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Istant Mail

PostPosted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 1:06 pm
by Shaggy
It's possibile remove the time for waiting a mail ? What did you think about ?

Re: Istant Mail

PostPosted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 6:11 pm
by warcraftselblatt
I rather them remove the mail fees. The game just burning a small amount of your money everytime you send an item or sell off AH seems dumb. I'm sure most people won't want it changed since it's not blizzard like.

Re: Istant Mail

PostPosted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 6:14 pm
by AverageJoe
No. The reason for mail sometimes taking a while to deliver is based off a recent change in the server's prioritization.
https://forum.nostalrius.org/viewtopic. ... ail#p99454

A lot of people actively play on Nostalrius, more so than your typical private server (Upwards of 6K to 8K during peak hours). Months ago, there was no infrastructure in place to handle all these players and their impact on the server. During peak playing hours, the server would have performance issues, sometimes really bad, and each player would experience this performance dip differently: some reported erratic movement with their characters, some reported spells and abilities taking up to five seconds to cast, some reported mobs and enemy PvPers not appearing until they were less than 10 yards away from them, etc.

The staff responded by setting up a prioritization list of what duties the server should handle first and foremost versus those that could be handled later. Stuff like character spells and movement that are critical to the game play experience are at the top of the server's priorities, whereas stuff like mail and the loading screens that are non-critical are at the bottom of the server's priorities.

tl;dr: If you want instant mail delivery, be prepared to sacrifice spell casting, movement, chat and other stuff.
Daemon wrote:How does it work ?
Several strategies have been implemented.
First, we assigned different priorities to the different tasks the server has to do:
  • Spells and movement server: top priority
  • Chat server: medium priority
  • Creatures/pets AI: medium priority
  • Items/AH server: low priority
  • Characters loading and mail server: lowest priority

Re: Istant Mail

PostPosted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 6:22 pm
by Aunstic
While we tend to have the same views, AverageJoe, I have to say that you didn't realize what the OP is trying to state. It's not about the mail "lagging" or anything like that. The OP is suggesting that the 1 hour delivery be removed for account1<>account2 mails. The prioritization of the mail server doesn't mean as much here since mail still gets sent instantly and received within a considerable time (+/- 3 minutes after 1 hour of the mail being sent).

Same-account mails (with items) will remain instant and OP wants that for any mail -- regardless of the account of the character he sends it to.