More Worlds, More Power: The Road to Greater Capacity
17 days ago
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- Old School RuneScape is experiencing a surge in player activity, leading to increased demand for game worlds.
- Jagex has added 43 new worlds in the US, UK, Germany, and Australia in the last three weeks, with plans for 20 more US worlds next week.
- Infrastructure upgrades are underway to prevent performance issues, including cloud-hosted worlds starting with US East Coast.
- Cloud-based hosting will enable regional servers in new territories like South America and Southeast Asia.
- Game worlds run on virtual machines in regional data centers, with plans to integrate AWS for better scalability.
- Optimizations are being made to game scripts and core engine to improve server performance and tick consistency.
- Jagex is monitoring server performance closely and rolling out new worlds in phases to ensure stability.
- The Infrastructure Team is working on making AWS interoperable with existing on-premise infrastructure for future scalability.