Questions on server hardware requirements, bandwidth, launching, etc

[Boss]

We used four megabits up and down for 200 players and that worked fairly well.

You're going to want a static IP with a port forwards on 2302 to the server machine (Make sure the firewall's open on that one)

You can host around 100 people on a 3.0Ghz P4 HT and two gigs of RAM. Freelancer isn't a terribly strenuous thing, but it's restricted to a single core.

I'd actually considered the feasibility of using ESXi to combine the cores into one virtual for the server to see.

To be honest, with that server, you'd probably be able to hit around 500 if the core virtualization works right.

EDIT: I don't host a server on a regular basis; this is drawing on Discovery's history for the most part.

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Just go play the game and have fun dammit.

all in all the conclusion is that disco doesn't need antagonist factions, it doesn't need phantoms, it doesn't need nomads, it doesn't need coalition and it doesn't need many other things, no AIs, the game is hijacked by morons to confuse the game with their dickwaving generic competition games mixed up with troll-of-the-day.