# HWS 12 Reloaded | Lessons learned
**URL:** https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-12-reloaded-lessons-learned/24199
**Category:** š° HWS Announcements
**Tags:** HWS-12
**Created:** [June 23, 2020, 4:19pm UTC](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-12-reloaded-lessons-learned/24199 "2020-06-23T16:19:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@RexXxuS](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/u/RexXxuS)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2020, 4:19pm UTC](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-12-reloaded-lessons-learned/24199/1 "2020-06-23T16:19:22Z")
Dear HWS Community,
here we go in round 2 or letās call it **āHWS 12 Reloadedā**!
We learned our lesson regarding the database. We tried our best to identify all issues that could have cost us the corruption. We hope this season start will now hold until the bitter end!
# Additions
The last 3 days I worked non stop to add some more content I missed last monday.
- Added new Warp Drive T2 for your CV (higher range, more efficient for AU)
- Added all Epic Armors and Boosters + in loot container
- Adjusted volume again a bit
- Fixed Epic Gift mission to a better way (without PDA)
- Fixed some PDA issues
- Fixed some Missions
- Reduced Galaxy Star count from 10 000 to 7000
- Reduced Nebula count a bit
- Added [Patreon Star](https://www.patreon.com/posts/38492417). About 13 can be found in the whole galaxy
- Prepared the new weapons Antimatter Cannon, Alien Rail Gun and M77 Torpedo launcher for a later patch.
- Activated HWS PvP Radar feature. You get 1RP and 10000 credits per day
# Thank you
I released the [video about our issue](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMHa797WA9A) and was quite done. I didnāt think it would get so popular. Thank you all for your kind words, for your understanding and support in these hard times!
It motivated me a lot.
Nevertheless I am very exhausted and IF this release is somewhat more stable I will ādisappearā into something called āvacationā or so. Probably fake news but you knowā¦ let me dream š
We wish you a great second start into HWS 12 and cross all fingers that it works this time!
Your HWS Team
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### Author:  [@WhizZLe](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/u/WhizZLe)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2020, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-12-reloaded-lessons-learned/24199/4 "2020-06-23T16:27:58Z")
I guess everybody cant wait to rejoin the Server, good Job RexXxus.
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lskbcblDDes)
Take all the time you need after this days full of Work.
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### Author:  [@MOTHERRUSSIA](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/u/MOTHERRUSSIA)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2020, 4:33pm UTC](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-12-reloaded-lessons-learned/24199/5 "2020-06-23T16:33:34Z")
Yeah, just sitting and pressing refresh ^^
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### Author:  [@ChaosRemnant](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/u/ChaosRemnant)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2020, 4:56pm UTC](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-12-reloaded-lessons-learned/24199/6 "2020-06-23T16:56:30Z")
Same here š
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### Author:  [@TeeDuk](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/u/TeeDuk)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2020, 5:05pm UTC](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-12-reloaded-lessons-learned/24199/7 "2020-06-23T17:05:55Z")
I for one welcome our reloaded overlordsā¦
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### Author:  [@Jascha](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/u/Jascha)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2020, 5:24pm UTC](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-12-reloaded-lessons-learned/24199/8 "2020-06-23T17:24:27Z")
Guys, please do not login yetā¦ We still need to do some stuff for a few minutes!
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### Author:  [@Bob](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/u/Bob)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2020, 5:34pm UTC](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-12-reloaded-lessons-learned/24199/9 "2020-06-23T17:34:35Z")
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### Author:  [@Jascha](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/u/Jascha)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2020, 5:39pm UTC](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-12-reloaded-lessons-learned/24199/10 "2020-06-23T17:39:15Z")
Why is noone loging in? We already startet š
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### Author:  [@Dr.Dark](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/u/Dr.Dark)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2020, 5:39pm UTC](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-12-reloaded-lessons-learned/24199/11 "2020-06-23T17:39:29Z")
ānooneā
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### Author:  [@Jascha](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/u/Jascha)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2020, 5:39pm UTC](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-12-reloaded-lessons-learned/24199/12 "2020-06-23T17:39:46Z")
damnā¦ lets call it time difference
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### Author:  [@RexXxuS](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/u/RexXxuS)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2020, 6:08pm UTC](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-12-reloaded-lessons-learned/24199/13 "2020-06-23T18:08:45Z")
You are awesome guys
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### Author:  [@RexXxuS](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/u/RexXxuS)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2020, 8:51pm UTC](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-12-reloaded-lessons-learned/24199/14 "2020-06-23T20:51:25Z")
Full House - actually not seen in years now!
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### Author:  [@Epic\_iPro](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/u/Epic_iPro)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2020, 10:53am UTC](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-12-reloaded-lessons-learned/24199/15 "2020-06-24T10:53:50Z")
I just logged in. Performance is great now. But, what happened to the level 25 PDA mission? I canāt seem to find itā¦
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### Author:  [@RexXxuS](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/u/RexXxuS)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2020, 10:57am UTC](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-12-reloaded-lessons-learned/24199/16 "2020-06-24T10:57:59Z")
It was a temporary gift.
If demand is high from those who missed it I could reactivate it for Sunday.
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### Author:  [@Diemex](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/u/Diemex)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2020, 3:40pm UTC](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-12-reloaded-lessons-learned/24199/17 "2020-06-24T15:40:54Z")
> [@RexXxuS](#):
>
> Full House - actually not seen in years now!
Itās nice to see the server so popular. But at the same time it raises two issuesā¦ It took some time for a slot to open up for me to get in. And once I was in the lag was enough that it caused me to DC multiple times. When I DCād the third time my slot was taken and I couldnāt get back in. I think Iāll have to wait till the player base shrinks a bit before I can enjoy HWS.
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### Author:  [@Wiseman738](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/u/Wiseman738)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2020, 4:29am UTC](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-12-reloaded-lessons-learned/24199/18 "2020-06-25T04:29:13Z")
Is this EU or NA?
Best regards,
Wise.
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### Author:  [@RexXxuS](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/u/RexXxuS)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2020, 10:28am UTC](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-12-reloaded-lessons-learned/24199/19 "2020-06-25T10:28:25Z")
Dear HWS Community [@everyone](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/groups/everyone)
unfortunately we see those disconnects and issues (especially HWS NA) you have, with big worry. We are not 100% sure why yet and keep investigating but few points:
- it COULD be that itās because of the AMD CPU on HWS NA. We wanted to give AMD a chance but maybe Intel is still the superior here.
Reminder about our Hardware:
[Server Hardware and Cost](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/server-hardware-and-cost/4357)
- the galaxy is not the enemy here. HWS 11 had over 200 playfields too and we had the same or little less opened playfields at the same time. I crawled the database and found many playfields with less than 10 frames per second (FPS). THIS is why you disconnect so often.
Itās called ā **playfield process weight** ā.
And for that a change came in with Alpha 12. In HWS 11 PvP playfields claimed a whole process for their own. It was not shared with other playfields. Now it is shared again. So it could be that ECC and Golden Globe could share their weightā¦
There is a new flag in the playfield.yaml to control the process weight per playfield.
I will try it out on HWS NA tonight. For now only Golden Globe.
_Explanation: if multiple playfields share their process it is in general good for hardware performance. Less process = less hardware consumption. But sharingā¦ well, if one gets broken, others too._
- As a temporary **test** ā¦ we also set the player slot count of HWS NA tonight to **130**. Maybe it will show us if itās because of the CPU or not.
Sorry overall for the inconveniences. Iām quite upset about it.
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### Author:  [@Epic\_iPro](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/u/Epic_iPro)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2020, 12:55pm UTC](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-12-reloaded-lessons-learned/24199/20 "2020-06-25T12:55:20Z")
Yeah, but ātemporaryā didnāt even last 24 hrs and a lot of people couldnāt log on the first night as the server was full.
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### Author:  [@Bob](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/u/Bob)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2020, 2:43pm UTC](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-12-reloaded-lessons-learned/24199/21 "2020-06-25T14:43:28Z")
@RexXxuS just throwing this out there, has anyone run any hardware diagnostics on the NA server? this is seeming more and more like a hardware issue (im leaning towards RAM & hard drive.) It just seems there is a bottleneck slowing traffic somewhere. it is very possible the AMD just canāt multitask as good as intel though ā¹
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### Author:  [@Bob](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/u/Bob)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2020, 7:55pm UTC](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-12-reloaded-lessons-learned/24199/22 "2020-06-26T19:55:09Z")
So I have ventured to EU and started exploring. Noticing the same disconnect issues there as well just not as frequent. I honestly think it is directly related to the scanner. I did post my concerns in Eleonās feedback section. hopefully this is looked into and resolved soon.
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