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mynameisnom
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So just curious what is actually going on with the servers. I hear everyone complaining of lag and rubber banding, yet I have none, with the slight bounce once every hour. And it's not even that I have good stuff I'm using clear, a network that technically doesn't exist anymore, and an acer aspire. No where near top stuff, so what IS going on? I'm not presuming everyone has gaming computers and good networks, but I know a few do, and some of those people can't even play so... Wth?
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breadandcircuses wrote: »The boss being a gigantic Winter Epohh Researcher. As you lay waste to the Epohh Horde, she can occasionally cry out things like, "Didn't you want an Epohh friend?"
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However, im now running a gaming beast, and still, Infected space, Khitomer.... etc.... the usual culprits are lagg central.
So... ive literally no idea but, the game is wearing very thin on me (and plenty of other people) due to this very problem.
It can't be DDoS AFAIK since not everyone is affected, so I'm guessing its a regional issue?
Surely though, crytpic would be aware if it was a regional issue(and do somthing about it) .
Mind you..... it is Cryptic. lol.
Dunno. Same ppl say its some skills/traits the reason of lags, but then why lag in New Romulus when u tag epohhs?
And I got massive lag in defera too yesterday while farming for a fractal remod, just in case as a backup when i get bored of TR rifle. But then again that zone was allways laggy and buggy...
I do play on two different connections as well, my own and my partners.
We both pay through the nose for them, both get the same lag (was fine before they released delta), delta made it laggy, but still playable, the latest has made it virtually unplayble, also, STO is the only game with issues as bad as this (which we play, thought id better add that).
And i Play DAYZ for christs sakes. lol
I have already stopped playing the game. Just waiting to see if they acknowledge the problem with Thursday's patch. Else it's bye bye sto.
I said this 2 Thurs ago & haven't even patched S10 because I doubt it'll be a better experience for me. I voted w/my wallet & another MMO won.
It's a coding issue, it's a mix of things.. but ultimately I subscribe to the theory that Star Ship Traits are a big cause. Remember earlier when using the Dauntless Trait with another trait (I think it was Eclipse) would cause your entire team to crash? Certain traits don't play well with one another.
I have experienced lag periodically, nothing near what some people have reported, the game has been playable at all times. It has however, been enough to be discouraging at times. I know it's a combination of traits and abilities because if I'm in an STF and it's laggy, I leave and join a different team and it's fine.
I can play the game on my laptop from work tethered to my iPhone over 4g and it's still perfectly fine. Latency isn't a problem, everyone wants to yell at the ISP, but the issue is coding. If you don't hit the combination of powers/traits/effects or whatever is causing it.. you generally won't have lag. You can play this game over a cell phone connection and it's just fine most of the time.
- dsyon ground battlezone
- undine ground battlezone
- stfs: ISA, KVA (ISA -> the worse), sometimes CCA, and fleet alert.
I second that, major lag spikes only come in certain situations during combats for me.
In ISA, for instance, lag/freezes increase each time we engage a transformer, worst cases during the second one collapse where i can get game's freezes of 3 sec or more. It's like if the server ressources allocated for that instance were totally overloaded by an infinite loop.
I even tried an ISA alone and got the same problems at the same moments but less stronger
Used AHOD, pedal to metal, supremacy and tactical retreat ship traits for info.
Outside that, like in social zone, i'm only getting some rare classic rubberbanding effects. Outside of some DDOS attacks ofc.
Some of the lag issues people have are things like boff abilities going on cd without actually firing, which you can tell if you don't see the normal animation or notice that the cd is much shorter than usual. But if you're not really looking then you won't notice.
Another issue is weapons not firing in the proper sequence. Again, you'd have to know what the proper sequence is and be looking at your weapons to notice them not going off.
Another issue is weapons just plain not firing. People who don't have weapons on autofire (or who do have them on autofire but think they're firing even when they've stopped because the little icons are still blinking) won't notice this.
Etc.
There are still *lots* of players who don't know that using the keybind commands for "fire all weapons" and "distribute shields" will mess up their weapon cycling if pressed at the wrong time. And this issue is right there, in every space battle, right in front of their faces, and has been around for years. My guess is a lot of people aren't looking closely enough to see some of the problems that they might already be having.
Your data passes through various Internet nodes on its way from your computer to Cryptic's only server farm. The last few of these are owned by Cogent Communications, which appears to be the only "broadband" provider in Cryptic's area (quote marks because I've heard bad things about their infrastructure).
Some of the nodes just upstream of Cogent are owned by Level 3 Communications, a Verizon subsidiary. And since Net Neutrality still isn't a thing here in the States, Cogent is still feuding with Level 3, trying to make them dip into Verizon's coffers to pay extra for high-speed access to Cogent's nodes. Every so often, as part of this feud, Cogent will deliberately throttle Level 3's access to their data streams. This is noticed by the end user as lag.
Note that this isn't the only cause of lag in Cryptic's games - but it's a pretty major contributor, especially with the FCC's Net Neutrality regulations currently under construction (giving Cogent a deadline, albeit an unclear deadline, as to when they can force Level 3 to sign an agreement to pay them more).
You haven't been following the Net Neutrality thing at all, have you? :P
None of our contracts with ISPs have minimum bandwidth guarantees. The freedom to throttle based on whatever criteria is exactly they reason they've spent millions buying up ignorant politicians.
Contract or no contract, what Cogent is apparently doing is bad form all around... and I am certain they'd complain loudly were the tables turned.
you will see it periodically in pve que games, the worst of it is the space combat
it's really something to see, it's pretty horrible
and, people claim that when they form private groups and don't use proximity traits and traits with other complex dependencies it goes away 100%
so
most likely it's bad code with crappy testing from a too-quick design cycle and shortsighted management
I have to say, the people making this game are good at promotions but they don't invest back in the game
the game is turning into click-bait style advertizing
you know, where there's an add with something attractive but when you click on it what you actually get is sub-par
the quality level of the game is rotting over time
EDIT: mind you, my guess is that is more related to priority setting and scheduling, not that "the coders are bad" or something like that
wait if Cogent are doing that, surely thats a breach of contract...rights of the client etc.
Intentionally throttling connections... how pathetic. Punish the users to get at a rival company. twats. utter twats. glad thats illegal in the UK lol but I wish it was illegal in the US right now then maybe we wouldnt have this problem.. lol
I suggest an Airstrike.
I'm sure there's a local Air National Guard that could use the maneuvers nearby.
There would be a slight wait while things are rerouted around the smoking crater that was cogent.
The rest of the network would play nice after a Show of Force.
My local cable company urges people to "bundle" services. One of their 3rd shift techs admitted that this cuts into your broadband.
Incidentally, Cogent and Comcast were the two ISPs specifically called out by name when the chairman of the FCC was citing his reasons for enacting Net Neutrality rules.
Will update target acquisition to include comcast facilities.
When is this Net Neutrality regulations torpedo supposed to hit the fan?
I know something else that needs to be throttled.