DEV Gargaj wrote:
The bottleneck isn't the server hardware - it's the same hardware that handled 900 people just fine, save a few HDD replacements and RAM upgrades every now and then.
The code, however, has changed considerably over time, and sometimes things break somewhere down the line; in the last few months we haven't had enough people to cause these sorts of bottlenecks to propagate all the way to lag. Rest assured since we probably want a good Steam launch as much (or more) than you do, things will be fixed and lag will be reduced.
As of this post the game is unplayable and the lag is upwards of 19k-20k. and that's with maybe 50 people at most.
Not looking good.
. Back to farming I go. Nian ftw =p.
