JACoders / OpenJK

Community effort to maintain and improve Jedi Academy (SP & MP) + Jedi Outcast (SP only) released by Raven Software
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Default sv_master1 to master.jkhub.org #854

Closed Caelish closed 6 years ago

Caelish commented 8 years ago

So we all know the Ravensoft master server is hopelessly broken, and has been for years. Every now and then, it'll randomly start ignoring servers using it, and drop them off the server list for undetermined time. I've had to spend non-insignificant amounts of money buying non-significant numbers of affected customers new IPs when it happened to them, and my customers are far from the only people this has happened to.

By comparison, master.jkhub.org is:

At the moment, OpenJK queries the Ravensoft master server by default, and has an option to use master.jkhub.org instead if launched with fs_game OpenJK. I think we've reached a point where, at 163 servers on it (masterjk3.ravensoft.com has 197), master.jkhub.org has basically every active JKA server listed on it. I'd like to suggest switching the default master servers around, so master.jkhub.org is queried by default, with a fallback to masterjk3.ravensoft.com.

As said, almost every server on the Ravensoft list is also on the JKHub list, and other advantages would include:

I strongly think this is a better option than keeping the Ravensoft master as default first option now that master.jkhub.org is so widely used and has proven to be very reliable.

Thoughts?

ensiform commented 6 years ago

No longer necessary with multiple masters being scanned at same time by default.

Still need to adjust UI for this though I believe.