Use sharding in phase 5?

[Bewarê-frostmane]

@Parla-gehennas

maybe its the poor way blizzard insisted on implementing batching

it’s not the batching.

@Parla-gehennas

maybe its the cloud servers not being able to adapt and handle sudden burst in player population

It’s not the “burst of player population” it can’t handle, it’s what the blue post mentioned in the other thread.

@Kaivax

When players are all clustered into one area, the message traffic between them grows exponentially. This is a fundamental problem in computer science that has been thoroughly discussed elsewhere, and while it’s a problem we’re always working to improve, it’s not the kind of problem that you can just throw hardware at.

^ This is what the cloud handles worse than isolated servers. They just didn’t want to admit that it’s something they could solve by turning it off. Because it would require restructuring the entire system itself.