Terrible Trees: Wave #2 (Split 2)

[atomicblonde]

Previous Thread: http://www.pinkpt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30169

[Hidinger]

I didn't see it anywhere so I thought I would let everyone know

Black Elm 15 +0
Blathering Beech 30 +0
Savage Sycamore 50 +0

Just in case the lag has gotten so bad people can not even get in to see the opponents...If this info is posted elsewhere please feel free to delete it. I didn't see it in any of the other posts.

[metalmario]

Ahhh, lag round 2!

Didn't previous wars let us keep fighting the first wave as the second was released? I know you could in the Maraqua war....
That way you could just keep racking up points once you were maxed out. I know I could've kept hammering away if the lag wasn't so consistently awful Makes me sad.

[Morningstar]

Gosh, darn it, I actually got into the BD. Got to fight a tree. And my score isn't showing up. *waves flag* Go Neo! One would think that someone eventually would realize that the weekends are just about, if not, the busiest time on Neopets. And a few more servers might be in order. It isn't like this is the first war. Nor the first time in the past how many wars that we have seen this type of lag. So, there should be no surprises. Gah! What's that Boy Scout motto? Always be prepared. Good advice for people who run a multi-million dollar online game.

[Jitterro]

Aw, crud. I'd beaten only 48 opponents last time due to lag. This stinks.

Oh, and surprise, surprise. A white page on my first attempt to even enter battle with a tree.

[Hidinger]

Yeah, the lag is deffinently worse now. I can not even get into a battle with any of the trees. It just brings up a blank screen after I click on which tree I want. I have tried every way and each tree. I have even tried different pets and I can't even get into a battle

[Cranberry]

From the Editorial:

Hey TNT! In the plot we now have to battle, but we can't! The Battledome is slow, and for some the pages aren't even loading! What can we do? D= Please help! ~x_laura_buddie_x

This happens whenever there is battling in a plot (not that that makes it any better, but there ya go). The number of players in the Battledome at any given time during these events is astounding, and it doubles and triples every time we start a new one. It's amazing it's even up at all! Okay, seriously though, there are several people who are constantly keeping watch on everything, even in the middle of the night, to make sure it doesn't explode completely. The fact is, no matter what we do, there are always TONS of people who hit the Battledome once fighting starts and lag is inevitable. That's the Intarwebs for you. And the whole "You should have seen this coming!" argument isn't valid. We did see it coming! With every plot step, we're constantly battling (no pun intended) with ourselves to make sure we do something fun, but also that the site can handle the load. When it goes off without a hitch, you have no idea we were even concerned with such things in the first place. That's the way we prefer it, of course. When it doesn't go off so well, though, understand that we did (and are doing) everything we can to keep things running as smoothly as possible. It's just that sometimes there are bottlenecks in certain places that we can't control.

Think about it this way - one of the few options we have to fix certain lag issues is to not do these plots at all. That would be lame, though, so we press on anyway and hope that everyone understands. With MILLIONS of people on this site, the Intarwebs can only take so much, even with the 400+ servers we have. *nod* 400+. That's a LOT of servers, and it still has trouble handling y'all.

So there you go. They prepared as much as they could, but there are just way, WAY too many people trying to fight all at once and we're bottlenecking things.

At least this wave is tougher (the difficulty 50 tree seems to gain 5 hp per win), so I'm hoping the lag will calm down as more and more newbies max out. I am SO glad they took the stones away, because if they hadn't, everyone would have been able to fight tons and tons of opponents and the lag would never go away.

[MagicKira]

Yeah, the lag is deffinently worse now. I can not even get into a battle with any of the trees. It just brings up a blank screen after I click on which tree I want. I have tried every way and each tree. I have even tried different pets and I can't even get into a battle

*agrees* me too. It stinks! When are we supposed to play? 3am?

[Officer 1BDI]

Loverly. On top of everything else tonight, it's starting to not count fights that I KNOW I've completed and won.

[MagicKira]

Loverly. On top of everything else tonight, it's starting to not count fights that I KNOW I've completed and won.

At least you're getting to even start. I'm still getting white-screened on my first tree fight.

[Officer 1BDI]

If it's any consolation, I've only gotten through two trees. Now I'm getting the same blank page I was getting earlier today.

[Hidinger]

Loverly. On top of everything else tonight, it's starting to not count fights that I KNOW I've completed and won.

At least you're getting to even start. I'm still getting white-screened on my first tree fight.

Yeah...I know the feeling as I have been getting the white screen for .... well since the trees were released.

[TDG]

Darn, there goes my plan to keep crushing stones towards the end of the war when others are maxed out

I guess I'll have to crush all the trees I possibly can this time

[MagicKira]

Darn, there goes my plan to keep crushing stones towards the end of the war when others are maxed out

I guess I'll have to crush all the trees I possibly can this time

It's looking to be a bit hard. I might get in one of each (if I'm lucky) before the wave is through...

[laurenb]

Do you think it's worth it to wait for others to max out...or should I keep trying/wait until 12 NST? (which is a total annoyance since that's like 3 my time...)