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Please no more making it purposely spawn 100's of vorpals since the whirlwinds seem to be part of what may lag the server. I will be fixing this eventually so it can't spawn so many at once. I'm already in the hole by about $100 per month so I can't afford to get an upgrade, since data centers charge per month instead of one time. So the bigger the server, the more it costs per month.

It does seem we're due for an upgrade soon already though... I just wish I had a fiber line that went to my house. No need to pay monthly depending on the server's power.

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Red Squirrel wrote:Please no more making it purposely spawn 100's of vorpals since the whirlwinds seem to be part of what may lag the server. I will be fixing this eventually so it can't spawn so many at once. I'm already in the hole by about $100 per month so I can't afford to get an upgrade, since data centers charge per month instead of one time. So the bigger the server, the more it costs per month.

It does seem we're due for an upgrade soon already though... I just wish I had a fiber line that went to my house. No need to pay monthly depending on the server's power.

Ya you'll definately want to put in a maximum spawn constraint. Unlike baracoon whos spawn can die in 2 or 3 hits, the vorpals have an insane amount of hit points thus making the spawns both harder to dispatch with the ability of multiplying faster than ratmen would.

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Yeah and I'll probably end up doing this to coon as well. Anything that is cpu intensive I have to do something about. If worse comes to worse, that means even limiting things like wither and hit area. Like max of 5 mobs, or something. Since we're actually starting to outgrow the server. It's scary.

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Red Squirrel wrote:Yeah and I'll probably end up doing this to coon as well. Anything that is cpu intensive I have to do something about. If worse comes to worse, that means even limiting things like wither and hit area. Like max of 5 mobs, or something. Since we're actually starting to outgrow the server. It's scary.

Outgrowing a server is a good indication that the shard is growing in popularity .

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Yeah definately. Wonder if one day we'll have a crazy server like Demise. Maybe once I buy out the server hosting company. LOL

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where do u get the money to pay for that shit lol

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Does this mean I'm not allowed to use whirlwind at champs anymore?

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Nah colonel was just an exeption, since people would make it spawn like 200 vorpals. Next update it will be fixed though.


As for where I get the money, from my bank Each summer I work so I can pickup money for college/spending. But there's no income to this, so it is limited. This is my last year of college, so I'll be moving out, so if I don't get a high enough paying job, it's going to be real tight. But the server costs are probably about the same as car payments, so if worse comes to worse, I make use of the bus more often.

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Get some sponsors

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Whore yourself out to some cellphone company, we can all have BoostMobiles in UO!

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Haha, actually I've thought of that. In game ads.

"The world is saving, please wait..."
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"World save complete"


I need to go farm gold irl.

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Gay, I'm only getting one bar of service in the gaunt, it must be all this DF interfernce....

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You know you could get Rogers Business High Speed (like 10x faster then residential) for like $59.99 a month, and run the server from home right?

I did that with medal of honor.

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lol not where I live. For a 10 meg pipe I'd probably be paying over 1k per month. I know when I checked what a T1 costs, its like 1k and thats not fast enough for a shard this size. Well at the moment, it would do, but leave very little room to expand.

And the home/business type connections are normally very limited in bandwidth, and don't have redundant paths. I wish I could get a real decent connection as it would be much cheaper to upgrade the server and easier to manage too. One time pay for any upgrade.

Another option for when I need to upgrade is collocation. I think the way it works is you send them the server and they charge a flat rate, rather then based on how powerful the server is.

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