Introducing Hercules' Stress Test Server

[Ind 945]

Introducing Hercules' Stress Test Server
Hello~!
 
The "Stress" Part
Over 1.000 IndAI units (equivalent to +1k online players) will be in the server playing 24/7, farming, going to pvp, doing woe, playing battlegrounds, doing anything a player does, this will create a perfect scenario for us to debug and test Hercules.
 
The Development Benefits

• We'll be able to keep track of performance usage 24/7, making us able to detect whenever a update increases a server's usage, allowing us to further optimise said update in order to take the processing down.
• With the AI characters doing stuff non-stop 24/7 we'll be able to identify and fix any crashes existent.
• Hercules will gain a super stability boost thanks to this.

How to connect / Moving in and out
This is the fun part.

• No new clients, and no sclient/clientinfo/blablabla edits will be required.
• get to the test server by typing '@hercules warp', test whatever you like, and go back to your server with '@hercules leave'.

This technology *might* also be employed in the future by us to create hercules-hosted inter-server events.
 
Entirely Secure
The only data your server will pass to our test server upon warp is the name of the character (and maybe hairstyle vals).
The test server is unable to modify (or even access) any data on your server, it is entirely secure and damage-free.
 
Unique to Hercules
The ability to connect through your ordinary client will be made possible by our custom server hosted over at herc.ws, the code won't be made public.
 
Coming
I felt inspired to write about this feature, which is why this announce is out before the feature itself.
This is one of the features to be powered by our Hercules Plugin Manager and will be made public once the HPM implementation reaches the level capable of sustaining it.

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FAQ

• what if i dont want my players to go to the test server?
  • @hercules is a command like any other, you can restrict access by groups.conf (by default only gms will be able to use it)
• what if i dont have a test server to use as a gateway to the hercules stress test server?
  • we will also provide clients for those who don't have/want to use a server as the gateway

Edited February 7, 2017 by Ridley

[Judas 100]

too awesome ind!

[Arzzae 0]

The best server feature!

[JayPee 17]

You go girl! , Another monster feature for Hercules.

 

Question:  Does the IndAI only allows Hercules based server's to connect?

[clydelion 4]

OMG, This is too awesome! (drops jaw)

[jaBote 438]

Did you know there'll be lots of people wanting only to play on your server because there are 1000+ online people simultaneously?

 

Edit: Couldn't you make your server to have over nine thousand IndAI bots?

Edited April 5, 2013 by jaBote

[Olrox 66]

Although I'm not active here (due to the fact that people needs me more, in the other board), I felt that I had to express my impression of this feature. Reason why I logged here and did my time to post.

 

This feature, is incredible. I have no words to express how impressed I'm. The interserver feature is totally awesome... You really did a good job, congratulations.

[Ind 945]

Thank you all for the feedback, its much appreciated.

Edit: Couldn't you make your server to have over nine thousand IndAI bots?

We could (when I first designed this I wanted to know how much I could create, and I did 16k online at once at constant 80% cpu usage on my old dual-core) but I don't think that much are needed, as it goes live if we feel more are necessary we'll just raise the amount.

[chir0n 0]

Awesome, too.awesome. i wanna try it already.

Edited April 8, 2013 by chir0n

[Squishyyy 1]

free mindless zombie drone npc players that don't complain? DO WANT!

[sketchyphoenix 15]

I wonder how long it took to come up with the routines for the bots.

[jTynne 101]

I just have to say, Ind, you constantly impress and inspire me. You have pushed so many limits and have brought so much innovation to the pserver community. Thank you.

[Judas 100]

I just have to say, Ind, you constantly impress and inspire me. You have pushed so many limits and have brought so much innovation to the pserver community. Thank you.

Yes, we appreciate all that you do for the commnity =)

[Squishyyy 1]

any progress?

[Ind 945]

focusing on bugs atm: http://herc.ws/board/blog/1/entry-27-bug-hunting-week/

[daim 5]

sir how about server with game guard protector like harmony? Is this function will still be working?

[Louis T Steinhil 4]

what the! This is the first time I saw this post. 

 

Just COOL idea. That's all I can say. 

[KaitoKid 0]

This is a cool feature! this would help a lot in finding bugs

[Guest unplugged]

have you ever implemented this?

[evilpuncker 503]

have you ever implemented this?

 

nope

[Tepoo 23]

i realy would like to see this. 

 

would be nice to know how much players my server can handle.

[Dastgir 1246]

Any Update on this? Whats tentative date of this, to be released?

[Guest unplugged]

too 

 

 

have you ever implemented this?

 

nope

Too bad this is seems to be a good addition to the server. and maybe we can have an Inter-server PVP  xD

[evilpuncker 503]

focusing on bugs atm: http://herc.ws/board/blog/1/entry-27-bug-hunting-week/

 

any news on this awesome feature?

[Radian 9]

A cool idea that can help the growth of Hercules development. Good Luck