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Originally Posted by Nephris
Hi folks,
we are regular y flying a week on your server.
I read custom skin download is activated now, is that correct? Cause I wasnt able to confirm that. Do i have to change also sth to my conf? I guess i havent to.
The past months performance on your server was acceptable without serious problems.
But since (maybe) the beginning of november, we suffer on performance probs and regular warps.
Has there been sth changed that could cause that?
Thx again for your server.
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Hi Nephris,
We are currently testing some custom skins incorporated into the server. We have limited the allowed skins to those that came with the sim + a few select others. Anyone using any other skins will only be loaded a default skin. The config for the server still has skins turned off etc.
The problem we've found is regardless if you have the skin or not (even the one's that came with the game) the way the code works is every single player has to download that skin every time your game is restarted. So if someone hasn't downloaded that particular skins (even one's that came with the game) the client is forced to upload that skin to the server and to everyone else for distribution. The kicker is once this is done you'll never have to do it again. So playing for only an hour may cause some freezes because of this process until all the allowed skins have been transmitted. But after that you shouldn't have any problems. It doesn't seem to matter if skins are saved in your cache from the previous session. As this process is seen time and time again (upon a new game session).
A final solution maybe to modify the code so these skins are hard coded and use skin packs. But we are still in the testing phase of it all. Judging by how the skin downloads / custom skins actually work, ATAG's idea of limiting them to a small amount way very well be futile. Time for a mod pack
