Quote Originally Posted by neko_lord View Post
I'm almost positive it is the raw city count. The more cities, the more database updating there has to be for the resource counters. The evidence supporting this is that when there are 50% off or 100% off upkeep (the 50% stacks to 100% for those having Vesta), people report that the lag gets better.

If that is the case, then I doubt if Evony is ever going to do anything to fix it because it is a database scalability issue, and they've run into the max transactions per second that the database can accomodate given its' current design.

I honestly think the only way out of this problem is for us customers to start playing legitimately, one account per person. With the rampant amount of multi-accounting, you have more cities than what would otherwise normally be there, thus for every extra alt, you have extra cities, and thus extra database load.
I agree. I also think that maybe the last merger just came too early when there was still high percentage of active people on the servers. I think the actual spread of botting on ss59 came after the second server merge when it started to be really hard to farm due to too many people on the server and too many dead accounts taking flats and also it seems there are more valleys other than flats after the last merger. So this constitute to the increased problem of botting. I think if they do another merge for the twicely merged ss, it would sort of kill the servers, if the database could not take it, as it is strugling even now.
Still ss59 seems to be far better than eg ss57 which makes me bit wonder why. Less trafic on the server most of the time?

Lag has been awful on SS60 and even more so the last 24 hrs to the point now we have server crash again
Damn. I am sorry to hear that.