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Here is another development update.
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Here is another development update.
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= Lobby protocol performance =
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= Lobby protocol performance =
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In the last development update, @Licho talked about problems with the server scaling to hundreds of users. The planned server changes are in and have been subjected to thousands of spambots spamming channels and opening/joining battles on the test server. Everything seemed to work and should be deployed to the main server soon.
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In the last development update, @Licho talked about problems with the server scaling to hundreds of users. The planned server changes are in and have been subjected to thousands of spambots spamming channels and opening/joining battles on the test server. Everything seemed to work and should be deployed to the main server soon.
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= Chobby =
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= Chobby =
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I have mainly been working on Chobby fixes and features. The way I work on minor features is to read feedback and make tickets for when I feel like plowing through a bunch of simple tickets. Some minor changes of interest are increased chat spacing (it's a lot more readable) and AI menu caching with right click to add recent AIs.
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I have mainly been working on Chobby fixes and features. The way I work on minor features is to read feedback and make tickets for when I feel like plowing through a bunch of simple tickets. Some minor changes of interest are increased chat spacing (it's a lot more readable) and AI menu caching with right click to add recent AIs.
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My
less
minor
task
this
week
was
to
improve
the
top
of
the
interface.
@Gavino
bought
up
planetwars
and
we
realized
that
a
user
would
need
to
be
shown
three
status/notification
panels
if
they
are
in
a
battle
and
matchmaker
queue
when
asked
to
join
in
the
defense
of
a
planet.
With
a
fourth
spot
we
would
also
be
able
to
display
a
matchmaker
notification
for
a
queue
they're
not
in.
Fulfilling
this
requirement
lead
me
to
increase
the
space
at
the
top
of
small
mode
and
I
much
prefer
the
result:
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My
less
minor
task
this
week
was
to
improve
the
top
of
the
interface.
@Gavino
bought
up
planetwars
and
we
realized
that
a
user
would
need
to
be
shown
three
status/notification
panels
if
they
are
in
a
battle
and
matchmaker
queue
when
asked
to
join
in
the
defense
of
a
planet.
With
a
fourth
spot
we
would
also
be
able
to
display
a
matchmaker
notification
for
a
queue
they're
not
in.
Fulfilling
this
requirement
lead
me
to
increase
the
space
at
the
top
of
small
mode
and
I
much
prefer
it
to
the
previous,
slightly
cramped,
version.
Here
is
the
new
version
with
two
status
panels:
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[img]http://i.imgur.com/Qz6GNxU.jpg[/img]
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[img]http://i.imgur.com/Qz6GNxU.jpg[/img]
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The height of each panel is halved in the (rare) case of three or four panels:
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The height of each panel is halved in the (rare) case of three or four panels:
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[img]http://i.imgur.com/bfmiix7.jpg[/img]
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[img]http://i.imgur.com/bfmiix7.jpg[/img]
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While in the area I cleaned up the top right "player profile" area. It no longer overlaps the 10th channel tab and it now has a much-asked-for link to the users site profile.
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While in the area I cleaned up the top right "player profile" area. It no longer overlaps the 10th channel tab and it now has a much-asked-for link to the users site profile.
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@Licho and @hokomoko worked on Spring to improve Chobby idle performance. Chobby is now able to tell Spring when to do a redraw and this has already significantly improved performance. Limiting Chobby to 15 FPS reduced the CPU usage on my hardware from 7% to around 1.5%. Drawing one frame every ten seconds reduced its load to a negligible amount. If required, I plan to make Chobby update as infrequently as possible.
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@Licho and @hokomoko worked on Spring to improve Chobby idle performance. Chobby is now able to tell Spring when to do a redraw and this has already significantly improved performance. Limiting Chobby to 15 FPS reduced the CPU usage on my hardware from 7% to around 1.5%. Drawing one frame every ten seconds reduced its load to a negligible amount. If required, I plan to make Chobby update as infrequently as possible.
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= Performance =
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= Performance =
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Spring 103.0.1-281 seems to have performance issues for some people. @hokomoko is looking into it and has some ideas regarding the cause. Benchmarking would help us determine how widespread the problem is and when it was introduced. A guide is here: http://zero-k.info/Forum/Thread/23119?postID=165686#165686
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Spring 103.0.1-281 seems to have performance issues for some people. @hokomoko is looking into it and has some ideas regarding the cause. Benchmarking would help us determine how widespread the problem is and when it was introduced. A guide is here: http://zero-k.info/Forum/Thread/23119?postID=165686#165686
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= Planetwars =
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= Planetwars =
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We haven't been working on this but it came up and is worth mentioning here. @Gavino is quite excited about Planetwars and asked us to run it as soon as possible. I've been treating Planetwars as a stretch goal but @Licho had always wanted it as something on, or near, release. The server code from the last Planetwars is intact and updating it for the lobby protocol should be straightforward. So, given @Gavino's enthusiasm and claims of testers, we might put some work in to update Planetwars and run a test round sometime in the coming weeks.
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We haven't been working on this but it came up and is worth mentioning here. @Gavino is quite excited about Planetwars and asked us to run it as soon as possible. I've been treating Planetwars as a stretch goal but @Licho had always wanted it as something on, or near, release. The server code from the last Planetwars is intact and updating it for the lobby protocol should be straightforward. So, given @Gavino's enthusiasm and claims of testers, we might put some work in to update Planetwars and run a test round sometime in the coming weeks.
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Development update 27.10.2016