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Inside Dark Age of Camelot's Lair

Posted by simoniker on from the plenty-of-air-conditioning dept.

HardcoreGamer writes "PC Magazine takes a look inside Mythic's PC MMORPG, Dark Age of Camelot. Camelot, it turns out, is in Fairfax, Virginia where the company keeps 120 dual-processor Pentium servers running Linux for its 225,000 players. An additional 30 servers handle customer support. Mythic claims that it can handle up to 20,000 simultaneous players per server but limits them to 4,000 per server for a better customer experience." Also mentioned is the fact that Mythic's next MMORPG, Imperator Online, "takes place in an outer space being colonized by the Roman Empire."

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  1. romans in space! by Mr.Coffee · · Score: 2, Funny

    well, a) this sounds like a mel brooks movie, but b) i can just think of nero fiddling while romulus burns...

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  2. Medical simulation? by edbarrett · · Score: 2, Funny
    "takes place in an outer space being colonized by the Roman Empire."

    An outer space being, colonized by the Roman Empire?

    I can hardly wait for Imperator Online: The Colon

  3. ObMP by mrphrtq · · Score: 2, Funny

    Camelot, it turns out, is in Fairfax, Virginia

    It's only a model.

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