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[martinuzz]

I've been busy building a base on my TS group's server, and took some time off to design a claw fighter.
If anyone's interested, I put it up on the workshop: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=405607661

It might be fun to get a few people together for some dogfights!

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

I've been busy building a base on my TS group's server, and took some time off to design a claw fighter.
If anyone's interested, I put it up on the workshop: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=405607661

It might be fun to get a few people together for some dogfights!

If we could get a server.

[LoSboccacc]

as long as dedicated servers will go on windows it will be a pita to host and keep them up :/
(talking as I tried to keep a 7 days to die server up)

[forsaken1111]

as long as they're doing weekly updates I won't be hosting a server. PITA

[martinuzz]

as long as they're doing weekly updates I won't be hosting a server. PITA

Oh lol this made me laugh hard.
Normally, people complain about NOT having weekly updates

[alexandertnt]

as long as they're doing weekly updates I won't be hosting a server. PITA

Oh lol this made me laugh hard.
Normally, people complain about NOT having weekly updates

Those people aren't trying to host a server

[LoSboccacc]

as long as they're doing weekly updates I won't be hosting a server. PITA

Oh lol this made me laugh hard.
Normally, people complain about NOT having weekly updates

Those people aren't trying to host a server

exactly. not gonna pay a window server license to host a game.

[zombat]

Communists

[Sensei]

For what it's worth, I'm pretty sure you can get your server to restart with regular windows. Have Windows Events restart the server on thursdays by shutting it down (might require a batch script to kill the process, kludgy I know) and then just starting it through a shortcut. Alternatively, if you're more of a programmer than I am, you can probably configure a script to check for news page updates every so often and restart the sever when, say, there's an update with four or more numerical characters in the title.

[n9103]

There's a dedicated server for this from Keen.
The server executable has the option to install itself as a service.
This service will/can autostart when the server/computer is started/logged in. (adjustable through windows services)

I've personally had this, and a TS3 server both running on my desktop, and had uptime of over 95% (because of a couple non-local power failures,) with time between restarts as long as (I think) 13 days, and rarely less than 4.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

I've personally had this, and a TS3 server both running on my desktop, and had uptime of over 95% (because of a couple non-local power failures,) with time between restarts as long as (I think) 13 days, and rarely less than 4.

Don't forget the weird 'not connecting to the internet list' thing.  I have thought of another reason that might be: Maybe you made a whitelist steam group for it?

[forsaken1111]

There's a dedicated server for this from Keen.
The server executable has the option to install itself as a service.
This service will/can autostart when the server/computer is started/logged in. (adjustable through windows services)

I've personally had this, and a TS3 server both running on my desktop, and had uptime of over 95% (because of a couple non-local power failures,) with time between restarts as long as (I think) 13 days, and rarely less than 4.

Yes, that is great but weekly updates means that people with steam auto-update will be bugging you to update/restart the server.

[n9103]

Language warning
@Zan:
Nope. Nothing like that, and it would have to be set in the server config, which it isn't. My only assumption is that my ISP is a cunt. Kind of surprising, since they were so good about it for so long.

@forsaken:
Can't be helped. If people are committed to a specific server, particularly one based around a community, they should be in touch with the admin and/or have a way of being told when the server updates and/or get their panties unbunched and wait for the server to catch up to the last update that broke connectivity.
Steam still notifies you (via blue/yellow text in games list) than an update is pending to SE. Those kind of patches aren't weekly, so it's not a constant event. If the player's too immature to deal with this, then you shouldn't be bothered by not catering to them.
That said, I was usually available via the TS for issues and the few times someone said something, I solved the issue in short order.

[BurnedToast]

You can rent a dedicated server for pretty cheap (like $10 - $15  month or something). If you have a group of people just pass the hat around (so to speak) and you should be able to collect enough to rent a server for a few months.

However in my experience multiplayer is incredibly poorly optimized. I tried about a dozen servers and none of them (even the ones with no-one else on the server) had a simspeed better then 0.6 or so. It's not just me either since my friend with a computer that's MUCH better then mine also had similar simspeed issues (his were slightly better but not a lot better).

Low simspeed causes a LOT of problems and desyncs so everything is laggy, ships warp around everywhere, you can't walk around in a moving ship without randomly getting thrown into space, etc.

Until they do some serious multiplayer optimization, large (or even medium) scale multiplayer games are not really viable.

Edit: I actually found a server with 1.0 simspeed so I guess it's possible, though it seems to be a relatively new server (didn't find anything built anywhere) with a limited worldsize, so I guess I'll see if it stays high or if it eventually degrades as people build. (name is something like 666devildogs if anyone is curious)

[TheDarkStar]

This got a much-needed update that adds directional conveyors which can be set to only let some things through.