Adding Machines and Lag

[clayton wilson]

Can a server start to lag or crash users out more often if the players create lots and lots of machines? In other words can a server slow down over time as a result of everyone building lots of machines?

The reason I ask is my server has been freezing users' games a lot lately and forcing them to force quit with out a full on crash. I'm just wondering if this is even a possible cause.

 

[Haruchai]

I think yes, although I'm not qualified to explain all the reasons why. Today, for example, we had everyone shut down everything--all machines, chunkloaders, etc and the CPU load dropped from 100% to less than 5%. You can't play Mindcrack without machines, however, so we're looking at ways to improve performance.