[MUD-Dev2] [OFF-TOPIC] A rant against Vanguard reviews and rants

[Amanda Walker]

On Mar 16, 2007, at 6:56 AM, Adam Martin wrote:
> On 11/03/07, Amanda Walker <amanda at alfar.com> wrote:
>> Conclusion: Very practical for a startup if you have some money to
>> throw at it, but not practical as a sideline even on an affluent
>> programmer day-job salary.
>
> The way I've done it before, and seen others do it, it works out a  
> lot cheaper.

There are certainly cheaper ways to do it.  I was just taking a stab  
at "how to roll out a game that could handle around 10K users and  
keep running if a server failed".  Having seen what MMO fans do at  
the slightest hint of downtime, ... ;-)

--Amanda