"We have no idea what computers is doing.  We pushed some buttons, and somebody just cut a wire. We are going to take down the servers on Yesterday, let us know how much good they are going to have been."

Worse than a bunch of fucking man-children ignoring their adult responsibilites to play a fucking D&D role playing game from 2006, even under ideal conditions?  No, faggot, in the lexicon of the human situation, no; it fucking CAN'T get any worse-not even if all those people were fucking dead.

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I'm almost tempted to submit a bunch of reports about a class I don't play.  Except I'd really prefer that they fix stuff instead of chasing false reports, as amusing as that might be.

I can see it now:
Update 31 - The nerfing of the [class]!  After receiving dozens of reports concerning [class] associated with lag we have decided to remove several class abilities and change several others.  You'll love the results just as much as we do!

For the last month with all their tracert shit reminds me of when a woman goes into labor, someone says to go boil some water. It's not like they're gonna save the day, they're being sent out to do something away from where the real shit is happening. There are some that haven't been foolish enough to fall for this.

Once again this meaningless movement is just gonna be for decoration for the people that are kind of paying attention. An opportunity for the fanbois to start slathering each other with their boi-joi saying since the devs pushed the reset button everything is awesome and any problems is once again on the players side. But mainly it will be to buy more time, milk players out of that last sympathy micro-transaction, and give the devs a much needed ego boost. Not buying this horseshit. Seen too much, already called this shit months ago, and has been seen in other places only to repeat itself. The odds are good, I'm gonna double down.

This stuff is causing me physical pain. If one of my Quality Managers came up with shit like that I would try to get him into a country where whipping was legal as a corporate punishment.

Novalis wrote on Mar 29^th, 2016 at 1:09am:

LOL, and to take it a step further, the fanbois will blame any birty defects on the fact that you boiled tap water instead of Perrier 

Oh, it's quote fun time.

GimpyPaw wrote on Mar 28^th, 2016 at 10:07pm:


FIFY

It appears that they tried to Virtualize the game servers... but they actually had no clue of what it entails in term of hardware management...
Virtualizing two servers into one hardware in just not getting a two times more powerful server... you need to make sure that both usages are compatible with each other and that
one usage does not starve the other of a specific hardware or computation power. Seems they didn't have any clue regarding that, and now are trying to find solutions tweaking the VMWare parameters. ( or Xen, or whatever Virtualizer they use )

Asheras wrote on Mar 28^th, 2016 at 11:34pm:


You know the quality of the communication as well as me, no way they are going to give us enough details to actually be of a real use into trying to fix their problem.
It's like the traceroute... where we all traced towards a server that's only involved into authenticating us to connect to the game and not the actual real game ( virtual ) servers.

AtomicMew wrote on Mar 29^th, 2016 at 12:11am:


fify

pnellesen wrote on Mar 29^th, 2016 at 1:04am:


Now that I had time to ponder about it, it looks typical of a VM starvation... It's either one VM starving another, or they hardware assignment to the VMs badly done.
Basically, there's an event ( say a Guild Renown earned ) that needs some computation power and to use some hardware... but that computation power or that hardware is used by another VM, that can't free it until it has finished doing what it's doing... So the VM is starving for the resource, ( while we hang in midair ), and get the thing done once the resource becomes available.

Flav wrote on Mar 29^th, 2016 at 10:09am:

Now that you've had time to ponder about shit you know nothing about, you're willing to share your gems of knowledge with us.

Thanks!

I've managed teams of people who have managed multiple aps run on VMs.  VMs are not evil, and they don't act anything like you describe.  Their weaknesses are typically configuration based, a failure to correctly allocate resources, which this lag fest does not in any way indicate.

And do you even have any information which even implies that DDO is now being run in VMs?  What I have read says that they have denied that the past setup was VM based.  I have not seen anything about the new data center which denies it being VMed, but then I won't claim to have seen everything they have published about the new data center.

Frank wrote on Mar 29^th, 2016 at 11:53am:


https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/473717-Game-Performance-Improvements-a...

Cordovan :
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bolded it, just in case you missed the information again.

Frank wrote on Mar 29^th, 2016 at 11:53am:


There u go frank the retard y u so retarded retard too much soy sauce?

VM is fcuking u lag aahhahahah too buku 4 u

Frank wrote on Mar 29^th, 2016 at 11:53am:



awesomium.dll would like a word with you, if that's not too much bother.

Turbine collectively couldn't go for a piss without soaking their clothes, what makes you think they wouldn't fuck this up?

Still laggy on sarlona...