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Revanis
01-19-2012, 09:49 PM
We need your help on TC: Nova

January 19th, 2012
The SWGEmu Development Division



Greetings testers and community members,

Starting at 3 PM EST (check your local time here (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=TC%3A+Nova+Saturday+Stress-Test+(01%2F21%2F12)&iso=20120121T15&p1=179&ah=1&am=30)) on Saturday (January 21), the developers and QA are looking to perform a stress-test on Nova Test Center that will last roughly 1.5 hours (thus concluding at ~4:30 PM EST if results are sufficient). We need as many people as possible to log in, so please join us and Nova's rapid progression by contributing to our latest stress-test!

http://www.swgemu.com/forums/images/stafflogos/news_nova.pnghttp://www.swgemu.com/forums/images/stafflogos/news_dev.png



WHERE?
Nova Test Center (TC: Nova)



WHEN?
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM EST (GMT-5)



HOW?
Just log in and help us stress test our new OR code on TC: Nova!



WHAT ABOUT LIBERATOR?
For the duration for this stress-test Liberator will be OFFLINE.




Make and log in as many characters as your computer can handle, remember this is primarily a stress test, but there is still much work to be done, so: test anything and everything. Those who never submitted a bug report should check this guide first: How to report bugs on Bug Tracker (Mantis) (http://www.swgemu.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22463). A well written bug report will make QA's job much easier.

And please remember to keep up-to-date on our testing information, the latest of which is detailed in our latest announcement (http://www.swgemu.com/forums/content.php?r=235-We-need-your-help-on-TC-Nova) and in End of Liberator Milestone (https://www.assembla.com/spaces/swgemu/wiki/End_of_Liberator_Milestone).


~ SWGEmu Development Team

xyborn
01-20-2012, 02:54 AM
Can't wait!

madmax2069
01-20-2012, 03:24 AM
so awesome, im game.

dfe87
01-20-2012, 09:24 AM
Might actually tag along, been almost a year... GMT would be 8pm right?

Vlada
01-20-2012, 09:44 AM
Check your local time here (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=TC%3A+Nova+Saturday+Stress-Test+(01%2F21%2F12)&iso=20120121T15&p1=179&ah=1&am=30).

Kamara
01-20-2012, 10:14 AM
Do they want us to log our toons into a certain city or would they like us to spread them out on different planets?

Vlada
01-20-2012, 10:25 AM
It will be announced later, probably by a system message in game. But since it is a stress test i think we will be grouped in one city or a specific place.

Frunkis
01-20-2012, 10:34 AM
I'm so there!

Kamara
01-20-2012, 11:23 AM
It will be announced later, probably by a system message in game. But since it is a stress test i think we will be grouped in one city or a specific place.

Thank you :)

dindrenzi
01-20-2012, 05:01 PM
I'll be out then :(.

Could I log my toons in before that time and just leave them afk so they're on to help?

Vlada
01-20-2012, 05:03 PM
Sure, leave them sampling, maybe dancing or playing an instrument.

Laron
01-20-2012, 06:24 PM
i'm there

*ponders challenging dragus to a duel, or attackin an AT AT solo*

ekimocyc
01-21-2012, 12:12 AM
party in theed!!!

haplovoss
01-21-2012, 01:15 AM
Looks Like I'm starting out EARLY tomorrow morning.... taking a bit of a 'long way around' to my second call of the day, with a 2hr lunch. LOL ... I love my job.

Divagador
01-21-2012, 02:56 AM
Stress test already? Seems like EoL is closer than we though!

Aceblade
01-21-2012, 05:55 AM
QA will be holding a combat / PVE event in C'net. You might find a few big surprises.

FLAKPANZER
01-21-2012, 06:05 AM
Really looking forward to this.

DeadlyButters
01-21-2012, 09:26 AM
may or may not be at this stress test depending on whether I can get up on a sunday at 7am or I could do an all nighter. Sucks being an Australian!!

zibanziban
01-21-2012, 10:29 AM
Log in now, and be afk dancing in a cantina or sampling somewhere.

xyborn
01-21-2012, 05:11 PM
T- 2 hours!

Zellys
01-21-2012, 05:31 PM
Zelly and Zola are AFK dancing and healbotting in Eisley already. =)

xyborn
01-21-2012, 05:42 PM
Server is going to go down once or twice just before the stress test begins, for some needed updates for the QA event.

Zellys
01-21-2012, 06:01 PM
Fiddlesticks! Hope I can get back in before the test starts then...I wont be able to be around during it. >.<

xyborn
01-21-2012, 06:51 PM
*Edit* Jumped the gun a little bit. Gotta bring down Liberator first :D. Nova should be back up for the stress test very soon.

Chuparua
01-21-2012, 07:00 PM
Nova isn't loading for me... just sitting on "Connecting to The Galaxy"

Vlada
01-21-2012, 07:02 PM
Liberator isn't loading for me... just sitting on "Connecting to The Galaxy"


http://c0br4one.de/gtfo.jpg

madmax2069
01-21-2012, 07:04 PM
Nova isn't loading for me... just sitting on "Connecting to The Galaxy"

please read the very first post which just happens to say


WHAT ABOUT LIBERATOR?
For the duration for this stress-test Liberator will be OFFLINE.

Chuparua
01-21-2012, 07:05 PM
http://c0br4one.de/gtfo.jpg
Was a typo.... I meant Nova FFS

Chuparua
01-21-2012, 07:05 PM
please read the very first post which just happens to say
Was a typo.. I ment Nova

Chuparua
01-21-2012, 07:07 PM
All better now...

argonyxon
01-21-2012, 07:19 PM
well i cant past thro the tutorial, cant attack the bandit and cant talk to anyone so idk what i camn do....

baccarat
01-21-2012, 07:28 PM
Nice crowd in Coronet... a little laggy, but not bad... not bad...

Vlada
01-21-2012, 07:33 PM
well i cant past thro the tutorial, cant attack the bandit and cant talk to anyone so idk what i camn do....

Skip the damn tutorial.

argonyxon
01-21-2012, 07:38 PM
Skip the damn tutorial.

how?????????????????????????????? thanks XD

Laron
01-21-2012, 07:52 PM
i've had that issue on nova vlada. i have LPE set up to skip intro, but it always puts me in tutorial anyway

Vlada
01-21-2012, 08:06 PM
i've had that issue on nova vlada. i have LPE set up to skip intro, but it always puts me in tutorial anyway

No, no, no. Intro is something else. Intro is that text you see at the begining of every Star Wars movie or game...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0c/Opening_crawl.jpg/300px-Opening_crawl.jpg

When you try to create a character you need to unmark a box in the bottom right corner of the screen (i think).

Revanis
01-21-2012, 08:07 PM
Right before you create your character, there's a tickbox at the bottom right (name selection stage) to enable to disable the tutorial. Make sure it's set to the option where the tutorial is not shown.

xyborn
01-21-2012, 08:09 PM
Stress Test isn't over. We are going to try and address a few of the issues causing lag, and bring it back up! Darth Vader will return to the Imperial Prison caves!

Laron
01-21-2012, 08:10 PM
No, no, no. Intro is something else. Intro is that text you see at the begining of every Star Wars movie or game...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0c/Opening_crawl.jpg/300px-Opening_crawl.jpg

When you try to create a character you need to unmark a box in the bottom right corner of the screen (i think).

ah, gotcha. my mistake *salutes*

Chuparua
01-21-2012, 08:14 PM
Is very laggy...

Argivo
01-21-2012, 08:19 PM
How many was online before it went under?

Vlada
01-21-2012, 08:42 PM
In order to get as much info as possible, devs have decided to extend the stress test for another hour or so.


Please, log on as many instances as you can, test what ever you can. This is our chance to help developers.


Thank you.

xyborn
01-21-2012, 08:54 PM
It was laggy due to packet compression. We disabled packet compression after it went down, and it's been virtually lag less.

We will have to make up some rules for packet compression. We've also located a few more faults and bottlenecks that can be improved. I'm labeling this stress test a huge success!

haplovoss
01-21-2012, 09:23 PM
Wish I could have been there to participate! I was at least there in spirit sampling away with my toon I left in until the first reset I suppose lol.Hopefully I will be around for the next one :/

swedefrog
01-21-2012, 09:33 PM
Seem there wwas a little lag bt other that seems stable

baccarat
01-21-2012, 09:34 PM
yep, lag went away after the reboot, then went back up big-time on the way to tickle the dragon's toe. How many people were online for the test?

xyborn
01-21-2012, 09:36 PM
yep, lag went away after the reboot, then went back up big-time on the way to tickle the dragon's toe. How many people were online for the test?
There were between 250-320 at various times.

Elvaron
01-21-2012, 09:42 PM
well i cant past thro the tutorial, cant attack the bandit and cant talk to anyone so idk what i camn do....

Should be fixed now :)

Newsound
01-21-2012, 09:43 PM
so guys, mind telling us what you gathered from the test?


Thanks for the fun today!!

baccarat
01-21-2012, 09:46 PM
250-320... not too shabby :) Yeah, whatever you did with the packet compression totally fixed the lag issues until I jumped to Tat... then it was rubber band city for everyone around me...

Also, my group was remarking how nice it was to see the huge mobs of animals out there... Very fun :)

Lavarios
01-21-2012, 09:51 PM
That is a good number of people. Out of curiosity, how many people are on Liberator at one time ? :)

Pennywise
01-21-2012, 09:53 PM
SOA showed up to the event. :p
http://home.comcast.net/~mayhem187/SWG/soa1.jpghttp://home.comcast.net/~mayhem187/SWG/soa2.jpg

xyborn
01-21-2012, 10:49 PM
Liberator is averaging between 500-600, but we've had up to 1800 on Liberator before. We can get the same numbers on Nova with a more even dispersion of players. We found some concurrency issues that should help fix some lag too.

Pennywise
01-21-2012, 10:53 PM
Liberator is averaging between 500-600, but we've had up to 1800 on Liberator before. We can get the same numbers on Nova with a more even dispersion of players. We found some concurrency issues that should help fix some lag too.
Yea I noticed it at times. When the toons I had following me took what felt like 15 seconds to catch up to me lol

madmax2069
01-22-2012, 12:18 AM
I want to thank every one of the staff for the fun time during the test. hats off to your all.

Vlada
01-22-2012, 12:29 AM
I dont know about the rest of you but i had tons of fun. Thank you all for participating and a huge thank you to Devs and QA for making all this possible.




P.S. Screenshots from the event are already posted on our Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/SWGEmu) and Google+ (https://plus.google.com/u/1/b/111157792808951455128/) pages.

Darth Nautas
01-22-2012, 12:46 AM
Grrr... My wifi had to act on me precisely today. Now I have my toons stranded in the prison in dath.

BTW, I logged in two toons, and had one on follow. The main had to stop several times, got the swoop at less than one third health (stopping in Dath is dangerous to your health) and the second toon got behind anyways. That was when my wifi kicked me.

In the Cnet event, trying to craft was basically impossible due to the lag. So I had one toon trying to craft a pistol for the other, that was ineffectually shooting with the uncertified frog-provided pistol. In the end, I let the pistoleer keep pea shooting while the other grabbed a T21 from the frog and started spamming HS3.

Planting a house was fun, and furnishing it with a spaceship crafting station let me build a YT1300, that I couldn't reclaim because the NPC is not there. It gave me a taste of Shipwrighting, and I see in the future a lot of resource surveying and sampling.

Thultitus
01-22-2012, 01:04 AM
Wanted to drop in but am working today :( The screen shots look fantastic!

GRNDL
01-22-2012, 04:49 PM
Heya, I'm new to this community, but I stopped in for the test. Pretty much everything was smooth on my end. Only a few chunks of lag here and there. I was getting updates from everyone else, but my combat seemed very slow and rarely updated, even while everyone else was cranking on Vader and even the Gorax. This was later followed by me being stuck in combat, unable to escape or peace out. Anyway, I was very impressed by what you guys have done. It brought back a lot of memories. (I played SWG from beta till a week after JTL dropped, and of course... everything that followed)

Chars: Ssgrlkrr Zoob on Nova, Elxhaer Zoob on Liberator.

ashur
01-22-2012, 05:02 PM
http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/7701/screenshot0021v.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/694/screenshot0021v.jpg/)
http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/438/screenshot0022p.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/820/screenshot0022p.jpg/)

Hurst
01-26-2012, 09:08 PM
Okay, now to find out if Disappearing Factories and Guild Halls are on the "Mantis" List...

ashur
01-26-2012, 09:21 PM
Okay, now to find out if Disappearing Factories and Guild Halls are on the "Mantis" List...

just make a new one about that. its a big issue.

Hurst
01-26-2012, 09:58 PM
Just don't want to duplicate the issue if someone else has already reported it. Not exactly sure why they disappeared to even submit one.

Izure
01-27-2012, 03:59 AM
Yay another test, GO DEVS WE LOVE YOU BABY!