EZ Server

with the recent bouts of lag and the higher volume of players, might it be a good idea to change the server restart to twice daily? perhaps 6am and 6pm? It generally doesn't take very long to restart and with the recent events I think it would be a small price to pay to see a healthier environment...

I have long thought it would be a good idea to have rolling zone restarts. Not every zone but the hub zones and guild hall zones. Those 4 zones alone would trim some needed inflation of the server (people going afk in those zones) and the inconvenience would be extremely minor.

wrong thread... hmm umm..

i agree :)

Just kicking afk players would free up a lot of bandwidth.  A server with the stats this one has shouldn't need daily restarts, let alone twice daily.  I'd warrant most of the crashes are because the pipe (bandwidth) gets full and freezes the connection momentarily (just long enough to crash a zone or even the server).

Restarting the server at primetime 6pm or even 12am would be extremely annoying.

When the peak population hit 168 we petitioned Hunter for twice a day restarts, 6am/6pm EST and it was the way it was for awhile. It helped a ton.
The major problem is people going AFK for extended periods of time.
Its annoying as all hell to gate to the nexus and be unable to move because there are 30 characters at port in afk and someone thought it would be funny to illusion ogre everyone.

I really wish he would set up surefall, the nexus and both guild halls similar to to the LDON zones. Only it doesnt port you somewhere it #kick you off the server.

Or let it be ok for us to port the fuggin AFK's out of the zone ourselfs without worrying about a ban.
Always did get a kick out of people QQing about coming back from a 3hour afk to find their shit in DL.

lol

This part.

627 players on right now according to LS.. should I even bother logging in??

Lol guess not, got bounced back to password screen.

Wow not even half that on P99... what happened?  They ban a bunch of people... for I dunno... having too much fun?  ;D

Just tried again, no dice.  Can not log in to EZ no how no way.  :(

P99 was down for a while and they had a 12 hour roll back. They seem to be back up now though.

I didnt notice any crazy lag last night but i only played for ~20 minutes.

It was close to 550!!!!!!!

On a weeknight!!!!!

Yeah the lag is weird.
We had a TON of lag on the weekend at 550 players yet it was manageable last night with 625.

Maybe it depends on what those people are doing.  With the influx from P99 last night there were a lot of people, but probably a lot of single boxes doing simple stuff till their server came back on line.

Interesting to me, I had noticed some lag as the population increased, but the biggest lag seemed to come right after it was announced that P99 was back online.  I wonder if all those people simultaneously logging off made the lag spike.

I wasn't able to login at all with 625.  When it dropped to 580 I was able to log in, and in the time it took to log in and zone to Pofire to see if it was playable, then login my other char it had dropped to under 550.. guess a lot of P99 people were checking it out..

Anyway I was able to play a little bit, didn't notice any bad lag either.