Population keeps on growing

[Souldrinkah]

Either open donations again or make a new server. There is no point optimizing further and wasting time on that. Rather do the new content.

[Momoh]

A second server is strictly necessary at this point as the quality of playing has significantly deteriorated. That would be the only thing that would make me come back and play on Nostalrius.

I'm not quite sure staff members realize that judging by the way they've been handling the situation though. I hope some of them do play on the server and are not completely out of touch so they can see for themselves. Of course they'll have to sacrifice some pride as there will no longer be a realm with 9000 players online but sacrificing that in order to improve quality of playing will be worth it.

I barely experience any problems. Even with 9k on my game remains silky smooth at 20ms and no delay.

Only the server dc's really suck.

If 99% complain about lag/reduction in quality, whereas 1% see no impact, who do you reckon has the right answer?

[Simonich]

Continue making the 1 and only server better. Do not waste the unique population it has

[Arise]

A second server is strictly necessary at this point as the quality of playing has significantly deteriorated. That would be the only thing that would make me come back and play on Nostalrius.

I'm not quite sure staff members realize that judging by the way they've been handling the situation though. I hope some of them do play on the server and are not completely out of touch so they can see for themselves. Of course they'll have to sacrifice some pride as there will no longer be a realm with 9000 players online but sacrificing that in order to improve quality of playing will be worth it.

I barely experience any problems. Even with 9k on my game remains silky smooth at 20ms and no delay.

Only the server dc's really suck.

If 99% complain about lag/reduction in quality, whereas 1% see no impact, who do you reckon has the right answer?

Source for those very specific numbers?

Also, this is a fallacy in debate. Saying the greater numbers are automatically right. The vast majority of the world also experiences the existence of a god. Yet logic suggests they are all probably wrong anyway.

[DeeMarie]

Continue making the 1 and only server better. Do not waste the unique population it has

I would agree but when you take into account herbing, mining, even fishing and those are limited, then people start to get frustrated that they picked these professions and can't utilise them fully. I'm not saying herbers want a zone of dreamfoil to themselves, but 10k and current nodes are not sustainable farming. Don't underestimate how many people want to play this part of the game. It's like building a new town and providing only one coffee shop.

10k looks very good however. If they do open a second server, maybe change advertising to reflect the high population playing 1x Classic on the Nostalrius project.

[PeaceHammer]

Continue making the 1 and only server better. Do not waste the unique population it has

And where do you draw the line? I'm thinking once the population goes above 10K, they don't really have a choice. A second server is gonna be needed. I just pray it's PvE.

[Mr_Rosh]

Continue making the 1 and only server better. Do not waste the unique population it has

And where do you draw the line? I'm thinking once the population goes above 10K, they don't really have a choice. A second server is gonna be needed. I just pray it's PvE.

I see no point in making another PvP server, so i guess a PvE server would be the choice.

[Tis]

@Arise

Latency doesn't matter. I have no more than 5 ms at all times and yet once the population goes beyond 6K the game becomes sluggish and it takes some good milliseconds to perform basic actions. The server used to be good when the population wasn't as high but now apart from the general delay, the staff even had to reduce some basic stuff such as view distance on a server level which is very unpleasant.

Now I'd rather either not play or play on post-apocalyptic places with low population like Kronos just so my game runs well. The current state is unsustainable and I really hope their solution is actually a second server, even if the hardware for it is not top notch.

[Viorus]

^OR they could just keep improving this servers ability to handle #'s...

[Tis]

^OR they could just keep improving this servers ability to handle #'s...

Not sure if MANGOS or any other emulator was ever meant to handle this amount of players. I'm not sure whether better hardware or software can get rid of that delay either.