Precautions due to larger than expected interest. - Character Creation Now Open!

[Samuel]

Hey All,

So we have been discussing/actioning some precautions due to the large amount of people that will be potentially logging into the live opening of Mir Chronicles on Friday (31/01/2014 8pm GMT).

First of all we wanted to take some of the load off of the Login Server, so we have opened our accounts creation page in advance to reduce a very small amount of stress off the server.

Mir Chronicles account creation page

Secondly, we have instanced the starting map to load balance the amount of objects (players) across a number of maps... When you log in you will receive a message telling you which instance of the map you have been put on (this is to save confusion when potentially attempting to meet up with another player).

Character Creation has now been enabled to take some pressure of the server tonight.

As always, thank you for all of the support and interest in the server and we hope you are as excited as us about the launch on Friday.

Chronicles Development Team

 

[Akaras]

Re: Precautions due to larger than expected interest.

This sounds like a great move I'm glad steps have been taken to reduce lag/crowding as I was a little concerned playing on the first night may be rather frustrating. (especially as I only have a few hours to play that first night)

can you teleport between the instances to meet up with friends then ? do you get to choose when logging in?

 

[LionMir]

Re: Precautions due to larger than expected interest.

Can you swap between instances to meet up with mates?

 

[Samuel]

Re: Precautions due to larger than expected interest.

You can swap between instances, yes.

80 people viewing the section ... I think LOMCN Admin's should offer us a free banner :P.

Sam

 

[knives]

Re: Precautions due to larger than expected interest.

can i just ask why the instanced newb maps????

i mean surley the stress will be the same when every 1 congregates to bw....?

 

[Carribean]

Re: Precautions due to larger than expected interest.

people arent gonna be stood in BW when its game on :P

 

[Akaras]

Re: Precautions due to larger than expected interest.

more of a move to stop 300 players fighting over a handful of hens, scarecrows, and omas I think rather than to reduce lag

some of these are new players joining so for the starting map to be so crowded it may put them off... when the 300 players get into the main game areas then they should be a bit more spread out at least, but for the first map (I heard it was quite small) I think may have been bad if nothing was done

 

[FTM]

Re: Precautions due to larger than expected interest.

its not just the stress im guessing congestion and amount of people competing on 1 map to do same quests

 

[TheDayIDie]

Re: Precautions due to larger than expected interest.

Possible you can do a command for us to type to see what instance's there are and how many people on each so we can switch were applicable? - e.g.

@instview

   Ins1: 100/200
   Ins2: 25/200
   Ins3: 200/200 
   Ins4: 10/200
   Ins5: 50/200

@instmove 1

You have moved to instance 1.

 

[deano13]

Re: Precautions due to larger than expected interest.

Ready to roll!

 

[Samuel]

Re: Precautions due to larger than expected interest.

can i just ask why the instanced newb maps????

i mean surley the stress will be the same when every 1 congregates to bw....?

So there are two potential issues that commonly get categorized as "lag"...

There is the server coming under to much pressure and drastically slowing down causing lag across the board for all players...

Then there is to many objects being draw on the screen at once causing client side graphical lag...

The purpose of the instance map was to reduce the amount of objects being drawn in one place causing individual client lag (I guess you can call it that...)

Sam

 

[SmavidDavid]

Re: Precautions due to larger than expected interest.

So there are two potential issues that commonly get categorized as "lag"...

There is the server coming under to much pressure and drastically slowing down causing lag across the board for all players...

Then there is to many objects being draw on the screen at once causing client side graphical lag...

The purpose of the instance map was to reduce the amount of objects being drawn in one place causing individual client lag (I guess you can call it that...)

Sam

Will you open all char creation gates too prior to the 8pm gates to allow people to name chars etc & get ready putting less stress on the server?

 

[Turrican]

Re: Precautions due to larger than expected interest.

Will you open all char creation gates too prior to the 8pm gates to allow people to name chars etc & get ready putting less stress on the server?

This could potentially cause more stress as once 8pm comes everyone will log on at identically the same time if their character is already made and ready to go.

 

[TheDayIDie]

Re: Precautions due to larger than expected interest.

Spam login with macro and macro to type char names = instant win online and ready to go

Sam is there any chance of a stress test for an hour or so sometime this week?
I would also like to get on to see how my pc copes with the files before release if possible :]
Ta

 

[Gezza]

Re: Precautions due to larger than expected interest.

Imo on the first day i think your be pushing for like 150 users which is a big achievement any ways, but expecting everyone thats declared an interest to be logging in on saturday night won't happen ;p then sunday maybe 200 but i still feel thats pushing it, hope im wrong. but as the week progresses more will log in and join but it's good your prepared for the worst/best ;p

 

[DeadGirl]

Re: Precautions due to larger than expected interest.

Imo on the first day i think your be pushing for like 150 users which is a big achievement any ways, but expecting everyone thats declared an interest to be logging in on saturday night won't happen ;p then sunday maybe 200 but i still feel thats pushing it, hope im wrong. but as the week progresses more will log in and join but it's good your prepared for the worst/best ;p

You seen there's 433 people so far (not including lomcn) that have RSVP'd themselves to be playing? Even if 100 of them don't that's still over 300. I'd be surprised if it was less than 200, but i guess anything can happen.

Just saying as i didn't think you used Facebook often

 

[daneo1989]

Re: Precautions due to larger than expected interest.

I shall be online Friday night till 05:00 sataday morning, gotta love the night shifts

 

[mStation]

Re: Precautions due to larger than expected interest.

so friday at 8pm GMT which means it will be at 11pm here.. i guess that i will not be partecipating at the grand opening

anyway i only got this sucky eeepc to play on so i might not be playing at all :'(

dammit.. don't want to buy a new computer right now :P

btw please tell us that the opened stalls are not counted in the usercount.
thanks

 

[Follower]

Re: Precautions due to larger than expected interest.

I'll be logging in around 9am my time which will make it 1am in the UK. Should be ok by at time to get on and have a bash properly.

 

[Jicaa]

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I shall be online Friday night till 05:00 sataday morning, gotta love the night shifts

Same as me then o/ night work with nothing so ftw