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DotAPod challenges Garena.

By Calinescu 'Dynasty' Dan-Gabriel
Mar 21, 2010 22:45


ImageYet again, another dota friendly platform arises. This time, it's nothing we have ever seen before. As the other major competitors out there, like Hamachi, Garena, or DotA Rank, this LAN simulating platform promises the best gaming conditions for gamers world wide.




The thing that distinguishes this platform is that besides being easier to use, it supports both PC and Mac at the same time, mostly because it only needs a web browser to run.

What every non believer would ask is: Why would I switch to DotAPod? What is it offering me, as a player, that other platforms don't? To get these questions answered, all I had to do is look around on the community forums that comes with the platform, where one of the staff members was kind enough to clear things out for us.

Here's what thesilence88 (Forum Moderator) had to say:

"But concerning lags, are there any difference between DotaPod and Garena?

Yes, a very huge difference. As you can see, Garena is just like a portal, whereby every players there are redirected to servers that are created by other users. What happens is that, you would never know the 'exact' latency of that server, which causes unreliability and bad experience.

Here in Dotapod, we are all connected to ONE server (I didn't put 'only' for a reason, will explain it later), which is permanently hosted with the best connection available to ensure the best experience for everyone. Now, this server acts as a docking station for every user to connect with, for this reason, everyone will feel like the host itself! Lag-free, no more 'waiting for other players' popup, a high reliable server that operates 24 hours.

For the reason i didn't put 'only' is because there are multiple servers around the globe!(soon). The reason the servers is placed at different countries, is to allow those with high latency (resulted from remote countries) able to play Lag-Free as well! All these server is then chained and link to the Singapore server's database, where their records will be recorded. So far, we have server from Singapore (connection proven and tested to be optimum from India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippine, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore & China), and China (Beijing)! If promotion is good enough, and we get to have volunteer server hosts from different country, DotaPod will be 'EPIC'.

Are East Asians mostly the one benefitting from a delay-less experience? How about Europeans or Americans? How can DotaPod provide a satisfying experience for them?

As what i had mentioned earlier, this statement can be considered as wrong. However, East Asians will be the one benefiting from delay-less experience, from East Asian's server. Those at Euro and America, will experience delay-less experience, if there is a volunteer server host there. Those at Euro/America will not be able to play at servers located at remote countries, due to its latency. But its database will get to linked together, as in stats and game histories.

Any other advantages?

Why sure yes! The moderators team is working on the new phase of Dotapod to get its ass out from the beta stage, which lasted for almost a year now. All these improvements is to overcome the difficulties that we are having now = Banning system, overall interface, user's level, etc.

All in all, Dotapod requires a lot of passionate coders that are willing to help Dotapod! Me myself not a coder only able to help out in moderating forums. But if you do seek for more detail/technical informations, please feel free to PM our Dotapod Founder Sprion. He will be glad to help you out.

Hope i answered your questions. Feel free to ask more and hopefully i will be able to help you out."


Other that that, the man behind the DotAPod project provides us a small, yet clear and easy to understand, video tutorial on how to use the platform in order to play.

Please note that this platform is still in it's beta phase and it's not fully internationalised.



Source : DotAPod Forums
Video Source : Sprion2's Youtube Channel


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