[Napalm]

Hi everyone,
First off we'd like to welcome the newest members of the community to Fallen Earth. It's great to see all the new faces and watch the Help channel explode with questions, comments, love and a bit of rage (although Tiggs might not agree ).

We also wanted to let you know that we are aware that many of the starter towns and capital cities are bustling, and at times running slowly, occasionally kicking players and doing other generally nasty stuff. We (like you) are not happy about this, and are doing some things to get the game up to snuff given the influx of users from Steam and other channels. Here is what we are working on right now:

1. Moving Embry Crossroads and all starter towns onto much, much beefier hardware. This will have an immediate impact, and should decrease the amount of lag that players are seeing in those areas. This will require us to restart some of those areas in the next couple hours, and we will let you know (in-game) what those areas are prior to us doing so.

2. Implement improvements in server memory management to better handle high player load. This will also increase general performance in all areas, and allow high-traffic areas to hold more players. This requires a full restart and will most likely happen later today

3. Upgrade to a more capable branch of the xScape engine, that will allow us to handle 3-4x more players in an area. This is a big change that we hope to launch in the next few days, and will yield significant improvements in performance.

We have been working around the clock to get these and other improvements implemented, and we appreciate your patience.

[OvrTehBottm]

One word - "Simply Awesome"; Ok that was two words, but it is exciting times. Thank you for keep us informed.

[Lancaster]

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This will also increase general performance in all areas

Can't wait till the server crashes no more.
Do you think any of those changes have impact on rubberbanding and such?

This post has been edited by Lancaster: 27 February 2012 - 01:28 PM

[Demarest]

hello Napalm.nice to see this message.
so you telling me that the message i see (your area is currently loading)all that time is from this ?can't connect since.... i start forget what the time was..
so few next couple of hours means i must forget game tonight again... 5 days here and maybe i have played just few hours..
at least i hope this will solve things ....

This post has been edited by Demarest: 27 February 2012 - 01:34 PM

[2saints001]

Question! *raises hand as high as possible*

What about the issue of being stuck at the character select screen with the area loading indefinitely? There seems to be a fair chunk of us experiencing this; are these performance improvements going to fix that? Because, you know.

If they don't...


We will unleash the smileys. And it will be bad.

[The PogoWolf]

 Napalm, on 27 February 2012 - 01:23 PM, said:

Moving Embry Crossroads and all starter towns onto much, much beefier hardware.

Sweet! Thank you for keeping us in the loop.

[Nitramuse]

Thanks for the update! What about the current ''still logged in'' issue?

[Yarii]

Thanks, that's great!

[Napalm]

Area Loading is caused by there being too many players in the area you are trying to enter. Memory is the key issue here, and each of the 3 mentioned projects listed will help that. Ideally, by the end of the day it will no longer be an issue.

Rubberbanding should be mostly cured by this, and we have another engine update in the pipeline that we will push to almost completely kill it, once things smooth out a bit more.

[SpikePaws]

Thats great news!

Keep it up!

This post has been edited by SpikePaws: 27 February 2012 - 01:52 PM

[TooNumb2Care]

I AM SO HAPPY!!! i read the upgrades and got butterflies.. you guys are awesome.. probably one of the best staffing teams ever.. thanks for keeping us in the loop.

[2saints001]

 Napalm, on 27 February 2012 - 01:47 PM, said:

Area Loading is caused by there being too many players in the area you are trying to enter. Memory is the key issue here, and each of the 3 mentioned projects listed will help that. Ideally, by the end of the day it will no longer be an issue.

Rubberbanding should be mostly cured by this, and we have another engine update in the pipeline that we will push to almost completely kill it, once things smooth out a bit more.

Okay! Calling off the Smileys now.



Some of them are not happy about being woken up and then sent back home, as you can see. Except Jerry there. We don't know what the heck he's doing here.

[Lancaster]

 Napalm, on 27 February 2012 - 01:47 PM, said:

Rubberbanding should be mostly cured by this, and we have another engine update in the pipeline that we will push to almost completely kill it, once things smooth out a bit more.

Gotta hope it works! Great work!
That should make PVP:ing even far more enjoyable

[Demarest]

well seems no luck for me to enter tonight.at least news are great.hopefully a really NEW day rise
good night from me and keep the good work.

This post has been edited by Demarest: 27 February 2012 - 02:03 PM

[Hyl6]

Hopefully servers are going to be up and running soon.

And i did not understand from those messages in thread - area loading issue, which makes it impossible to come past character select screen, is it because of the servers are down right now for a few hours, or is it because of there are too many people online, which causes the memory problems on your servers?

i got logged in after i tryed for an hour or so But, question is still remaining. Thx in advance!

[Demarest]

 Demarest, on 27 February 2012 - 02:03 PM, said:

well seems no luck for me to enter tonight.at least news are great.hopefully a really NEW day rise
good night from me and keep the good work.

OMG!!! i tried t olog once more before i leave for bed!! i am in.who need sleep?????? sleep is for others not for me !!!

[Jon Barren]

Good news, much needed update this one! =)

[Clswe]

Is im the onely one who cant get past the first load screen without game crash? B4 i just got stuck at char select screen.. But then i tryd to make a new and after that im getting the error.. I have sent you guys a report.. But if its the new char thats make this mess, please remove it.

[2saints001]

 Hyl6, on 27 February 2012 - 02:17 PM, said:

Hopefully servers are going to be up and running soon.

And i did not understand from those messages in thread - area loading issue, which makes it impossible to come past character select screen, is it because of the servers are down right now for a few hours, or is it because of there are too many people online, which causes the memory problems on your servers?

i got logged in after i tryed for an hour or so But, question is still remaining. Thx in advance!

It's a population issue. It's like "one in-one out" at a dance club or something. If you were out in the middle of nowhere you wouldn't be experiencing it.

[calhpl0x]

Question.

You knew it was going live on Steam, correct?
Why wouldn't you try to "beef" up your hardware before offering it to millions of new players?


I've been shying away from G1 games for months, saw this went free-to-play and tried it out.
Tip: Remove the giant advertisement that pops up on log in, I almost uninstalled instantly based on that alone.
_{(and the upgrade button that can be moved..but you end up clicking on it anyway)}
I think I can find out how to subscribe if I want to, pushy pushy.