PA should introduce restrictions to prevent server lag due to "high load"

PA should introduce some kind of "smart" restriction/throtteling <doesn't matter what> to provide a better user experience for large games (10 player FFA, multiple planets, ...).

Reason:
The game sim speed often reaches fun==zero within 30 minutes and the people are complaining about the game. If the PA server is not able to handle all kind of stuff (the user can do) the experience is horrible.

PA should not stick with "unlimit" units, 10 players, 10 (?) planets, .... if PA is (currently) no able to provide a smooth experience with these settings.

In other games it is possible to say "only fast CPU player" or whatever - PA has a hard limit on the server with a fixed CPU - so it should introduce restrictions to match their server CPUs.

The reasons are actually a bit more complex. Basically currently a server machine actually runs like 8 games, so once we have our own servers we can make a server that is dedicated to one single game, increasing performance.
Then there also currently seems to be a bug in that area that makes it much worse: https://forums.uberent.com/threads/release-build-71459.63384/page-6#post-990186

EDIT:
ninja'd

Thank you for the informations, so I wait for the next patch and necro this thread if necessary

First game on 71544 4 player FFA already server lag after 10 min, server crash (? no reconnect possible) after 15 ...

In its current state of constant freezing, I would prefer to have a set unit cap to stop this problem. However I would obviously be happier if we could keep our huge scale battles with no freezing, crashing or slowdowns.

That won't help if there actually is a bug in the backend that [random numbers] causes 100 games to be run on a single server[/random numbers]

Right, there is no hint in the release notes that this kind of problem is fixed in the latest 71544 build from today - so again, waiting for the next patch ...

I would guess that actually may a backend issue that can be fixed at any time without a visible patch for us.

Sure hope so!

Just tried playing a game.

6 player FFA, within the first minute 1 freeze restart.

Then the game completely froze at minute 7.


Exited PA.

Now that explains why my AI game yesterday got down to 0.2 sim fps even though there was no excessive unit count.

PA is sticking with unlimited units, the game in the devs point of view is made for massive battles and annihilation. its kinda hard do annihilate without a ton of units

Same here, glad it's due to a known bug on the backend rather then something else.

As Cola has said multiple times, this is just due to a bug where more than 8 servers are being hosted per server computer.

So too many games on one server... thx that explains the ups and downs...

We shouldn't have to host our own servers in order to get decent performance.

Read about the bug, even Uber servers are supposed to be faster for "normal" settings
Our own servers are especially interesting for stupid big games. Like 40 players+

100+