[cod] Attracting Players and a Request

[bambam]

Jeff Abbott wrote:

>Folks,
>
>My server has been sitting ridiculously idle for the past couple of
>weeks (since I jumped to CoD:UO from vanilla CoD, actually) and I was
>wondering what other people's thoughts were on what attracts players? 
>Obviously ping and responsiveness are important and my machine is on a
>very fast connection and has enough horsepower to keep at least 6
>people playing comfortably which is 6 more than it's been seeing. 
>Beyond that, though, I'd be interested in hearing if people have found
>any patterns or criteria of their most popular servers.
>
>Regarding the request, I'm building a stats processing system and am
>now in need of more complete, eventful and interesting logs than my
>server can provide.  If those of you who have servers that see some
>decent traffic could send me any games_mp.log files (off the list, of
>course) I would be much obliged.  I don't believe there's any
>incriminating data in the games_mp.log but if someone else knows
>better then please correct me.
>
>Thanks,
>Jeff
>  
>
seems that this is causing lag on my server for the player :

^1[NOP]^7DirtyH at rry^4-NL: Delta request from out of date packet.
^1[NOP]^7DirtyH at rry^4-NL: Delta request from out of date packet.
^1[NOP]^7DirtyH at rry^4-NL: Delta request from out of date packet.
^1[NOP]^7DirtyH at rry^4-NL: Delta request from out of date packet.
^1[NOP]^7DirtyH at rry^4-NL: Delta request from out of date packet.
^1[NOP]^7DirtyH at rry^4-NL: Delta request from out of date packet.
^1[NOP]^7DirtyH at rry^4-NL: Delta request from out of date packet.
^1[NOP]^7DirtyH at rry^4-NL: Delta request from out of date packet.
^1[NOP]^7DirtyH at rry^4-NL: Delta request from out of date packet.
^1[NOP]^7DirtyH at rry^4-NL: Delta request from out of date packet.
^1[NOP]^7DirtyH at rry^4-NL: Delta request from out of date packet.
^1[NOP]^7DirtyH at rry^4-NL: Delta request from out of date packet.
^1[NOP]^7DirtyH at rry^4-NL: Delta request from out of date packet.
^1[NOP]^7DirtyH at rry^4-NL: Delta request from out of date packet.
^1[NOP]^7DirtyH at rry^4-NL: Delta request from out of date packet.
^1[NOP]^7DirtyH at rry^4-NL: Delta request from out of date packet.
^1[NOP]^7DirtyH at rry^4-NL: Delta request from out of date packet.
^1[NOP]^7DirtyH at rry^4-NL: Delta request from out of date packet.
etc etc etc

and when this happens...the player has 999 for a ping.....

cheers
B4M