Big worlds are still without a working chat (naming here de12 and de11). This is anything but nice but I am working on that issue for quite some time now. There’s progress – beta players might have noticed the numerous chat server restarts and … err … crashes. There’s a big change going on under the hood of the chat / fort battle server to prepare it for large worlds. Considered the drastic changes, it runs quite stable (just like 1-2 crashes in 2-3 hours and a few more when debugging). Some runs lasted a bit longer (10 hours). I can’t really say when it’s working well enough to be run on public worlds (one early version was tested on de 12 and it was working in principle. There was just the flaw that it had a problem with fort battles … not good). So I believe to be on the right track and once it’s stable, we can roll it out. The improvements should have also the effect that county chat should work on larger worlds as well (this is not a goal, it’s a side effect) because it had not worked for similar reasons. There was also one improvement that should let it consume less memory, something that should also pay off a bit on production servers. And here’s a boring graphic about how it’s behaving right now:
What you see is the number of players logged in (blue / white), the maximum allowed memory usage (yellow) and the currently consumed memory (red). There are only 300 logged in players right now, as it’s 3 am already :P. And it’s been running now for about 30 minutes. I am curios how it’ll look tomorrow morning. If it hasn’t crashed. But I better go to bed now.
Oh, and I still need xmas presents :(.
Glad that there seem to be a solution that might work.I wonder if the mew chat log system of work and duel notification of 1.3 is somehow interfering or making it worse? just a wild guess here.
I get tired hen i play till 3:00 am and you are not playing but working at 3:00 am and getting up early !
Such dedication 🙂
@Saltin
Agree Saltin wow
Zet have u considered of not only tweak the software, but tweak (upgrade) too the hardware. It can be simpler 😉
Of course that needs to enter more money in there lol
I’m contributing for that on the pt worlds 😀
as I said before better servers whit a higher capacity 🙂
anyway zet keep up the good work and for who do you need to buy xmas presents?
howdy zet “san”
merry xmass and have a great new year.
i dont speak french, so all this computer lingo is beyond me.
but if its process power, all it takes is a simple yank the processor and add a new one.
if its internet connections or multiple people via a connection,, its a adapter thingy.
so i doubt its a hardware issue.
its a program issue, something about the “architectural” making or make up of the game, the platform and what it can handle,, the program cant handle or can handle all the players,, or the info or something else or the corners or other.
like i said,, i dont speak French.
but i saw zet working on some gravity thing, with all these balls placed on top of one another, and the spacial spacial matrix and some sorta free dynamic thingy….i dunno.
lets just say your loading a ten ton sofa thats 3 meters wide onto a truck that can handle 100 tons, but has only enough loading space for 2,5 meters.
merry xmass 😀
Merry xmas zet.
Seems as if everything works finely, doesn’t it? 🙂
Seems like the devs are taking a snooze…shhh
Happy new year to you Zet !
Wish to see 1.30 arriving on french worlds and all others !
zet, when .ro worlds will be updated to 1.3, we will be able to get the sled?