I know its a major source of lag but do you know when they will be back on and you could turn off the nether cauae there isnt much to do there now
We're currently trailing out what is causing the lag. The nether is currently being trailed for a week to see how it affects performance overall.
just out of curiosity is the nether runner on the same server and would it be possible to make it so that portals actualy take you there with a pluggin or something
Reason regular players can't get into the Nether is because its being tested exclusively by Donators. If Broonie was going to throw it straight in and make it available to everyone I think he would've fixed the portals straight away.
Just an update on Wolves, as of the date of this post, wolves are enabled again. Broonie found that the serious lag problem was most likely the nether.
He said it is like running two worlds on one server core. One core out of six was constantly maxed out, even when we had no where near max players online. Disabling wolves did not help. Once the nether was disabled, average load on the processor core handling the world was a lot lower, less than 20 percent with 10 players on.
Wolves were then turned back on.
The only good thing about the Nether for me is:
Ghast hunting (fun?)
Nether-rack blocks - infinite super-bright blocks (the best plus for me thus far)
A use for obsidian besides expensive and bloody hardy building - Meh
