[Scott]

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Originally Posted by Mauzen MMOs got giant serverclusters with 100x more power and bandwidth than any sa-mp server. I doubt anyone would be willed to pay for that just to have 1000 slots on his server that never reaches more than 20. Normal client-server structure theoretically causes quadratic traffic, so the double amount of players causes 4 times more traffic. This isnt exact, but exact enough for a short example. Lets say a single player just causes the tiny hypothetic amount of 0,5 kilobytes total traffic (up and downstream) per second. The real traffic is a lot higher, this is just a minimal case. So 1 player eats 0,5kb/s, 2 players 2kb/s, and so on. 100 players then need 5MB of traffic every second. 500 players would eat the giant amount of 125MB every second that could barely be handed with a modern gigabit connection. Thanks to intelligent systems like streaming etc to minimize this, but now imagine you got 1000 players. Where the hell do you want to get a connection that is able to handle 600MB/s peak speed? Thats a 5Gbit connection, just with minimal values. @Stewie: SA-MP is quite economical, I think there are enough MMOs with even more data to manage.

I can tell you from experience that those numbers are not even close to being right.

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Originally Posted by [94]Shady I'd really like to see your server with more than 501 players who are willing to go in game at the same time. If you can do that, I'll give you 10 dollars..

I'll take my $10 in ones.