Who Cares wrote on Apr 18^th, 2016 at 4:52am:


Ask any Keeper or Devourer survivor... you'll know...
( even if there was still more than 12 active people on the server at hte time of the shutdown, the number was lower than 100 )

Digimonk wrote on Apr 18^th, 2016 at 1:52pm:


what does this even mean? are you like expecting them to give you specific details regarding the issue so that you can personally speculate on their forum some magic fix no one there was able to prior to your godly intervention nigga please

WE ARE FANS AND WE DEMAND TO SPECULATE

get over yourself if u had ANY self respect or value in real life you wouldnt be here to be affected by this

what kind of person plays a game for 10 years that was shit 10 years ago aside from a fucking invalid

inb4 YOU TOO BRO

i just wanna know what that last line meant like " it's hard to make even a semi-educated guess in my opinion." what does it mean

" it's hard to make even a semi-educated guess in my opinion."

WHAT DOES IT MEAN

Meursault wrote on Apr 18^th, 2016 at 5:46pm:


Have they tried hiring somebody who has the technical ability to fix the problem?  I don't think telling players the random shots in the dark they've tried to fix lag will inspire confidence.

AtomicMew wrote on Apr 18^th, 2016 at 7:40pm:

Heh, there is actually a thread on the motherboards with that same suggestion.

The problem being that it's too late for such a measure, and they didn't have the forethought to take that step before the DC move.

The time needed to advertise for the temp positions, vet resumes, interview, hire, get the noobs familiar with the environment, and finally put them to work would be on the order of months, not days.  And that assumes that they hired people with the right skills.  Their last attempt, which did seem to improve things, seemed to be all about the VMs.  If they hired a bunch of network people or coders they would have a bunch of temps standing around saying "I don't know VMs."

What they should have done, and maybe did do, is to purchase the best support contract with their VM vendor, and then lean on them heavily to provide assistance, advice, and guidance.  Since that was the major change with the DC move it would be the best bang for the buck.

Found it: https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/474575-A-plea-to-Severlin

Quote:

Current total population is less now compared to what we had during the peak years of 2010/11, on a single high-population shard. It wasn't much laggier back then compared to before the datacentre move.
IMO, it might be better to put all accounts on one modern "server" without any virtualisation.

When you have server lag on Wayfinder, population has nothing to do with the lag. The issue is probably related to running 8 VMs on one piece of hardware.

OldCoaly wrote on Apr 19^th, 2016 at 5:21am:

LOL, obviously they didn't get the Alice Corp v. CLS Bank memo. We need New Egg lawyers to swoop in and save us 

DropBear wrote on Apr 19^th, 2016 at 4:55am:

This!

There are tons of great consultants in the Boston area, they could bring in top talent on short notice and without paying overnight stay and airfare premiums.

But that would still involve admitting Turdbin wasn't a unique snowflake, so it won't happen.

Maybe Frank's explanation of the delays is why we heard the June timeframe. Or maybe that's when Sev's younger brother graduates from trade school with his computer repair training and can start full time 

(For those not familiar with the US education system, trade school is education for teenagers who do not plan to attend a university. Students focus on learning a trade like automobile repair, carpentry, computer repair, etc. Hiring a recent grad from this program for a problem like Turdbin has now would be like asking a pre-med student to seperate conjoined twins.)

eighnuss wrote on Apr 18^th, 2016 at 4:46pm:

Is English a second language, did you just have a stroke or are you just an angry, internet-tough-guy idiot?  It's hard to tell based on your poorly written post.  I feel sorry for you and will break down the line in question into small parts so you can comprehend it.

"it's hard" in this context indicates that *it* is not easy.  An example would be your relationship with reading comprehension... it's hard.

"to make" indicates the action of making something.  In this case, when modified by the phrase "it's hard", it indicates that making something is a challenge.  For example, it's hard to make sense of your post because it is so poorly written.

"even" in this context is an adverb that provides emphasis on the "semi-educated" portion of the sentence.  For example, I suspect you are an even bigger jackass online than you might be in person.

"semi-educated" is an adjective that modifies the meaning of the word guess.  It indicates incomplete knowledge or learning.  For example, your posting style makes you appear to be only semi-educated.

"in my opinion" means that the preceding part of the sentence is just my opinion.  Take the following example:  In my opinion, you are gay and retarded.

Taken as a whole, the line in question refers to the sentence preceding it where I posed the question of whether the improvements in lag are from Turbine's *fixes* or simply a result of decreased load on the world servers due to people quitting.  It indicates that I think that question is hard to answer since Turbine refuses to provide details about the problem.

Revaulting wrote on Apr 19^th, 2016 at 7:56pm:

Going by just his name, sure.   Looking at the junk he puked all over that post, not so much.

Meursault wrote on Apr 19^th, 2016 at 10:00pm:

Digimonk wrote on Apr 19^th, 2016 at 3:36pm:


So now that youve helped define the context of your initial statement, lets read into your self-importance a bit:

"it's hard" in this context indicates that *it* is not easy. 

"to make" indicates the action of making something.  In this case, when modified by the phrase "it's hard", it indicates that making something is a challenge.

"even" in this context is an adverb that provides emphasis on the "semi-educated" portion of the sentence.

"semi-educated" is an adjective that modifies the meaning of the word guess. 

"in my opinion" means that the preceding part of the sentence is just my opinion.

So its pretty clear that you are trying to relay to us that:

in your humble opinion, there is difficulty involved in speculating, not just possibilities, but also unlikely probabillities, regarding the internal issues in a privately owned intelliectual property that you have absolutely no legal reason to be involved with on such a level.

this implies you believe you are entitled to some kind of access to knowledge of the issues, participation in the troubleshooting of said issues, and finally credit for resolving said issues after you personally grace us with the resolution that no one but you can perceive. all under the umbrella of "your opinion," of course. If "Turbine had circled the wagons and given virtually no useful details on the problem" at me, id be just as offended as you are at my sudden inability and denial of my speculative rights as a long time player of this game. I'm very glad they chose to circle the wagons at you and not me, and now that I understand where you are coming from i respectfully withdraw all my opinions of your gay and retarded status.

I cannot believe they did not give you a direct feed to internal updates so that you can speculate hard as fuck, the absolute nerve of them- thank you for clarifying what you were actually trying to say without all that wall of text obfuscation

im sorry you got circled by wagons bro i apologize for my inability to realize your position

DropBear wrote on Apr 20^th, 2016 at 6:20am:


eighnuss wrote on Apr 18^th, 2016 at 4:46pm:



my face when i am always pre-emptively correct

youre mom

eighnuss wrote on Apr 20^th, 2016 at 6:50am:



As Dropbear pointed out, you're being intentionally obtuse and it just makes you look like an immature dick.  If that's your goal, have at it.