(Kiara) Re:Any chance of upping the max quests in your jnl?

Official Forums · 10-03-2009, 11:20 PM

Unfortunately at this point in time it would cause far too much interference with game performance.

The way that I understand it (and remember that I'm so not technical it isn't even funny, so some of this may be wonky and one of the guys can pop in and correct if necessary) the server pings the db every time you zone. When this happens it pulls ALL of your character information. All your quests, all your achievements, any and all info that is stored for your character.

So for highly populated servers, highly populated zones, etc it causes considerable strain on the db to have even more information drawn from the db. It doesn't depend on the client side ability to handle the load, it's the information flowing to and from our stuff.

So for now, upping the limit in the quest journal would do more harm than good.

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Pudaan · 10-03-2009, 11:53 PM

But you gave us 5,000 Achievements to ping every time we zone, hey thanks!

Darius · 10-04-2009, 12:42 AM

I swear there are some lazy fucks that play this game. Just complete the fucking quests and you don't need to worry about space in the journal.

Oatheac · 10-04-2009, 04:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Pudaan

But you gave us 5,000 Achievements to ping every time we zone, hey thanks!

Indeed. I think they didn't realize the strain until now. I bet if this were asked for before GU53 was rolled out, it would have been done.

And upgrading the server(s) would help. Sounds like they've done some, but not quite enough yet.

Deson · 10-04-2009, 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Oatheac

Indeed. I think they didn't realize the strain until now. I bet if this were asked for before GU53 was rolled out, it would have been done.

And upgrading the server(s) would help. Sounds like they've done some, but not quite enough yet.

It was asked and they said no because of server strain.

Get Baked · 10-04-2009, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Pudaan

But you gave us 5,000 Achievements to ping every time we zone, hey thanks!

hahaha grats soe

therealclintv · 10-04-2009, 06:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Official Forums

the server pings the db every time you zone. When this happens it pulls ALL of your character information. All your quests, all your achievements, any and all info that is stored for your character.

Let me paraphrase this:

We don't cache any character data when zoning, and so the more character data we have the more strain we place on our hardware every time you zone. If we had a caching system that only queried this when you logged in , we could easily do this kind of thing.

They should be sending this just once. Looks like we found something ugly under the hood that needs to be fixed.

Diknak · 10-05-2009, 02:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Oatheac

Indeed. I think they didn't realize the strain until now. I bet if this were asked for before GU53 was rolled out, it would have been done.

And upgrading the server(s) would help. Sounds like they've done some, but not quite enough yet.

false. Do you know how many times this question is asked? About every other dev chat this question comes up. They have stated that the Achievements use a different style of pinking and it allows thousands of them to listen for updates at the same time with very low impact. Do you think they would lie about something like this of all things to lie about? Do you know how easy it would be to up the max quests? I'm not saying SOE is 100% honest about everything, but they have no reason to lie about this and this is NOT the first time this request has been made.

Argyuile · 10-05-2009, 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Diknak

false. Do you know how many times this question is asked? About every other dev chat this question comes up. They have stated that the Achievements use a different style of pinking and it allows thousands of them to listen for updates at the same time with very low impact. Do you think they would lie about something like this of all things to lie about? Do you know how easy it would be to up the max quests? I'm not saying SOE is 100% honest about everything, but they have no reason to lie about this and this is NOT the first time this request has been made.

Maybe the 1 zillionth time the question is asked the answer will change!