No more lag?
 

It's been almost a week now and there hasn't been a sign of server side lag? What's happening? 2016 = the end of lag?

yep

Each fire Jeffery puts out reduces lag, he must be working over time

Thanks FireFighter Jeffery!!

Everyone has gone back to school/college/work.

The player count is pretty much the same, it's not like half the player base just completely stopped logging in.

Rufus told lag that he was going to make Colin a lag moderator, lag didn't want none.

There was no lag lmao

Had to spread. Was funny.

Yeah the lag has gone down, even when there's 4000 players online. Nobody knows why and the server hasn't been upgraded. Enjoy it while it lasts, I guess!

I saw stefan's account on earlier. Did he come back or something? Or was it someone else on his acc? Maybe he is the new dev that will clean up the server?

Maybe removing the "randomlook" command helped out?

XDD

What is Stefan username? And in what guild is he?

The player's account name was stefan123, when you open profile it's unknown.

The thing was that he was on, but it also said that the account has been off for 170 days, plus on friends list it shows that he is above a player with less than 24 hours offline.

Maybe someone was able to identify the networking bottlenecks.

Snoop doesn't agree :/

Maybe because we can't see other players

Has nothing to do with randomlook(it has been enabled for about two weeks now) or not being able to see players(most of those areas were removed after Christmas break). The changes made to those do not correlate to the increase in server performance.

I heard from a pigeon that the iPod Touch 6G Overclocked Version has been gaining some ground. Now that Obama is gone, we might hear the good news (and not sirens from all the crime after he left).

loool

who would have thought that the holiday lag would end when the holidays ended

Servers were at 95-100% cpu during holiday times even when the server playercount was at 3500 players, 90+% when there were over 3000 players. Now at 4000 players the server cpu is only clocking in around 85%.

hail breadcrumbs

i wonder if it had something to do with like...presents n stuff. didn't really play much so i don't know when it was lagging/when it wasn't.

Lotta people's houses did seem to get extremely laggy with over 300 presents in them

Nah it lagged before Christmas as well. Weekends were pretty bad as far as performance goes.

Not the same type of lag.

interestin~

W/e I'm just glad we get a break from it

Edit:
Ha nvm, it's complete garbage atm. Everyone's spawning where they die and stuff

rakin' in that good karma

Maybe I'll start farming again. Couldn't do that during christmas week. If there is less lag, I'll let you know. I'd have to wait for 4k people though, because there were huge fire breath delay times.

It was lagging a few hours ago, stopped after a while tho. Every few min it got bad and people kept respawning where they died in MoD and menus wouldn't load. Only 3600 were on during this time.

we were updating a core script (6~ hours ago) a few times that tends to "freeze" the server for a minute or two each time we do so.

I've seen slight like spikes but I will say it definitely is improved in the past couple days. Could be that holidays are over but definitely noticeable. Today is lagged a bit but nothing like what is was 2 weeks ago.

Hey wow, maybe I'll actually consider logging in for more than 30 seconds again now.

does this mean mod tower was removed

No.

Oh don't worry, it's still there. 4k+ players online earlier and I was walking into empty rooms, being ported to unstuck me for "trying to enter an off-limits area" (despite not doing anything of the sort), and even being warped to lag island a couple times (and it wasn't exactly lonely there either).

However, I will say that it does seem as though the game as a whole is functioning better even with the high player count. I noticed some tweaks that made baddies (pyrats and bandits) much easier to kill, despite the crowded server. It was registering my hits even when the baddies were glitching (which definitely would happen a lot). Could just be my imagination, but something seemed smoother.

Server is still crying for an upgrade, but the devs are doing a good job at keeping the game running not too shabby at 4k+ player count.

im lagging like hell op is a troll

oo then ill prolly hit 10k after midterm.

Where is this "Lag Island?" Does it come with free coconut milk?

it's where adiams ban people because they stalk that island when people lag there and there is no coconut milk

The latest performance issues doesn't really have anything to do with the actual server performance like it has in the past.

Elaborate?

Before the server was having performance issues via high CPU usage. As more players logged on, the CPU usage got higher and higher and peaked at 100%. Once it hit around the 95%+ range the server started experiencing lots of issues and lag.

The CPU usage isn't an issue currently, and therefor the issues with lag don't really have anything to do with what was causing the lag everyone is familiar with in the past.

So how much detonated wam does it have this server????

figures when i start to be less active the server preforms well.

:/

It has very wam.

There is still definitely a lot of lag. To the point where the game freezes for more than a few mins. I check the map, but player count doesn't show up so :P

Server probably crashed, because then the player count shows up and it says 2900, and then jumps straight to 3500+

Sadly it's not really an "island" anymore. Just a patch of water. There used to be an island there. You get warped there sometimes when something glitchy happens. Happens more frequently when there's a lot of lag.

It's one of the lesser-known areas of the game. Like the jail for temp-banned players (which has long since been removed, but oh what a fun time it was..).

Anyway, this is lag island:

http://imageshack.com/a/img910/7760/RIXQlV.jpg

(This was taken during the holidays when the player count was consistently 4k+ and the lag was at its worst)

Bump. Can't log in.

tF? graal doesn't go down to 2k anymore?

wow 4300 ppl on rn LOL who says classic is dying?

Nice to know they just did nothing and and admit it once it gets better lol.