Devfile closing down?

Post by **BlakeJr** » 2007-05-20 14:16

Top _Cat the great wrote:How THE HELL FISHWORK CAN YOU COMPARE 3 WARRIOR INFANTRY FIGHTINg vehicles with the A10 and....

how the hell can you compare the Cobra with an Apache Longbow and....

how the hell can you compare the M16A2 with the SA80A2, how the damn hell Fishw0rk..........

YOU CANT

wiat...after BlackJr 's previous comment, mabey i am little high and getting too loud a little to often, so P.S i am only messing Fish and the above is just "humerous" opinion therefore you are totaly welcome to do the same back *sighs with relief*

LMFAO! You're a hoot and a half!

Blackhawk 5 · Post by **Blackhawk 5** » 2007-05-20 14:20

Damnit devfile hosted my mod project for a future game

Wasteland · Post by **Wasteland** » 2007-05-20 16:29

Yep, Devfile is no more. They had hoped that the server would generate a lot of forum traffic at devfile.com, and they were going to support their server with banners I guess. But that never happened, so they have to shut down.

danthemanbuddy · Post by **danthemanbuddy** » 2007-05-20 16:37

The thing is server lag was extremely high and people just got tired of being lagged out by the server.

Of course its the map. But Ive played numerous 64 player basrah on other servers chock full and didn't have lag at all.

Thats why I stopped playing on it.

A-10Warthog · Post by **A-10Warthog** » 2007-05-20 17:06

NOOOOOOOOO I HOPE THIS AINT TRUE!.... i havent been playin pr or bf2 because of a big final paper im writing and all the .6 testing i jus havent had time! I WILL DONATE UP TO $100 IF I HAVE 2!

Post by **Outlawz7** » 2007-05-20 20:09

Think, Devfile server costed $700 per month or so..

Well, only thing, that the server brought in, was a lot of lag issues and a pile of banned smacktards...

Top_Cat_AxJnAt · Post by **Top_Cat_AxJnAt** » 2007-05-20 20:12

I know nothing about servers: who pays for the cost of servers then?

Is there any advertising or what.

I DO KNOW DONATIONS PLAY A ROLE - but to what extent i know not.

Desertfox · Post by **Desertfox** » 2007-05-20 20:49

Outlawz wrote:Think, Devfile server costed $700 per month or so..

Well, only thing, that the server brought in, was a lot of lag issues and a pile of banned smacktards...

Most of it was sponsored and a sponsorship is a two way street. We weren't generating enough traffic to our websites which in turn meant we weren't getting hits for hypernia.

Wow that first part actually sounded... smart

The thing that killed us was when we went down for a week, everyone went to TB

Desertfox · Post by **Desertfox** » 2007-05-20 20:50

danthemanbuddy wrote:The thing is server lag was extremely high and people just got tired of being lagged out by the server.

Of course its the map. But Ive played numerous 64 player basrah on other servers chock full and didn't have lag at all.

Thats why I stopped playing on it.

In the whole time I played on the server (since it went up

) I have been lagged out maybe once and gotten bad lag a handful of times over the what 3-6 months?

Simio1337 · Post by **Simio1337** » 2007-05-20 20:51

: ((((((

compumaniac12 · Post by **compumaniac12** » 2007-05-20 20:54

Well it is true guys, the reality is that the server was part of the website and the website kept hitting a glass ceiling of success that we were never gonna pass... Basicly it got old on my side, and I owed it to hypernia to not have to keep providing service for a crappy website.

Sorry for the inconvience, but theres plenty of other good servers that you guys should try.
And thanks again for the support youve given Myself and devfile, but it wont be needed anymore...
~Compumaniac12 Devfile.com

Top_Cat_AxJnAt · Post by **Top_Cat_AxJnAt** » 2007-05-20 20:58

Coudl we just not hit that website and get the server to crash with massive number of hits..........i mean i would be willing to do that like 3 times a week to 4or 5 rnadom PR server websites!

but its to late now

So do you think the sponsoring company lost lots of money, just 1 server - 700 quid amonth, and the Devfile website generated over 700 quids worth of revenue indirectly through peeps seeing adverts and going off to buy some random **** (i know it could never be measured and hits are the only real way, but i would have loved to know how many hits per 1quid generated - getting to much into economics but HAY - THATS LIFE)

i now feel sorry for DEvfile, Hypernia and the Tourney = all ineed of money badly but then again we alll our, so i should feel really shity for all the others, but then again ....O GOD, ARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGg *slams face into well rounded face dent in desk from periousl slammings*

SethLive! · Post by **SethLive!** » 2007-05-20 21:01

please dont close down devfile, i will donate my two brothers as personal slaves for hypernia if that helps

Gyberg · Post by **Gyberg** » 2007-05-21 00:44

Desertfox wrote:The thing that killed us was when we went down for a week, everyone went to TB

Oh... thats where all the smacktards came from....

danthemanbuddy · Post by **danthemanbuddy** » 2007-05-21 02:38

Desert Fox notice you have a high end system. When the server hiccuped the slightest bit, us guys with low processors (celeron 2.4) and low fps and settings felt it max. You max guys however, your computer plows through it.

Low end systems along with low fps get server lag hits and suffer through it.

Desertfox · Post by **Desertfox** » 2007-05-21 02:40

danthemanbuddy wrote:Desert Fox notice you have a high end system. When the server hiccuped the slightest bit, us guys with low processors (celeron 2.4) and low fps and settings felt it max. You max guys however, your computer plows through it.

Low end systems along with low fps get server lag hits and suffer through it.

How do you know its the server though? It could be the lightmaps?

I believe it was Rhino or Eggman who said that the lightmaps being set on high were what was causing basrah to lag.

danthemanbuddy · Post by **danthemanbuddy** » 2007-05-21 02:46

^^ Because whenever I got hit by server lag, everyone in my squad and lots of guys were typing and saying LAG!!! OMG LIEK DA LAGG!!!

Got to hook me up with those sounds you had on VEnt.

Wasteland · Post by **Wasteland** » 2007-05-21 05:20

danthemanbuddy wrote:Desert Fox notice you have a high end system. When the server hiccuped the slightest bit, us guys with low processors (celeron 2.4) and low fps and settings felt it max. You max guys however, your computer plows through it.

Low end systems along with low fps get server lag hits and suffer through it.

Define "lag". Do you mean
-where it says "you've got a connection problem"
-where you suffer a bad frame rate, or
-where you start jerking forward and then backward again really fast?

I didn't get the first kind on DevFile any more than on other servers. The second kind is purely to do with your system, and though I've got a shitty comp, I just keep the settings on low/off (with medium textures and geometry), and it works out fine. The third kind I got in the early days of DevFile, but none in the last few months.

Hammerhead · Post by **Hammerhead** » 2007-05-21 05:32

I run a "mostly basrah" server now from my house,but I've yet to get anywhere near maxing it out player wise. I wonder what it would do if it was full. The hardware is decent, but not cutting edge by any means.
PointBlankGaming:Mostly Basrah
Im not in here to plug my server (i dont make/lose any money if its empty or full) just maybe offering an alternative for people if they want Al Basrah all the time now that Devfile is leaving.
Currently, it runs the full map(64) with 34 available player slots.

Threedroogs · Post by **Threedroogs** » 2007-05-21 05:59

while i hate to see any server taken down, i am a little happy about the 24/7 basrah server going away. give the other maps a little love! there are a number of bad *** PR maps, and it's a shame to only play one.

after many weeks of troubleshooting (which included a complete switch from windows to linux), we have finally got our server up for good! it's called STRIKETEAM ABR/PROS, and is located in dallas, texas. we jumped through a lot of hoops to get our server running ABR, and we'd love to see you devfile guys heading our way! check our server out.

desertfox...thanks for running a good server for all these months (especially considering the amount of douchebags you had to deal with).