Is it my impression or the game is getting more and more laggy each day?
Could it be because of the number of players that have been raising significantly?
It has nothing to do with the amount of people in the streets but (i guess) the big amount of people, in general, playing the game. I am not sure though, but perhaps something with the servers?
Beside the lag, it consums lots of RAM.
The number of users is increasing and maybe something should be done about all that.
It is AWEFUL! I would take not being able to gain *any* mining bonuses over not being able to play glitch *at all*. Please make it work! :-D I'm practically dying of boredom!! ;-P
From what I've seen, it has a lot more to do with RAM usage than other users online. Try to keep an eye on how much your computer is using when you notice lag, and take the time to restart your browser every few hours.
As someone who never had lag in beta (well rarely had lag) the only difference now is the number of people in game, I haven't changed anything from my end. So I think more people = more lag.
And also: we now have confirmation that many of the Greasemonkey scripts cause significant slowdowns in performance. If performance is no good for you and you are running these scripts we recommend disabling or uninstalling them (even though we love the developers for making them!)
Finally, we are working very hard on improving performance across the board, every day. The new version of Flash this week *may* be an improvement (of course, it could also make things worse) but, in the long term, it will give us the opportunity to do some things performance-wise which we have not been able to up to this point.
(And we are looking at shipping a tiny Glitch-only browser … that would probably help.)