Lag

[Avatar6666]

I love potm but here lately the Lag has been so bad, its near unplayable at peek times. Is thier a way fix such or has this been adressed already?

[LawfulJoe]

I have to admit, this is a problem lately. I have not been as active due to the Lag.

[herkles]

Likely that has something to do with the server being on for a while without a reset. The other option is that Soren's home can't deal with the bandwith as good as axel's could, not to say it cant but to just say that axel could do it better.

two ideas I think might be the answer, could be wrong though.

[Mailbox-2100]

 After a reset, the lag was unchanged. It seems directly related to the userbase. I imagine the server needs an upgrade or it's pretty pointless attempting anything but stationary rp during peak hours.

[WildPirate13]

I play a fair bit and there has been lag issues but the content is tops so I continue to play here. I have noticed there are lag spikes at times but most of the time it does not cripple me.

[herkles]

Question has the increased of lag been before the server went down and soren took control of hosting it?

[Ophie Kitty]

Question has the increased of lag been before the server went down and soren took control of hosting it?

Yes.

[ethinos]

I think it's just from having 60+ players on, and most of them being in the Outskirts. But if Soren still has left over donation funds, maybe he can upgrade the server a bit.

[Purist]

Question has the increased of lag been before the server went down and soren took control of hosting it?

I'd say so.


The number of players has nothing to do with the recent lag -> Unless there was some kind of downgrade on the hardware or bandwidth.
The server always ran pretty fine to me, even back those times, months ago, when we already had 50+ players online. The current amount of Epic lag is recent.

[LawfulJoe]

Part of the problem is, the server is no longer at the college and on a home connection so the bandwidth is not as good. The server was just upgraded about a year ago, so it is not hardware, I am going to put my money on bandwidth at the host. Doesn't matter how fast your conection is, you can only go as fast as the host.

[Blacky Rose]

I believe the lag is more related to how many players there are per area rather than how many total are online.

Basically the load for the server, and thus the chances for lag, increase exponentially with the number of players in the same area as the server has to handle the information about all players to all players. So for every added player there's an exponential growth of resources used e.g. 8 players in an area compared to 4 players in an area creates four times the resource usage rather than twice the resource usage.

This seems backed by the fact that in my experience the lag seems to be at its worst during large events where 20+ players cluster a single area whereas the ping has been relatively low even while those events are in progress.

While upgraded hardware or connection may offer some improvement the most effective remedy might be simply to try and avoid clustering a single zone with more than ~15 people whenever possible.

[Ophie Kitty]

While upgraded hardware or connection may offer some improvement the most effective remedy might be simply to try and avoid clustering a single zone with more than ~15 people whenever possible.

Yeah.. Absalom.