More than 32 players?

[Binny]

I see Jenova Lugormod exceeding 32 players, and the max says 64. Any ideas how they did this? I would put a 100ish slot server on the list and keep it populated in exchange for any hints in the right direction.

[CaptainChar]

32 was the general limit i thoght for older games, most modern games I see support 50-60 players (im looking at you arma 2) as for your question id think it might be pure server side related, but dont quote me on that

[Binny]

It is purely server side, but like I also said Jenova has somehow increased the hard cap, defined in q_shared.h #DEFINE MAX_CLIENTS "32" but changing that value to more than 32 doesnt let the server use more than 32 slots.

[Link]

I believe JA++ serverside does this as well, @ may be able to explain.

[Raz0r]

Long story short; Q3 had support for 64 players, you just need to do a bit of tinkering in the engine to get things to (mostly) work with > 32 clients.

 

I'm not sure how Jenova manages to do it without a client-side, I have never looked into it.

[Binny]

I figured it out. Thanks for the input guys

[eezstreet]

JKGalaxies can support up to 127 players. Same engine hook at the one used to go with 64 players can be simply modified to work with 127 players.

(@: my guess is that id used a signed byte to store the number of players. Either way, 128 and above causes a crash. Could also be a buffer overrun too now that I think about it)