theDude5B
Cool member
+805|7192
this is the milestone which EA have annonced as the highest number of players online at the same time.

now i am worried, because lately i have noticed that the stats seem to be taking a hell of a lot longer to update. This would maybe because of the high number of players who are all playing online at the same time.
I played for about 7 hours on sunday and was soo sure that i had get over 20,000 points to get promoted but in the BFHQ and on the stats web sites, it did not say i had a score over this. even after checking different times of the day, my stats didnt get updated. then when i checked on monday i had 20, 250 points. logged onto BF2, joined a game and got promoted after my first kill. i then left the game to try and get the unlocks, but even after restarting the game i didnt get any unlocks. so i joined another server and got promoted again!!! to the same rank!!!

something is funny in the land of the stats server! if the number of players keeps on increasing, then i recon the stats will get worse and worse.
B.Schuss
I'm back, baby... ( sort of )
+664|7283|Cologne, Germany

I remember when Steam was in its early days, Valve had underestimated the load their servers would have to take. This lead to some unscheduled server downtime...

after that, they beefed up the server racks considerably.

I don't know what averages EA calculated as far as number of players playing at the same time is considered, but I think it is quite possible 52,000 does push their limits. and you really cannot test something like that.

Still, 50,000 players is only about 5% of all registered BF2 owners. I guess we should be happy that due to timezone issues, not all of those 1,000,000 guys can play at the same time...
NM156
The H4xor Mod
+161|7288|North Texas
That probably had something to do with it. But I'm kind of leaning toward the human factor. For the last few weekends, the stats aren't updating "normally" like they do during the week. I think that there is some sort of manual update process causing these lagged updates too. Something isn't right on the weekends.


Also, there are an alarming number of live stat sites that could be bogging the stats server down. This site, and bf2tracker are the only one's I'm aware of that use the newer XML stat feed. All the others use the BFHQ feed. Not good for the players/servers...
^*AlphA*^
F*ckers
+3,135|7180|The Hague, Netherlands

but this happend to me twice now(dont know before that), ones before 1.2 was released the stats wern't updating normally and now that day with euroforce was 2 days away, now euroforce is coming out later and al my stats were updating quick again.
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