Thank you for the update and explanation as to what is going on, I really appreciate it a lot and also I appreciate everything that you and your team are doing to try to keep the site up and running smoothly.

I think t is now fixed. Everything works now.

There's a little bit of lag, but the site is much more operational now. Hopefully it can behave and stay this way!

It doesn't really matter what event we have, there's always lag and things are always breaking. Every single event.

We hadn't had a gelly war for four years, so it seemed like a good time. As well, as Keith mentioned, it hadn't caused as much issue for the site before. Since then, though, more features have been added that use caching and all of that plus the old battle code presented more of a problem this time around.

hah ;w; alright then! i thought it could have something to do with Vesnali coming. but i 100% understand how difficult it must be to maintain a site as big as this one. hope the staff can find a good workaround for this. <3

ahh, it's been four years. so it's been a long time. the other challengers were fine though, did not feel glitches. yesterday with the boss it got kind of troublesome. thanks for the reply!

Does that mean that the gelly war won't be coming in the future?

The last Gelly War was July 2019.

Ah, three years ago! Thank you. It's been a busy start to the 2020s, feels like longer.

It feels a lot faster and smoother now, I hope it stays. Disappointed there is no extension so I've got my work cut out for me today. 😬

Instead of an increase in days, what about a decrease in the required amounts? I've struggled 3 days to get over 1m hit with a t12 pet using multiple freezing scrolls. What about 5m instead of 15m?

One of the problems is most likely that since it is a collective boss it creates cross data which normally the site doesn't deal with. In the future, it might help if the big boss isn't combined. Thank you for helping fix the issues.

I think if there isn't going to be an extension, then lowering the required amount of damage would be better, you could just have Kain say he unexpectedly did a lot of damage so everyone else doesn't have to do as much or something like that. I mean, don't lower it too much, maybe down to 10mil.

There is some improvement in the lag, but still not great to do 15 mil damage... Please lower the requirement for the Hydra, 15 mil damage is way too much with this lag. Got my T13 pet with multiple freeze scrolls, but the lag isn't helping...

still a bit laggy...4 days with today without being able to use the page between the lag, the errors and the blank pages. As someone rightly points out above: Sucks to be wasting my gold acc perks like this.

Agreed. I think the goal should be lowered. Because if more people reach the goal, that mean less users being on battle-centered pages.

I'd rather risk the value of the weapons from Jelly War dropping than have the site being nearly unusable due to lag.....

I think a good compromise to the decrease in dmg needed would be something about effort put in. So many people have worked hard for 15m, but that's really only achievable for people who are already at the higher end of the tiers, and I certainly don't think they should be punished for putting in the effort to get to 15m, but maybe the people in lower tiers could get a lil boost or x number of fights done, I'd need to get around 5.5k fights done to get to 15m OTL

Agreed. I think the goal should be lowered. Because if more people reach the goal, that mean less users being on battle-centered pages.

I'd rather risk the value of the weapons from Jelly War dropping than have the site being nearly unusable due to lag.....

I agree with both users! 5mill is a great milestone and people will get off the battle pages a lot quicker. I feel that 15mill is set so high that only those with strong pets and good weapons can achieve it and get the prize.

Seems to me the Gelly War is every 3 years. I'm looking forward to the next one, if this site stays around for that long.

[edit] Still some lag, but the site is running much smoother and I haven't encountered more errors or blank pages.

Thank you for the detailed update, it's good to know how/why things went wrong, and how they are being addressed. Thanks for all your hard work! <3

I agree with everyone saying the damage milestone should be lowered. I know I can reach 15m with hours of battling and refreshing everyday, but if I only have to reach 10m or 5m I (and others) will be putting less strain on the servers.

Lag: A few hours ago the lag with the error pages had completely stopped. Currently, the lag is increased as the site is running considerably slower (although haven't gotten error pages).

I'd like to clarify why I suggest 5m: It took 3 days to try and get 1m in hit; however, it took about 30 min to get approx 500k when there were no lag and error pages. Thus, the capacity for users to make a dent even with high-level pets required a lot more effort than when the site is running smoothly. Cutting the amount by 1/3 makes sense when there will be no prolonged days and the site is creating delays to the point of being unable to reach regular levels of battle. A t12 pet isn't capped... but I'm using extremely powerful weapons with many freezers and she has a beefed-up strength including several stat boosters. She has a mighty punch... yet it is the lag that has hindered our progress. I cannot spend hours on end every single day losing sleep, etc. just to get through the lag. 3 days for 1m damage... vs 30 min to make 0.5m damage is a huge difference. Please help make the core have the possibility to be obtained within the limited days left... and that's apart from many users had set aside their weekend to try and vanquish hydra but now there are only a few days left during a week... when many have other obligations.

And yes, by lowering the amount it will help reduce the amount of people that are aiming to kill hydra, which should help reduce the lag.

Consequentially, it is not about trivializing, reducing the efforts, etc. of previous users that obtained a hydra core. By the way, the last time the core was distributed, it wasn't for the top 30... instead, anyone that reached the limit (which was more obtainable last time as the site was more cooperative), there were a lot that were distributed... more than 100 if memory serves me right. 5m of damage is reachable with lag we've had to deal with... 15m is nearly impossible.

Lag: A few hours ago the lag with the error pages had completely stopped. Currently, the lag is increased as the site is running considerably slower (although haven't gotten error pages).

I'd like to clarify why I suggest 5m: It took 3 days to try and get 1m in hit; however, it took about 30 min to get approx 500k when there were no lag and error pages. Thus, the capacity for users to make a dent even with high-level pets required a lot more effort than when the site is running smoothly. Cutting the amount by 1/3 makes sense when there will be no prolonged days and the site is creating delays to the point of being unable to reach regular levels of battle. A t12 pet isn't capped... but I'm using extremely powerful weapons with many freezers and she has a beefed-up strength including several stat boosters. She has a mighty punch... yet it is the lag that has hindered our progress. I cannot spend hours on end every single day losing sleep, etc. just to get through the lag. 3 days for 1m damage... vs 30 min to make 0.5m damage is a huge difference. Please help make the core have the possibility to be obtained within the limited days left... and that's apart from many users had set aside their weekend to try and vanquish hydra but now there are only a few days left during a week... when many have other obligations.

And yes, by lowering the amount it will help reduce the amount of people that are aiming to kill hydra, which should help reduce the lag.

Consequentially, it is not about trivializing, reducing the efforts, etc. of previous users that obtained a hydra core. By the way, the last time the core was distributed, it wasn't for the top 30... instead, anyone that reached the limit (which was more obtainable last time as the site was more cooperative), there were a lot that were distributed... more than 100 if memory serves me right. 5m of damage is reachable with lag we've had to deal with... 15m is nearly impossible.