411 w/ Vaquxine: 1.8 Lag

[Deleted User 009 0]

Hey guys, there's been a lot of confusion and craziness recently with the update of 1.8 and I want to make a post to explain what it's all about.

Q: "The website is SOOO LAGGY!" or "The website is down!"

A: We recently transferred our website and forums to a brand new shiny node that should be able to handle the amounts of traffic we've been receiving. If it's not loading for you, your DNS may have not yet resolved to our new IP.

Q: "LAG" or "LAGGLGGLGLG" or "OFMG ITS LAGGGING" "GUYS ITS LAGIGNIGNDFSIGNSIFDSFIJASFIAJ"

A: 1.8 brought with it a few terrible CPU poisons.

1.) EXP Orbs cause as much lag per orb as a mob. We can't disable them because they're not a "mob drop" they're a separate event entirely that bukkit has not yet created an API hook for. As such we've had to globally disable PvP as players would drop hundreds and hundreds of orbs every-time they died due to another player which lagged the entire server.

2.) Death Messages; we can't disable them currently do to the fact that no hooks have been added for them yet in the bukkit API, we fully plan to remove them as soon as possible.

3.) The "Wandering Souls" aren't causing the lag; we've established that increased amounts of players do not make the server lag any more or less.

Q: You guys should make X vanilla feature do Y instead of Z.

A: We will once a recommended build of bukkit is available with the needed API.

Q: WHY U NO READ MY APP FASTER?

A: We're overloaded; we do 1 page of applications and there are 3 more made. We'll get around to your application ASAP.

[Hwaldar 132]

You forgot to add this one,sir.

Q:"AAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!! Y IT NOT WOOOOORK??????"

A:Pull your belt up,tighten it,and hold the *insert foul language of your taste* on your butt.

At any point,it's good news for a change.

[Sporadic 2844]

Well, glad this is slowly being worked on. But of course, I would expect this is waiting until the Bukkit people come up with solutions.

1.8 had major lag issues ever since release. LotC devs are not at fault.

[Ogedi 50]

Vaq, i think you should talk to some of the devs at BC. They developed a way to disable orbs.

[Aeolwyn The Elf 139]

I cant wait untill the lag sorts out. I am currently unable to play on the best server EVAR! :(

[Navin_ 99]

solution to xp orbs http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/620720-18-pre-2smp-xp-orb-disable-stop-the-lag-monster/ drag and drop into the minecraft server file it stops the xp orbs from droping from the monsters and animals

[V0idsoldier 1139]

We need to just go back to 1.7.3 I literally cant do anything on this server, cant fight, cant talk, can barely move, I mean if the server cant handle 1.8 than don't use it, I would rather be able to play the game and have less features than stare at my screen while my sword breaks on a zombie but doesn't do any damage...

[qwertyuuiopp 1]

I would prefer to go to 1.7.3 aswell, it seems as if LoTC wasn't ready for 1.8. Although we updated late, we updated too early. Ever since the update all that's happened is problems, I figure that we wait and stay at 1.7.3 until necessary plugins & mods are completed & compatible for 1.8 so people can actually play the server. Whenever I play I see people literally jumping around, mobs are too laggy, I can't RP or talk to anyone because my chat won't pop up until the next 10-15 seconds. I don't mean to sound like I'm complaining just throwing out that staying on 1.7.3 was the smartest thing to do. We tested 1.8 today and yesterday and I think it's time to turn back.

[deathmetus 152]

Thanks Vaq :)

[argonian 14254]

Now we just need to find a way to remove those annoying death messages.

[Tegrof 46]

Good going Vaq! I can't stand all those who say 1.8 sucks due to some tiny lag and want to go back to 1.7.3. Be happy the GMs do the work they do and stop whine just cus it lags a small bit. 1.8 is the best patch that happened to MC and the Dev Team are doing what they can. BE HAPPY!

[Trouvo 205]

@sting

+1

[Thomas_River 1]

Not worried about the lag ill just play offline. give you guys time for yourselves

[Reoigi 4]

yeah most people just start hating and go on a swearing rampage just because of some lag. but vaq said lets fix it. vaq = awesome

[StatutoryGrape 0]

I cant wait untill the lag sorts out. I am currently unable to play on the best server EVAR! :(

as am i, but im playing anyways.