Post: #1

Hi guys,

It's going to be my very first topic. I searched on the forum but couldn't find an answer. What should I do to open multiple servers in one client? I want players to see server choices like "My Shard - 1", "My Shard - 2" etc. when they logged in. And I want them to move their characters to other servers whenever they want. So I can prevent overloading to one single server when there are many players.

Post: #2

you must set servers name/IP on [SERVERS] section of sphere.ini

this only redirect the client to server IP, it won't transfer accounts/characters automatically between servers. So you must create some advanced sync engine to export the account/chars from one server and import on the other server

but anyway you don't need an 2nd server just to prevent overload on 1st server, sphere can handle 1000+ clients on the same server (or even much more) as far as your hardware performance can handle it. So the best option to maintain an high capacity server is use an high performance hosting instead split sphere in many small pieces

Post: #3

(01-04-2017 01:48 AM)Coruja Wrote:  ...sphere can handle 1000+ clients...

Is Sphere are multithreaded?

Post: #4

sphere is single thread, but since UO is lightweight and doesn't require huge network bandwidths, this should not be a problem

10 years ago we had servers running 1000 clients without problems (or maybe even more, I can't remember) using old sphere on old hardware. And since sphere, hardware performance, and hosting plans evolved through these years, they became even better, faster and cheaper

unless you have an really heavy coded server, in this case you will need an faster CPU because most of sphere CPU usage comes from internal engines (NPC AI processing, scripts processing, etc) and not from client packets processing

Post: #5

Yeah, my server back in the day in 2006 was handling 375 online. We tried to go for a record and we saw 600 online players. Server started lagging, so we had to put the limit back. But Sphere handled 600 players. But my idea is, after those years I'm planning to open another server in 2018 maybe. And I do believe myself that I can get lots of players. Not only the old ones but newbie players. So if I get too many players, I wanna open an extra server so we can manage the overload. And I also my another ambition is opening another server in another country. For example; first I'm gonna open in Turkey and I will let players set game language as English or Turkish. Once I get some players from other countries in Europe, I'll open a server in Germany so they can play with less ping and I want them to switch their characters in between these servers.

Post: #6

I think that can be possible using mysql for everything..