StarMade 0.09382: Fix for the fix

[schema]

Hello again.

I apologize for the current bugs. As always: Don't panic

The last fix had a pretty bad effect on the network. The instruction to send data if there is nothing more to add was in the wrong position, which causes unforseen lag in sending info to clients.

Furthermore there are several optimizations and fixes to the system:

- reverted sector switch function for now to style before update

- cached segments are now loaded much faster as list of available cache files is cached itself

- some optimization to the pipeline of requesting segments for clients

- new segment (chunk) region signature optimization: this option is off by default as it needs testing. You can turn in on in the ingame options "use region signature". It will basically speed up requests for segments that are part of a saved structure (like ships, and anything else that has been generated already).

The client will ask for an 8x8x8 signature of segments, upon receiving knowing exactly which parts are empty, and do not have to be requested at all. This saves a huge amount of overhead local as well as in the network. In the best case (an completely 8x8x8 region of segments empty) it's with region signature on 12 byte request and 88 byte answer versus the old system (region signature off) 6144 bytes request and 10752 bytes answer + 512 times more local overhead.



Thanks for playing StarMade,

- schema

 

[spoonikle]

Did this fix the issuem, created after the last patch, where our pointers are being reset to north every sector change?

 

[spoonikle]

change the directional imput method to move the ship according to how far away the mouse is from center.

This would allow for easier turning, and less mouse \"slapping\". If you want to do a 180 you just move your mouse 1 inch to the left, and then back to center when you are done turning.

At the moment intence dog fights are more along the lines of... break your mouse.

 

[Moph]

Yes, this should be an option!

 

[C0r3y]

what about a fix for this fix cause u messed it up once again no surprise there saw that one coming

 

[David Stryke]

Dude just be quiet it\'s a game that\'s in Alpha. You think it\'s easy to make a perfectly good game without having a few bugs to work out? Next time instead of being negative, how about you just post your bug, and let Schema work on it. That\'ll get it fixed faster than your complaining ever will.

 

[Metalslug]

It seems that you re always apologizing for bugs, but i never seem to run into them! As far as im concerned, this is a flawless game that just keeps getting better!

Keep up the awesome work!

-Metalslug

 

[Randofly]

Before these last set of updates, I had a EC2 micro instance with 512 MB of ram allocated running pretty rock solid (for two players at least). With these last set of updates, the server now crashes most times when I log in.



StarMade-dedicated-server-linux.sh: line 3: 1300 Killed

 

[Zutai]

from what i am hearing from a few server admins, and from not being about to get onto servers, is that this \"fix\" made more bugs that made more servers crash. undo the \"fix\", and give us back our old bugs. a fix should not make new problems.

 

[Randofly]

I feel sorry for the suckers who are paying SMProhosting good money for a server they can\'t log on to.

 

[Paul76au]

crash after crash no to mention when i build base 32k blocks and ship beside around 250k whole server crapping out when i place even single block people on my server are crying in pain

 

[Randofly]

It looks like the RAM requirements for the server have gone up. Before these updates I had 512 MB allocated and it was running pretty rock solid for two players. I upped the allocation to 1024 MB and all seems to be working now. So possibly SMprohosting was short changing the RAM if you were on a core plan.

 

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