





The current status is the following: With the current cap of 100 players per server, the load is now at near 0% (the lower the better, 100% means the CPU is completely locked up). This is really great as it appears that the servers can, as planned, handle a lot of players. The bad news is that whenever a new player logs in, it adds a bit of CPU overhead, which means that the CPU must work extra hard for a while (it collects information about the character from the database clusters and instantiates the character on the server). This was not noticed during the Alpha Test, because we did not have hundreds of players trying to login at the same time. It was also not noticed during our performance tests because in those cases we had thousands of "player bots" already created on the server when we logged in. So, basically what happened was that each time we restarted the server and told everyone it was back up, hundreds of people tried to login at the very same second, causing the CPU to lock up more and more, until eventually the server froze. What we're working on to fix this is to implement a queue system. This system will mean that players will be in a queue before they are logged on, which means that the CPU overhead caused by the loading process will not cause issues. This is not a five minute task, it will take some hours to complete this, but we hope it will solve the situation and therefore be worth the extra wait time.
[ 2018-02-24 00:36:20 CET ] [ Original post ]
- Tale of Toast Linux 64 [3.27 G]
Engaging combat with risks and rewards
Experience battles throughout the world against enemies, bosses, players or by taking part of large scale guild wars. Will you be a villain killing innocent players for their inventory, or will you lead a posse to take out the villains for their equipment and inventory?
The various zones have different restrictions put on them with regards to PvP, and you can always take part in a duel, or fight without risk inside the PvP Arenas.
Classes
Tired of being told what you can and cannot do with your character? In ToT you do not choose a class for your character, you yourself decide what type of character you create. Perhaps you will have a pure melee warrior, or hybrid mage and ranger?
Trade Skills
You may take up a wide range of trade skills such as Mining, Woodcutting, Botany, Fishing, Blacksmithing, Carpentry, Leatherworking, Paring, Cooking, and Alchemy. The number of trade skills you take on is completely up to you. Will you become a generalist or specialise in a specific skill?
Dungeons
With both world dungeons that all players on the realm can enter, as well as instanced group instanced, everyone can do their preferred dungeon. Dungeons scale to the people who are inside, and dungeons are procedurally generated to ensure that each time you enter the same dungeon you will get a unique experience.
Quests
With high focus on quality before quantity, you will not find hundreds of quests that tells you to kill certain monsters, but instead you will find epic quests chains that unlock special features and locations for your character.
World
In the land of Astaria, you will find an open world taking place in a single zone with towns, capitals, forests, fields, summer areas, winter areas, desert areas, volcanoes, mines, and dungeons for you to explore in a dynamic day and night system with weather on top.
Free-to-Play
The game is free-to-play, and offers micro transactions for things such as cosmetic items, pets, guild features, character renames and realm transfers. We hade made a strong point to not have Pay-to-Win features available, so you cannot pay to gain an advantage over somebody in combat.
- OS: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
- Processor: Intel Core i3Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 or equivalentNetwork: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 4 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: Requires OpenGL 3.2 or above
- OS: Ubuntu 17.10.1
- Processor: Intel i5 or betterMemory: 8 GB RAM
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750ti. ATI Radeon HD 7850 or betterNetwork: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 4 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: Requires OpenGL 3.2 or above
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