Hello,

House Indoril did some testing yesterday (18/08/2019). We did PvP at /warp arena with about 5-7 people and we tested sailing with indiaman. We also tested a bunch of loaded tnt cannons shooting at the same time with explosiondamage on in Valgard and battles with bow only.

To keep it short: We think the new host is overrall much, much better.

The map loaded much faster and without any issues. On the current host we have sometimes chunks that dont even load and we know for sure that its not game related.  Also no issues with increased sight.

Our ping was around 10ms-40ms even in PvP situations with 5-6 players and a tnt loaded indiaman hitting our city Valgard in the background.

We didnt notice any lagspikes like there are on the current host. Not even small ones.

Chests open much faster, hitting things is easier, map loads faster, joining is faster, running around is more fluent and I dont get stuck back all the time.

I recorded a bunch of the testing we did. I will upload some content and post it when I have the time for it.

Regards

Pashjn – House Indoril

First off….thanks Godsy, Max, and all the admin/mods for all the work you do to keep this amazing server going. You really do have something special here. I read this message and thought, ok, why not go test it out……

So in I went….
I put on my God gear (never done that before) and I left the secure confines of Fortress North. I admit it was a very VERY odd feeling….being outside and in God gear. I never go out anymore. Too scary out there with you grievers. I was a bit nervous the first time I fell, wondering if the Feather Falling would do the trick or I’d lose all this gear when I died due to vanishing (Grievers will get nothing from me anymore! All vanishing even on the test server!). But holy cow! I was insanely strong! I could fall, kill mobs without damage, I was on fire and I didn’t care! How liberating. Now I know how JUSA must’a felt…. without a care in the world! An odd odd odd feeling for a paranoid farmer! I decided to go explore the neighborhood. I found some nice builds by Creeper North of warp North. Then wandered into an unclaimed build. A serious build. I could not believe it was unclaimed. Villagers, resources and a great beacon. I admit, I went a little nutz tearing the place apart…..my bad….but it wasn’t ‘real’, it was just the test server….then it dawned on me. The adrenaline rush kicked in! If this was unclaimed here, then would it not be unclaimed in the ‘real’ world? I wish my kids here to see this, I though how excited they would be about getting beacons!! My lucky day! I finally have found the extra beacons our builds have been wanting, but lacked! I rushed back to the main server. Loaded up on God gear and invis potions (I may be God gear, but I can’t PVP and know it), and went back to the claim. Giddy. So happy that finally I would get the beacons we had wanted for so long for Cat Town……only to be crushed by the reality that it was Romich’s claimed land. Unclaimed in the Test server, but claimed in the real one. So that is my bug report. No beacons for us today. I would have felt bad if I took Romich’s beacons. He has always been nice to me….but I must say proudly, that I do LOVE pineapple on my pizza. Sorry Romich, your test place is trashed.

I was too nervous to check my ping, but everything played fine. The claim that was at ~886,-4387

The test server is great. That’s the takeaway I got from my playing of the test server.

Being based in the UK, I expected a bit of a performance boost, but what I got was phenomenal!

Ping is practically half of what the normal server has in my experience.

I tried PvP, sailing, pretty much everything I do on the normal server, and the performance was a lot better.

PS.

I was actually better in PvP on the test server than on the regular server.

Testing the server is so much fun ! Flying the elytra is great for exploring cities and warps – and I didn’t even need to care that I lost one to a tp-trapper , xd.

I tested sailing my Indiaman – speed seemed just about like the og server, although moving around while cruising seemed a bit less “hoppity” (more smooth).
Tearing a hole into my forest using 1.5 stacks of TNT to bedrock showed no lag and the server tps did not blip.
Using Haste 2 while mining works way better on the testhost – the og server sometimes leaves single blocks behind as it seems to not registering all your interactions fast enough. Everything was mined clear on the testhost for me.

My ping is pretty steady at 125 , with fluctuations between 80-140 which I don’t even register while playing. I only knew because I check it regularly.

Baz

Hello,

I myself did some testing just now. I pvped ofc amongst other Things, like running along my autofarms and trying to upset my ping. I never experienced a ping higher than 27, even at warp shops. The steady ping in my base was at 17. Overall massive improvment in game experience quality. I can’t even put to words how enthusiastic I am. However, as all pvper know that do it on all Kinds of various servers, at a certain Level of skill, ping plays a substatial role. Those who live on the eastcoast of the us, or elsewhere far away from Europe, will obviously have the exact opposite experience as I did. They will be worse in pvp, not because they are worse, but because europeans will outrank them pingwise. Godsdead, I believe the decision should be based on the amount of Players logging in from eu vs us. That’s what I would do. Not really sure about the Price increase, I know way too litle about severs and current server income to make a wise judgment on that. Anyhow, I would love to see the change.

ps; Im high AF rn 😀