Answer to the Lag Question

I've been out of it a couple days--not the best thing to be when a DEV comes back from vacation. They usually want to talk about stuff :)

For instance, OneEye did have an answer to what the current culprit to our lag is all about. He was responding to Dark Master, who thought it may be the connection. Well, it's not.

OneEye posted in Just to clear this up:

good guess, but wrong.

the current server lag is happening due to an coding issue called 'garbage collection'. If you want to read a bit about what that means this is a good place to start, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_(computer_science).

The next update should see a major improvement/elimination of this phenomenon.

So it's not something dealing with the connection (although, we probably shouldn't say that as a definitive "it's not"....it very well could be just one of many issues). Chances are that this will bring more discussion about how the server handles memory (i.e. mobs, bank space, etc.). But for those who love DEV details, this is definitely going to be a talking point.