During the last few months Planet Calypso has held a series of stress test events to analyze and improve the performance and stability of the servers. While the last two events focused on hardware and network usage our developers have also implemented changes to the platform as well as added a number of extra logging tools to be able to analyze server behavior in even more detail.
In order to evaluate these software changes and new log options Planet Calypso would like to invite all Entropians to a new stress test event on April 1 2015, 08.30 UTC in Port Atlantis on the Eudoria continent.
This time a very rare spawn of Feffox Queens will wreak havoc inside Port Atlantis!
Welcome everyone!
Thatās 02:00 central time. So this one is at a different time than the others. Glad to see that all time zones are getting some love. I will surly be a pile of shit tomorrow at work though
Edit: UNLESS>>>This is an elaborate April Fools Day joke by MA and they just want to give all the US a bad night of sleep
The diablo event paid out way more ped than they took in, and that is without all the pilot skills. Sometimes events take, and sometimes they give. In the long run they are fair, and I would rather have the opportunity to participate if I choose to, than no opportunity at all.
Lag periods still persist. Iām sure these events have more than one purpose..still have refunds to payout etc. But there have been performance improvements and thereās no reason why they canāt perform these tests in a fun way.
Thereās no reason to jump into conspiracies or assume dishonesty. They have a business to run and have a responsibility and incentive to run it well.. with the resources available to them. with that being said, theyve always had logging mechanics in their code (perhaps not the best) and each time they do a stress test, they add more.. which is what any developer would do especially if presented with a complex problem.
Right. So they (MA) display they havenāt yet inserted probes into their software/networking stack to the precision required to answer these questions, and solve the problems.
Afterā¦ how many years?
A completely new employee on any software development project of this kind should know about this, and how and why to do it.
I myself told them about this when I joined EU as a customer, 2009, and offered my services - explaining I had more than enough experience. They ignored my offer. Not declined, ignored.
Now, half a decade later they finally realize they are in too deep, and now they think itās worthwhile to profile (measure performance of) the system?
If thatās the kind of quality in all of EUās management, itās no wonder EU is ājust survivingā. Barely.
[font=small]I do hope Serica doesnāt see this as a ātoo negativeā post, and once again ban me a month from EU. fingers crossed[/font]
Just what I was thinking. Itāll be 3:30 AM here. Even for me, thatās pretty damn late. Europeans will mostly be at work. That only leaves hardcore West Coast people, Aussies and a handful of players from Eastern Asia.
