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Gameplay => General Discussion => Topic started by: Fathertyme68 on March 31, 2005, 10:48:16 pm

Title: Stress test
Post by: Fathertyme68 on March 31, 2005, 10:48:16 pm

Just a thought here since ive never seen or heard any mention of it,maybe there was and i missed it but anyway,  of all the other games Ive Beta tested  many for EA and many for other companies,there is always a stress test done on the servers.I realize that the server is no where near capacity now but in the event that the time does come will the server be up to it? I therefore ask are the Devs planning to Stress test the server and if so when and will they be willing to share the results w/ us,even if it is a s little as \"Today we Stress tested the server and all things ran smothly.\"

   Just a small question.

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Post by: acraig on March 31, 2005, 11:42:49 pm

Every day is a \'stress test\' for me :).   There are still several things in the pipe before can get involved with this.  But if the community itself wants to arrange it, there should be no problem with that.

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Post by: leji on April 01, 2005, 10:51:17 am

I guess the Hydlaa Festival of the Hunt will somehow rise the load on the server, at least for a few hours, a great meeting like that should gather more players than usual, we\'ll see if the server is able to handle all this food on the ground :)

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Post by: Externals on April 01, 2005, 06:39:51 pm

heheh, Stress Tests, I remember those.

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Post by: Lyrah on April 05, 2005, 02:27:35 pm

Best stress test is when you max out the players skills for a SHORT time (normally a day or two tops) and everyone meets at one town, then they all emote (the animated kind) hunt in the same area (kinda hard to do when there aren\'t half enough monsters...but we could try), and cast like maniacs... I know...not very RP, but testing isn\'t always RP, sometimes you have to dispell the illusion...or the game dispells it for you. (fly glitch, npcs that don\'t know what you are saying etc).

I remember counting server crashes in several beta I was in. I think in Horizons we got to 25 or was it 30.

In Ryzom...they recovered and tweeked it enough rather quickly. I think we MIGHT have gotten to ten crashes. The last one we had to really TRY to crash it, I think it crashed when we got ten extra Trykers all in one spot (their graphics were buggy in beta) and they all cast at the same time, plus all the other races casting emoting etc.

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Post by: DepthBlade on April 05, 2005, 05:29:53 pm

Meh they have a Stress Test option for CS but I have never clicked it yet, haven\'t found myself that stressed.