Quote Originally Posted by bubbaluba View Post
OK folks hear me out here.

PRobelm Server keep crashing due to high traffic.

What is the source of the traffic?
Well on server 5 we have I believe roughly 50k players ( at least i have seen a player ranked 49754 or someting like that.)
OF those 50k players as much as ten percent play in such a way that they are logged on for the majority of any given 24hour period. I know of at least 15 or 20 people who who leave it running in the back ground at work to keep projects running.

The problem is, you don't actually know whats causing the crash... you're just assuming thats the problem because thats what you want it to be... there could be dozens of other issues causing it... from a bad memory chip, to a loose cable, to one spelling error while coding...

the correct answer would actually be to upgrade the platform its running on to maintain the traffic using it... not altering the game entirely... that just causes more bugs and more problems and more people screaming I'm going to quit because of this blah blah blah...

This is why people have to be VERY thoughtful when suggesting how to fix something... you don't fix a plumbling leak by simply sending less water through the pipe, you fix the leaking pipe... go to the source of the problem, not a duct tape approach.

P.S. They've got enough issues to fix before adding more things to this game.