Idea Just Sprung To Mind

Vandango · Post by **Vandango** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 9:28 pm

With All these new servers opening all they people saying

O They Need To Upgrade There Old Ones So They Can Support More People

Now This seems To Clash With Other Complaint

O The Caves Are So Filled with bots

Now if the servers were to EXPAND that would make grinding spots fill up more so they will generate more complaints saying that every grinding spot is crowded

so the caves will have more bots more players and the caves will be even more cworded more lag more dying more pissed off 5x and 6x

So opening new servers is the only way
So when they open a new server dont say UPGrade the old ones casue it will make things Worse

Nuklear · Post by **Nuklear** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 9:31 pm

Upgrade current servers.

Drew_Benton · Post by **Drew_Benton** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 9:41 pm

This point has been addressed many times - upgrading current servers is very costly and more "dangerous" than simply adding more servers.

The problem is that all the data on the current servers must be migrated to another new server. The dangerous comes with actually transferring the data. There could be corruption somewhere and wipe out a lot of stuff. Actually fixing that is next to impossible because it's hard to actually tell where problems are until someone reports it.

There's a lot more to this issue, but if it were as simple as it seems to be, JM would have already done it.

PR0METHEUS · Post by **PR0METHEUS** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 5:41 pm

Drew_Benton wrote:This point has been addressed many times - upgrading current servers is very costly and more "dangerous" than simply adding more servers.

The problem is that all the data on the current servers must be migrated to another new server. The dangerous comes with actually transferring the data. There could be corruption somewhere and wipe out a lot of stuff. Actually fixing that is next to impossible because it's hard to actually tell where problems are until someone reports it.

There's a lot more to this issue, but if it were as simple as it seems to be, JM would have already done it.

Well it depends on what upgrade they do. If they just upgrade the processor, or add more processors, or increase RAM, then no data migration would be necessary. Now if they upgrade hard drives, then yes, they'd have to migrate data.

I do agree with the original poster. If they upgrade a server that can handle 5,000 players at a time, and the new upgrade allows 30,000 players to log on, then 30,000 players WILL log on. I can only imagine how chaotic the game would be with that many more people signed on, especially in confined spaces like the caves.

Nuklear · Post by **Nuklear** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 5:48 pm

Doubt it matters. There are not that many new people coming into established servers, so all it would do is make it easier to log in. Besides, if they would ever do this it'd be after the cap raise = less cramped in caves.

khang · Post by **khang** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 5:59 pm

lolz

the wats i look at it

more server = more bot

PP