16 people to start a private match!?

[GordonVanDyke]

Remembered this detail that might help; There is one person the creates the Lobby and sets the Server to the map, once he invites one person (i.e. other clan leader if it is a clan match) and he invites people he knows that the lobby creator might not. The creator of the Lobby then manages the team and sorts who is on what team. So if friends want to muck about have your friends invite their friends. Bit tired today, so let me know if that makes any sense...

[Killzone_Kid]

Originally Posted by GordonVanDyke

Remembered this detail that might help; There is one person the creates the Lobby and sets the Server to the map, once he invites one person (i.e. other clan leader if it is a clan match) and he invites people he knows that the lobby creator might not. The creator of the Lobby then manages the team and sorts who is on what team. So if friends want to muck about have your friends invite their friends. Bit tired today, so let me know if that makes any sense...

Great bit of info! Can 1 person invite everyone or there got to be 2 leaders for that?

[FootFingers]

i've grown sick of bad company. mostly for the fact there were no private servers. And dice or ea didn't think it would be nesccarcy for clan support. this will be fun for competive games..
if DICE going to have their own clan ladder or are they running off the GB's ladder. Its in the same catogry as UNO; it deserves something better!

[Nitr0g3n1x]

Well this sux, why not just make it so that private servers = unranked? What happens to the small clans? SiC for instance only have like 8 members yet they are one of the best clans on PS3. More lala.

[1Bryce1]

Good bit of reassuring info GvD, the ability of multiple people to invite was something severely lacking in BC.

You can always find a merc for anyone who needs an extra body. Hell I'm down.

[GordonVanDyke]

I'll look into all these question this week to make sure I get the details correct.

Originally Posted by Nitr0g3n1x

Well this sux, why not just make it so that private servers = unranked? What happens to the small clans? SiC for instance only have like 8 members yet they are one of the best clans on PS3. More lala.

It's unranked which has nothing to do with the player limit if you'd take a moment to read. Once you add a clan of 8 and another clan of 8 you get 16! OMG, that means they can have a match! And I hope they're better at playing than your arithmetic!

[WDAOPTIMUS]

Originally Posted by GordonVanDyke

I'll look into all these question this week to make sure I get the details correct.

It's unranked which has nothing to do with the player limit if you'd take a moment to read. Once you add a clan of 8 and another clan of 8 you get 16! OMG, that means they can have a match! And I hope they're better and playing than your arithmetic!

ROFL! Damn GVD you need some with a woman to release some anger! LOL

[GordonVanDyke]

Originally Posted by WDAOPTIMUS

ROFL! Damn GVD you need some with a woman to release some anger! LOL

Or sleep.

[Evil_Paladin]

Originally Posted by WDAOPTIMUS

ROFL! Damn GVD you need some with a woman to release some anger! LOL

dude Gordon is a game dev, he is probably getting some every night from a different woman. And if so, thats a true inspiration for the children! Be a game dev and we gurantee you make money and you get some!

[M0t0rBreath89]

I have always wondered how much money Devs make. Probably depends on how successful the studio is.

[Studio]

cmon man... easy on the guy... he dev'd the game and he has bosses to answer to that dont care about lag and servers and stuff they mostly care about staying in business.

im actually incredibly surprised he takes the time 2 even come to these forums and talk. im sure some lawyer somewhere has suggested its just gonna open a can of worms. but he still comes here and gives up the data, so he must be on the gamers side.

actually the private rooms make sense in that once you got a friend inside, you just pass the word to join him/her and the lucky few that get in, get in.

heres one for ya... this one would really ruffle feathers:
private room match, clan thing... team one is winning, team 2 not so much.
suddenly, someone from team 2 leaves and the room goes to "waiting for someone to jump in to start the match"

course the guy who left is prolly gonna claim "oh, i got disconnected... sorry"

those last minute winning losses are gonna be a burn going down

B

[Ronin0ni]

You need 16 to start the server, afterwards it prolly stays alive so lone as you have 4 players (like in BFBC)

[1Bryce1]

Hate to be the guy that drops out when there's only 16 and makes the server reset.

Yo Gord, I haven't really seen a serious answer as to why were stuck with the 24 person limit. Is that a console thing or is Frostbite a bandwidth hog and any more would be laggy? We can only speculate.

[Patricio92]

Originally Posted by 1Bryce1

Hate to be the guy that drops out when there's only 16 and makes the server reset.

Yo Gord, I haven't really seen a serious answer as to why were stuck with the 24 person limit. Is that a console thing or is Frostbite a bandwidth hog and any more would be laggy? We can only speculate.

same, battlefield is knowed to be the game with more slots (well, thats what i know) since 1942,
because conquest in bfbc is boring with 24 players.... you go from flag to flag, and maybe, just maybe, you find someone to kill...

didnt understand something, private servers are unranked? if its like that, its perfect, i hate people who only get games for trophies...
i mean, i love them, but just get all the trophies and pretend to be a good player because he have all the trophies, thats not ok...

[Oizu]

sorry but thats a load of lalalala, you might aswell not have private servers frankly

[Jonnyporsche]

Originally Posted by Oizu

sorry but thats a load of lalalala, you might aswell not have private servers frankly

Thats a bit harsh, like allready said, the servers are the 'best' they can get and letting a server go to just a few people, whilst fun, isnt realy an option, and also said games like COD use P2P hosting, but the frost bite engine doesnt allow it.

Edit: AND its only an arcade game.

[Sibben]

Battlefield 1943 is a server/client game and not peer-to-peer. That means we set up the servers and pay for them. It's just not possible for us to have an unlimited amount of servers running which means we need to find some balance. So if two chaps start a game just to LOL around that means there is one sever less available for a full set of people who wants to play a proper game. This is the reason we set a 8 vs 8 limit as we still want to provide clans with a possibility to set up their own games.

For a fifteen dollar downloadable game I think that's a pretty fair deal. So does Gordon, and my guess is that that's why he gets a little peeved off when people just demand the moon. I know because it ticks me off a bit too. We're really trying to give you a good game at a decent price point and there are limitations to what we can do.

[pahkiller]

Originally Posted by Sibben

Battlefield 1943 is a server/client game and not peer-to-peer. That means we set up the servers and pay for them. It's just not possible for us to have an unlimited amount of servers running which means we need to find some balance. So if two chaps start a game just to LOL around that means there is one sever less available for a full set of people who wants to play a proper game. This is the reason we set a 8 vs 8 limit as we still want to provide clans with a possibility to set up their own games.

For a fifteen dollar downloadable game I think that's a pretty fair deal. So does Gordon, and my guess is that that's why he gets a little peeved off when people just demand the moon. I know because it ticks me off a bit too. We're really trying to give you a good game at a decent price point and there are limitations to what we can do.

I assume the above quote is for consoles games only what about for the PC gamers?
Will PC gamers have a lot of servers same as e.g. BF2?
As it works differently to console servers.

[BiffTanner]

Originally Posted by Sibben

Battlefield 1943 is a server/client game and not peer-to-peer. That means we set up the servers and pay for them. It's just not possible for us to have an unlimited amount of servers running which means we need to find some balance. So if two chaps start a game just to LOL around that means there is one sever less available for a full set of people who wants to play a proper game. This is the reason we set a 8 vs 8 limit as we still want to provide clans with a possibility to set up their own games.

For a fifteen dollar downloadable game I think that's a pretty fair deal. So does Gordon, and my guess is that that's why he gets a little peeved off when people just demand the moon. I know because it ticks me off a bit too. We're really trying to give you a good game at a decent price point and there are limitations to what we can do.

Fully appreciate what you guys are doing, its a shame the limit is at 16 but your stuck with limited resources with this games bargain price.
Just curious, could you give a rough estimate to how much bandwidth & processing power a frostbite server requires?

[Sibben]

Thanks Biff.

Actually I have no idea how the back-end works as I've had very little to do with that. I do know there is a lot of data being shuffled back and forth with all the destruction and physics.

[BiffTanner]

Ah, no worries.
Thanks for replying anyway Sibben, was just wondering as would be nice if the next batch on consoles have the ablility to handle the processing power that frostibte requires, just a case of the bandwidth each player would take up. Hopefully someone else might be able to answer that in the future.

Keep up the sterling work anyway, I just hope you guys do well enough with this one that you get to add some more classic maps in the future, possibly from the african campaign

[Patricio92]

Originally Posted by pahkiller

I assume the above quote is for consoles games only what about for the PC gamers?
Will PC gamers have a lot of servers same as e.g. BF2?
As it works differently to console servers.

bf2, bf1942, bf2142, servers are not payed by dice, you can open your own ranked server.... and u have to pay for it... this is for all pc games... except bf heroes! for now..

[Studio]

Dude...you could give us the moon

then someone would whine that they cant get mars cuz of the glitch.

don't sweat what people want. they get what you give em. if they want something different, they can go to school, learn to program, find a buncha people to work with, incorporate, work for 10 years or so, throw out the first version, go bankrupt, start all over and eventually get a product to market. then they can sit here and go "huh, i guess it is a drag to have people constantly asking for more and more"

you guys got it... the dl method for selling 1943 will shake up the rest of the industry.

peace
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[Sibben]

WORD!

I think this community here is great tbh. Enthusiasm and knowledge.

[davyg19788]

random question but how big will the download be?

i only have like 2 gig of space left