Goonhub
Bare with me, this is gonna be a lot of 
So, recently I've come back. Whilst I haven't been playing for a while I've decided to test out the server to even see if it's stopped lagging. I had tried out the server a couple weeks ago, no lag. I was happy to find that the server wasn't lagging one bit, even with 30 players on. Unfortunately, I came back a couple days ago and it's rough even walking a few tiles. Now this is for both servers, I find it incredibly ridiculous on the RP server with there only being 7 people on and major lag.
This has really disappointed me as Goonstation is the only server that I really enjoy out of SS13. It's full of fun, amusement, and gimmicks. But the lag tears all that apart and makes me sometimes just be like "Nope" then click the big fat X button.
I honestly am confused, I look at other servers, even join them and they have way more players than we do and don't even lag as bad as we do. I understand that it's not all simple and that there are probably major things behind it. From what I can tell is that it's map size, that's about all I can think of. But we can't just go ahead and change the map size, now can we? It'd be too much to shorten the map.
I feel like lag really has destroyed our player base and has driven some of the usuals away. That plus other reasons of course. This and the fact that there really just isn't much to do anymore. Suggestions are becoming less and less interesting, we've run out of ideas I believe as a community.
What I think is that if we fix the lag fiasco, we can continue as a community to make Goon great again like it used to be. Lag has been around for a while, it should be prioritized on fixing it. This lag really destroys us more than we think, it's time we found out ways to get rid of it.
I'd elaborate more on our problems, but I see lag being one of our major ones. I'd like to hear from the developers on their standpoint on how to fix this. It's really crushing our community and we can do better than this. We've BEEN better than this.
So, recently I've come back. Whilst I haven't been playing for a while I've decided to test out the server to even see if it's stopped lagging. I had tried out the server a couple weeks ago, no lag. I was happy to find that the server wasn't lagging one bit, even with 30 players on. Unfortunately, I came back a couple days ago and it's rough even walking a few tiles. Now this is for both servers, I find it incredibly ridiculous on the RP server with there only being 7 people on and major lag.
This has really disappointed me as Goonstation is the only server that I really enjoy out of SS13. It's full of fun, amusement, and gimmicks. But the lag tears all that apart and makes me sometimes just be like "Nope" then click the big fat X button.
I honestly am confused, I look at other servers, even join them and they have way more players than we do and don't even lag as bad as we do. I understand that it's not all simple and that there are probably major things behind it. From what I can tell is that it's map size, that's about all I can think of. But we can't just go ahead and change the map size, now can we? It'd be too much to shorten the map.
I feel like lag really has destroyed our player base and has driven some of the usuals away. That plus other reasons of course. This and the fact that there really just isn't much to do anymore. Suggestions are becoming less and less interesting, we've run out of ideas I believe as a community.
What I think is that if we fix the lag fiasco, we can continue as a community to make Goon great again like it used to be. Lag has been around for a while, it should be prioritized on fixing it. This lag really destroys us more than we think, it's time we found out ways to get rid of it.
I'd elaborate more on our problems, but I see lag being one of our major ones. I'd like to hear from the developers on their standpoint on how to fix this. It's really crushing our community and we can do better than this. We've BEEN better than this.