146601-weekend-lag-normal

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I recently returned to the game. I work an odd schedule so I'm often on an odd times.  I hear a few people in /zone complaining about lag, but rarely experience it myself.
 
Today, for the first time, I logged on and played on a Sunday late afternoon, typically peak time for these games.  The lag made the game unplayable as about 1 in 5 fights would suffer a lag spike where nothing would happen for a bit and then the damage would all explode at once.  Many people were talking about in /zone.
 
Is this normal for weekend?  I'm wondering as I'm not going to spend any money on a game I can't play at my hours.	
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1. No, it's not normal. 
 
2. The lag spikes have been largely gone for the last couple of weeks. Not sure what changed, but it's really bad this evening. I logged off a couple hours ago. Finally wanted to start leveling an Alt, but noooooope. Whitevale was exactly what you described.
 
3. Spend your money how you want. Threats won't fix anything.
 
Welcome back. 	
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			Was trying to level an alt a bit this weekend, but it's pretty impossible. I'm in Whitevale too atm, and the ability lag is terrible. 	
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			You ar right: Sunday 7:00 pm cet this lag started and made his game almost unplayae. Idk what they did at this time. It was wrong.
			
				
	Edited November 9, 2015 by Bladeofhonour	
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Lag is hit and miss.
 
Devs claim to know what is causing it, no idea about a fix though.	
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			I didn't notice it until I got into Whitevale about 3:30-4PM. I lasted maybe an hour before the frustration got too real. I had no issues until that time.	
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			Yeah...I am not sure what this lag is, but it makes this game completely unplayable.  It's interesting that it's somewhat recent.  Hopefully they can fix it, because if it lasts longer than a few weekends, this won't work long-term for me. :(	
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Whitevale is where I was too. 
 
I'm not making any threat with regards to money, just trying to make smart financial decisions.  	
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I didn't notice it until I got into Whitevale about 3:30-4PM. I lasted maybe an hour before the frustration got too real. I had no issues until that time.
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Not recent, it's been on going since launch.
 
Quite a lot of people have been having issues with it but it's not "lag" as such, it's information loss. It only happens to a set number of people. Some information isn't being received somewhere. The devs are calling it a "demon". Information doesn't go through which causes people to freeze for a few seconds.
 
It happened at the games original launch. The optimisation isn't great.
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			The lag is awful tonight. It's too bad, they were doing so well there for a bit. 	
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			I'm getting 3-5sec delay in whitevale. It's pretty unacceptable. As a returning player its quite a turn off.	
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			The lag has been awful this weekend to the point where it is unplayable. Last week the game ran great but once I hit Whitevale I would get 5-10 second delays in any command.	
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Interesting.  If it's packet loss, I wonder if there's something on the users system that causes it.  I haven't run into it yet but hadn't played on a weekend until this weekend.  I don't remember getting it at launch either.  But meh.  Just can't play when it lags like that.
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Still going on early (EST) on Monday morning.  Obviously this is not related to traffic as this is anti-primetime.
 
I have no idea what changed as I was fine for a few weeks, but the game is unplayable (for me) right now.	
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			I played from 4am EST to 615am on Entity Prime, Dominion, level 50 stuff  then Entity 2 Exile finished Wilderrun explorer stuff the on to Malgrave and finished the entire Dreg/Maurader/Freebot areas with zero lag anywhere.	
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I played from 4am EST to 615am on Entity Prime, Dominion, level 50 stuff  then Entity 2 Exile finished Wilderrun explorer stuff the on to Malgrave and finished the entire Dreg/Maurader/Freebot areas with zero lag anywhere.
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			Are there any options to Whitevale?  I don't see another PvE zone at my level when I hit the N button.	
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It's not only Whitevale as it happened in Thayd and all the zones surrounding it. I've been told online that it's that entire continent that lags. The other continents are apparently A-OK.
 
I did a bit of PvP and a dungeon and I didn't lag in them at all.
 
#SadPanda... I really hope they can fix this quick. Sucks that it's still happening at non-peak hours.	
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Yesterday's GA raid from 9EST until midnight was smooth, no lag there, FWIW.
 
I did have some weird lag in Thayd. Placed some orders on CX, that was all fine, then tried to port home, but nada. Cast finished, but I was still in Thayd. I finally went outside of Thayd, to Galeras, just to where the map changes, and port home went through that time.
			
				
	Edited November 9, 2015 by Elo'naa	
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Maybe it was just Whitevale?  I couldn't say. I stuck it out as long as I could, finally got disgusted and logged out and watched tv all night.
 
I *did* spend hours on my plot yesterday with no problems. Finally got tired of building, bought me an XP Flask, headed to Whitevale and BAM. Ran head first into the Wall of Lag.
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			I had some issues in Whitevale, too, though it was a couple days ago. No issues anywhere else.	
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See, now I have an issue that's the same with an added problem. I've been playing since beta and suddenly today, I get everyone running in place, I'm moving but can't cast any ability, then suddenly WHAM it all catches up with me and numbers fly and either I'm dead somewhere, or I'm just waaayy off track. Then right after that / coupled with those spikes, I've started getting random network error: disconnect issues every few minutes. To top it off, it doesn't let me log back in time so I don't get booted out of the PvP Matches, so I get a deserter debuff every single time and have to wait to try again.
What the hell is happening here, Carbine?! I've tried the dx9 thing, tried the client repair, still same issue. Just random network error: disconnects.
 
~Rakk
			
				
	Edited November 10, 2015 by Lord Rakknarr	
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1. No, it's not normal. 
 
2. The lag spikes have been largely gone for the last couple of weeks. Not sure what changed, but it's really bad this evening. I logged off a couple hours ago. Finally wanted to start leveling an Alt, but noooooope. Whitevale was exactly what you described.
 
3. Spend your money how you want. Threats won't fix anything.
 
Welcome back. 
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Maybe it was just Whitevale?  I couldn't say. I stuck it out as long as I could, finally got disgusted and logged out and watched tv all night.
 
I *did* spend hours on my plot yesterday with no problems. Finally got tired of building, bought me an XP Flask, headed to Whitevale and BAM. Ran head first into the Wall of Lag.
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Now Tex, that wasn't a threat.  It was merely asking a question about lag.  I didn't take it as a threat at all and can completely understand.  If the game isn't playable, then I wouldn't spend my money on it either.  I am never on during the weekends so I haven't had to put up with lag but it can be very frustrating.
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			Looking at another thread I noticed Exile side seem to experience lag a lot more in earlier zones, but Dominion do not. As The Exiles has a larger population I am wondering if the fact that Whitevale is the first shared zone is the reason I encounter lag there as Dominion ...	
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Looking at another thread I noticed Exile side seem to experience lag a lot more in earlier zones, but Dominion do not. As The Exiles has a larger population I am wondering if the fact that Whitevale is the first shared zone is the reason I encounter lag there as Dominion ...
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Yeah, I don't know what is the actual cause, but apparently Thayd and every zone that touches it (particularly Whitevale) is affected.
 
REBOOT PLZ CRABINE?!?
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I understand the frustration, but it *is* a threat to come to a forum and say something like "I won't give you any money unless this is fixed."
 
I mean, it's totally his right to spend or not spend, but seriously, don't you think he could have asked the same question, just as effectively, without mentioning money?
 
Of course he could have.
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Yeah, I don't know what is the actual cause, but apparently Thayd and every zone that touches it (particularly Whitevale) is affected.
 
REBOOT PLZ CRABINE?!?
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It's now occurring during the week as well. After searching around last night out of frustration, I noticed this has been a recurring problem that they've fixed on several occasions. Perhaps this issue is a new type of lag though.
 
I've read that the way picking up loot is handled is part of the issue, but it would be awesome to at least get a dev response on this so we k ow they know about the issue. If they are aware of it and are actively working on fixing it...awesome. I'm slightly concerned that they don't really care, though.
 
I wonder if Entity-2 has the same issues. Anyone know?	
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I played from 4am EST to 615am on Entity Prime, Dominion, level 50 stuff  then Entity 2 Exile finished Wilderrun explorer stuff the on to Malgrave and finished the entire Dreg/Maurader/Freebot areas with zero lag anywhere.
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			I know it's not just Whitevale, weekend's or during prime hour's. I was in Galeras (Entity-1) last night with my Esper and it was happening to everyone in the zone. First it happened in the Tempest Refuger area then Camp Dustdevil. I ported to the Excavation Site and it was happening there as well. Player's were complaining about it in chat happening all over the zone. A random disconnect also happened to everyone at once a little before server maintenance started.
			
				
	Edited November 11, 2015 by Equa1ity	
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I'm Dominion, and it happens no matter where I am. House Plot, Illium, BGs, Dungeons, anywhere and any time. I log in, everything's ok for a few minutes, then suddenly either it hangs and everything comes rushing back, or it just Network Error: Disconnect.
I've gone in and done various suggestions by searching and by Carbine, and nothing changes. I'm going to check tonight and see if it's a specific character or all.
 
~Rakk	
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			It has been better for the very limited time I've played Mon/Tues.  Small sample, so not very relevant, but I was only getting like 3 of those giant pauses per hour.  Way too many for a game like this, but substantially better than my experiences over the weekend.  Still in Whitevale.	
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It has been better for the very limited time I've played Mon/Tues.  Small sample, so not very relevant, but I was only getting like 3 of those giant pauses per hour.  Way too many for a game like this, but substantially better than my experiences over the weekend.  Still in Whitevale.
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			Wed (about 2 hours played), I had none also.  Hopefully this was just a little burp in service.  I'm about to leave Whitevale (Yes, I play slowly, I actually read all that text).  I'm hoping off spending any money for a bit, but I'm more encouraged.	
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