ATAG Dedicated Server is up!

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Well, TBH - there's a few factors to consider here. If anyone remembers the old printscreeners from the old game, they would rapidly hit the printscreen key and warp around, always at just the right spot (aka - right when you're about to fire). Now think about this for a second: The printscreen warpage is actually caused by low FPS. Anyone that's been around MP gaming for a while knows just how tightly interconnected FPS/Netcode is. If you are freezing yourself on the screen, the server can't track you, IE - you warp everywhere, cause stutters for others.

With the current situation, we have launcher crashes happening all the time, usually anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours depending on, a guess here, your graphics load. Well a launcher crash is about 10x worse than a printscreener. Sometimes your screen will freeze solid (0 FPS) for a good 10 seconds before you are kicked to desktop. So just imagine what type of effect this can have on anyone else in the server?

My suggestion to everyone who plays online, do what the majority of us on coms have been doing. Fly your sortie and after you've landed, crashed, died, finished it. Completely restart the game. This will eliminate all but 99% of the launcher crashes. (It's been a heck of a long time since I've gotten one by doing this to give you an idea)

The other thing - at the top of our forums and in the details section of all the channels in TS3 - there's a direct connect link to the server. Save the hyperlink somewhere or click on the link in the navbar of the forums/TS3 to connect to the server. This bypasses all the in game videos, menus/options, and will directly place you into the progress/loading bar into the server. It's big advantage is those with ATI, but the main advantage for using this, is when you disconnect from the server while using the direct connect link, you immediately close down the game, making it very easy to simply hit the link and your joined up again after your sortie.

Rest assured, when the game becomes stable online (reasonable, reliable FPS, and the launcher.exe crashing has ceased to exist) those found to be exploiting or self warping themselves won't be around on the server long.