We need a longterm solution to overpopulation lag
Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2016 3:57 pm
Recently Nostalrius implemented a performance patch that helped reduce some of the lag that occured during peak hours (China + EU), around 2-6 ST. This fix largely worked, but what wasn't mentioned in the patch notes is that this lag reduction came at the cost of greatly reduced view distance in raid instances and battlegrounds. This is why Firemaw doesn't move until you mind vision him down now, and why when you're standing in the middle of Warsong Gulch you can't see a flag carrier on the sides of the map. Anyone playing Warsong right now for the BG weekend can tell you what an exercise in frustration it is constantly spamming /target to find an EFC, and having people load at <100 yds such that you can't properly scout the enemy team's movement.
Today there was almost 12k people online, and the lag is back. Just as before, this lag will first crop up on the weekends, when there are the most people online, and just as before it will become an everyday occurence as the server's population continues to grow. We need to tell Nost's development team that sacrificing gameplay quality with these view distance reductions is not a welcome or even viable longterm solution, and that something much more direct needs to be done.
Freezing the creation of new accounts, region locking, population caps -- whatever solution Nost decides on we need it soon. Give us back our view distance.
Today there was almost 12k people online, and the lag is back. Just as before, this lag will first crop up on the weekends, when there are the most people online, and just as before it will become an everyday occurence as the server's population continues to grow. We need to tell Nost's development team that sacrificing gameplay quality with these view distance reductions is not a welcome or even viable longterm solution, and that something much more direct needs to be done.
Freezing the creation of new accounts, region locking, population caps -- whatever solution Nost decides on we need it soon. Give us back our view distance.