How much bandwidth per player & how many are supported?

[pinobot]

I haven't seen any servers with a lot of players (>50), how many players are supported by the game and how much bandwidth does it take?  

[jitspoe]

The games supports 255 max players, but there aren't any maps that could handle that many.  I'd say bandwidth is probably about 3-4K/s per player.  Of course, that will increase if there are lots of other players present.

[TinMan]

Alright, who do we have who wants in on making a paintball2 tower (players stacked on top of eachother), there have been records for it in all quake games, why not this mod? If we can get 255 people then I'll make the map.

It'd sure bring in a lot of curious people if we did it.

[jitspoe]

It wouldn't be possible to stack that many players vertically.  The network protocol isn't designed for it.

[TinMan]

Awe...you've crushed my dreams. Bad Jitler.
What would you guess the maximum vertical stack would be? (and just like Q3 stack maps, the map would probably be designed to have a spawn on top of a tall building/structure that you'd jump off of to land on the stack)

[jitspoe]

Network limits are +/-4096 units.  Players are 56 units tall.  You do the math.

[TinMan]

4096/56=73ish
How tall are players when croutched?

[Eiii]

32 units.

So, 128. Though I'd down that to 100ish realistically.