Shattered Kingdoms

Tick-lag Monster is back in town, occasionally showing up during cross-over, and it's becoming pretty taxing during gameplay.

What happened? SK didn't use to have tick lag.

It did for me. The gameplay has slowly been getting as bad as before, and now I'm starting to wonder if it's even a bit worse. I'm not sure what has changed.

To clarify, there was 'tick lag' before the most recent change of hosting, what I meant was the SK we played years ago. Not trying to be cliche here, just making an observation that tick lag is back (for me).

The new server is better in many ways, but worse in others. It's better because we have much better connections to the internet and it's a much faster more modern machine. It's worse because it's a virtually shared server with a limit on CPU usage. If other users, who are probably webservers, suddenly get flooded with traffic, our processor usage may get throttled down temporarily.

Unfortunately, the server is no longer free. Running the mud is now an item on my budget and I had to choose the option that I could comfortably afford given the current donation level. If we get consistantly higher donations, we can upgrade to a more dedicated machine.

In the meantime, I'll just have to do daily reboots to make sure we don't keep a bunch of left over trash in the game that has to be updated. I've written a scheduler to do automated reboots specifically for that purpose.

Yeah... so if anyone wants to make a comment about the reboot that just happened, that was human error on my part, not a code error.

Shame on you sir, shame

I was just about to say ... 'LOL' :p

+1 for hearing and acting on our concerns

Much appreciated human error.

Do it again!