Yeah, if we do f2p base building again, it will either be faster decays or (my favorite) periodic super-novas in f2p buildable galaxies. When you jump in, and a super-nova is expected in the next month, it will tell you. When the super nova goes off, all bases and drones are instantly destroyed and maybe even everything in the galaxy except AI bases also get destroyed and re-rolled, so to speak. We talked about these things, but in the end, decided not to divert programmer resources to it at this time.

Yugi has the right idea.

This is heresy. Someone start a bonfire. I'd like my Jeff_L well done please.

I'm not usually a complainer but. . .this is just too much. The base slots on P2P accounts are still terribly reduced, presumably because of server rescources, but you're adding a whole new layer for f2p bases which will get spammed by players with 20 f2p accounts apiece. Actual new players STILL won't get to build bases because 1: The professional f2ps will kill their bases constantly, and 2:They are too new to build a base and should be focusing their Skill Points on basic combat stuff anyway.

Meanwhile, the P2Ps are still stuck with the reduced functionality of the alts on our paid accounts. Telling me that you can't give back the base slots you took away from P2Ps, but you're going to make a whole new playground for f2p bases is kind of a kick in the teeth.

admins: yay we got a server tweak for more resources
players: yay more galaxy space, fps, or base slots
admins: er no none of those, that would be too cool for u.
players: -_-

But...myrt, we still have more slots than we had before the change.

Well, first time we tried to patch the "Sleepy" tweak to the server, it didn't work, and then it was a long time before we could patch again because we needed a client patch and I had lost my previous hard drive and couldn't build a C1 client for a long time until recently, but we finally have the "sleepy" code in and it's been running for the last 2 days now.

No one has reported any problems with slaves and bases, but keep a look out.

Performance-wise, we're only seeing about a 2x server speed increase, which is a lot less than the theoretical 8x - 10x speed increases we were seeing on various test servers, but still, 2x isn't that bad -- everyone should be able to get 10 shots per second now wherever they go on live as the server is now running well over 10 fps. What we're getting at the moment is a lot of idle CPU, possibly due to thread switching issues and overhead. There's still a lot of room to further optimize and play with it. Next thing we're going to try is setting CPU affinity to our different threads to keep the OS from switching them from one core to another which can be very expensive.

what is gonna change to the game with this little tweak? will the uni be made bigger? will we just get a higher rof cap? or are you planning on a mix?

Right now, we've decided not to make the uni bigger since we'd rather work on C2. Perhaps the uni after that can be bigger.

But everyone should be able to solidly hit their ROF cap now, as the server is now definitely running faster than 10 fps.

This is part of the work Jey is doing to enable us to scale to ten times the current player base when we go to open beta for C2. I want us to be able to handle any possible influx we get in case things go very well.

awesome

have you considered the effect AT will have on the beta test? most players, already knowing how to powerlevel, will most likely somehow manage to skip the early content, while all the classes other than FC will be slowed down alot by having to get aug tweaking leveled up in order to compete (FC aug setups usually follow resist aug + resist aug for lowbie FCs), having that much imbalance in the beta might put off new players aswell, there needs to be a way to get AT without relying on other players to DG so you can buy the stuff, which noone will, because they will all just be powerleveling, because the endgame content is much more profitable, and it is a competition after all

maybe make it so that money/gear gotten during the betatest also carries over to the live server? that way players wouldnt be throwing away their chance at getting a prize by providing other players with the items needed for AT and other skills

Squad combat, not leveling test.
Have teams jump in as single entries and have the best PvP squad from the team be the winners.

Normal PvP rules in real space, Arena in some randomly generated galaxy. Don't use Colo.

There, we have to have a balanced or specialized good set of peeps to win. Team effort. No powerleveling beating people.

Also, the first class to be selected is what you're stuck with. Entry eligible for people with a main of 1000+.


If you want the firepower of a Sniper or a Zerker, you're going to have to level one.

Well, Jey just found and fixed a bug in the code that was doing this tweak and now we just doubled the server frame rate. Liberty is running at 33 fps this very moment.

Does this mean that the ROF cap is higher now?

The RoF cap is solidly at 10/s now, which is hard-coded in the game.