INFO: The Wyrom takes a moment in a Forum thread (about front ends…) to explain what his role as GemStone Product Manager entails (and what it does not). It’s a very interesting read! https://bit.ly/3de5SSZ
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Before this turns into something more, I’d like to explain more of what my role is. While I hold the role Product Manager / Producer with Simutronics, a better representation of my role is lead GameMaster as Wyrom. I’m a remote employee. I manage the day-to-day operations of the game. I do not make financial decisions for GemStone IV. I do not manage a budget. I do not have control over the number of paid events we run. What I do manage is translating the business goals to game goals as best as I can. I manage the event schedule and the type of events we run based on the targets I’m provided. I steer the general direction of the game and I try to create an achievable roadmap with the over fifty GameMasters we have. I stay active with regular GameMaster duties because I feel it is important to know how things are at all levels of staffing. I stay visible and approachable because I find it important to everyone involved. I play the game to get a feel for the difficulties as a player.
Requests like this I champion for often. Website, forums, front end, wiki, servers, etc. The things we can manage we do, such as the in-game code and now Discord. Simu moved toward the WebFE, and that’s actually their priority front end. But with the lack of scripting, it lacks a lot of appeal. Unfortunately, there is a lack of staff tools with the WebFE as well, so most GameMasters don’t use it either. Only in a pinch if I need to jump on do I use it.
As for 3 instances bogging you down, I run between 4 and 15 instances of the game. I rarely see it consume more than 1% of my system. I started typing up this response around 1pm ET and ran three endless loop scripts on 3 of my 8 instances and I never saw a change. I also don’t see a lot of the lag that gets reported. We’ve had reports that there is lag between 8am and 9am every day, but our performance charts show nothing. The game-side lag has mostly cleared up with several updates we did. So my guess is something has to be going on with the client side in these cases. Have you tried to run your three characters without Lich installed at all? Not just off, but completely removed from your system?
Wyrom, PM
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