i remember a cow saying a players' profile page and contents consists of a few Kilobytes of data, and sitting idle have no effect on game speed
it's player activity that slows down the site...though i don't understand why the site ran better back when we had 5k online players than it does now with 400
Even so... we've got 10s of thousands of such accounts, maybe even 100k or much more than that.... the math on that we're talking TONS of data, as we aren't then factoring in the data for the items and other info beyond just the player profile tied to the account.
The data for each image rendered on those profiles that are equipped, and so on could add up drastically too, as it's constantly accessible it's a kb here and there tens of thousands or more times over.
I'd highly urge a first phase of this by clearing out all sub level 10 accounts more than 2 years inactive and items/etc attached to them. I'd personally be in favor of all sub 25 over 4 years old as well, but idk if that's as acceptable or not, but it'd clear another huge chunk of data if they did that as well.
could make it more interesting and have random XP bonus events for certain types of creatures.. would make players become knowledge of the types of creatures in teh game and what is around their level to take advantage of that bonus XP..
of course some players will be left out due to those types of creatures not in range but there will be times where they can take advantage of it..
For class based creatures giving a higher amount of xp to celebrate new personal/guild achievements for kill x (type) creatures, along with possible new buffs like Holy Flame for creature types as I've hinted at before. Boil for Aquatic, Zap! (Vermin), Grapeshot (Avian/Birds/whatever that type is, lol), Predatory Hunger (Beast).
We could have weekly events that there is double xp on certain types of creatures based on creature type. This would give a major incentive for more activity, and encourage efforts and emphasize more knowledge of the game's creature types.
Could even do seasonal quests for creature types even. October/November could have "The Grand Hunt" with beast types giving bonuses, and quests revolved around them, kind of like how holidays have some quests/etc.
Some of these things can branch out into other ideas I've got regarding this, but more or less that's part of that.

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