lag issue.

[johners12345]

I will be honest. I joined to help my self with a other game for a back story. But after playing on colonial marines for a while. I fell in love with it. Even the fact it was always xeno. There was always some way to love the fun of being a marine all over again. So I am righting this currently as there are 61 people on colonial marines. It is lagging so bad I have had to relog 6 times. Than the idea hit me from a other place. You see. You can buy special server boxes that can run games like byond. They are stand-alone and could easily support the server. I've seen one in effect That can cause a server that lags from 30 people. To being lag free and moving at near 100% with 80 people on. The server even has instruments like violins. But the server box makes the instruments music sound like real music instead of cut up and botched sound bits. So my idea is to run a personal campaign. For the server that players donate what ever amount of money. In doing so it will go towards the server box so that the server may run better and. In return they get custom items in game. Nothing too high tech or anything. Like a special knife. Or special clothing. Anything that gives them in return for their donations. I'm sure it could run even new Eden station at the same time and there wouldn't be much of a change. I present this because I like good communities and I like to help them grow. So I want to help this one grow. The colonial marines server from it's other suggestions and players. Could grow so much larger if this is done. Thankyou for reading and taking the time to consider it. Have a nice day
P.S. I had to sign up just now to make this suggestion as I told a moderator about it and they said it was a good idea If you are wondering.

[Obey_StyleZ]

I liked it it would stop the major lag we been getting with over 50 people on server.

[johners12345]

If you put it into effect. I will donate $20 on the spot For it. and I mention having players donate because than it makes them feel more connected to the server knowing their helping improve it. Plus in return they get something in-game to treasure and remind them selves they helped a community grow. So it's a win win and it moves things faster

[apophis775]

Actually, we run a special server box, designed to run byond.
But I'll have jagger respond to this, cause that's his specialty.

[johners12345]

Well than mainly a upgrade or something a new one because the server was almost crashing. I'm not disrespecting it or anything but It was almost un-bearable. Some of the players just started commiting suicide and leaving.

[Jagger]

Our issues with lag are because of the way SS13 is coded. I have made various changes to the Marines code to reduce lag since I have taken it. I've updated the atmospherics to the latest Bay, I've fixed major sources of lag which were present in our older code. The best thing we can do right now to further improve it would be to update to the latest Baystation12 code, which we are in the process of doing. Our server costs $50 a month to host, and it is very capable of running a BYOND server, it would be difficult to find a server much better. We would appreciate any donations to keep our server running, but I feel that there is no particular reason to change the server itself.

[johners12345]

ah. I wasn't talking about changing the server. I just mean't the box it's self. I just wasn't sure and wanted to check. I'll see what I can do to make a donation.

[Jagger]

http://newedenstation.com/donate.php

Here is our donation page, if you didn't find it already.

[johners12345]

Thankyou. I'll see if i can do it

[apophis775]

Closed.