Interesting... I was pretty sure you could do replication in SQL...
This is good... so it would not be a huge bandwidth hog on the servers to do this...
if you organized it as:
1 machine for worldserver
1 machine for sql master
and then 1-2 zones per member server from there in...
Interesting... we will have to look into this further
Oh, and also... have you ever actually tried to herd cats? it isn't easy... hehehehe... it is funny... but not easy...
I figure if it is realistic to do, we could get a domain name up for the server, and a basic website... then hand out subdomains to "members"
People would have to take a 1 week "application" phase to get member status... during that time a simple script is run on the server to ping the host and simulate bandwidth spikes over time... as long as the host stays reliably up for a week or so, then they can join the serverfarm as member... after another week as member server, they then (if stable) get Lead GM status...
This way we can weed out the newbies that want to join in for the fun of it but can't run a stable server...
If this works it could be kickass...
Combine that with a new db update, and I almost have my db filter utility ready which will accurately filter out all dupe spawns automatically...
I think realistically by the time basic pathing is done on the emu, we could also have a 90% complete DB filtered out for dupes, and running on a decent 24/7 serverfarm for everyone to enjoy!
Now we need to rally some supporters
hehehe...
here kitty kitty kitty
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