Messing up the servers

[Shogun]

Hm, suprised about Lunarpages acting like that. I use LunarPages as well, find them to be a great host and have wonderful customer support.

[Gen. Volkov]

LOL. Nevada, I highly doubt Retto is going to adopt the FaF codebase, for one thing, its a prom codebase so just as vulnerable to attack, and two, why would it consume less? It does more than RWL does.

[bjornredtail]

FAF has fixed a number of the security bugs in Prominance. As far as preformance, it could go either way.... Perhaps I should do some proper load testing someday.

[Retto (on Vacation)]

The report from the 24th said that we went from using 1.7% of the daily average CPU to 0.31%.

That looks like a huge change, and while they haven't said anything definitively, I think we should be alright. I am thinking that there might be some issues in the turns.php code in dealing with dead warlords (perhaps, I haven't had time to look at it too much. I think there are some things we can improve upon, though), and so resetting the servers might help. When I get back home, we'll reset reg, and bring back normal (perhaps a bit faster? Input?) speed turns. I'll get the CPU down from that, and then we'll do Turbo.

[Gen. Volkov]

Wow... that is a HUGE change. If I had to guess, I'd say there is a problem somewhere in the turns code. As to faster turns in reg, well, a bit higher turn limit and maybe 2/every 10min? I dunno, but a 3-4 day wait on reg to refil is a bit ridiculous. We should try and speed up the pace just a bit. Like 0 turns and 0 stored refilled in both in 2 days? Or a period of time with a faster turn cycle, or day. Like Joe had in Hack, or you have in Turbo? I dunno. I'll see what's in suggestions.

[Peace Alliance]

2/10 wouldn't be a bit higher... that would be twice as high... doubling the speed? are you nutso?

heh, i love reg the speed it is... makes it a very stable, political, and strategic game. A faster pace would take away some of the stratagising and politics.... it would make soloing easier too

[cloud]

I'd vouch for an increase in speed. It's way too slow the way it is and causes a quick loss of interest for anyone not as boring as peace.

[Gen. Volkov]

Hey, it was just a suggestion Peace. I don't see you making any.

[Dead Eye]

Keep the speed. It's how I like my regular. Notice I never play turbo. I love the politics and strategy involved in regular.

[Neobaron]

I, too, like reg the way it is...

Normally politiking is all that sustains me as I havent any real playing talent yet =-P

I have the second or third oldest account still alive on reg and if you look at mine versus PAs attacks/defenses you'll see what i mean. ;-)

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Why dont we speed turbo down a bit instead?

Making 2 runs in the span of 24 hours gets kinda hard, and id also like to see 2 month reset periods on it. It doesnt take a lot of talent to build an army of rats in 5 or so runs and just pummel everyone for a month if ya know what im saying. 

[Wolf Snare]

I'm supporting that idea. Maybe more people would play turbo if it wasn't so fast paced. Besides a change wouldnt be bad.

[cloud]

the point of turbo is to be fast paced. That's why I liked it, if I had a plan set out there was only one day where things could mess it up instead of a week.

[Gen. Volkov]

I know I would play turbo more if it wasn't as fast... but I'd also like reg more if it was faster. But that's just me.

[Retto]

One of the problem with all the dead warlords was that, with the way we were doing rankings, it assign everyone their new rank (even if it was the same as their old one) every 10 minutes of every hour of every day. With over a thousand accounts, and the processing we do on each query to ensure saftey, you can imagine the load. So I just added a check to make sure that the new rank is different than the old rank when we assign one. We'll see by tomorrow how that affects the usage statistics, and go from there.

In the mean time, Reg turns are moving normally again. You all still want a reset?

[cloud]

I'd prefer one, since my account got deleted for some reason.