[CF-Devel] Sillyness. (server speed)

[Andreas Vogl]

on Thu, 4 Jan 2001, dnh wrote:

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      Okay I was just testing the new ruggilli temple (which is very close to
     
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      completion) when I died by annoying the templar and knights in there (not
     
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      a wise move). I tried to see if that wrap around stats bug still occured..
     
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      so I started killing myself. After about 40 deaths, the server was running
     
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      at a crawl. Now I am running this on my Dual G4 450 with 256 ram, there is
     
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      NO way it should be slowing down. After I exited and rejoined it was
     
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      faster.. but I notice this same speed reduction when playing on other
     
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      servers, after I start etting above a certain level the player starts
     
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      getting slow. My first guess as to why it was slowing down was because it
     
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      was keeping track of all the depleted stats, if this is true then the
     
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      other speed reduction must be another thing. Anyway, this was on todays
     
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      CVS, please try the same experiment.. kill yourself alot.. then see if it
     
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      slows down.
     
     
I have the strong suspection that not the server slowed down, but your
character's speed of walking/acting, which is normal and intended.
The loss of STR due to repeated death reduces a character's speed
greatly.


Andreas V.