International gaming

what fun is it playing games overseas if you can't even see who you playing against, and laugh at him afterwards? with ur mywireless connection why not host a server for urself and stuff.. what games in SA don't have servers? Uo has, cs has, mweb do some and saix do others...

also the reason the cable isn't used if i understand correctly, it's the cheapest way to avoid telkom for sentech. don't quote me i could be wrong :)
 
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I'd like to think that's part of their reason....but also this 3G based wireless is a great technology with a huge future ahead of it.
All-round, this technology that Sentech is using , should prove to be MUCH better for both Sentech, and the end-user

^^ My 2c [:p]
 
It's not always about servers, it's also about players. For example, there is at least one CPMA (http://www.promode.org/) server in .za, but there are practically no players. Or, a more mainstream example; MMORPGs like http://www.medievia.com/ and http://www.eve-online.com/. You can't just "run your own server", and even if you could, it would suck. Gaming isn't the only activity that latency affects either; ever tried to ssh over a 2000ms latency link? Not a very pleasant experience.

Not trying to be negative, just stating the facts.

mithrandi
 
The problem is in the past, not enough people had an ISDN/ADSL connection to get decent enough pings on even local servers, so we just didnt (and still dont) have enough players. I think now, more people will be able to afford a <u>proper</u> high-speed connection and we'll begin see more players on our local gaming servers.
 
Maybe. I'm not convinced, though; the gaming community in South Africa just completely sucks. Unless you're playing one of the boring, mainstream games (*cough* counterstrike *cough*), there's very little action around; and even then, the level of play is sadly lacking a lot of the time. (Note that I'm talking about gaming in general, not just online gaming.)

mithrandi
 
..not to mention the childishness accompanied by it... i kick ass, sue me! [:D]
 
Well, I agree with Mithrandi, the local War3 servers work fine. The problem is, there's often nobody playing. Well, thats on the Gosu server anyway.
My cousin and his mates play Wolf ET and Americas Army on local servers every night. He has no probs using his ISDN line on local servers. While i was up at his place in Joburg a coupla weeks ago i tried a game of War3 on their US East server. It was a bit choppy, but i suppose it would b fine if it was just 1 on 1 instead of the team game i played. Also, you could go 128k on weekends, which would prob b fine for international servers.
A few of them tried ADSL a while back, but it sucked except on the local servers. Thats why i'm opting for ISDN.

Telkom - South Africa's Handbrake to progress.
 
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<br />Official or not, they work just fine [8D]
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Mithrandi, can you post a list of local WC3 servers?
 
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">what fun is it playing games overseas if you can't even see who you playing against, and laugh at him afterwards? with ur mywireless connection why not host a server for urself and stuff.. what games in SA don't have servers? Uo has, cs has, mweb do some and saix do others...
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Agreed local hosting is pretty good. The point, however, about getting a decent ping to overseas servers is mainly to play all those juicy games you hear about, SWG and Everquest, for instance. None of these are hosted locally. What gets to you sometimes are the overseas folks playing on our local servers with very decent pings. Trying hard to rationalise this situation away.

[:)]
 
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Mithrandi, can you post a list of local WC3 servers?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
I haven't played war3 (WC3 is Wing Commander 3 [:p]) for ages, but as far as I know, the only two remaining servers are:

<ul><li>war3.gosu.web.za</li><li>reason.za.net</li></ul>

mithrandi
 
Thanks, couldn't get the gosu one to work last time I tried, but will give reason.za.net a try.
 
Warcraft 3 server reason.za.net
Is reasonable growing, there are always at least 20 ppl after 7.
Grows up 2 70 users online sumtimes. It has a ladder going with ranking. Im from ct and have noticed tht there are mainly ct ppl on using dial-ups like me, it works ok, for 1v1. My average latency is abt 250. adsl and isdn users get abt 50-90. To view the users on reason goto reason.za.net

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<br />i meant www.ents.za.net for local listing/ranking of war3 players in SA

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How on earth do you actually get on the server?
 
How To Get On To The Local Warcraft Server:
1. You Have To Get An App Called BNetGatewayEditor.exe
I can't remember where I got It From, but if you can't find it
email me and i will email it to you. ([email protected])
2. Using The Editor Add A New Server To Your Battlenet List.


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dammit i pressed enter by mistake.

How To Get On To The Local Warcraft Server:
1. You Have To Get An App Called BNetGatewayEditor.exe and w3l.exe
I can't remember where I got It From, but if you can't find it
email me and i will email it to you. ([email protected])
2. Using The Editor Add A New Server To Your Battlenet List.
2.1 Press Control + A
2.2 Server Name:Reason
2.3 Host Name: reason.za.net
2.4 TIme Zone: 8(mine is on 8 but im not sure wat it suppose 2b
3. Run w3l.exe and click battle net create a nick and you are online



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Ok, thanks for the info. I got BNetGatewayEditor.exe installed and configured like you said, but running w3l doesn't actually launch anything. I have FT installed. Is Reason not meant for Frozen Throne, or am I missing out anything?

Should I reinstall War 3 without the expansion?
 
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