(11-06-2013 04:51 AM)uowod Wrote:  Hello,

I tried to use the March Pre-Release in my shard, the same as some previous Nightly Builds, and they had some problems which made them useless for a live shard.

There is no March prerelease

These are the problems I remember at this moment (the test was some months ago):

- When you enter a moongate ingame or you are teleported and the destination has some items, the items take much more time to load than the version we are using, no matter what configuration you use in sphere.ini.

How old is the computer you are running the server on?

- When you enter a moongate while running and you keep running after crossing it, most of the times the server will pull your player back to the teleporting position before leting you move.

This sounds like an issue with your moongate script more than anything thing else

- At least in the Nightly Builds there were random crashes without any notice in the console or logs. I don't know if this continued in the Pre-Release.

The nightly has been extremely stable for a long time, crashes tend to occur when scripts cause them

- The Pre-Release use a lot more CPU time than the previous versions, thus allowing less player to play at the same time.

While this is true, it is only really an issue if your computer is older than me

- I don't remember at this moment what it was, but we found a big bug that couldn't be solved and forced us to change back again the version.

If you don't know what it was how can we help?

With the current version we use (Sep 2008 Pre-Release) we don't have any of these problems. Of course I would like to use the newer version because of the new features it has, but all the versions we tried wasn't "less buggy" or "more stable".

After those tests I tried for a couple of weeks to contact a developer in the chat to report the problems, but I was completely ignored so I decided to desist.

While we have an IRC the devs do have jobs/lives outside of sphereserver and cannot man the room 24/7. There are often people in the room who may be able to assist but again obviously we are not constantly glued to the screen so a little patience is required. Alternatively you can post here to the forums and someone will in time reply.

I have to lose completely some days of work to fully test a version before installing it in the server. Do you know about these bugs and do you know if they are fixed in the June Pre-Release?

The 2013 prerelease is fine for use as a live server, that is why it is a prerelease and not a nightly which often contains warnings about using for a live server (though most nightlies actually ARE fine to run live)

Regards