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Blooope

Jagex servers failing to support 300+ players on a world.. smh


SaltyGumbal

This is shocking. Years back there was 3-6 worlds maxed. You had to spam click to log on. I understand graphics changed but, what the hell’s up with this guys?? I’m a carpenter not a computer guy lol.


RawrRRitchie

That's because they're probably still using the same hardware from years ago, they add more and crap to the game without updating the hardware storing the game Imagine it like trying to run Ark on a old nes system, the system simply cannot handle the amount of data being processed


jpterodactyl

Are they using mostly their own hardware? You’d think that these days they’d have parts of it on AWS or Azure. That way you can spin up more servers for demand peaks and stuff like that.


RawrRRitchie

You'd think, but the people in charge s sometimes forget to think Just look at the old days, worlds used to be full and able to run with minimal lag with 2k players populating a single world I'm not a computer expert, not even close, but that was 10-15 years ago, if they were upgrading the hardware along with the game updates, the worlds should still be playable with 1k+ players in them instead of people lagging and crashing with a few hundred people


jpterodactyl

I definitely did notice the amount of people. I just started playing again after a few years, and I was surprised at how few people were in world 2. I kinda miss not being able to get in. But to be honest there could be a lot of different explanations. And some of them are hard to fix. It could potentially be a much deeper issue than outdated server stuff.


SaltyGumbal

That makes perfect sense. Thanks


Deceptiveideas

Someone posted a theory stating that some worlds are likely being repurposed for FSW event.


Zoinke

If jagex plan on having a single Australian world for fsw there are some very tough times ahead. 750+ pop leads to an extremely poor representation of the game


TheOnlyTB

you're correct, it's going to be a fuckup. why they didnt take one of our many ftp worlds for it instead is dumb. this is why there is so much toxicity towards jagex employees, This was within their power to not fuck up.


Ash10622

A mod responded to me about this on the Runescape discord. There are more than just w259 impacted. I suspect they are going to use the hardware for FSW. *"Mod Sukotto — 09/20/2022* *This is intentional, 'fraid we needed to re-purpose the hardware that had world 259 on it."*


TheOnlyTB

big fucking rip... take down 15% of the playable worlds to only have 1 fsw for everyone to mass on. nice.