Lailoken
Journeyman
I'm not sure how things are set up on the server or if there is a set time for server maintenance or not that everyone is aware of.
But it would be nice to get a msg that the server will be going down instead of a disconnect notice out of the blue.
If your server is shutting down automatically because of issues that crop up, perhaps a regular maintenance schedule would help to alleviate such sudden shutdowns. I know that with this game, sometimes that is impossible. I have played UO since 1998, I'm used to it. But a lot of the new players have never played on the old OSI/EA servers and as your traffic to the server increases, your going to see more and more of this. Soon, it will be revert after revert. Happens, it's an old game with old code, not sure how much updating you can do with the code to actually take advantage of today's multi-core processor's and massive amounts of RAM. Last I remember it was possible to get a 32bit program to take advantage of the multiple threads but not the RAM. Well, at least I couldn't, that's not to say you have not figured it out.
Back to point.
What you guy's are doing is awesome! I so appreciate it.
But may I suggest that a maintenance schedule that the community is aware of be put in place.
Your server has caught on and is growing. Soon you will be faced with the same issues that OSI/EA had. You may even have to start building more servers/shards in order to reduce the problems that are small now but will grow as the community grows.
Again, this is but a suggestion from an old UO player that has seen the worst of this game and it's best. You have all done a phenomenal job with UOF, I look forward to the future of UOF.
But it would be nice to get a msg that the server will be going down instead of a disconnect notice out of the blue.
If your server is shutting down automatically because of issues that crop up, perhaps a regular maintenance schedule would help to alleviate such sudden shutdowns. I know that with this game, sometimes that is impossible. I have played UO since 1998, I'm used to it. But a lot of the new players have never played on the old OSI/EA servers and as your traffic to the server increases, your going to see more and more of this. Soon, it will be revert after revert. Happens, it's an old game with old code, not sure how much updating you can do with the code to actually take advantage of today's multi-core processor's and massive amounts of RAM. Last I remember it was possible to get a 32bit program to take advantage of the multiple threads but not the RAM. Well, at least I couldn't, that's not to say you have not figured it out.
Back to point.
What you guy's are doing is awesome! I so appreciate it.
But may I suggest that a maintenance schedule that the community is aware of be put in place.
Your server has caught on and is growing. Soon you will be faced with the same issues that OSI/EA had. You may even have to start building more servers/shards in order to reduce the problems that are small now but will grow as the community grows.
Again, this is but a suggestion from an old UO player that has seen the worst of this game and it's best. You have all done a phenomenal job with UOF, I look forward to the future of UOF.
So sad