Game is unplayable cause of the lag

[Glorian]

Good. We will test that later the evening.
Great signature Aza: reminds me of the Max Frisch novel Andorra.

[zarg64]

Return of the zerg order in mode pve they are happy....

[Sera]

Server profiling a week ago revealed that when it comes to CPU load on the thread handling a zerged region, our packet sending and text logging functions were responsible for most of the work done.

As I'm sure many of you are aware, the reason zergs are so, so very bad for a server is because the amount of time required to dispatch packets to x people is proportional to the square of x - because each player needs to dispatch a packet to every other player in range.

Breaking up zerg PvP, through both zones and RvR implementation, is just as important as anything else.

Would this mean, we might see a different approach to the zone lock mechanism in the future?
Like I said the live game pretty much could not handle anything over 200vs200 in one zone... the RoR server does an awesome job considering this.

[thullonse]

god damn why am i paying 13$/month for this lagfest?!?!?!

[Landaren]

There's no shame in breaking up the zone locking system again, maybe instead of rotation just have them reset independently after X amount of time locked.

most of the time it's just pve flipping keeps anyway, at least having an option to move to a different zone might break up the train a bit.

Or spawn the emperor/zetch and have them slaughter everyone in the zone. I'm cool with either.

[noisestorm]

god damn why am i paying 13$/month for this lagfest?!?!?!

Better invest it into some Gucci or Gudg Stuff! Praise the Boy

[Vdova]

god damn why am i paying 13$/month for this lagfest?!?!?!

Nice one