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How are the servers themselves doing? The Daymar Rally ran for eight or nine hours on 3.17.5 with five or six full servers and not one went down. Are we looking at that kind of stuff in 3.18 still? Is this a sign of things to come, or was it luck?

TL;DRStability keeps improving and server fixes take priority, but the Daymar Rally's stable servers were partly luck, partly younger servers and a single zone, and 3.18.1 and further patches will still be needed.

Todd PapyStar Citizen Live Game Director

I can tell you from my perspective, we're still always striving for as much stability as we possibly can, but obviously 3.17.5 shows you that these are point patches on top of 3.17. So the amount of stabilization that has gone into that... With us going to Wave 1, I think it was December 22nd, to now, we've increased our stability score that we track, whether that be on server or client side. And we continue to do that, and we have a certain bar that we want to hit. But I think even now, we'll need a 3.18.1 and others just to really kind of work out all the kinks. But go ahead, Ben.

Benoit BeausejourChief Technology Officer, Turbulent

Well, yeah, so for Daymar, there's definitely been updates in 3.17 that have helped in the latest patch, because server fixes and server improvements always take priority, right? 30K is the enemy, right? But we all know that servers, as they age, their FPS go down depending on how many entities they have to simulate. And so interestingly, for the Daymar Rally this year, the servers were very stable. So there's a bit of luck involved, but there's also a lot of work that has been ongoing to support these kinds of events, right, that help stability. And so I'd say it's a combination of both, right? Probably younger servers that were also involved in it. So that sort of shows, we always try to improve on that. Also, being in a single zone is sort of a better performance profile on the servers because they have less entities to load. If all the streaming bubbles from players are in the same area, there's a bit of a gain there. I'm not saying it's major, but there's a bit of a gain. So that does help also. It's a combination of things.

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Published on this date.27 Jan 2023