Why TSO and not EAland?

Tourniquet

Tourniquet

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Hi,
i was just wondering. Why is Project Dollhouse based on the old 'The Sims Online' version and not the newer 'EA-Land' version? Are there any advantages?

Wouldn't it be better to have one big world with all the cities instead of every citiy by itself?
 
Tourniquet said:
Hi,
i was just wondering. Why is Project Dollhouse based on the old 'The Sims Online' version and not the newer 'EA-Land' version? Are there any advantages?

Wouldn't it be better to have one big world with all the cities instead of every citiy by itself?
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Our community wouldn't be big enough to fit multiple cities, I don't think. It's better to have one big happy family community than a really spread out one where nobody lives next to each other.

Also, the EA-Land client is no longer being distributed. The TSO client, however, is - you can still download it from their FTP site and it has nearly everything that EA-Land did at its closing time.
 
Yeah the biggest reason is that allthough some of us (myself included) have the EA-Land client, we're all really weary about hosting it because we can't predict the legal consequences of doing so.
 
Aside from legal issues, EA-Land wouldn't be ideal for smaller server, due to both bandwidth and the amount unoccupied free space. It would literately be a desert.
 
aidancheddar said:
Aside from legal issues, EA-Land wouldn't be ideal for smaller server, due to both bandwidth and the amount unoccupied free space. It would literately be a desert.
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Why would it take more bandwidth? I don't think it would take much more resources if it's all one big city. Basically it's just a bigger map, where you need more zooming, but that's it?!
 
It depends on the computer, and the person's ISP. Bugs aside, Sims Online suffered a lot of lag due to it's weak servers.
 
It didn't have "weak" servers. The serverblades were top of the range. I have that from one of the devs.
Which doesn't bode well for us running SimAntics.
Then again, the TSO protocol was horrible, which was the cause of much lag.
 
Ahh... I thought they were weak, or at least old for it's time, from what I heard when I was playing and the amount of maintaince the cities got. Then again, I was still new to MMOs at that point.
 
Anyone can you give me link to download ea land pleaase i want to test with it and search for some iff files...
 
The EA-Land download is a GB in size. It would be as hard to share as it is finally a good place to host the ISO image I mentioned last year. If anyone does have EA-Land, I wonder how possible it would be for Project Dollhouse to auto detect it's map, if selected and configure itself accordingly.
 
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