Olympus - Home of the Gods is now open!

Zeus · Post by **Zeus** » Tue Jun 15, 2010 9:13 pm

Hi all and I am glad to annouce that a new server is now open.

Olympus - Home of the Gods, is available 24/7 for you to enjoy and explore.

I am Zeus and I will be your host on Olympus. First let me tell you a bit about myself.

I'm 56 years old and have been in the computer world since 1977. Yes I did start before Bill was even thinking about DOS! And I am older than dirt! lol

So with that out of the way, I have been playing space based multiplayer games since the 1990 release of Wing Commander and I have been hooked ever since. In 2003 I started playing Freelancer and that led to me to starting my own server and building a community called (what else but) Olympus - Home of the Gods. I built the servers, bought the equipment to run them, and put long hours of B,S,&T into making it into a multi-site complex with my servers in Texas and one in Europe, hosted by my friend Otto. I had a good time doing this for 5 years and finally turned it over to the creator of the Mod I was running. I did not get to play much in the last few years as the community needs grew too fast and only a few of us did the work.

So now this brings me to today and what I hope will be fun again, playing with friends and enjoying this new game. I have several things to offer the community and I don't want anyone else that runs a server to think I am trying to take away their player base since the game only supports 35 players, I thought maybe another server will bring more new players into the game.

Anyway I hope to see all of you in space and I am looking forward to making new friends and maybe getting some of my old friends to come here as well.

Now for some tech info so you know what Olympus is made of.

Olympus - home of the Gods (Deep in the Heart of Texas)

Game Server 1: Custom built (by me)
Dual AMD Opteron 290's
Tyan S2892 server mainboard
Dual GB ethernet (sorry only to the switch so far as AT&T has not run fiber to me yet...lol)
8 GB ECC Reg. Ram
2 - 500 GB SATA II hard drives
1 - 400 GB LTO-2 tape drive and backup software
ATI X1600 Pro video card (had to use it to get D#D HW Acceleration working for server program)
Windows 2003 R2 64-bit server OS
4U rack mount case with very loud fans

Development Server and Teamspeak Server:
(another custom build)

Dual AMD Opteron 290's
Tyan S2895 server mainboard
Dual GB ethernet
8 GB ECC Reg. Ram
6 TB of SATA II hard drive space
1 - 400 GB LTO-2 tape drive and backup software
Windows 2003 R2 64-bit server OS
4U rack mount case with very loud fans

1 Dell PowerConnect 5224 24 port GB managed ethernet Switch
2 - APC SmartUPS 1500 Watt UPS systems
1 - 8 port KVM
2 - Baytech remote-controlled power strips (allows remote power cycle of equipment)

And all of this is in it's own air conditioned 10 x 12 room built so Olympus could exist. (I don't need a heater in the winter as the servers provide plenty of that!)

I also have my own domain (olympus.gwcdata.com) and will be setting up my web site once again to display and show server stats, player stats (if available), and may other items like server connection info for the Gmae Server and Teamspeak Server.

Thanks again for welcoming me to your community and I hope I can provide a little enjoyment in retrurn.

Zeus

Creator of Olympus - home of the Gods

P.S.

Here are some speed tests to sites in the USA so you can see what to expect when connecting to Olympus.

New York City:

ping: 73 ms
download: 14.58 Mbps
upload: 1.46 Mbps

L.A.:

ping: 62 ms
download: 13.60 Mbps
upload: 1.47 Mbps

Chicago:

ping: 51 ms
download: 17.28 Mbps
upload: 1.47 Mbps

Houston:

ping: 31 ms
download: 17.25 Mbps
upload: 1.48 Mbps

[Edited on 6-15-2010 by Zeus]

[Edited on 6-15-2010 by Zeus]

49rTbird · Post by **49rTbird** » Tue Jun 15, 2010 9:26 pm

Just tried your server as a test and could not connect altho I did connect to B5 server just after the test of yours.

Zeus · Post by **Zeus** » Tue Jun 15, 2010 9:51 pm

Let me check the firewall and see what got dumped on the floor. I have TCP ports 3899 and 3999 opened but maybe something else is needed. I know I had to open others for the FL server before.

Thanks,

Zeus

Okay the "wonderful" AT&T UVerse RG did not save the config. I had to re-enter the settings for the firewall for the server. It should be okay now if you would try it again please.

And I gave up my Cisco PIX-520 firewall so I could get more speed from AT&T

[Edited on 6-15-2010 by Zeus]

verbosity · Post by **verbosity** » Tue Jun 15, 2010 9:58 pm

I have several things to offer the community and I don't want anyone else that runs a server to think I am trying to take away their player base since the game only supports 35 players, I thought maybe another server will bring more new players into the game.

No one is stopping you host, comments in this regard are generally due to the fact its a small MP community, and as yet there has never been a full server. As the First person to run a long term 24/7 Server I know myself the time and effort ( not to mention countless 'empty' nights ) to build MP up to a state where there was an active community. MM has taken this on and thanks to his effort there is a healthier community there has ever been. But we are fickle, and you will find that pilots will have a tendency to stay with MM.

That being said, there are and have been Mod developments which might be catered for, and the landscape might change soon enough...........

Post by **Vice** » Tue Jun 15, 2010 10:05 pm

Just to be sure those ports you listed were just a typo, the ones needed are 3998 and 3999, not 3899 and 3999.

49rTbird · Post by **49rTbird** » Tue Jun 15, 2010 10:14 pm

I just logged onto the server so all seems ok now.

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 4:16 am

Yep, tried it out, works like a charm and I'm getting good frame rates to, in the 30s......and a nice welcome you have Zeus.....

Zeus · Post by **Zeus** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 8:48 am

Thanks all and I will be fine tuning the server over the next few days. All are welcome to try her out and let me know what you think. All input will be greatly appreciated.

I did have the ports wrong so I opened the ports Eclipse stated and it seems okay now.

Now on to getting my RAdmin (remote control) running correctly.

Again thanks for welcoming Olympus to the community,

Zeus

verbosity · Post by **verbosity** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 9:29 am

Originally posted by Zeus
Now on to getting my RAdmin (remote control) running correctly.

There have been issues with people trying to run the server remotely, please let us know if you succeed, and if so which program you used.

Regards,
Verb

Zeus · Post by **Zeus** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 10:16 am

Well I am seeing issues so far and it has to do with D3D. I will let you know anything I find out. So far I am not able to take over the system remotely and run the server app. I use RAdmin and have used it for several years so I will ask them for support as well.

More in the next few days. And for now, since I am at work, the server app. is down until I get on the console at home and restart it with our being in remotely.

oh well as my motto states ...

"The difficult I do immediately, the impossible takes a little while longer" lol

Zeus

verbosity · Post by **verbosity** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 11:19 am

It's not impossible, the system you're using probably uses MS RDP which has it's own dx which doesn't support d3d . Gotomypc does work but you have to pay, and the server version is really expensive. Vnc also works, but has security issues.

warsign · Post by **warsign** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 1:26 pm

Thank you Zeus, I'll try it asap!

BraveHart · Post by **BraveHart** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 4:09 pm

"Welcome Aboard Zues".....will give it a whirl as so as I can

Post by **Marvin** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 4:25 pm

Maybe TeamViewer QS will work ... 'though I have no idea how (ask my son).

Zeus · Post by **Zeus** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 7:00 pm

Okay here is an update on remote access to the server. Ugh! It is a problem with the RAdmin mirror driver for the display. It seems it also does not have 3D support in it just like MS' remote desktop. I have created a support case with fanatech to see if anything can be done, but I suspect not.

Well I do have a plan B so I will start setting that up. All this means is I will not have remote access the same way I do on my other servers.

Anyway, I am finished working on the server that requires me to reboot her and such so please login and enjoy ...

Olympus - Home of the Gods

Zeus

P.S. verbosity, I will send you a u2u message in regards to you offer for stats assistance! Many thanks as that will be great to have setup.

[Edited on 6-17-2010 by Zeus]

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 8:31 pm

Thanks for the update and for the invitation and a new Server to enjoy......