Swarms

So I read about Swarms while going on a Wynncraft Wiki adventure (you know, where you click words in entries until you go from Gavel Province to Corrupted Potato) and they seemed really cool to me.

Link to Wiki page: https://wiki.wynncraft.com/index.php?title=Swarm

I was just wondering if anyone knows why they removed this feature. I would've loved to partake in one of these.

Did I just use the word "partake"...

 

They were removed a while back due to lag issues, among other things. I think the developers said that they might re-implement swarms after some heavy design changes though I'm not quite sure.

 

Alright thanks dude. I can see how the lag issues could get annoying.

Maybe they could revamp swarms in some way...

 

Lag issues were the main thing. Considering that Swarms gave you an XP bonus, tons of people flocked to them, causing major lag. We all know how laggy the servers get on Double XP weekend where there's 3x XP bonus. It was worse than that. Plus, over 200 mobs would be focused on one single laggy city so..
If you want to know how bad the lag was, imagine this scenario.
You and 80 people are all in a guild war together, except all 1k mobs spawn at the same time.
It was terribly laggy.
It hasn't been confirmed to come back, but until the lag problem is fixed, I'm guessing that it won't be added back.

 

I doubt they will be ever be re-implemented, this was the second time they got removed...

 

Simple!

J6Unlimited : "Jumla fucked up his code"

 

If you recall the "Swarm" a week or so back when invincible mooshrooms flooded Detlas on server 1. the lag was through the roof. Perhaps a cap on the number of players permitted in the swarm area, or multiple servers made for swarms, could resolve some of the issues.