Why shut the game down every tick?

This is the stupidest change I have ever seen and B&S need to be flogged for even suggesting it, let alone implementing it.

So the game is shut down every 5 minutes every tick which is 120 minutes a day which is 2 hours a day.

Ok since the thing goes down for weeks at a time you might think "only 2 hours a day" is pretty good, but it is not.

Mehul had 100,000 players at one point and ticking was instant and there was NO LAG. You can not blame lag after destroying the game and bringing it down to 10,000 players because it was fine with 10 times more players.

In fact you could time the tick on your watch and it would happen exactly when it was supposed to and the server did not lag when it ticked because i've attacked a good 3-4 seconds before the tick many, many times.

They don't want to go back to the unmodern way of not updating every single province and kingdom in the game on each tick.

Because they don't know how to run it any better.

Does it even matter? If and when they fix the game, anyone logging in is only going to find a ton of inactives and a dramatically lower active player base than ever before. The damage is already done. I'm very skeptical of a returning player base. This has been so badly mismanaged.

top 50 kds update by "." - dot - message.

thats a free/cheap/non expensive way of uptating things in utopia

why the hell they wanted to have it all automatically?

newbies in hosting utopia i guess. they dont know the old school metods

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Does it even matter? If and when they fix the game, anyone logging in is only going to find a ton of inactives and a dramatically lower active player base than ever before. The damage is already done. I'm very skeptical of a returning player base. This has been so badly mismanaged.

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Well first they stab the game to death then they rub salt into the wound and spit on it as it dies.

Well I hope B&S at least appreciate being able to put some programming experience on their CV now after they destroyed a game 20k people played because dylan wanted to help his uni mates out by giving them a job.

Can't say i've ever witnessed a new company taking over an online text-based game before, but if I had, I think I could say this is not the way to do it.

because BS have no idea what they are doing. I have played many online game similar to utopia and none of them had to turn off during ticks.

Give them a break.. If not, they gonna turn off the server at every tick.

They will probably thinking, It fun making all this people in the forum to go berserk..

Give them a break? I am going to say what everyone will say now, before they all read this.

GTFO.

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Originally Posted by heyhey

Give them a break.. If not, they gonna turn off the server at every tick.

They will probably thinking, It fun making all this people in the forum to go berserk..

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they already are going to kick everyone on ticks, so how would giving them a break make a difference?

So are they going to explain this?

Earth to BS. Please explain your BS change.

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1. Ticking has changed significantly. At the top of each hour, the main game will be inaccessible while the whole game world is brought up to date with the new tick. During this period, you will be brought back to the lobby page, which gives accurate feedback on progress. This takes 2-5 minutes to complete currently.
By doing ticking in this way, instead of on-demand as kingdoms are accessed, we improve overall site performance considerably. Prior to this, the process of ticking all the kingdoms was competing for server time with thousands of frustrated players hitting F5 in their browsers, which in turn made the problem worse. Now, instead of suffering bad site performance for 10-20 minutes now there is just a few minutes of pure ticking, followed by good site performance

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It is an improvement in their opinion. They should have played this game before and compare it how utopia is now.

province ticks, not game ticks. how about that? how about if its not broken dont fix it?