Posted by Activist on June 6, 2000 at 12:18:55:
Why has there been so much lag lately? Normally I'd chalk it up to a greater volume of players, or just general traffic within the realm, but there hasn't been anything significantly changed lately. There are still the same amount of people online as normal... There are a ton of factors that can attribute to lag, but most of them are visible. I have seen no visible changes.
The only thing I can personally think of is this... Undoubtedly there are different levels of logging features on CF. Basic being logging player entrances, exits and deaths. More advanced might include at every tick recording where players are, how many limited items there are in the game, etc etc..
This lag came just when CF was crashing a lot, so by my logic (and being an avid computer programmer myself) the next course of action *I* would take would be to turn on ALL logging features, causing tremendous lag but allowing for the tracking of a bug so that it can be fixed.
Can any Immortal or trustworthy source give some insight on this? Its my personal feeling that that is exactly what is going on, more logging features to track down why it has been crashing recently which is causing more lag per tick and during general play.