Server Lines
Just genuinely curious -
Why are server lines still a thing? Why were they in the first place? And is there any hope in the future of making those go away? I kinda doubt it 20 years down the road here, but just wondered.
They are super annoying and always have been, breaking flagging rules, causing lag and glitches, making all your stats fall off and not return (ie. You have 180 Mana with +50 Mana Inc and +20 Intel bonus, you cross a server line, drops your Mana to 110/180 and you have to Regen it back now which is awful in some situations.
Why are server lines still a thing? Why were they in the first place? And is there any hope in the future of making those go away? I kinda doubt it 20 years down the road here, but just wondered.
They are super annoying and always have been, breaking flagging rules, causing lag and glitches, making all your stats fall off and not return (ie. You have 180 Mana with +50 Mana Inc and +20 Intel bonus, you cross a server line, drops your Mana to 110/180 and you have to Regen it back now which is awful in some situations.
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I watched a Game Developers Conference: Postmortem, on YouTube.
They were talking about the upcoming Beta release and realized they didn't have anywhere near the infrastructure they would need, after selling over fifty thousand Beta CDs. That's when they came up with the lore to support the multiple shards concept but they would still need multiple servers per shard to support the number of users.
They had originally thought they might have dozens of players on at any given time but soon realized they could have a thousand or more. Servers at the time could only support a hundred or so players so that's why they split up the land mass across several servers.
Obviously today's servers can probably handle thousands of players but the total landmasses have also grown over the years as well as the amount of stuff throughout the land and in every house. They could probably consolidate servers on low population shards but can you imagine running Atlantic on one server? I doubt it.
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