UO Second Age

The length of the saves isn't the issue IMO, just the frequency of them.

On a side note: Frequency of saves always bothered me from an immersion perspective. I always felt like I was "kicked" out of the "story" I was taking part in when they happened. Its like; "me is trying to enjoy game.... BAM, reality: wut? " .

Derrick wrote:Smart spawning doesn't help up very much as the NPC's that are in the world represent only a pittance of the item/mobile count. The big trouble with the Smart Spawn though (last i looked at it) is that it doesn't save what a creature may have looted from players, although that could be fixed.

I thought there were about 141k mobiles, each with backpack contents. But still, if they don't represent a large problem, wouldn't many small fixes add up to a noticeable one?

I was also curious, couldn't the ability for spawners to detect the proximity of players enable a grid to be formed so that regions of the map that haven't been used by players between saves be omitted from being resaved again by sending a message to the system?

Godsend wrote:

Derrick wrote:Smart spawning doesn't help up very much as the NPC's that are in the world represent only a pittance of the item/mobile count. The big trouble with the Smart Spawn though (last i looked at it) is that it doesn't save what a creature may have looted from players, although that could be fixed.

I thought there were about 141k mobiles, each with backpack contents. But still, if they don't represent a large problem, wouldn't many small fixes add up to a noticeable one?

I was also curious, couldn't the ability for spawners to detect the proximity of players enable a grid to be formed so that regions of the map that haven't been used by players between saves be omitted from being resaved again by sending a message to the system?

I'm no expert, but it would seem to me that if we could do this we could do server lines as well (perhaps first?)

Yeah, something like this could probably be done. The biggest gain could probably be obtained from saving by map region, and locking movement between these sections during the save; but that's a big project.

The easiest noticible gain may be from a hardware upgrade, which is still under consideration.

Thanks guys!

I'd prefer just doubling (or even tripling) the time between saves. Man, even once in 4 hours would be alright.

Today, server hardware is a huge cost center and probably goes in thousands of dollars per month. Is it really worth it?

Someone mentioned a server wipe, and really if the UO community as a whole not the UOSA community alone knew that UOSA was having a server wipe... Everyone would jump on it. They know UOSA rocks. I am not saying do it... I am just imagining it. That would suck unless it was just items and housing. It would be like everyone got automatically stranded on a deserted island and total anarchy would ensue at the get go trying to get up gold and trying to secure spots

archaicsubrosa77 wrote:Someone mentioned a server wipe, and really if the UO community as a whole not the UOSA community alone knew that UOSA was having a server wipe... Everyone would jump on it. They know UOSA rocks.

I'm with you on this one. Would be even better if Derrick put era-accurate skill gain system.

rouss wrote:Would be even better if Derrick put era-accurate skill gain system.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by this statement.

so.you.want.to.be... wrote:

rouss wrote:Would be even better if Derrick put era-accurate skill gain system.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by this statement.

We don't really have the complete code on this, but we do have a lot of it. [Thanks Batlin]

Getting way off topic though. Really the topic is closed, we're not going to be delteing anything at this time, but i may have stated this on the last three pages of this thread.