Why will I need to maintain my boxes every 7 days?

[Wade Garrett]

I have multiple character across several servers and this is going to be a royal pain in the a$$ to keep up with this. Once I have set a storage box it should stay until someone destoys it. Its not realistic to need to maintain a storage box, even IRL.

[medicinehead]

Originally posted by Wade Garrett:

Once I have set a storage box it should stay until someone destoys it. Its not realistic to need to maintain a storage box, even IRL.

But it is realistic to need to maintaince server performance.

P.S its not RL

[LevaOpaki]

In first version of system we will start with 15 days.

[Blue Peanuts]

Perhaps as a compromise there might be some storage that lasts longer than other types, but it is limited in capacity. The regular boxes and such are 15 days or 30 days, then there are some specially crafted storage objects that last significantly longer.

[little boris]

Originally posted by Wade Garrett:

I have multiple character across several servers and this is going to be a royal pain in the a$$ to keep up with this. Once I have set a storage box it should stay until someone destoys it. Its not realistic to need to maintain a storage box, even IRL.

If you think about how many boxes there are of people jumping in on a server for a day or two and then never return. It's just unecessary load of traffic going to the server.

This is a concept to reduce lag greatly by getting rid of boxes that are just there..

[Rats]

Originally posted by Wade Garrett:

I have multiple character across several servers and this is going to be a royal pain in the a$$ to keep up with this.

Hopefully the devs start culling server numbers very soon, as this is part of the problem why no one is playing, there is just too many servers. As an example there is 30 official Australian servers and if not twice as many private Aussie servers with an average of 30 players playing across all of those servers at peak times. Something has to give.

[flitzpiepe0815]

Originally posted by Rats:

Hopefully the devs start culling server numbers very soon, as this is part of the problem why no one is playing, there is just too many servers. As an example there is 30 official Australian servers and if not twice as many private Aussie servers with an average of 30 players playing across all of those servers at peak times. Something has to give.

They probably need to see how the master server(s) is handling a large number of connected servers to measure the scalability. Not helpful if there will be, say, half a million players on release and they have only tested the infrastructure with ten world servers.

[YamaKami]

Originally posted by Wade Garrett:

I have multiple character across several servers and this is going to be a royal pain in the a$$ to keep up with this. Once I have set a storage box it should stay until someone destoys it. Its not realistic to need to maintain a storage box, even IRL.

It's not realistic to have unused chests bogging down performance. So the time frame may change but this is in place for real world reasons. So it's not going to go away even you quit the game. Maybe play more on some servers and drop some others. Manage your time better.

[Crimdrac]

Might help to have boxes dissapear when a player logs off and then come back when they login.

[Chronic213]

Originally posted by Crimdrac:

Might help to have boxes dissapear when a player logs off and then come back when they login.

What happens if someone builds on top of your stuff while you're logged out?

[iblis.bane]

Sorry if I missed it, but how is this going to apply to single player? Still have to start the game every 15 days to maintain? (Sometimes I only play (SP) for a while after a patch to see what's new, then wait for the next update.)

[Wade Garrett]

If the boxes only render when player is close then why even have to maintain. Isnt that the whole point of the updated system? I dont think we should have to maintain at all..

[Dracsimus]

STOP server jumping so damn much! find 1 or 5 n stick to them. Lets be real, who plays on more than 5 servers consistently??? i like the maintenance system, less lag = more fun!

[Wade Garrett]

Originally posted by (T_T)DracsTM:

STOP server jumping so damn much! find 1 or 5 n stick to them. Lets be real, who plays on more than 5 servers consistently??? i like the maintenance system, less lag = more fun!

Im on 2 different servers... the populations fluctuate so I go where there are players.

Let me ask you.. do you enjoy having to maintain your boxes?