AWE server: updates, performance, stability

[Ryko]

Hi folks,

I just wanted to make a few quick observations about the modded server, given recent work being done on it.

 

1. Any changes to policy, code, mods, or server settings are always being done with server stability and performance in mind as top priority. It's great to have access to a ton of modded content, but if that content in any way threatens to bring down the server, it's not worth having.  Similarly, server settings, the kinds of things we allow users to do on the server, and the types of missions that get run, are all in line with this precept.

 

Most notably the recent change in custom faces.  It was suggested that removing this feature could help improve server / player performance, and more importantly, stability. We're trying it out.  If we still crash regularly, we'll look at other things, and custom faces might come back.  They might not.

 

2. Things will change on the server, sometimes without notice.  It's my hope that we will have the opportunity to notify the player base of upcoming changes, but given that we all have lives, and are often times only able to work on the server in our limited leisure time, sometimes these changes will occur spontaneously and without warning.

 

3. Despite an intention to be transparent and open to suggestions, comments and criticism, at its heart all of the servers on Ahoyworld are not run as a democracy.  If you don't like how things are managed here, you are free to play on any of a hundred other Arma servers.  But keep in mind that our aim is always to improve the performance of the game for all players, not to punish players by removing features.

 

Let me put that another way: if we make changes, it's not done arbitrarily, it's done for a reason, even if that reason is not always communicated to you.

 

Thanks,

 

Ryko