I'm *really* disappointed right now. Last night there was a huge raid on frostwolf alliance. There was a good 200-300 people gathered at ashenvale to start our march on the barrens.
From the start it was obvious stuff wasn't going to work quite right. First of all the game couldn't display all the people correctly. It couldn't fetch the information about all the players and give it to you fast enough to load them up properly. So you'd be standing in the middle of 200 people but only see 5.... or people would disappear randomly and reappear later.
Also you couldn't do any action without waiting a good minute (couldn't even poison my blades).
So anyways we start the march, you can barely make out people around you cause the servers can't keep up. Finally we get to barrens and crossroads. March into the town.... and *try* to attack. I mean try cause the game wouldn't let you attack because it couldn't process everyone's commands at once. You'd try attack something and you'd get "I'm too far" because the npc that was right infront of you wasn't, cause the server couldn't update you on positions fast enough. So we sat there trying to attack stuff but unable to.
It got lame really quick and the huge raid (after the server crashed cause of it) decided it was impossible to raid. There were A LOT of pissed off people. This kinda problem also worries me since it's more than likely the damn database problems, the same that plague everything else in the game. And database problems aren't an easy fix, and they'll most likely need to be rewritten from the ground up to fix crap like this.
Anyways here's pictures of the raid that could never be. (note there's a lot more people than the pictures show)
From the start it was obvious stuff wasn't going to work quite right. First of all the game couldn't display all the people correctly. It couldn't fetch the information about all the players and give it to you fast enough to load them up properly. So you'd be standing in the middle of 200 people but only see 5.... or people would disappear randomly and reappear later.
Also you couldn't do any action without waiting a good minute (couldn't even poison my blades).
So anyways we start the march, you can barely make out people around you cause the servers can't keep up. Finally we get to barrens and crossroads. March into the town.... and *try* to attack. I mean try cause the game wouldn't let you attack because it couldn't process everyone's commands at once. You'd try attack something and you'd get "I'm too far" because the npc that was right infront of you wasn't, cause the server couldn't update you on positions fast enough. So we sat there trying to attack stuff but unable to.
It got lame really quick and the huge raid (after the server crashed cause of it) decided it was impossible to raid. There were A LOT of pissed off people. This kinda problem also worries me since it's more than likely the damn database problems, the same that plague everything else in the game. And database problems aren't an easy fix, and they'll most likely need to be rewritten from the ground up to fix crap like this.
Anyways here's pictures of the raid that could never be. (note there's a lot more people than the pictures show)
