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doctorstegi
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I remember a year or two ago we had some serious lag issues in the game on going for a few months and I feel we got the same problems all over only it hasn't been that long yet. I don't know what is going on but TFO's become at times unplayable and I know we had a emergency server restart a few days ago but the root of the problem is not fixed. If anything its getting worse for me.
Also people from my fleet who come from all over the world have the same issues and we do have the same issues when we go and team up for random tfo's.
Also people from my fleet who come from all over the world have the same issues and we do have the same issues when we go and team up for random tfo's.
C-Store Inc. is still looking for active members on the fed side. If you don't have a fleet feel free to contact me in game @stegi.
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Since yesterday, however, I'm constantly dealing with my character shooting back and forth, abilities going on cooldown without the effect triggering, torpedo charges being lost without the torpedoes firing because I probably moved my ship too soon to let the game account for three seconds lag - and so on.
It's pretty annoying.
Even the R&D menu is lagging
So it's probably case of population density then, places that get popular get more lag, that said I haven't gotten major lag issues
Something happened in the past 12 hours. Went from silky smooth to rubber banding.
But now even older TFO's where I never suffer from these issues are unplayable. I just had to leave a Khitomer Vortex Elite because everything was lagging like hell and not a single attack, ship movement or counter could properly be executed:
Enemies are warping in way too late, after my buffs - activated in anticipation - have expired.
Abilities and weapons go on double cooldowns without the effect triggering (meaning you can't even properly buff your weapons, counter attacks, heal your ship or use stuff like mixed armaments synergy).
And so on. There's no point in queuing for anything or trying to complete a mission when it's like this. I'll come back when the issues have been resolved.
There's no good reason to keep a certain option when it makes the game as a whole unplayable for large parts of the playerbase. The game's overall stability should take priority and it's been suffering from this event for years now.
I don't support abandoning the stabilization of Omega molecules for next year's event. I would instead support fixing it.
I miss the Party Patrol mission when that was a thing.
As for this problem, except for one day when I noticed some lag on DS9, really have not noticed it on my end though I am doing the TFOs and not really doing much of the Omega Stabilization game.
Sure, fixing is always the preferred solution.
But since they have tried to do this for many years (including reducing the number of particles that spawn on each map), I believe they should seriously consider (emphasis on consider, meaning a fix should be part of the equation too) just dropping the whole thing.
To me, it is undefendable that the 99% of the game's actual content - the part where we fly our ships and play with our toons - has to suffer each year, just to keep a certain mini-game active.
Especially if said mini-game is limited to pushing two buttons for a minute or moving one's mouse up and down. It's not the most engaging content and the content that is actually engaging, shouldn't therefore become unplayable because of issues that persist, despite many attempts at fixing them.
(I'd like to restate again: all of this was written under the assumption that the Omega game is causing the lag.)
What ever the problem is it only started around 24 ish hour ago.
turn off the NPCs that wander around. PERMANENTLY
It's hard to pin down to specifics. Server usage seems to have something to do with it of course, as does coding changes, since we tend to get the biggest lag/banding effects right after a large game update, or during the time while everyone is downloading the latest large patch, or during higher-activity events (like Omega, Winter etc.) I personally don't notice much of it during the summer Risa event but some people do. (Mostly during the surfing races, for me.)
It can be based on different things. When it's "large download" related, it might be bandwidth. When it's "new patch code" related, it could be because they've left something messy in the code. When it's "high event traffic" related, it could even be something not on Cryptic's servers, like they pay an outside service to "filter" their incoming packets to prevent DDOS attacks and suchlike, and that service just doesn't keep up with the increased faster packet flow. So it drops or delays packets and that leads to the issues.
One thing people can do when it's particularly bad is run various network diagnostics to see where the delays and dropped packets are occurring between your end and Cryptic. There's some help for that in this post:
https://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/startrekonline/#/discussion/1162154/pc-network-and-other-technical-issues-read-this-first-before-posting
It has been omnipresent for you - perhaps. It has clearly not been so for most, or even many. Have you run a tracert?
If someone is experiencing full on rubberbanding and lag 24/7 week in week out I would say its more likely to be something local. The lag that happened over the past few days is not local but server based of some sort and wide spread. It seems to be clearing up now although its still there a little bit.
Now there are some things that you can try for now to potentially reduce lag and see if it's the route you're taking. You can try one of the proxy connections on the launcher itself if you already haven't, or try disabling it if you're using one now. You can also make sure that you're not limiting yourself artificially in your setttings such as taking the framerate cap off. I would also advise disabling on-demand patching as that can cause issues too. If you have a VPN you can try using it to route your connection a different way to get to the servers. If you're using an ethernet connection (hard lined) you can check your cable and make sure there are no issues with it. I had one die on me before and it was a pain in the aft shuttlebay until I got a new one. If you're on wifi, make sure your router/modem is up off the ground higher so the signal doesn't have to travel through so many objects to get to your rig and isn't next to any microwaves.
With that in mind I would advise folks to run tracerts and see what you can see with that. That will tell you what's going on along the route. Run them at different times of the day, especially if you're noticing lag. This can tell you where the most likely issues are.
I get that folks are frustrated, but you can voice your frustrations while still being civil and constructive.
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