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[Campitor]

We are aware of the lag being experiencing in RESTART right now.

 

We will look at doing a very short restart later today to reduce lag somewhat by opening more map servers. Some time next week we will be opening a new world named "Frigg". Currently the IT team is working on getting that hardware into place and setting it up. We will have a better target date and time for Frigg next week.

 

 

[Casualty]

When you say a new world, does this mean an entirely different server?

[Tanzanito]

Campitor, could you please clarify if this "world" actually means a new GAMING server? (Like Classic, Chaos, etc)

Edited by Tanzanito, 20 July 2017 - 12:39 PM.

[Campitor]

Campitor, could you please clarify if this "world" actually means a new server?

Yes there will be another server on server select.

[rpgfanguy]

sounds like a new server to me.. looks like the servers reaching its max cap.

[Spoon]

1 can barely be managed alrdy, why a second lol

[Tanzanito]

Yes there will be another server on server select.

But that means a new GAMING server?

[Archiedagod]

congrats.. you officially have a successful server on iRO and you wanna go ahead and split the population in half... first step in the direction to kill it. it really is pretty sad in 2017 you cannot manage a server to accommodate 5k players. 

[RedBuII]

Yes there will be another server on server select.

 

well, a cheap company is really about to ruin a real good server. I will be leaving Restart if this happens, just saying. 

In the long run, WP would probably make more money by investing in new hardware to be able to handle a large server. But it's painfully obvious that WP is cheap. 

[Ambur]

Worst idea to fix the lag I have ever read.

[DemiGod]

Yes there will be another server on server select.

 

Whoever is making decisions needs to rethink this one on the pronto. Out of all the decisions that have been made, this one takes the cake for worst yet.

 

You are going to alienate a large portion of your existing users while accomplishing nothing at all.

 

Upgrade the current server hardware and make it hold the necessary pop. You're going to end up with two dead servers instead of one large and healthily populated one if you go down that route.

[Ardelle]

Yes there will be another server on server select.

 

Can you please elaborate more on the specifics of Frigg? Are you planning to do this to thin the population out? Will it be possible to transfer from Odin to Frigg? Or is it more like sharding?

Edited by Ardelle, 20 July 2017 - 12:49 PM.

[diluted41]

Lag will be fixed when half the server quits.

[dyliverance]

they need to make more space for bots guys, be considerate.

[DrunkenBear]

This is so stupid

[RemiRemi]

Welp, i guess pServers are smarter than official ones.
atleast pservers get money by making servers with good WoEs, less lag and less than 20% of their population being bots.
 

You split the population, you screw up bigtime.
come on, theres a lot of people spending real money on this server, how it is possible that we cant have an awesome host.

[Yafilthy]

server splits always kill playerbase check steam charts! steam users hate it !! 5k players goes to 500-1000 don't do it. 

 

id rather have daily restart kick afks. 

Edited by Yafilthy, 20 July 2017 - 01:01 PM.

[Gichi]

dont take the easy way out, actually fix the servers problems dont start a new server with hope that lag will  be fixed.

[Xellie]

will there be transfers to the new server?

[mothball]

Put in the anti-bot stuff every other official server has and watch the player count drop by half? ...Nah, let's split the server instead.

Can't believe I was dumb enough to waste my time and money here.

[Kalazam]

You guys know that people like a server with a large population right? It feels really good logging in and seeing Prontera filled with Merchants like the old days. What are all of you thinking?

[sadekOB]

Multiple servers is what ruined ragnarok to begin with. These are not the days with 10k pop anymore, keep everyone on a single server instead of constantly repeating this mistake. (Server is going well -> add new server -> one server dies -> discuss server merger). 

 

This is definitely not the route to take. Upgrade the current server to handle more than 5k players, especially when half of them are vending.

[Skyver]

Campitor, the number of responses you got within THIRTY MINUTES of posting this should make it obvious that it is a very bad idea.

[meli]

Pretty retarded option, sorry to be this blunt. You have your hands full with managing one server... and you can't even ban the bots to make the server stable, what makes you think another server will be successful when players are already leaving thanks to gms ignoring basic problems?

[Ardelle]

Multiple servers is what ruined ragnarok to begin with. These are not the days with 10k pop anymore, keep everyone on a single server instead of constantly repeating this mistake. (Server is going well -> add new server -> one server dies -> discuss server merger). 

 

This is definitely not the route to take. Upgrade the current server to handle more than 5k players, especially when half of them are vending.

 

I agree, a huge amount of the strain is from merchants vending. This could be helped somewhat by some sort of easily accessible auction system. I know there used to be one of those, but they removed it since most players had no idea it existed.