Admin Announcement: Full server, what now?

[akar.zaephyr]

Well, before actually asking "can we have more than 200 users limit" there are few more questions that need to be asked.

1) What is the average player count?
From my experience, 90% of the day is below 180 players online.
2) How many times a week, and how long a day the server is full?
Again, my experience is last month most of the time the server wasn't full. If it was, maybe for two core hours once a week.
3) What is the cost (considering money / programming) of extending the user limit?
As we can see from Admin's replies, it would take a lot of programming to implement new solutions to extend user limit. In current shape, the server does 102% of it's possibilities so it reached it's phisycal possibilities. From that point, we would have to consider either splitting universe to two servers, buying multiprocessor server or any other solutions.

Now the final question: after answering questions 1 and 2 and considering question 3, is it reasonable to extend the user limit?

The answer is: no.
In current shape the user loadout doesn't even fill the server in core hours, yet most of the time during the day the amount of users online is way below it's possibilites.

So, considering how much work it would take to extend the limit it's not reasonable to do it. Simply, the amount of programming and money needed for this project is way too much considering how many players is currently online.

At least that's my point of view.

Some day, when I'll have more money, I'll consider donating to a brand new, multiprocessor server capable of hosting 1000 users online. Why not? Question is - will there ever be that many players? Don't think so...

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