The Horsening

[501warhead 1796]

Hello friends and non-friends!

 

Today we ended up having a bit of an issue as some might have noticed with a sudden influx of lag! As we aim to reduce it if at all possible we began investigating the source of said lag, to see if it was possible to do something about. So, today the APB goes out for horse farms. 

 

We will be purging horse farms significantly within the coming week. Any farm with over 6-8 horses will be gutted down to 4-6 horses if you do not handle this yourself. The deadline before we will begin in full will be four days, starting the 28th of October.

 

For those of you who might not quite either believe this is an issue or are curious as to why this decision is being made, here's a readout of a snapshot of LotC during the heavy traffic.

 

https://i.gyazo.com/02ca48e33fcf5b9dec3e8b87629d2287.png

Thank you for reading,

- 501warhead, Lead Developer

 

EDIT: Updated with a little better explained image.

Edited October 24, 2015 by Why.

[Space 2335]

ok

[Heff 2460]

this is so dumb just warning you 

[Travista 1361]

Can I modreq my horses to be killed? I literally will have dozens burning in lava for days due to their high health/resistance kek

[Ioannis 1480]

Thats bullshit. I spent months on my horses and now you want me to destroy my business?

[Bloodnight 170]

explain picture

 

[Cjmate 1270]

Should do the same to all animals.

[Archbishop 1784]

Can you please bring back the -1 button? Can we create more than one stable in the same village?

Edited October 24, 2015 by Adam_barnett

[501warhead 1796]

Can I modreq my horses to be killed? I literally will have dozens burning in lava for days due to their high health/resistance kek

 

Yes.

 

explain picture

 

 

It's a snapshot from https://visualvm.java.net/ which breaks down server loads into a readable format. The breakdown I am displaying here is the load having a significant amount of horses loaded on the server at once, showing how much of the main server thread it's taking up. In the end, it's not crashing the server but it is causing significant issues at peak times to have so many horses alive. 

Edited October 24, 2015 by Why.

[leave me alone 995]

why cant we fix issues that don't happen at peak times

 

like australians suddenly having absolutely **** ping

[Ioannis 1480]

Atleast give breeders more allowed horses. Cause you are completely ******* us over.

[Space 2335]

why cant we fix issues that don't happen at peak times

 

like australians suddenly having absolutely **** ping

Sorry I don't think the staff can change the speed of light, will have to google that one though gimme a sec

[monkeypoacher 8055]

Should give people horse eggs as a method of storage instead of just killing them all with no reimbursement.

 

Edited October 24, 2015 by charoodler

[leave me alone 995]

why cant we fix issues that don't happen at peak times

 

like australians suddenly having absolutely **** ping

Sorry I don't think the staff can change the speed of light, will have to google that one though gimme a sec

what the **** are you talking about

i don't care about having your typical normal aussie ping, which we had until about a month and a half ago but now we're stuck with absolute **** ping which means instead of having our normal lag in raids/battles, we can't have more than 15-20 people on the screen without getting like a three minute delay in lag for those of us with the worst internet

don't try and make me look dumb please

[501warhead 1796]

Atleast give breeders more allowed horses. Cause you are completely ******* us over.

 

 

The issue isn't personal horses. We won't be killing someone's pet (unless the entire farm is tamed horses), we're cracking down on the excessive sized horse farms. I've seen in just 30 minutes of looking around several farms with over 30 horses in each. This is excessive, to say the least, and sad that it's considered the norm. Choose which ones you want to keep and get rid of the rest.

 

Should give people horse eggs as a method of storage instead of just killing them all with no reimbursement.

 

 

 

We can consider a form of reimbursement, yes. At the moment the goal however is to reduce horse population count, not to increase it. We can't sustain current amounts and the route we're going right now will end up causing significant issues if not addressed.

Edited October 24, 2015 by Why.