5 Foot Step wrote on Sep 11^th, 2017 at 3:38pm:


Mega-server is a practical impossibility. The engine simply wasn't designed for it, you are talking about re-coding the application on a massive, low-level scale. If they can't fix the TR cache bug, do you really think they can re-write the core functionality of the server software?

No.




Asheras wrote on Sep 11^th, 2017 at 2:38pm:


FIFY

PROS of server merge:
1)one-time headache that covers all use-cases
2)supports inactive characters
3)supports inactive guilds (These count as pros because people DO come back)
4)They have to deal with all the TR-caches. Maybe while they're at it, they can fix the fucking things.
5)The "proactive" component is on the developer's side to devise a solution that is as painless as possible for all parties involved. You don't have to deal with the customers on a player-by-player basis, you tell them "This is what's happening" and then do it. Which is more in-line with SSGs style anyway.
6. Merge has potentially to generate actual revenue, as players who want to transfer to a different server than the targeted merge server have the option to pay for character transfers.

Keep in mind, both my character and my entire guild have endured multiple 6-10 month "inactive" stretches. Be a shame to see a money-spending player and guild left behind just because they happened to be on a break.


Digimonk wrote on Sep 11^th, 2017 at 3:25pm:


Allowing the guild leader to exceed the cap is not possible; the cap is the cap because of the way the game stores data, not some arbitrarily set limit.

A voucher system would work great, though. Hell, a voucher system could have fixed the motherfucking plat economy instead of this astral shard bullshit

Wipe wrote on Sep 11^th, 2017 at 5:26pm:

Makes the lfm look good, but once you hover over them you see majority of them are single lfms that never get clicked on. A few normal lfms that no one ever hits up, some way over level ones that are also dry.

The remaining players don't know the mechanics of things like FoT or Shroud. Had a wipe in EE FoT few days. No one took dragons, is fine for me on ee, i don't mind. SR tank turned into SR kiter around entire quest. Fine for me, had sheath, on shiradi, + absorption charges. Got SR and TO to 5%, then they dropped SR without telling anyone. I wasn't about to potion just to solo an easy raid while everyone was dead. They deserved the fail.

Digimonk wrote on Sep 11^th, 2017 at 5:44pm:


The 4.3 million limit is a 32-bit unsigned integer, is a limitation in how the game stores currency(as the number of coppers you have). They were able to raise the limit before because it was originally a lower, artificial cap. It is now capped in a way that cannot be changed without drastic re-coding.

Or.. in that ship place where you buy them.. you can deposit like up to 10mill.. that you cant take out that goes to the ship only.. our ship has that much in there now even tho we got everything..lol


They can put that $$ there

Digimonk wrote on Sep 11^th, 2017 at 11:23pm:


Ok, so clearly you haven't done any coding.

Flav or Strak or someone want to hop in and explain exactly why changing something that fundamental is not simple?

Metal-Beast wrote on Sep 11^th, 2017 at 12:58pm:


Show us on the doll where the baddy uncle Orienite touched you. 

wow, lots of things....

G-Land is quite alive, we are still able to fill the friday and saturday evening raids with just the signups on guild website. ( that's something that was not so easy in the latter days of Keeper )

Merging : the only way to do it that late in the game is to do a soft merge.

One Free Transfer to the server of your choice for all characters, wait a quarter  to see how the dust settle.
look at the lowest population servers and warn that they are going to get killed, it's time to transfer if you want to move to a server that's not the one that is going to receive the characters ( 1,5 month warning ). Only merge the chracters that have been active in the last 3 years... and rename basaed on activity. ( not active gets renamed, most active gets to keep his/her name )

noamineo wrote on Sep 11^th, 2017 at 7:02pm:

Digimonk wrote on Sep 11^th, 2017 at 11:23pm:

noamineo wrote on Sep 11^th, 2017 at 11:37pm:


depends on how it has been coded.... it might just be to change in the declaration part longint to doubleint and recompile, that assume that they used a string in the database for the field.... but if they used a longint in the database, changing it to doubleint wwill lead to lots of fun stuff.
( said another way : unless you want to spend days fixing broken things you do not change a data type in a database. )

It all depends if the guy that did the datamodel had a clue or not... And since the currency initially was gold not plat, I suspect they didn't think about players getting filthy rich, so the field is probably a longint in the database ( it saves a lot of space compared to a string : 4.300.000.000 = 10 bytes in string format, but the actual space reserved might be longer,  4 in longint format )

Oh and the exact value is 4294967295. ( also 11111111111111111111111111111 or FFFFFFFF )

Alex DeLarge wrote on Sep 12^th, 2017 at 12:07am:


I don't know...Orien is kinda the Florida of servers.

Skoodge wrote on Sep 12^th, 2017 at 2:28am:

A giant limp phallus that old people visit once a year?

I remember the time when copper was important, and every coin from bashed barrel was collected... At that time the hard currency was Gold, and people with 1k plats were filthy rich. 

I remember a time when DDO had a functioning economy.