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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. hardly undiscussed by jimmcq · · Score: 3, Informative

    Also mentioned is the (hitherto undiscussed?) fact that Mythic's next MMORPG "takes place in an outer space being colonized by the Roman Empire."

    Imperator was announced a year ago, so I'd hardly classify it as undiscussed.

    1. Re:hardly undiscussed by Repton · · Score: 2, Informative

      There's a lot of stuff on Imerator here.

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      Repton.
      They say that only an experienced wizard can do the tengu shuffle.
  2. Post [AS SUBMITTED] by HardcoreGamer · · Score: 4, Informative
    I'm not taking the rap for that "undiscusssed" comment! ;) Here is my original post:

    PC Magazine takes a look inside the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) Mythic Entertainment's Dark Age of Camelot. Camelot, it turns out, is in Fairfax, Virginia where Mythic keeps 120 dual-processor Pentium servers running Linux for its 225,000 players. Each group of six servers runs what Mythic calls a gamespace. An additional 30 servers handle customer support (character data, stats ,etc). 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. The software is written so that most of the code runs on the servers, including artificial intelligence, combat calculations, and character data, resulting in a mere 10 Kbps data stream that lets dial-up modem customers join in the fun.