BoomTown Servers

Samislide · Post by **Samislide** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 5:35 am

Yo, whats up with the BT servers, I got lower ping than usuall. It's more like 18-25, instead of 23-30 now. I'm just wondering whats been changed, and so on. kthxbye

angra · Post by **angra** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 6:13 am

Server update (boomtown)
Updated by MysteryMan on 13/12/2004 at 17:07

Hi everyone,
Today the BoomTown servers got updated. R1Q2 is running and the newest AQ2 TNG version 2.81 is running aswell. Also there are a lot of new maps on it, which can be voted upon. I fixed the votelist. llsounds is changed to 0 since some people whined about it making them lagg
We also have a new maprotation on the servers with many new maps in it.
Also new skins have been placed on the servers for this xmas. They can be downloaded here and here.

Post by **Clement** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 6:17 am

And yesterday I was playing around with the following command;

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sv_calcpings_method [0/1/2]
Change how pings are calculated:
0: Disable reporting of pings completely.
1: Standard Q2 method (averaging).
2: New R1Q2 method, best case minimum. Results in pings much closer to what external programs such as server browsers report and is influenced much less by the client's packet rate.

At the moment it's set to 1 in the config files, but we've requested a change, to run with the new method for good. Should be on soon.. until then, I'll change 'em whenever I remember to :-)

Post by **Den** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 6:18 am

plz, stop focusing on the pings.

nufan · Post by **nufan** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 6:30 am

my ping went from 45-50 to 60 :-I

Samislide · Post by **Samislide** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 6:32 am

I remember when me and Fragbait tried r1q2 out when we were in [j]... He showed me some weird fps-commands (got no clue what it was) that made the ping go DOWN when pressing fire/while shooting. Kinda cool..

grover · Post by **grover** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 6:38 am

I smell h4x

noVa · Post by **noVa** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 7:11 am

Maybe they lowered the maxfps cap.

Low fps count hightenes your ping.

Just a thought.

Jazzie · Post by **Jazzie** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 7:50 am

Whoa? My ping went from 50-65 to 30-40 with just r1q2. Impressive. Let's just hope that rooftops is on the server now aswell and it might be semi-good.

sajh · Post by **sajh** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 8:16 am

Jazzie wrote:Whoa? My ping went from 50-65 to 30-40 with just r1q2. Impressive. Let's just hope that rooftops is on the server now aswell and it might be semi-good.

afaik the server just calculates the ping differently, still the same delay though. You might have noticed the difference between pinging a server with ASE, or similar game scanner, and acctually playing on the server.

Though my ping has been rather up-and-down at boomtown lately.. some days ihave 70, others 40

*edit*
perhaps i should have read the whole thread before making this post.. at least the one about the ping-calculation.. but ill leave it anyway:p

kaaos · Post by **kaaos** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 9:12 am

My ping was about the same but the klauz model really sucks, it doesn't even have aq2 weapon models and two skins of the same model is always bad. It doesn't even look cool :/

Jazzie · Post by **Jazzie** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 9:48 am

sajh but my ping is changed in the server-browser aswell, so they must've done something.

Post by **Haudrauf** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 10:16 am

First, they finally changed from ncserver to r1q2ded - which already gives a performance boost and more stability/security for the servers.

And second, there's a new _calculation_ of the pings for the scoreboard - as clement already said. Pings should still feel the same - but calculation is more accurate.

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set sv_calcpings_method 2

..does the trick.

If you feel to learn more about r1q2ded, see the main webby:
http://www.r1ch.net/stuff/r1q2/
and
http://www.r1ch.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=8
for documentation.

And ... perhaps you want to read the aq2world news from the 20th of September 2004: http://www.aq2world.com/?p=news&id=51
(quite old news though - many changes happened since then)

sajh · Post by **sajh** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 10:21 am

Jazzie wrote:sajh but my ping is changed in the server-browser aswell, so they must've done something.

Notice my other comment:P perhaps its only my connection, but the ping shifts +-20 on an almost daily basis... i assume bonet is to blame for that though

Da^JuaN · Post by **Da^JuaN** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 1:33 pm

Morpher wrote:And yesterday I was playing around with the following command;
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sv_calcpings_method [0/1/2]
Change how pings are calculated:
0: Disable reporting of pings completely.
1: Standard Q2 method (averaging).
2: New R1Q2 method, best case minimum. Results in pings much closer to what external programs such as server browsers report and is influenced much less by the client's packet rate.
At the moment it's set to 1 in the config files, but we've requested a change, to run with the new method for good. Should be on soon.. until then, I'll change 'em whenever I remember to :-)

Ow please, first i liked that setting too.. but later on i noticed that quake2 will report ping 30 for.ex. while you are uploading with 120kb/s (1mbit) and your actual ping is going from 80 to 250 (method 1) and with method 2 it says you have a stabile ping from 28-32.
Its not just with uploading, its in general.