Goa..

[fl-gorre]

Originally posted by Goa


What will happen now ?

The hardware on the Excalibur server was upgraded recently and is just about top notch. While hardware upgrades may seem like the obvious solution, this is not an area where improvements would make much of a difference.

What we can improve though, is our response-time in the off hours, to make the impact of each crash smaller and reduce the instances of "ghosted accounts". This is something we are working on at the moment, and steps have already been taken that should reduce the downtime greatly. While reviewing the changes in our procedures, we will continue to make changes to improve the response-time to incidents similar to the ones we have seen these last few days.

On behalf of the GOA staff we sincerely apologize for the trouble you have experienced the last few days. Know that your woes and feedback do not go unheard

why do i get the feeling that they just may as well have posted something like this:

Basically we dont give a shit, however we will give a beeper to some underpayed monkey so he can go turn the on/off switch everytime the server crashes.
give us all your money kkthx bbey

 

[old.Buffer]

i take it u will be qutting then?
goodbye
best of luck etc

 

[adari]

3 or 4 crashes in half a year

be glad u whiners

play swg then come talk about how bad this is =p

 

[afternoon_tea]

actually 7-8 crashes since saturday tbh

 

[Aussie-]

And don't forget, there has to come alot more ppl to Excal and Prydwen before they make a third English server!
I'm sure the server can handle it np !

 

[adari]

Originally posted by afternoon_tea
actually 7-8 crashes since saturday tbh

k, but still, servers have and have had a good uptime

 

[quinthar]

Originally posted by adari
3 or 4 crashes in half a year

be glad u whiners

play swg then come talk about how bad this is =p

Alternativly 3 crashes in 5 days

 

[Waok]

A RR happens, or one is attempted, OR something on par that requires alot of players in 1 zone..
The server lags, and crashes..
Server Automatically reboots..
Auth server connects to excal server..
The Server hosts daoc once again..
Both are running again..
1000+ Players try re-connecting at the same time..

Thats an immense strain on ANY server, and is something ANY company would find hard to counter.. maybe having a few auth servers would be more sufficiant, or a backup auth server.

Don't think i'm sticking up for GOA, the updates on the website and xml is very bad, but wouldnt take much to improve.

 

[Divinia]

heh. not like we're to only ones.

http://vnboards.ign.com/Fans_Round_Table/b5176/62267144/?10

 

[ssera]

Originally posted by Divinia
heh. not like we're to only ones.

http://vnboards.ign.com/Fans_Round_Table/b5176/62267144/?10

there goes the 'US servers never have this problem' argument down the drain...

 

[silverblast]

Originally posted by ssera
there goes the 'US servers never have this problem' argument down the drain...

Lol, actually a smart thing to do is to place a cap on how many users are connected to the login server at a time, or simply increase the amount of login servers there are.

 

[ssera]

Originally posted by silverblast
Lol, actually a smart thing to do is to place a cap on how many users are connected to the login server at a time, or simply increase the amount of login servers there are.

yeah, or code the game so it can actually handle so many players in the same place (like it says on the box). Don't know if that's actually technically possible for a game like DAoC tho...

 

[silverblast]

Originally posted by ssera
yeah, or code the game so it can actually handle so many players in the same place (like it says on the box). Don't know if that's actually technically possible for a game like DAoC tho...

I really doubt it too, anyways, even if the server made it fine, most of the current computers can barely handle that many moving spritesand spell effects + Terrain Features such as trees, MGs, ground textures, keeps etc.

EDIT : daaamn , almost forgot AE spell effects xD.

 

[ssera]

Originally posted by silverblast
I really doubt it too, anyways, even if the server made it fine, most of the current computers can barely handle that many moving spritesand spell effects + Terrain Features such as trees, MGs, ground textures, keeps etc.

EDIT : daaamn , almost forgot AE spell effects xD.

mythic nerfed my lovely flaming spears 'cos of that
Pretty much the only reason I rolled a rm too....

 

[silverblast]

Originally posted by ssera
mythic nerfed my lovely flaming spears 'cos of that
Pretty much the only reason I rolled a rm too....

Heh , btw I can't wait till next patch (or was it TOA ?) to get Spell Effects set to group only.