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Cyanid
Jan Member 2006

Cyanid

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I really liked how it was simply a flat rate of xp. Last weekend, I gained 5 summoning levels, 2 farming levels, and 15 construction levels. I really enjoyed the bonus xp and I hope to see it again in a year or two. (Not too soon, but maybe another time in the future!)

30-Oct-2012 17:18:35

Stinker276
Jul Member 2021

Stinker276

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Acknowledging the problems and going to improve upon them eh? Love it.
EDIT: Also I noticed a few glitches, for one thing I found two Ariannes in the Lunar Isle and when someone rests with the frog mask their eyes glitch out.

30-Oct-2012 17:54:29 - Last edited on 30-Oct-2012 17:56:37 by Stinker276

Lead Wolf
Apr Member 2010

Lead Wolf

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I still think x2 experience is a bit too much, at least for an entire weekend, but thank you for the opportunity to achieve a few of my goals faster and the apology regarding server lag :) .
Lead Wolf

... ''Rawr!''

30-Oct-2012 18:17:18

AgTiger

AgTiger

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Here's what I was observing on several worlds:
Click on mini-map, watch character run/halt/run/halt/run/halt. Watch NPC's move/halt/move/halt/move/halt.
Two words spring to mind: RESOURCE STARVATION.
I know virtualization of servers is all the rage these days, but if you've over-virtualized (putting too many virtual machines on a physical server), you'll experience terrible performance (lack of CPU clock ticks, memory, network bandwidth, etc...)
The obvious answer would have been to call up the application server provider (assuming that you lease your physical hardware servers rather than own your own), and have them add additional physical servers, then re-distribute some of the virtual servers from the overloaded physical machines to the new one(s). (Better load balancing.) It's the same idea if you own, or course, though that would require you have servers "at the ready" to throw at the problem, and that's not likely on a weekend.
I managed to find a world that wasn't too bad, but you could still observe degraded performance.

30-Oct-2012 18:19:27

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