Player Associations Archive
Thread: A reasoned argument on the Lot to Item storage Ratio.
Rothin wrote:
Arg0nus wrote:
As has been stated before, there's a DBase issue.
How many of you have actually worked with Oracle? It's the DBase program they use.
Oracle is evil. It doesn't take kindly to changes without crashing, repeatedly and hard.
As long as you don't try to make major changes to the DBase...It runs great. But the minute you try to update or change something....It explodes with not so nice results.
While I 100% agree that the Lot/Space ratio should be increased....It's doubtful it will happen.
This is a reason for testnig the process thoroughly before trying to impliment, not a reason not to try it. That's why test center and other test clusters exist, for testing purposes. If they refused to do anything that messed with the database then they wouldn't make any changes from day one.
I've worked with Oracle a bit in my time and yes it's not the greatest thing when it comes to changes but that is no reason to refuse a possible change that could increase game performance overall.
I'm not saying it's impossible to update. Just not as easy as people think.
The company I work for uses Oracle. Our Network Ops Dept. has trouble every time they try to update or make major changes. Several times in the past 3 years that I have worked here, when they try to patch it or modify the dbase...it crashes hard.
Same thing happened to Sony in JtL beta. They attempted to update Oracle, and it crashed.
It's fickle when you want to make changes to it. It's a beautiful DBase program. Just can be a monster.
I completely understand them not wanting to make major changes to a small section like storage. There is a very good possibility that Oracle will crash, and they honestly have more important things to fix (Like I said, I would LOVE more storage space.....but it's not gonna happen anytime soon)
I don't want to come off sounding like I am against Oracle, or any DBase changes....I just have seen Oracle crash for silly reasons...Even just trying to update to a newer version.
I do hope that someday they re-evaluate the lot to storage ratio. It's kinda messed up currently. Not game breaking messed up, more annoying messed up.
I've played this game for a year and a half just about...and I love it. It needs some loving in some areas...but I know patience will prevail. 