Umm, how about all the lag recently? It is getting to a point of just plain irritation. I have been considering playing on Imperian more due to it, but then I think oh wait maybe it is IRE wide.

Then I learned of some wierd bug, that people have been speaking of concerning the message system. When people seem to packrat messages, it tends to build up more lag. There is an ongoing joke with some of us that my auntie Aesyra is causing the lag problem every time she checks her messages. Now, it is scary thinking there may be more truth to the joke than originally thought.


So please please please I beg of you.... Players, delete all those stupid messages. Admins, if this is the case mass purge all the messages, please oh please!!! Since this isn't hotmail, maybe when the fates cut threads they can delete old messages to a point??


I have been thinking and will test it out, if someone can dominate del all messages, if so I think I may go find my auntie and force my hand


Either way, what do you all think? I know the lag spikes are getting worse and worse, do you think it is too much to ask people not to save 2000+ messages? Or are there any other ways to reduce all the lag we have been getting lately? It just makes for mixed feelings about things when yer in the middle of something then bam..... LAG, and then 3 channels with people all going; clt Laaaaag!! Arghhhh!!!


I know there are more of you out there experiencing this so speak up, because you all know I am not the best poster child for reform. I fit more into the poster child of people to ignore

I don't understand keeping all your messages, really. It's not hard to have zMUD kick them out to a text file every time you QQ, or just copy the important ones you really need to keep manually. No one is important enough to need 1k messages laying around. I just read mine, then delmsg all.

Or use a journal.

What's worse is that, if someone really wanted to abuse this to really hurt Lusternia, it's absurdly easy to do so.

I never delete messages cause I never new it was such a big deal. They're gone now.

I shall keep my 2500 messages, just to prove to the world that i AM that important.

Would be a funy combat tactic, get someone locked up with afflictions or crucify, then spam check your old messages while it ticks away till you can sacrifice muahaha.

Seriously though, is this just a hunch>?

It's not the messages themselves-- it's certain actions being done with a large number of them around.

Nope. There are two people currently who will say, "Lag incoming," and then there's a 5-second-or-so-lag. They've both BUGged it.

It's annoying to have messages saved. Then I can't just use MSGS to get a summary of what the new ones are.

Definitely agree. I like being able to see all the new ones at once.

Huh. Next time I need something to do, I'll trim mine down a little.

Seriously guys, just have zMUD kick them all to a text file. Then you can do a hell of a lot more with them than you can in game, especially searching them more easily. For a while, I actually had zMUD just save them internally and only had text backup, but it's a bitch to do with zMUD's variables if it gets corrupted by a smiley or something weird like that. People kick out channels to other windows, the code for it is no harder.

Have you no foresight? Bringing this out in the open might not have been the best idea...

Is this all confirmed or just bs? I remember kids in BF2142 saying that "if you move the titans it lags the servers!! waah!!" Is the same situation?

I haven't really noticed a lag o.O

it actually froze servers when the demo first came out, and i doubt it has a mass effect seeing as its only text and woulding typing look 1000ish times or enter or some such would be exactly the same.. altho im not an expert just my thoughts untill the truth comes out,
proven fact of lag though, is a reverting trigger in which constantly forces itself to use the same trigger over and over ie triggering an action to do on the same actions message feedback.

Sorry I wasn't aware that Lex Luther was going to dominate Lusternia with a Ray Beam and destroy us all, but yeah like Xenthos said above, we prepare for it when a few people warn us with lag incoming (when they are about to check their messages) so it isn't 100% confirmed, but when ya can narrow it down so much that a person warns you it is coming in, I would think it was a little bit of a problem


And Lex, if your out there, reading this. You don't want to play here and destroy us anyways. Go play Hello Kitty.

Achaea has done huge message purges over the years, so it most likely can occur here.

If you have enough messages that you can lag the server whenever you want, why would you not prune them? Ffs people, have some courtesy.

I wonder if this explains why I get booted from the server at random. Still connected, just nothing happens until I reboot and wait 10 minutes.

That happens to me a lot, too.

Unfortunately Lusternia is already mid-development of a lot of things, and I think the message code is probably not in a good place to modify, although if a new IRE game is being started from scratch this would probably be wiped away from the start. I think the whole thing was designed before people realised someone was going to accumulate several thousand messages.