Question: Are feeder towns killing the game?
how would it be different if they were not feeder towns? how would you enforce "no feeder towns" since many family members play on different devices You actually should be clamoring for feeder...
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The game has been running perfectly fine before this. There were occasional bugs that caused outages, but it had nothing to do with their server congestion. This particular issue arose because EA was recently hacked by a DDoS attack.
For those of you that don't know what that is:
A DDoS attack is when one server is bombarded by a huge load of requests all at one moment. This overwhelms the server being attacked, and it goes into safe mode and shuts down to avoid any further damage. This can be avoided if servers are set up for tremendous amounts of bandwidth, but if hackers have a big enough Botnet, they can fully saturate the bandwidth and bring down the network.
In theory if all existing accounts decided to log on at the same exact moment, I'm almost certain that the same thing would happen. It would be unintentional of course, but the chances of that happening is almost 0% since probably over 40% of the accounts are dead, and the other half isn't hardcore players. There's only probably 15% or so of players who actually play this game everyday multiple times a day. That would be very unlikely to bring down their network.
For those of you that don't know what that is:
A DDoS attack is when one server is bombarded by a huge load of requests all at one moment. This overwhelms the server being attacked, and it goes into safe mode and shuts down to avoid any further damage. This can be avoided if servers are set up for tremendous amounts of bandwidth, but if hackers have a big enough Botnet, they can fully saturate the bandwidth and bring down the network.
In theory if all existing accounts decided to log on at the same exact moment, I'm almost certain that the same thing would happen. It would be unintentional of course, but the chances of that happening is almost 0% since probably over 40% of the accounts are dead, and the other half isn't hardcore players. There's only probably 15% or so of players who actually play this game everyday multiple times a day. That would be very unlikely to bring down their network.
