Messing up the servers

Germania · January 23, 2006, 05:57:19 PM

I simply don't believe that there's an increase of utilization due to nothingness.

Was this increase happening at the same time beatles was running his script?

Not to say there was any intentional malice but sometimes scripts, if used wrong, or sometimes unforseen bugs, can cause server-side lag, or in redwall's case increased utilization.

I remember a few cases back when I used to play on Dark Realm, a private Ultima Online Server. When too many people ran certain macro's with incorrect delays they would lag the server.

The Beatles · January 23, 2006, 07:04:54 PM

I doubt it. People do kill runs fine all the time. My script just fetched the main page news, and slowly at that. Besides, the problem appeared some days after I stopped the script.

Gen. Volkov · January 23, 2006, 10:09:58 PM

Turns have just flat out stopped. On both games as far as I can tell.

Fresh Water Fighters · January 24, 2006, 06:58:40 AM

Yep.
I got 60 turns and then it must have stoped.
~FWF

Ruddertail · January 24, 2006, 11:31:30 AM

Turns seem to be running fine for me. They only come once an hour, but they're running fine...

Josh · January 24, 2006, 03:18:12 PM

really? i've only gotten 120 turns in the past 2 days
nothing during power hours

cloud · January 24, 2006, 03:25:49 PM

same

Ruddertail · January 24, 2006, 03:31:35 PM

Ah, you're talking turbo. I was refering to Reg, sorry. Turbo did seem to be a slow.

Gen. Volkov · January 24, 2006, 08:03:17 PM

Turbo was stopped as far as I could tell. Reg is working though. But both problems seem to have cleared up.

Ruddertail · January 26, 2006, 03:34:20 PM

Could we increase the rate at which the mercs refil? It's now only hapening at 1/6th of the rate it used to, due to the slower cron updates, but setting it to refil 6 times more per update would fix that problem.

I shouldn't think that would be too hard, just a matter of adjusting one variable, correct?

Josh · January 26, 2006, 04:38:48 PM

retto's already been informed
notl ike you have any funds to purchase anything anyways

Ruddertail · January 26, 2006, 06:30:10 PM

I wasn't aware that he had been informed, so I thought I'd mention it.

Josh, do you think I care whether I have funds to purchase anything? I'm not interested in personal gain, I'm trying to help the game function as well as possible. Since I'm not a coder, and not part of the inner circle of people, I do what I can. This is what I can do at the moment.

Josh · January 27, 2006, 08:21:56 AM

i don't believe you

Naltaca · April 09, 2006, 11:43:10 PM

Yeah, and why don't you just go slam your dingy in a toilet seat while you're at it!

...dang, tried being arrogant, but I'm not quite on Josh's level.