STOP THIS ****!

[Franc92]

I think we are tired of being DC'd every single minute from the server, becasue of frequent crashes.
PLEASE do something about it. I think we donate enough to not deserve such a treatement. I fought VS Zidane, i beated him and now CRASH and CRASH again and again and again and CRAAAAAAAAAAAASHHHHHHHHHHHH AGAIN OMG. Now i hate to wait 2 more hours till i can rebeat him again.
Cheers...

 

[Nikola]

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This was not case few days ago however. I guess something was added recently to cause failing or someone tried to mess with live PWO code or change way how npcbattle() and wildbattle() used to work and eventually got threading issues from using or overusing said functions. Get few people to spam same battle or wild NPC and the game will usually crash. However, during the events there are more players focusing on same thing so crashes are expected as it's more noticeable and the code is written really bad so it can't process all requests. This is what happens when you give Pedigree dog treats to 15 years old dog to give birth to puppies. Upon birth, old dog dies taking several puppies with her. But I can see that people are upset and annoyed. I am sure they will extend the event for a few days more due to this issue. And given the fact that this is still happening tells me that there have been attempts to lock those but without luck. There can be even third issue to blame that I am not aware of however. But in any way I hope that people will be able to play properly soon without being annoyed.

 

[Franc92]

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This was not case few days ago however. I guess something was added recently to cause failing or someone tried to mess with live PWO code or change way how npcbattle() and wildbattle() used to work and eventually got threading issues from using or overusing said functions. Get few people to spam same battle or wild NPC and the game will usually crash. However, during the events there are more players focusing on same thing so crashes are expected as it's more noticeable and the code is written really bad so it can't process all requests. This is what happens when you give Pedigree dog treats to 15 years old dog to give birth to puppies. Upon birth, old dog dies taking several puppies with her. But I can see that people are upset and annoyed. I am sure they will extend the event for a few days more due to this issue. And given the fact that this is still happening tells me that there have been attempts to lock those but without luck. There can be even third issue to blame that I am not aware of however. But in any way I hope that people will be able to play properly soon without being annoyed.

'-' print.

 

[Franc92]

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DAMN IT. I LOST A SNEASEL CAUSE OF THE CRASH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SAD -----> TY SERVER

 

[Stank]

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[glow=black]WAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/glow]​

 

[HitmonFonty]

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This is a beta game and we never claim for it to be anything else. In testing these freezes happened but they were fixed. Once staff testing is over, which is minimal as you can imagine, we send it to you guys to continue the testing. This happens EVERY time for EVERY update. Staff number in two's and three's, maybe up to half a dozen if we're lucky to test each update. No matter how thorough we are, or have the time to be, having hundreds of players will find issues with them far faster. And even if we held off a couple of months for each update for more exhaustive staff testing all we're doing is wasting time since you beta players can do the same thing in hours/days at the most.

There is no need for this aggression. Report the errors and we will fix them as fast and as best we can. As we are doing right now. In the meantime type /quit and relog after every milestone you read- catching rare pokemon, beating important NPCs, completing or progressing in a quest.

The only other option is to take the server down until this is fixed. Since we started working on it yesterday, it would already have been down for 24 hours at least and with no set time for the fix to be found my guess is most players would prefer the server to stay up.

 

[The-Predator]

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Thought Thugie was back? Im sure he was the one dealing with these issues, or he isnt even staff??

 

[Dragon16]

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The server has been really unreliable as of late, constantly freezing and crashing. This is especially stressful during an event.

 

[HitmonFonty]

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Yes, ThuGie is back and looking into this.

 

[Nikola]

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Welp, given the fact that game has been crashing all day tells me that no actual fix has been made for few days now. It often happens when people are disliking other people code or way how certain function works so they want to change it as they claim bad code thinking it might work better...and on contrary it work's pretty bad. Good programmer don't blame code or whoever did it, they deal with the code issue given the circumstances.

When I was looking at PWO server code not while ago I never badmouthed anyone who did edits and additions to code prior. Ignoring those client adapted codes I was very frustrated and cursed heavens how basic stuff were done and even made me to shift+del the PWO cpp files many times. I don't name anyone as I respect people who put effort into something even if that something is made wrong. Blaming someone that some things aren't working isn't good thing to do when you have full table of codes to deal with.

 

[HitmonFonty]

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Nikola nobody here is blaming the freezing issues on anyone. We just want to find the issue.

Many fixes have been tried- something has broken that has been working perfectly well up until now, so while we know where the problem is, we don't know yet why it's a problem. Just don't think nothing is being done because it's taking a while to find and fix the problem.

 

[Nikola]

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Fonty, I was more referring on yesterdays blaming someone else on staff channels rather than issue itself. It doesn't matter anymore and all is well. I am well aware that this issue is being looked into. Good luck in resolving it.