A good day to everyone in the flock!
We are initiating the second wipe at around the time of this update. Yesterday's wipe helped us identify a few core issues.
If you experienced lag, in a nutshell the reason for it is a combination of 3 factors: too many players, too many bases, and too many active NPCs. One of these at a time the servers handle no problem. When you have 2, it becomes a slight issue. When you have all 3 - that's when the game becomes unplayable.
The fixes for these 3 are fairly straightforward and require a bit of development time, which the team is working on right now.
A temporary fix to the issues is reducing player density. This is what today's wipe will achieve. We've received a lot of feedback that high pop servers are a bit too much chaos, so we hit 2 ducks with one stone here. After today's wipe, the max player count will be slightly reduced.
- Bases and loot will be wiped
- Blueprints WILL NOT BE WIPED. You keep your blueprint progression.
Through the upcoming week we will be working on client fixes to optimize traffic (so that NPCs and players don't strangle server performance) and we are working on figuring out base decay. The issue we have now is that abandoned bases do not despawn, so I appreciate the community coming together yesterday to "clean" servers from dead bases. There will be a system to address this issue, most likely in the form of base decay.
Please let us know on DISCORD or on the forums what you think about the new player density, and we will see you in-game!
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We'll see you in the skies!
- tinyBuild Riga