Does anyone know why astrobotany seems to not load half the time? It's really starting to get annoying..
🌧️ candycanearter [✍️ short and simple]
2025-06-18 · 11 months ago
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Having the same problem. Can't water my plant and I'm worrying about it. It's over 1200 days old :(
🦋 CarloMonte · 2025-06-18 at 11:55:
apparently plant watering bots. this might be the end of the game.
🛰️ lufte · 2025-06-18 at 15:36:
@CarloMonte really? Are there bots trying to water plants so often that it's causing all this load?
🦋 CarloMonte · 2025-06-18 at 16:31:
@lufte: apparently yes. how else do you think it's possible to reach a million generations ? the game is not that old.
🌧️ candycanearter [OP, ✍️] · 2025-06-18 at 18:13:
@fab 1200 days old? i think its dead by now, sorry :(
@candycanearter I'm still hoping the best. I was able to water it once a day by trying multiple times with my script. I have a script which waters my plant in the morning and in the evening which mostly fail. But triyng multiple times during the day sometimes succeeds.
But I have a script on my "Network Screen" which shows my plant every 20 minutes, which is now also defunct. But because that the main issue with Astrobotany is bots, I'll remove the script to show it to lower the burden on the server.
🕹️ nerd · 2025-06-19 at 05:24:
the garden is back up!! mozz has recently decided to reject bots, unfortunately resorting to IP blocks, and has deleted all dead plants (8 million) which has greatly restored astrobotany's performance. you can find more info on git or in the garden's bulletin board.
🌧️ candycanearter [OP, ✍️] · 2025-06-19 at 12:31:
@nerd thanks!! it was the only thing keeping me from removing kristall lol, i needed to transfer my account to a new cert