Districts...

I was just wondering a few things about what 'districts' really are. now I don't expect anyone to have the answer, but maybe, just maybe someone does, so here goes:

1. Is it safe to assume that a district is technically just an instance of a service running a particular portion of the game? Having watched my TCP/IP connections in TCPView, it seems that when I change districts (or zones), that game client makes a new IP connection...

2. What is the theoretical limit of players/district?

3. Do international districts have a higher player/distrct limitation? Or is it the same across the board?

4. And finally, a seemingly off topic one: Which ToA district do you hang out in most often? For me, its ToA DN2

1) Correct. Each district is controlled by a different individual server machine in the data center.

2) Roughly 150 (Jeff Strain said so in the Gaming Steve interview)

3) I don't think so.

4) I don't "hang out" anywhere. Due to real life my GW gaming time is very limited, so I gotta use it well.


You may want to read these GuildWiki articles:
http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Server
http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/District

Thanks. great links