NetKar Servers

by Piers Structures Wed Jul 20, 2011 12:20 am

Piers Structures

Piers Structures: Driver; Posts : 84
Join date : 2011-03-24

Post n°1

NetKar Servers

Post by Piers Structures Wed Jul 20, 2011 12:20 am

Why are most NK servers are set at 15 users?

by **giancarlo graziano** Wed Jul 20, 2011 12:48 am

giancarlo graziano

giancarlo graziano: ---; Posts : 5882
Join date : 2009-05-11
Age : 54
Location : Berlin

Post n°2

Re: NetKar Servers

Post by giancarlo graziano Wed Jul 20, 2011 12:48 am

we was testing years ago...20 cars on grid..but the limit of nkp is the number 15
crash brutally wen we put more grid position...

by Piers Structures Wed Jul 20, 2011 12:58 am

Piers Structures

Piers Structures: Driver; Posts : 84
Join date : 2011-03-24

Post n°3

Re: NetKar Servers

Post by Piers Structures Wed Jul 20, 2011 12:58 am

Thanks Andrea. So nothing to do with bandwith?

by **giancarlo graziano** Wed Jul 20, 2011 1:29 am

giancarlo graziano

giancarlo graziano: ---; Posts : 5882
Join date : 2009-05-11
Age : 54
Location : Berlin

Post n°4

Re: NetKar Servers

Post by giancarlo graziano Wed Jul 20, 2011 1:29 am

nop

by René Lorig Wed Jul 20, 2011 1:31 am

René Lorig

René Lorig: Driver; Posts : 297
Join date : 2010-04-22
Age : 29
Location : Braunschweig, Germany

Post n°5

Re: NetKar Servers

Post by René Lorig Wed Jul 20, 2011 1:31 am

Piers Structures wrote:Thanks Andrea. So nothing to do with bandwith?

Unfortunately the netcode of nK doesn't allow more.
And his name is Giancarlo, by the way. Very Happy

by **Andrea Lojelo** Wed Jul 20, 2011 1:46 am

Andrea Lojelo

Andrea Lojelo: ---; Posts : 12576
Join date : 2009-04-26
Age : 45
Location : Den Haag

Post n°6

Re: NetKar Servers

Post by Andrea Lojelo Wed Jul 20, 2011 1:46 am

it's not about the bandwidth, just the way it's coded. It was a decision a the beginning of the core project. Kunos said that changing it to add more slots wouldn't be trivial, because would mean to revise quite a lot of code.

in any case with the numbers we have in nk, 15 is a good number to have balanced groups.
furthermore, more slots = more bandwidth, so more strict requirements for servers and clients.

by Piers Structures Wed Jul 20, 2011 10:10 am

Piers Structures

Piers Structures: Driver; Posts : 84
Join date : 2011-03-24

Post n°7

Re: NetKar Servers

Post by Piers Structures Wed Jul 20, 2011 10:10 am

Thanks again Andrea. The manual does say 15 but the server reports stats for 20 clients and doesn't throw an error with the config file set to >15, hence my slight confusion. I'll be making available a "vulture racing" server (or two) which sit at the end of a 100/100Mbs link. They will probably end up evenings and weekends only but if they can be of assistance to Radiator Springs in any way, let me know.