Idea: Server borders between continents

[MightySheep]

As things stand, this game is unplayable. If you've ever seen any PvP vids you can see lag that makes the game run like a fucking slideshow where all you can do is pray that whatever button you press turns out to the correct one when the server catches up 5 seconds later.

My proposal is to do what many similar games have done and simply divide the server into continents or clusters of land. Where you sail across the ocean and hit a wall which switches servers. No one is even sailing across ocean atm anyway so it wont make a difference to most people.

I'm not sure if its within Loftars capability to add something like this but at this point I'm willing to suggest anything because the alternative is to abandon unplayable game.

[MagicManICT]

Have you read the server status thread recently or the recent announcement about the downtime for legacy? This is in the process of being resolved.

The world and population aren't even close enough for what you're proposing. maybe if we had 10000 players instead of 1000, it'd be needed.

[MightySheep]

The world and population aren't even close enough for what you're proposing. maybe if we had 10000 players instead of 1000, it'd be needed.

If the server is so great and can easily handle this SMALL number of player then why is it unplayable? I will reserve my judgement till after getting rid of this literally pointless legacy deadweight but I'm very skeptical if it will make any differences.

[Turtlesir]

i do agree the lag is pretty severe. i'm in perpetual rubber band hell since i can only play during peak hours these days. let's hope for the migration to go smooth as a baby's bottom so i can escape this gulag.

[bmjclark]

If you're asking for server borders for each continent, aren't you technically asking him to buy 5 more servers, 1 for each continent? It doesnt even seem to be number of players that's causing the lag considering the server takes giant shits in the middle of the night when there are like 500-600 people on.

[shubla]

The world and population aren't even close enough for what you're proposing. maybe if we had 10000 players instead of 1000, it'd be needed.

If the server is so great and can easily handle this SMALL number of player then why is it unplayable? I will reserve my judgement till after getting rid of this literally pointless legacy deadweight but I'm very skeptical if it will make any differences.

It is unplayable because devs are using some old crappy HDDs and server does lots of I/O operations, so the server will hang often because it must wait for HDD's. Upgrading to ssd is what loftar has been planning for some time now, and it will most likely fix the issue.

But I agree. Now that we have continents, devs should split them to be on different servers.
Of course that takes a lot of time and effort, so they should not do it now. But "in the future. Maybe.
I am sure that there are at least a few optimizations in loftars mind that are more simple to do than splitting the continents.