BF2S Forums ipetition - to EA/Dice for player limit increase to 114 & 8 man squads

Answers to specliasist:
1) more lag. ping will go up quite a bit
- Lag, wether it is network lag or graphics lag, can be avoided. Current broadband connections can take it, current servers have enough power and network capacity to take it... Graphics lag? Well, if there are 100 players in the same screen it might affect some older graphics cards. That is your personal issue if you cant afford a better one. But in PR -mod due the large scale maps it is highly unlikely to have that situation, so problem doesnt exist. In vBF2 you can have your max 64 players, again it doesnt needs to be changed. This is just about enabling the engine to go over 64 if someone wants it, and people playing the mods wants it.

Next, this term 'ping' you are using is about how long it takes for a packet to travel from place A to place B. This value is based on your location and in how congested your network usage is, it doesnt have anything to do with 100 players... Unless you are using dial-up.

2) more asshats noobs running around Tking each other/ immature insults flying like grenades

Asshats can stay playing vBF2 with their 64 player Karkand city. Again, the game doesnt need to be affected... It is just about enabling the engine to go over 64 players if someone wants it to happen.

3) 114 noobs is just too much for an administrator to keep up with. there might as well be no admin. and i hear about this auto admin crap which to be quite honest is even worse.

114 noobs can TK in 64 player servers, again.. Nothing needs to be changed, this is only about enabling the servers to go over 64 if someone wants it to happen.

Get it already?

GateKeeper{NL} wrote:

64 US marines on Wake carrier

No.

and a j10 dropping bombs on all of them...lol that would be fun to watch

32 players on 64 maps = win

[TUF]Catbox wrote:

there were plans for 128 player... levels...(even had the 128 size folders in the game modes folder of the maps)
but lag and other issues squashed that...  new comps could handle it now though i believe...

128 players would use twice the bandwidth and at least that much more processing power though, servers do have limits...

Those who have more brain would realize, that most of you vanillaplayers wouldn´t even see such a server, if DICE would make it possible to increase the player limit.

Ranked Servers do cost money. Someone has to pay for each and every single slot, so you retards can go on this server to throw your nades. A 64 Slot Server is already expensive enough, that´s why most of the clanservers are in the 32er size. There wouldn´t be many Clans, who would rent a 114 players server anyways and maybe most of the Rankedserverproviders wouldn´t even offer this option. DICE wouldn´t have to redesign the game for this, because they could simply set the limitation, that this size couldn´t be used for ranked playing.

Remember: This is nothing, that has to affect your daily Karkand Gameplay. It would just be another option, which would make an awsm Mod like PR more awsm.

Last edited by [pt] KEIOS (2008-09-29 03:26:30)

I think one day it will happen when the ISPs get better it would be so good to have something like 1000 players in 1 server on a massive map. Maybe they could make a thing where you have lots of maps joined together in a certain area and each map is a random server that you join with 64 players max in each and you could walk to the next part and it loads and you join another server etc obviously it would be different people every time you go into a different part but if the loading times are quick it would make it seem like a bigger map- if that makes any sense lol

Last edited by H3RB4L ABU53 (2008-09-29 07:53:54)

H3RB4L ABU53 wrote:

I think one day it will happen when the ISPs get better it would be so good to have something like 1000 players in 1 server on a massive map. Maybe they could make a thing where you have lots of maps joined together in a certain area and each map is a random server that you join with 64 players max in each and you could walk to the next part and it loads and you join another server etc obviously it would be different people every time you go into a different part but if the loading times are quick it would make it seem like a bigger map- if that makes any sense lol

YEAH

With BF2 netcode this would be impossible. Hitboxes would fly anywhere between 5 and 50 meters of the models.

Special_Op wrote:

there are actually 128 man servers

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/7027/128serverug3.jpg

lol hax.

JoshP wrote:

I saw that a couple of days ago actually and was liek lolwut

128 player Mashtuur city 16 man map

Wow. I missed this thread the first time. As I skimmed, a lot of people pointed towards the ablility of the servers to cope as a reason not to do this. But in reality, many physical servers run several instances of the BF2server software, so there is no reason they couldn't run fewer instances with more connections per server (AFAIK). I don't see why there shouldn't be a higher limit of players. I mean, if admins don't like it they can limit to fewer players... the more the merrier if you ask me (for big maps anyway).

Last edited by cospengle (2009-02-06 06:23:28)

fuck 114 players, why not 1024 players

Zimmer wrote:

No.