Scratch that one out, I don’t think I’ll be able to host a Ragnarok Online server anytime soon. Because of this stupid 64-bit problem with it. I’m not going to downgrade to a 32-bit operating system just for the sake of a Ragnarok Online server. No way…
Archive for April, 2008
PGN RO Update (Part 2)
Monday, April 28th, 2008Update On Branzone Sponsorship Changes
Thursday, April 24th, 2008Well, overall it’s a good news so let me first start with some drawbacks.
Right now, the PGN servers are hosted as Optimized 512fps game servers by Branzone. And well…since the servers are popular, it takes a huge amount of processor power from the dedicated servers hosting them. Branzone has sent me an e-mail informing me that they’d be changing them to their normal 128fps servers to save resources. I told them that it’s fine so we’re just waiting for them to change it.
First My Tita Marit, Now My Pinsan Mark
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008This is too much for me. A couple of weeks ago, an auntie of mine died from her sleep in Iran. She’s the oldest out of 5 children (My mom was the youngest out of them all). I never got to see her…the last time I saw her was way back when I was a college student back in the Philippines, she was 66 years old…and now, my favorite cousin…Mark died last Monday (Philippine Time) on his sleep too. He was 24 years old, a year behind me. We’ve both lived our child hood at the same community and we’re just a couple of blocks away from each other. I need to stress this out, he is my favorite cousin. He will always do whatever I tell him to do and he will always listen to me, no matter what the reason is. I know he looked up to me as his big brother since I was the one who got exposed to a somewhat better life style than him and I promised myself that I will take care of him whenever possible.
I’m both burdened by these sudden deaths of my loved ones because I never…ever got the chance to see them and say Hey, look at me now…I’ve improved so much. I know both of you are in heaven…and I know both of you are at peace already. Mahal ko kayo parehas, mahal na mahal na mahal ko kayo. Sayang hindi ko na kayo nakita uli pero alam ko magkikita din tayo sa kabilang mundo.
I’ve never actually cried over someone’s death ever since I was a kid…I choose to not cry and be depressed about it, nothings going to bring them back. Instead I choose to remember all the good days that happened when they were still alive.
Branzone Sponsorship Changes For PGN
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008I got an e-mail from Brandon Miller, CEO/President of Branzone about how the PGN servers are stressing out the Branzone dedicated servers that host them. He told me that they would not be able to run the PGN game servers at 512fps because of the stress it’s putting in the Branzone dedicated servers. He then asked me if I would still like Branzone to sponsor PGN and if it’s still a ‘Yes’, then they would run the servers at the normal 128fps performance level instead of the more optimized 512fps performance level game servers.
I promptly replied that I was actually thinking of asking them to do those changes for me. This is because I really don’t see any huge advantage in running a 128fps server versus a 512fps server. It is after all…a public server. So I told him to just change all the current PGN game servers to 128fps. I doubt it would affect our rank, let alone the vast amount of player overflow we get.
It got me thinking though that maybe I should off on the other servers from Branzone. I was going to ask them about expanding to Texas, Virginia, Georgia, New York, and London…so I’ll probably wait until May. I could also try to find another game server sponsor to cover areas that Branzone can’t cover yet. To add, I was about to ask Branzone if they could give me control over the Texas server which sits at 20/20 right now and is basically…a ghost server. No one even plays there at all, let along joining it. Of course I will have to ask them nicely to convert it to a 32 slot server. I think it’s running at 512fps right now, so I’ll also ask them to change it to 128fps to save them some money.
So yeah, looks like the big expansion has been put to hold one more time. Hopefully things work out well in the future. I still have faith in Branzone, if you look at their website…they basically get a lot of new customers everyday. This should just be a temporary hold…hopefully.
HL Guard, AMX Bans, Et. Al.
Sunday, April 20th, 2008HL Guard still doesn’t work with AMX Bans, I don’t know why and I’m still asking in the AMX Bans forum about it. Hopefully I could get it to work later this week. It would definitely help with when there’s no admin around. The AMX Bans list is a big help in organizing admin bans as it shows who banned who and why, at least now I’ll know who are the lazy admins.
One of the head admins ‘Bait’ has really gotten himself in big trouble, everyone in PGN thinks he will be the next CUJO (A former head admin who abused his power so much that he gave PGN admins a bad name). I already told him numerous times and warned him about a potential permanent ban if he doesn’t straighten up. There’s really nothing wrong with him being uptight and stuff. But this is PGN, it’s a gaming community. You have to adjust yourself a bit, and he clearly doesn’t and he gets offended almost every time, even on light jokes. I hope he does change after I told him yesterday that it was the last and final warning. A permanent ban after removing his admin will be the final act.
Boosted Servers has finally enabled Steam/No Steam/Crack on the PGN server they are hosting. This will definitely improve their sales since the No Steam and Crack server admins would like to rent a server from them. I wish Boosted Servers good luck on this one.
