thing. Eventually that fixes itself and AoC finally got optimized after a year so far more people could run it but it initially upset many people. While the game stay looking good for longer it is a risky strategy.
The 30 day wipe cycle pretty much prevents me from playing on the official servers. I am an RPG player in core, so periodic loss of my progress makes playing the game a waste of time, for me.
I understand that it is a design choice that it supposed to mitigate other issues, but I still dislike it.
To be honest, i don't think official RP servers will be that good. It depends too much on the mod/admin team supervising the whole affair, and generally a dedicated community with heir own server can do better job at policing the place (as well as be more active when it comes to player/GM driven events). Look at Neverwinter Nights. There are still servers for NwN2 running with their communities, enjoying the game so many years from release.
Was really looking forward to this game, but even if the 70 per server increases to 100 or so that's way too small to keep a hardcore pvper like myself and the guild I'd bring with me interested. I'd even pay extra for a more dedicated server designed to support large-scale pvp, after all 35v35(likely never to happen) doesn't do Hyboria's brutality justice.
Meanwhile, the 30 day wipe is short unless there's a mechanic to keep character progress intact and they're just wiping the landscape (player buildings/items).
If you host your own server you can decide your own rules, so if you don't want to wipe you don't configure it ( I think ).
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As long as the game is not too expensive I'll give it a go. I'm not paying full price 50$ for this thing though.
(but maybe I remember wrong, only dabbled with Minifigs for a week, maybe)
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We need an official MMORPG private server.
Brrrflp!
Another good use of my personal server at work, already setup with SteamCMD for things like this.
Brrrflp!
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It isn't the first time FunCom have high specs, AoC got a lot of complains for the same thing. Eventually that fixes itself and AoC finally got optimized after a year so far more people could run it but it initially upset many people. While the game stay looking good for longer it is a risky strategy.
To be honest, i don't think official RP servers will be that good. It depends too much on the mod/admin team supervising the whole affair, and generally a dedicated community with heir own server can do better job at policing the place (as well as be more active when it comes to player/GM driven events). Look at Neverwinter Nights. There are still servers for NwN2 running with their communities, enjoying the game so many years from release.
If you host your own server you can decide your own rules, so if you don't want to wipe you don't configure it ( I think ).