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9 minutes ago, ReilanT said:

Hello, We have a private Dedicated Server I7 last Gen, 16 gram, and SSD 400G can we run a 15x15 map with this one ? 

You  are basically asking if you can run 225 servers. ;) Short answer: absolutely not. Look into how these servers actually function.

Also, important info you forgot to mention: amount of players and inet speed.

If you keep players under, i would say 10, maybe...maybe a 1x2 or 2x1.

1 hour ago, ChloeForzold said:

I have a private server also and cant seem to get past lvl 8 and the started island, theres a smokey red/grey wall we cant get past. Any idea?

 

1 hour ago, Zerker said:

That’s what we can’t figure out. To my understanding the fog of war is supposed to be lifted as you discover new areas but isn’t at this moment 

That "fog of war" as you call it are the map boundaries. You will have to add more servers if you wish to expand your atlas. Once you do, depending on where you position your new server, one of those boundaries will turn blue and you can cross into your 2nd server.  Use the island editor provided with the server files to configure your map and add islands as you please.

2 hours ago, Politix said:

How? 

Using the island editor provided with the server files, in the Atlas tools folder...as has been mentioned many times already in this discussion.

1 hour ago, JDoe said:

I am getting ready to setup my own server and I see it looks pretty tough to do. However once i do is there a wiki or something with codes? I saw a guy on youtube spawning in quite a bit of stuff.

1 hour ago, Zerker said:

I also have a private RP server. I can’t find any admin commands or guides anywhere. 

I know some of the ARK commands work though 

All commands are similar to that used for Ark (same Unreal dedi server). As far as i am aware there is no official ID list so you will have to dig through the game files and go look for them.

Also, this will not help you to spawn in things, but open console and type the following commands:

enablecheats <yourserveradminpaswd>

showmyadminmanager

Will give all server admins some helpful tools for managing your server.

1 hour ago, ChloeForzold said:

Hi! We made a private server through gportal, and we can';t seem to get past level 8 or past the smokey red wall, does anyone know how to fix this? Its completely no fun with just two starter islands and not being able to open world. 

Just to explain; that red wall is the map boundary so no you can't go past that. If you were to add another server to your grid then one of the red walls, depending on where you configure it to be relative to your home server, will be blue and you can cross over. Regarding to your islands, can't help you out with gportal but i assume you have access to the server files? You will need to use the island editor provided by grapeshot. Use that to basically create your own map. As in, you can add as many islands to your server as you like. Do some googling, there is already enough on the island editor to be found. Hope that helps. But again, just to clarify, 1 server = 1 tile.

2 hours ago, Reni said:

@Starbuck

I know this is likely very RAM heavy, but do you have an idea on what CPU clocks would be needed?  I'm looking at doing a much smaller grid then a full Atlas setup but I still want to have the ability for large sea battles with 150 people per server.

Thank you in advance!

 

Any decent i7 or xeon will do. But i think you have already sort of answered your own question, with 150 ppl per server it is RAM you want to be looking at. That and a very strong inet connection (no less than 500Mbps up).

No you basically create the map by hand using the island editor.  That one you just showed is just an example. Have a look at the editor and you will get what i mean.

I think everyone is still focusing on getting them to actually run nicely. Patience my friend. Rome wasn't build in one day. That said, i believe somewhere around page 3/4 of this thread somebody posted a link to twitch that you can join where they are setting one up and configuring the map for everyone to see. Maybe check that out.

7 minutes ago, Kaliya said:

Just worried about how I need to distribute the load across them. 

Have a look at proxmox. And contact your datacenter and explain what it is you want to do. You will have several nodes in this case and proxmox needs something like less than 2ms response time between them in order to balance them all. So where the individual servers are located at the datacenter and how they are routed will be of great importance. 

31 minutes ago, Kaliya said:

You misunderstood what I meant I think. The official servers seem to use multiple dedicated machines, each running 4 servers each (for a total of 64 dedicated machines, assuming i am right). We do not know the specs that these dedicated machines have, but given the fact that official servers have to host 150 people per server, my guess would be a processor with less cores and higher clock speeds (think instead of running a many core server processor, they're running like an i7 8700k or something). I want to host an ATLAS that is 4x4 with 25 players per server not 150. This is where more cores would be better I believe than higher clock frequency.

Don't focus to much on CPU performance. We have a 6 year old i7 3930 (3,2GHz) and runs everything we throw at it without breaking a sweat. Focus on 1) your inet speed, anything below an actual 500Mbps upload will get you into trouble for what you want to do. Lag and rubberbanding guaranteed.  2) RAM, all the RAM, all of it, everything single slot filled!! These 150 slot severs will have 128GB at the very least! And you will need to look at PVE (proxmox or such) otherwise you are going to need 16 (as you want 4x4) single dedicated servers!

2 hours ago, CaptBlackSparrow said:

I love the things you are saying here. I need to research this more, any starting points you recommend that you found useful?

Previously we were running a server with W2K16 and had all our server running within that 1 OS. Just this weekend we completely redid our server. We are now using Proxmox as a virtualized environment and run 5 VM's within that. Should have done that a long time ago. So i would suggest looking at Proxmox first to get an idea of what it is, how it works and if it fits your needs. I warn you, it is not something you set up in a couple hours. Be ready to stick some time into it in order to get things running smooth. But it is the only way to go if you planning on running a grid unless you intend to split them up over several machines.