Season 19 has started with a bang, and it is safe to say that our new servers stood firmly up to the test. We have increased the speed of the simulations to 4-5 times the previous servers could do, and the new webserver makes sure we avoid those slow pages during crunch-time....
I have to admit, I am a bit surprised of the extreme effect the new servers had, as it is twice as fast as anticipated. A very nice surprise, of course, but I'm one of those guys who has to understand how and why. I had even prepared to lay down a lot of work to actually utilize the new power available, to try to reach 3-4 times the old speed, and I do have a couple of promising issues that can increase speeds even further. However, it is not clear that there is no longer a big rush to optimize all that much, yet some new speedups will go in.
The new competition regarding Individual training has caused some ripple as well, in regards to it's fairness. We do understand people have different views on this, but rest assured, more competitions and chances to win a phone will come in time. This time, the competition is as it is, next time it will be different.
We are very happy in HQ about the new speeds we see on the servers, and we assume you are pleased too. Certainly, this will allow us to improve the simulator in all areas without worrying about slow simulations, which is a very nice change that will open a lot of opportunities for us. So stay tuned, we're moving forward!
There are also a number of smaller projects going on at the moment, which will benefit the entire community.
Best of luck in Season 19!
Spinner
ManagerLeague HQ |
Written by Spinner 22:35 29/01 2007
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| By : Sir Johnny | Great work!! | 06:23 30/01 2007 |
 | Great news that the game now works faster around the times when "everyone" wants to check up on their result  I am also looking forward to see what new doors the new and powerfull server has opened!! More fun to come, I am sure |
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| By : Spinner | Spoke too soon ? | 10:14 30/01 2007 |
 | Hm, the training-ticker was incredibly slow last night though. Took twice as long than usual.
I guess I have to look into things a bit more before feeling so sure
It was fast yesterday morning and this morning though...very odd in fact... |
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| By : Ca2 Jr |  | 20:37 30/01 2007 |
 | im gonna win that competition for sure. ive been keeping an eye on other people (+), and mine is about 6x more hehe, with one of my players 20+(!)
well done with the new servers as well! |
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| By : Qiel | Good Work | 17:43 01/02 2007 |
 | Nice to see the speed imprivements. Never really felt the slowness of the servers to begin with, but speed is always good. As for making tweaks to improve performance, I hope you are always working on ways to improve performance. I never liked the Microsoft model of "good enough for now". |
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| By : Spinner | Rest assured | 13:13 02/02 2007 |
| The work with optimization in always ongoing, and never "good enough". But as I have to prioritize, some times things can be "good enough for right now" if other more important issues are pending.
Right now, I have to make sure I can get the training done a lot faster, as it takes a lot more time than it should.
Some times though, for some bits of code, speed is not the most important quality. There are places in the code where I prefer readability and modularity over speed, it's a balance that can be hard to achieve |
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| By : BlueF | Great Work | 23:54 02/02 2007 |
 | I was first introduced to this game in the beginning of season 18. I made a direct advancement since I won my 6. div department, and I am now 2nd in my 5. div.. Incredible actually that I have made it that far yet.. hehe..
But of course, I am certainly aware of that my achievments this far is large portions of good luck combined with trying to feed myself with ALL information which is to get in here.. (daaarn much actually  )
But to Spinner and all you guys working to give us the opurtunity to play this game, I salute! I`ve been totally into this since I "sat my feet" into this site and can`t wait until the next round is kicking off I have been playing the game www.hattrick.org for a short while before I found this incredible game, but compared to ML hattrick is quite booring.. Haven`t seen any manager games on the net which beats thjs site yet, and every day I play this game, I get convinced that I`ll never get to see a better manager game on the net than this either!
Am really excited on what the future will bring and congrats with the new hardware, which seems to work great! (for me tough.. hehe)
Cheers from Norway! |
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| By : Spinner | Keep it up, BlueF! | 21:11 05/02 2007 |
| I look forward to meeting you in Division 3 which seems to be my permanent home for the time being |
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| By : Spinner | Indeed! | 00:46 09/02 2007 |
| More is coming after this season.
Several improvements are being implemented and tested, and the training-simulator will be much faster. Just hang in there, and you will find out |
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| By : webvictim | Good news! | 14:46 12/02 2007 |
 | Great to hear that things are going well Spinner, the server certainly seems much more responsive around match time now. I know for a fact that there are lots of small but very useful improvements on the way too! |
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