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    Username: felbane
    Age: 29
    Location: Texas
    Why do you like to play TFC? I enjoy the long tech tree and the sense of achievement you get for building something bigger than a dirt hut.
    Why do you want to join? I've played the latest version in singleplayer for a while, but I think multiplayer would be much more fun.
    What will you add to the server? I love to build, so I'd like to maybe collaborate with others to create something grand.

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    Nice server, hope to find some time to join and play soon. :)

     

    Unrelated but important point for you and anyone else that wants to administer servers (not just TFC/Minecraft):

     

    • Backup's are done hourly to itself(RAID 1 array) and daily to Amazon's S3 service(Same service Netflix uses). Therefore the chance of complete world loss is very low.

     

    Having an hourly backup to S3 is great, and fits the definition of "backup". However, RAID is not a backup. RAID is designed to promote uptime and/or storage capacity, not to provide data safety. If you're running a server and want to guard against data loss, make sure you do what tomato is doing and make backups of your data to an off-server resource (cloud, tape, NAS, external HDD, etc).

     

    I'm not trying to be a pedant, I just hear too many horror stories of people thinking they're covered because they're running a mirror and end up losing everything.

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    So I guess I wait until I turn 18, get a job and save for a good computer?

     

    Even a brand-new gaming computer will probably lag spike with TFC. My machine runs Skyrim at Ultra Quality at ~120fps and I'm lucky if I get 20fps in TFC. The problem seems to be massive memory usage (caused by the TFC worldgen), RAM being paged to disk, and Java's garbage collector. Running on an SSD is supposed to help, but I'm not a fan of putting pagefiles onto flash memory so I'll just deal with low FPS and huge lag spikes until Bioxx can figure out a way to solve the problem or reduce the symptoms.

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