Framerate halved for each ship landed on plent surface

[xyrophile]

Hey folks,
I've been having a seemingly bizarre problem on the server I play on. I have a base on a planet, and I built a little flat landing pad area for ships with undercarriage. The strange thing is that the moment I land in one of them, my framerate halves, and stays that low if I get out of my ship. Indeed, if I leave the sector and come back, leaving the ship on the surface, I'll still have the halved framerate the moment I touch the ground.
Bizarrely enough, if I land a second ship, the framerate is halved yet again, to a quarter of the original, and so forth as I land more ships on the planet surface, so if I land more than one or two ships, the game is pretty much unplayable FPS counts in the low single digits. The moment I take off from the surface in any ship, the framerate goes back to normal, and when all ships have taken off, framerates on the planet surface go back to normal. Oh, also, only the segment of the planet with the ships on it is affected - framerates return to normal the moment you align to another segment. Ping and CPU usage do not seem to spike at all during these FPS drops.

Is this normal? I'm running on Linux with Java 8 64 bit on a Radeon 6850. Both the opensource drivers and FGLRX exhibit the same behaviours, and the window manager in use has no effect.

 

[starhaiden]

The gravity is probably what is causing the lag

 

[Unnamed25]

Try docking the ships instead of landing them

 

[max stripe]

on most servers landing ships on planets instead of docking them is illigeal
use docking modules

 

[starhaiden]

they don't want massive lag and you shouldn't want lag either.
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[Commodore]

Collision code has improved I think, but it still isn't something that should be continuously happening. Basically, any time a ship and another object are close together, Starmade needs to calculate if any blocks are touching, and stop the ship from going through the other object. When a ship is sitting on a planet, the ship is constantly being pulled into the planet by gravity, making the game constantly calculate the collisions.

Get a docking module and use it (like everyone else said), you'll get better frame rate and won't be making the server work harder than it needs to.

 

[moox10]

What makes this really hard is when you have pirates assaulting your planet base and they all just fall due to gravity and you can't even move

 

[max stripe]

What makes this really hard is when you have pirates assaulting your planet base and they all just fall due to gravity and you can't even move

if they fall to the planet i just fire a planet buster rocket at it
go ahead land ill take the planet out if i have to

 

[moox10]

if they fall to the planet i just fire a planet buster rocket at it
go ahead land ill take the planet out if i have to

Implying you haven't set it as a faction home and spent tons of time making it look nice

 

[max stripe]

Implying you haven't set it as a faction home and spent tons of time making it look nice

im talking about pirates on random planets....