[June 2019 Donations & Finances]

Or it could be that NCSoft wanted to get rid of the competition for their other MMOs.

 

This is the impression I got from a casual conversation with someone who worked for NCSoft Brighton who IIRC pointed the fingers at Wildstar - but no idea how much they actually knew.

[Homecoming Team News (May 8th): Pack your bags, we're going to Canada!]

All these people going all hyperbolic about latency/ping who are not even listening to current US players who say it is not an issue currently unless the servers are hammered and then..and only then... are there random ping issues. You guys act like all of a sudden you will be seconds behind the action LOL. Quit being so dramatic.

 

These boards are getting to be more and more like the original boards where people will complain at just about anything. Most people didn't even know where the servers were located in relation to where they live, but now it's all "OH NO MY PING!" hahaha. You honestly think it will be that bad when the majority of the players are from the US and haven't complained about these issues except when the servers are bright red and queued? Stop complaining about stuff that has not been an issue and shouldn't be one... and instead just enjoy the frickin game.

 

I used to play from the UK in the original beta that was hosted in the US and latency was almost never a problem - unlike twitch FPS games the servers run at a fairly low "tick rate" and mask latency into a couple of hundred ms or so no problem.

[Homecoming Server Update (May 1st): Perfectly Balanced]

Just want to say thanks for everything you are doing - never thought I'd be able to play this game again.

[Homecoming Server Update (April 29th): Stable?]

I don't know how many times it needs to be said. As soon as they start accepting donations, NCSoft will be a LOT more likely to intervene.

This seems to be misread; as the messages condoned to this matter are explicitly clear. Let me clarify;

 

The data we own today for CoH to run as it has is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)

Source: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

 

specifically referring to commercial purposes; this would allow donations to be accepted to individuals towards their values and cause, not to the product itself.

 

The moment they start soliciting for donations, do anything for profit or launch funding campaigns, etc. it treads a very fine line on what is already a sticky legal situation - if people want to approach them voluntarily to donate that is another thing entirely.

 

Regardless of anything like above the moment there is any potential profit making involved it significantly changes the scope and chances of legal action being taken.

[Lag, Disconnects, and Stability]

Is the database server backend still running on Microsoft SQL Server?  If so, managing SQL Server databases has been my field of expertise for 7 years now, and I'd be delighted to help out with any performance tuning and server settings that could help with making resource usage more efficient!

 

There is a flow chart doing the rounds somewhere but the game uses a MS SQL server and a dbserver daemon/helper process that interfaces with various other processes - auth, account and the map servers which can spawn multiple instances.

 

Short of significant rewrites I'm not sure much can be done past a certain point to manage performance other than split up the community into multiple discrete servers.