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I changed my mind. Screw it.





(j/k, of course)

Of course I'd chip in!

Public servers go for $60-100+ sometimes. Depends on the number of ppl you want on a server at one time. For the cost, i'd recommend going with a private server cause generally you can get more ppl on at less price $30-50+. Unless you want to get ppl from all over the net on the server. But ya gotta be careful, the more outsiders you attract the more potential problems can arise.

Only problems with going private server is, some places might watch bandwiths. Meaning if too many ppl get on it too often they could remove your account cause the server would be then classified as a public server. Then you also could not broadcast the IP and password to the public. Unless the group that owns the server allows it.

MA2 was at one time a full public server. It became a mess real fast too. So PH and the others put the server on semi public. Meaning the IP is not broadcast to everyone.

Now if we went public we could advertise the IP on GR. Meaning, someone just idle's in there with a JKII server room for awhile. Cept the room would be locked and in the topic you just put the IP. That way ppl there could just input the IP of our server to connect to it.

"Shake it baby" :shifty:

OK, with the amount of people willing to come foward and pay, we could get an 8 person server, but weve had about twice that many people sign up, for being in the division. If a couple people more wanted to chip in, we could go for the 12 person server, assuming we go with the server place I just looked at. Now, 8 people is a lot more people then we have ever gotten together at one time before, but I think that once we have our own server, we will be able to play together a lot more, so Ill look into it more the next couple days, and make sure Ive seen as many of the plausable options as possible, and we can go from there, but it would be really cool to have a server soon

Interestingly, I was doing a search this weekend for game hosting companies and came across one that offers a package called "Dusk til Dawn" rental. Aside from sharing the name of one of the coolest films ever, they basically offer an add'l 40% off the base rate by only making the clan's server available between 6 pm and 6 am during the week. It stays accesible all weekend, I'd assume from 6pm Friday unitl 6 am Monday.

I bookmarked it at home, I'll post the site tonight and you can see what they have to offer. Seemed reputable to me at the time.

I'm down.  We gots to get our lightsaber on, yo.

(Uh, that is, yes, server --  money will I chip in for.)

Yeah that Euclid Systems does have some nice prices. 12 person public for only $40...not bad and its in a central location. But I wouldnt go berzerk till we all tried a server being hosted by them to see how well it runs.

Its sites like that which make me feel glad I follow the code about as well as Qui Gon . "I shall do what I must, Obi Wan"

That place sure does have nice prices. But how are their servers really?

Sounds good, I was a lil leery of those Celeron servers at Jediservers.com anyways .

Sounds like a plan to me! Post payment info when needed (Paypal, checks, my offshore account routing number, whatever).

How are we deciding things like number of slots, public or private, who gets rcon control, etc. You know, all the things we love to deal with when starting up a new server!

Oh, and Chewie, please PM me before you arrange the thing if it's Euclid 'kay? Just another idea rattling around in my skull.

p.s. Maybe inquire how long they'll support JKII also, with Jedi Academy's impending release in Q3.

How are we deciding things like number of slots, public or private, who gets rcon control, etc. You know, all the things we love to deal with when starting up a new server!

number of slots will be determined on how many people are willing to pay. its looking like 12 now, and for a group our size, that should be fine. i was thinking public might be better for recruting/publicity reasons, but we will vote on that in another thread once weve decided that we want to go with euclid . as far as who gets rcon control, that is still to be decided, but trust me, it wont be a wookiee dictatorship . some other groups(not necessarily in our clan) have had issues with giving it to everyone who pays, where too many people have the power and it ends up getting somewhat abused, or with just one or two people, and no one can find anyone to get anything changed, so well see what is the best for the group. well have a thread later that decides everything.

p.s. Maybe inquire how long they'll support JKII also, with Jedi Academy's impending release in Q3.

email sent, ill tell you guys what i hear.