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• Celcius Member RarePosts: 1,868

  July 2017

  I do think Albion is a pretty okay game, but man they need to work on PR. These answers sound pretty aggressive and excuse like. How hard is it to say you are working on a specific issue and not say stuff like "well, we will fix some of it, but some of it will never be fixed" or give an obscure reference to a game that is lightyears ahead of yours quality wise...lol. That server answer makes no sense though. I mean, if they had actual servers to choose from there would be less overcrowding. I mean, that is just simply an objective thing. I think they mean more servers using the same "shard" though. Just poorly phrased.

  
• meonthissite Member UncommonPosts: 917

  July 2017

  were they also hit with ddos?
• Kyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 43,498

  July 2017 edited July 2017

  His references to EVE is valid in terms of similar challenges when too many players want on the same "space"
  
  He's also correct, there will always be limits. CCP had to beef up hardware supporting trade hubs and even then there is a 2000 player cap on Jita even though a majority of the occupants are station spinning.
  
  For really big fleet fights alliances actually "schedule " them in advance and CCP actually moves everyone to hardware set up specifically for the fight.
  
  CU is now well over 4 yrs in dev as they designed from the ground up their own engine with the specific goal of supporting over 1000 players per fight.
  
  Mark recently posted they now can do around 1300+ bots using good but not awesome hardware.
  
  So its not surprising this team is struggling with the load, especially if supporting well over 30K concurrent players on this single shard.
  
  I'm wondering what sort of time out mechanism this game has to prevent people from staying logged on indefinitely while idleing.
  
  Well, I mean besides having the servers crap out regularly

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• Renoaku Member EpicPosts: 3,157

  July 2017 edited July 2017

  Excluding cheaters being a problem in Albion, one of the biggest problems seems to be that its a 32 bit client, not a 64bit, so its limited to 4gigs of ram, and when towns are crowded especially on PC's that should be able to handle this even a Phenom II CPU should be able to play this game or lower end computers rather it starts to run into issues with Lag because there are too many people there and I believe still no way to hide them...
  
  This is aside from the server side problems the game has which they should have expected during the beta tests of what if there are too many people there, if they could address the server side issues, and actually make a 64 bit client version or  add the ability for people to limit the number of characters drawn on a screen it would be great.
  
  Another option is of course powerful servers, and limiting people in instances, of no more than 50-100 people per town at max per instance this would reduce problems client side for sure but I think coding a view limit of max players you can view in a town while pritorizing guild, and friends as an option would do the trick for this part of the problem.
  
  Edit: Also as far as EVE, I love EVE more than other games but what keeps me away from playing it hard is how boring it seems to get after awhile of doing the same thing over and over again, I guess being in a big corp out in worm hole, or Nullsec able to produce anything you need out there can be great if actually in a corp that big but besides that it gets pretty boring and very time consuming other than that I love EVE but that is assuming you can play for hours on end.

  
• ManWithNoTan Member UncommonPosts: 96

  July 2017

  Overcrowded towns already don't display the other players on the screen. 
  
  Just playing today, it's crashed or had to be rebooted approximately every 3 hours.  
  
  Some of these roll a player back to an earlier time - losing some progress and or mats. Kind of frustrating really. I want to be a fan, but this is probably the least fun mmo launch I've played yet. (I've played only 4 launches though.) I expect some problems for week one, but this is getting me to look for something else to play.
  
  
  
  

  
• Thane Member EpicPosts: 3,534

  July 2017

  Kyleran said:

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  Mark recently posted they now can do around 1300+ bots using good but not awesome hardware.
  
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  actually they are at 2k now
  

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• Viper482 Member LegendaryPosts: 4,064

  July 2017

  Glad they finally addressed compensation, but other than that they didn't same a damn thing.

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• Tiamat64 Member RarePosts: 1,545

  August 2017 edited August 2017

  ManWithNoTan said:

  Overcrowded towns already don't display the other players on the screen. 
  
  Just playing today, it's crashed or had to be rebooted approximately every 3 hours.  
  
  Some of these roll a player back to an earlier time - losing some progress and or mats. Kind of frustrating really. I want to be a fan, but this is probably the least fun mmo launch I've played yet. (I've played only 4 launches though.) I expect some problems for week one, but this is getting me to look for something else to play.
  
  
  
  

  Does this game actually have personal roll backs? (where you get rolled back but the rest of the server doesn't)  That's like, a dupe exploit (or twenty) waiting to happen.
• BruceYee Member EpicPosts: 2,556

  August 2017

  
  

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  ManWithNoTan said:

  
  

  Overcrowded towns already don't display the other players on the screen. 
  
  Just playing today, it's crashed or had to be rebooted approximately every 3 hours.  
  
  Some of these roll a player back to an earlier time - losing some progress and or mats. Kind of frustrating really. I want to be a fan, but this is probably the least fun mmo launch I've played yet. (I've played only 4 launches though.) I expect some problems for week one, but this is getting me to look for something else to play.
  
  
  
  

  
  

  
  Does this game actually have personal roll backs? (where you get rolled back but the rest of the server doesn't)  That's like, a dupe exploit (or twenty) waiting to happen.

  
  

  
  
  When the game crashes sometimes you die and if you are in tier V you lose 10% durability + materials which has happened to me a couple times. It's not a rollback but kind of acts like one because of the 10% loss. I haven't been online during an actual rollback but maybe one actually happened who knows.
• Denambren Member UncommonPosts: 399

  August 2017 edited August 2017

  If you check the actual official link with the AO dev commentary, the tone isn't nearly as dismissive or ignorant sounding as Suzie has paraphrased in her article. My advice to Suzie is to actually quote the article response to each listed problem. Oh wait, the responses are too long and detailed to fit in the article.