Hey all,

 

Discussion has been brought up lately on flightsim's forum about possibly getting us all on the same server for the race..

 

I'm curious what your thoughts are on this..

 

What I was thinking was possibly renting for 1 month a Virtual Server with Windows Server installed on it. Then obiously FSHost would need to be installed, but this would allow all the race participants to login to the same server.

 

We would still maintain separate Teamspeak servers to prevent cross talk and we would keep an AVSIM race server in case main server goes down and also for scouting.. Which brings up a valid point.. All scouting would have to be done in private, so if you are gonna log in to do a leg say 5 legs from the current one, then log into the private server to do your scouting and do not log into main race server until the leg heading to your airport has taken off.. I know currently we will have people sit at airports many legs ahead waiting.. This would give away what's going on..

 

Well its an idea.. Thoughts/suggestions/ideas??

 

I posed the same question to the flightsim and sim-outhouse guys on their forums.

on FSHost? you will get a lots of rubberbanding.. see this http://digitalthemepark.blogspot.co.uk/ join on TS3 and talk to Zoolander we have two dedicated FSX servers.

FShost would be required as not all race participants are on FSX, some are on FS9..

Sounds like an interesting idea.I do think it would be cool to see the other teams flying and or waiting at the same airport "live" as it were during the race.

 

Do we have any idea how well FSHost scales with users? I can imagine that we could approach 50 flyers on at once during the kick-off event. Imagine them all arriving at the same location at the same time. What kind of performance would we expect to see?

 

Would like to be pretty sure that folks could connect reliably. If there is a problem that once some number of users are connected, others cannot get in; that would be very bad.

 

Scouting ahead while on-line could inadvertently give away race strategy but could be used for deception too.

 

Overall I kind of like the idea.

I love the idea and I would love to test it but no way i could find 50 people to connect.. hehehe

How many guys do you get on the server for the post race fly-in. It's a few years since I participated in it, but I remember last time I did there were quite a few.

hmm, for all 3 teams probably 30+ easily..