Dear Alex: A message from the player base
Dear Alex,
We the people have come to you with a message: Please fix the ^&#@*^#&!@*@%(%#(%@* game!!!! Are the standards of 2-3 seconds load time not enough? Must you make the entire game shut down when 1/10th of the active player base is online? Does the game really have to implode every time a war starts? IT SHOULD NOT TAKE ME 4 MINUTES TO LOAD BotC's PAGE!!! 1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041. Oh, that was just me doing a GA and counting the s
The game is spread across four servers (one big one for the main game, one for the main game database, one for the test server, and one for the forum.) We upgraded the main server the last time this was an issue, and that did improve things for some time, but I think the biggest issue at the moment is optimization / people running scripts/scraping the game.
One of my top priorities is completely refactoring the API which I hope will reduce a lot of load on the server. However, no matter how
