Vanilla's world most populated server

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Vanilla's world most populated server

by Viper » Mon Mar 16, 2015 9:15 pm

Dear community,

During the last 2 weeks, the number of players connected on our server has reached 6.600 players, peaking on sunday. Dealing with this amount of population is something which was never done before, even on Vanilla's retail. Consequently, a lot of software optimization has been done so that the realm can handle a lot of players (more than 10.000 players). However, we are now facing a new problem: Hardware limitation.

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Handling this many players makes it increasingly difficult for us to develop on our Dev. realms, since it impacts the live server's performance, creating significant random lag when server reaches more than 5.000 players. We had to shut down three Dev. realms already. Consequently, the Dev Team can't work efficiently anymore.

New hardware is needed to suppress the lag and set a new world record. The cost of this hardware cannot be handled by our team alone, therefore a donation system will be available for a limited time (and limited cost) here. This donation will not be mandatory, nor give any reward: No hall of fame, no items in-game, it will only help us support the upkeep cost. A status of the donation will be available on the website.

The gamers keep coming in from all over the world to play, which makes it very difficult to complete quests and kill creatures. Respawn rates are the ones used on retail: perfect for the 2.500 players allowed back then, but a nightmare when we're more than 5.000 players. The case we face every day. Players have been asking for another realm, but this will imply more Game Masters, more ressources, and the possibility that the new realm will not work as the current one. Even though developping cross-server battlegrounds was one of our dreams, we chose to keep the current one. Consequently, to deal with this issue, a respawns algorithm will be developped soon to have a dynamic respawn rate comparable of the one from retail but dealing with more than 2x/3x population.

NB: A patch will be applied tomorrow morning between 08:00 and 09:00 GMT+1, during the time when the amount of players online is lowest. The realm may be unstable for one hour during this time.

Best regards,
Nostalrius.

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Re: Vanilla's world most populated server

by apollan » Mon Mar 16, 2015 9:23 pm

Aweseome! Grats guys!

On a side note, please fix the main site for Windows XP users, I and many others are not able to access it. I am not able to view this donate page. Forums work fine though.
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Re: Vanilla's world most populated server

by Homer » Mon Mar 16, 2015 9:43 pm

Could we get an English link for donations?
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Re: Vanilla's world most populated server

by Trolle » Mon Mar 16, 2015 10:08 pm

Could you not post statistics about faction ratios, race ratio, how many unique IPs have connected and a lot of other intersting statistics that I'm sure you are having over there? :D
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Re: Vanilla's world most populated server

by Dondurma » Mon Mar 16, 2015 10:08 pm

Perhaps a second realm?Might not be a bad idea imo.
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Re: Vanilla's world most populated server

by Noxx » Mon Mar 16, 2015 10:10 pm

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Re: Vanilla's world most populated server

by kayrn » Mon Mar 16, 2015 10:11 pm

And it begins...

Not sure what you all expected given the hype this server has received. It is disappointing you've not had a plan in place for this.

Hope the server makes it but like every other server asking for donations before it, I'll wait and see what happens.
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Re: Vanilla's world most populated server

by strreamix » Mon Mar 16, 2015 10:15 pm

I for one do not see an issue with donations as long as NO items are being given out.

Glad to hear about the respawn changes.

Please do your best to eliminate spell delay and make sure melee characters are able to hit their targets when visually within range.

Keep up the good work Nostalrius staff.
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Re: Vanilla's world most populated server

by Gurgel » Mon Mar 16, 2015 10:17 pm

Keep up the good work, your doing an amazing job!
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Re: Vanilla's world most populated server

by Shadowlurk » Mon Mar 16, 2015 10:17 pm

Just donated 10 Euros.

Keep up the awesome work!
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