In the past few days, a lot of people have been complaining about slow logins, disconnections, time-outs, etc. I have been able to replicate this at my end as well.
Here are a few things to keep in mind about this:
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The internet has indeed become slower overall, due to more people using it over the last few weeks. This is outside of the gameās control.
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Some areas of the world have poor internet connectivity, and those areas are impacted the most when network performance deteriorates. This is also outside the gameās control.
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The game serverās network usage is very low and well within limits, however it is also hosted on a plan that (I suspect, but I canāt be certain) is being de-prioritized whenever there is heavy traffic elsewhere. This might (potentially) be fixed by upgrading to a more expensive hosting plan, but I canāt justify that yet since the game is not generating any money (and already incurring monthly forum, cloud, database, and bandwidth costs).
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In attempt to alleviate some of these problems, the gameās time-out limit has been extended to 60 seconds, and the upcoming v.39 has a new login loading bar that provides better indication of progress during very slow logins (specifically, it should avoid cases where the bar loads fully and then hangs at 100% for long periods of time). But, itās unavoidable that youāll be disconnected eventually if your network connection is broken.
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Changing the game so that it doesnāt require network connectivity (off-line play) is simply not possible. Networking is fundamental to the architecture. Huge parts of the game would have to be scrapped and rebuilt, and this is not something I have the time (or desire) to do.
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As a related reminder, the game is not performing any kind of network filtering. All connections are accepted. If you have problems accessing it from certain countries, then something outside the gameās control is blocking the traffic (your firewall, router, ISP, government). It could also be a temporary international network fault. Again, this is outside of the gameās control.
In summary, it sucks, but it canāt be helped. Be patient and wait for better days.
