Friday Free Day Lag Day

On freeday, all the servers have 40+ players.

 

would be fun without lag tbh

 

freeday is great for multiple reasons, and I think the problem isn't the classes but the servers. The stress testing has happened, and lag has been fixed according to nom, but realistically speaking it hasn't. I don't think the problem is simply something you can work out with coding. I think the real problem lies with the servers themselves. In a 40+ game the gamespeed rapidly decreases. In 50 player games I've seen it drop below 30%, which is crazy. It's great to have a game where 50 people can play at the same time, but the gamespeed drop makes the game unplayable. It's all well and good saying that you can have 50 people on a game at once, but the servers cannot support that number of people without rendering the game unplayable for everyone. The other problem I've seen on freeday is that the servers seem to go down a hell of a lot more. Several times I went on to find 3 of the 5 servers down, forcing everyone into big games which were unplayable. The only real solution to the problem is either to get better servers which can handle the 50 player games, or to make the games smaller. Right now a full player game isn't worth playing due to the game speed drops

 

Friday is fun for new people, less fun for regulars. I don't think this should be removed, since it's a perfect opportunity for new players to experience and play the premium classes. The lag is a downside, but if you really don't like it and know how to play all the premium classes then don't play on friday, maybe?

 

I suggest having a limit of classes on the map on free friday. For example, there can only be 5 engies on the map for players who didn't pay, but players who did pay for engineer can use the class at anytime even if the limit is reached.

 

Except there's medic for pyro and nothing for freeday

 

What happened to that guy anyways? I ignored him and the last time I looked at his profile, it didn't exist.

 

Freeday wouldn't be such a problem with me if it wasn't for the lag. Well. Maybe the engies and dwarves also, but whatever. But honestly, the servers have been laggy recently anyway, even on smallish games. Like 30 players or so. Given, the 40+ players on freeday is worse, but still. Anndddd yes, there's also the fact that half the time there are 2-3 servers randomly down for no apparent reason.

 

Free day needs alot of changes before we will all like it....