I'm very happy that most people have been nice with me being a new one and of course what I wanted to do was make some 10 or 15 servers for the community after testing one for a while, inviting people and friends to see all the results of it, as I did with SSHD and other games.
I'm sorry to come up to the conclusion I'm posting here below.
After over one month of running a single dedicated server on classic TSE with many different settings including server's max fps, inviting people and friends and getting feedbacks, I can conclude that the server code is just disaster, almost as disaster as revolution's: random lags, random ping changes, random disconnect reasons (like "server is full" randomly), people have to get high ping in order to play fine, and even then it starts lagging after a while, people mostly need to use BufferActions 5 or even more, every single person reports shaking even at high ping (100 ms+) after playing for several minutes, the lags are less the more people join in for probably some netcode mess, setting the process to realtime priority helps a bit, tried using HPET, LAPIC and TSC as clocksources with the same exact results, tried to use embedded RTC tick and CPU's tick with same exact results, changing CPU frequency or disabling internal CPU idle changes nothing, people are forced to use Fix42 which will exclude all masters except Ostap's it doesn't matter which variables you set, in short: community is way too much divided, some are toxic and some are just cheaters and the community defends them even when they blatantly cheat.
I'll stick to Serious Sam HD TSE which has more manageable community, servers don't lag most of the times and other than random fake hits there isn't any weird problem that affects gameplay
and not to mention that Ostap bans your server randomly off his master-server, then people defend him saying "iT wAs a TeChnIcAl proBlEm!1!!"
This doesn't apply to the whole community of course, there are very good people as I said. As we say in Italy: "don't make all the grass a bundle". You need to be fair in all circumstances.
And to be fair in every single circumstance you need to be impartial and judiciary on every single event. I won't support "monopoly" (or how we want to define it) any time soon, I won't support excluding all master servers except just one by using fishy methods (like having variables and then ignoring them entirely in the mod code), I won't support stealthily banning servers randomly off master-servers.
Ostap is appreciated for making fixes and stuff for the community, but the fishy actions are to be noticed too, which are current and, as far as I'm concerned, not just part of the past. The fact that he doesn't stealthily ban GZ24 servers won't prove anything, this is just the truth, not just randomly taking anyone's side here.
Appreciation and credits go as well to other people who made mods, skins, or stuff for the community, like Zeo, Zeb89 and Alex (just named the first ones who came first into my mind, won't really list every single person but there are of course more people).
All this said, I want to thank all the people who have been nice to me, helped me with finding things and testing, especially Supersniper, Karel and Godsather / Padrino.
are u italian? never heard ur nick before,i mean in the past 15 years lol