ADMIN NOTICE: Server undergoing lag testing

[Malaclypse 666]

Guess that proves my theory.. too many NPCs generate more lag... ?

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Ooh... gotta say it.

Believe I presented this theory previously, and was pooh-poohed.

..next question... how hard is it to crank the buggers down a notch or two..

[Doom]

i tried some other servers yesterday and for example i didnt saw any NPCs in Hamburg system..not even one...very small amount in some other systems..but ping was 75..so NPCs might have very big influence on the servers lag

[McNeo]

Me and sting were doing missions and when we were both fighing at the same time, it became jumpy. This was when there was about 10 players on ( i think ). NPC's do affect the lag in a negative way, but i saw about 10 Xenos slogging it out with 2 Guardians and 3 patriots and all was fine.

Also, before that, i was killing stuff at the bering gate in texas for a guy who wanted loot. On and off there but the swarmers saved me. Came on when transports and escorts came from the lane.

I've never seen lag like we had before though :D

[Korrd]

The more NPCs and players out there, the more processing power and bandwidth we need.

Were NPC patrols increased in Discovery compared to vanilla?

We can always put less NPC out there, but i don't think that would help as we still have many players on server.

Once I reach home, i will see the results of the test. But for what i saw tonight, the only way to get rid of the lag is to get a more powerful server and a powerful Internet connection that can cope with the increased traffic.
Or for the time being, we reduce NPC patrols to no more of 2-3 ships. But that is not a solution, is only a way to postpone the problem.

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[Wolfpack98]

Well, we have a big enough pipe. The bandwith is *NOT* limited over here, however if we go Dedicated we have to find a host that provides about close to a terabyte of transfer available.

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[Nightfall]

Well, I could get on just this morning for a short while... I see everyone experienced same as I did.
Another observation: lag tends to increase when SF's are on (mainly in Cambridge and NL) I usually have a little increase in lag when I'm in Cambridge or NL too and I noticed there is really a high concentration of NPCs there. Try comparing now with the lag we all were experiencing with a lot of people in New York. If a high concentration of players would be in New Berlin or New Tokyo, we'd have the same result certainly.
What am I trying to say? Maybe just lower the NPC patrols where there is a high concentration of them, not all of the NPC patrols (I mean, whatever is easier to do for Igiss) as places of really high concentration of NPCs are the capital planets and Tau-31 where the KNF and BAF are doing their little war...
I don't know, just throwing ideas here...

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[Chucc]

I was just on, had lag on and off in multiple systems, with and without NPC's Present. I didn't do any missions, I was trading and waiting for transfers. I was going back through the Cortez to Manchester, when I somewhere unknown exact coords, got the server crashed note and was promptly dropped on my butt here. Hope you had better luck.


thanks

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[Korrd]

Yes. I've just been called from home. Internet is down at home. I'm going to put it up again as soon as i reach home.

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[Qunitinius~Verginix]

So is the server down right now? Cause I dont see it in the list of servers from the Freelancer page.....

I'll check back soon.

YEa I cant get on right now, but I dont think its me.

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[Korrd]

Well, it seems it got back up before i got home. :)

A pic of the current status of the server. Fl wallpaper and everything :)

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