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please fix the huge lag

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Wallenstein

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Okay, with all honesty. This lag is starting to p*ss me off.

I pay $13.00 a month for a 2D game with a dying community and a company like EA/Mythic can't even fix a server lag issue in less than eight days...? I rely on being able to PLAY Ultima Online in order to update my website, but the second I login I move like a horrible slideshow.

Fix this **** now. It's really, really starting to get aggravating. I don't play UO religiously since I have tons of other things like school, homework, work, etc., but not once have I logged in in the past week and been able to run five feet in less than 10 seconds on a broadband connection. How many traceroutes, pings, GM pages, support emails, support telephone calls, and staff members does it take to fix lag? We're talking lag here folks, not an irrecoverable server crash.
 
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ForTheOcean

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My accounts are being set to not renew after this billing cycle. If the lag isn't fixed, I'm not going to change it.

It just doesn't seem like it's that high of a priority. Blessed spell books on seige seems to be a more pressing issue.
 

soze

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Okay, with all honesty. This lag is starting to p*ss me off.

I pay $13.00 a month for a 2D game with a dying community and a company like EA/Mythic can't even fix a server lag issue in less than eight days...? I rely on being able to PLAY Ultima Online in order to update my website, but the second I login I move like a horrible slideshow.

Fix this **** now. It's really, really starting to get aggravating. I don't play UO religiously since I have tons of other things like school, homework, work, etc., but not once have I logged in in the past week and been able to run five feet in less than 10 seconds on a broadband connection. How many traceroutes, pings, GM pages, support emails, support telephone calls, and staff members does it take to fix lag? We're talking lag here folks, not an irrecoverable server crash.

I Second this!

The game is worthless unless you can move and do things without being aggravated every 2 seconds.

Lets go EA Mythic, people are pissed!
 
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GAMBIT35

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I Second this!

The game is worthless unless you can move and do things without being aggravated every 2 seconds.

Lets go EA Mythic, people are pissed!
It seems obvious that all this began when they started preparing for mergers and transfers in Warhammer. (you know that game which is the new WoW killer after Age of Connan tanked) Unfortunatly EA dosn't care if this bothers or annoys you. Warhammer is their baby and momey maker right now. So, if they have to step on your toes, I don't think they really care.
 
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Speed_Racer

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Hrm I play siege from Denmark, I ping 110 normally. That is a fine ping even for pvp.
LOL Obviously you play on siege for a reason, no? With a lag of 110 on lets say atlantic, or great lakes, playing a mage by the time you cast a second spell you are dead. You can studder with a dexxer because he swings automatically however a mage doesnt cast unless you push the button. On a dexxer all you notice is a skip in your step. For a mage there is a skip in your step and a lag in casting.

I dont know why this is even being debated. We need a tech to get on this issue and it needs to be fixxed now. This is a game we are paying for. Unless they want to make the game free or give me my money back they need to fix it. People are right, its been 10 days with no update. Do your job!!
 
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Mystikal GIL

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nah there is not much difference between ping 30 and ping 110. It really starts to get laggy at 140-150 for me.

but yah, what the hell is going on.
Can't keep throwing away money for something you CANNOT PLAY!!!
 

Snakeman

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Mon 5am




Back to back Trace routes


Lets Git R Dun & Fixed ! :cursing:
 

Snakeman

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i dont know about you guys, but it has really cleared up this morning

Naw, I Don't think so :sad4:It's getting worse!:gun:
(Trace Route from Vermont To Napa)

Trace route taken @ 8:45am EST (1 min @ intervals)





 
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Mystikal GIL

Guest
Code:
Host Name                                          IP Address        Hop    Ping Time   Ping Avg   % Loss    Pkts r/s   Ping best/worst
te1-4.ccr01.cph01.atlas.cogentco.com               149.6.136.29      4      18ms
te3-3.ccr01.ham01.atlas.cogentco.com               130.117.3.205     5      13ms
te2-4.ccr01.dus01.atlas.cogentco.com               130.117.48.141    6      19ms
te3-1.ccr02.ams03.atlas.cogentco.com               130.117.3.89      7      27ms
te2-1.ccr01.lon01.atlas.cogentco.com               130.117.1.170     8      34ms
te9-3.ccr01.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com               66.28.4.41        9      140ms
te4-1.mpd02.dca01.atlas.cogentco.com               154.54.5.50       10     116ms
vl3492.mpd01.dca02.atlas.cogentco.com              66.28.4.86        11     113ms
te8-1.ccr01.iad01.atlas.cogentco.com               154.54.2.50       12     117ms
* Unknown Host *                                   192.205.35.105    13     110ms
tbr1.wswdc.ip.att.net                              12.123.8.186      14     117ms
gar2.ascva.ip.att.net                              12.122.113.9      15     115ms
* Unknown Host *                                   12.116.77.34      16     112ms
fert07-eqx-iad.ea.com                              159.153.224.226   17     203ms
* Unknown Host *                                   159.153.233.47    18     204ms



Took a while today, but here we go. Unplayable.
 

Ivory Norwind

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No, in atlantic there's a huge lag far from some days.
Oki, devs????
I don' post my ping. It's not important.....
 

Shelleybean

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Ok, this issue has gone on too long without an explanation or a resolution. This is poor customer service and is completely unacceptable.
 

Ivory Norwind

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This is because all we want to continue to playing and don't take a drastic solution. Close the accounts.
I thinks that EA, if all we close our accounts, is afraid and perheps it changes is politic. And maybe EA think also at all your players.........
 

Tek

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Man its so brutal, I love getting ganked in slow motion
 

Ivory Norwind

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Man its so brutal, I love getting ganked in slow motion
Woman, not man :)
Yes, i've been playing for 7 years. And far from 7 years there are also the same problems....
I think that it's the time to be brutal.
To be or not to be?
This is the question that they have to resolve :)
It's like a wildcat strike.
I'm very bored.
I hope that some other players think like me and i hope that they boycott OSI.
And i am like a chinese on the river that wait for passing the enemy :)
 
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walter_mitty

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ok its day 8 since i started to get affected by the lag, and there has not been a peep out of the uo team about it apart from that they are aware of it,

ill give it to the weekend if we've had no update from.EA by then im closing my accounts
 

Esmeralda

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The past days have been ok for me lagwise, but since today´s "emergency" publish, I can barley move!
Well done....... :cursing:

Edit:
Did a traceroute for europa

Hop 1 and 2.... timeout...lol

The rest looks fine, between 12ms and 64 max.
 
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Asmodai

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Man the lag on europa tonight has been APPALLING!!!!!!!!!!

As soon as another player steps on my screen the whole thing just locks up.

It's been some of the most rediculous pvp ive seen for a while! Playing dexxer or mage is completely screwed. I feel like EA has nurfed pvp.

It's actually interesting to note how much lag can actually completely ruin my perception of UO!


Oh how i crave for those days when i could run around without the restricting shackles of latency :gee:
 
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Asmodai

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i actually think the dev's should pause the event until this is fixed. Even if it's the event thats creating it, just sort it out asap, something is going seriously wrong!
 

Xenobia

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I'm pinging on average 113 which is far from great but I can move about just fine. Hope they get it fixed for those who can't!

and that is on Lake Superior BTW...just did another traceroute and nothing over 88ms hmmmmm
 
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walter_mitty

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ok so i read the post from Joanna about the shards been down, and sherry the mouse being fixed, but why cant Joanna come on this thread and let us know about the lag, would it really be that hard to do that
 
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walter_mitty

Guest
even so
if it was me and i didnt know i would have the courtesy to at least say so
its been 8 days after all.

i know im going on and on about this lag issue and people are probably getting tired of my whingeing buts its a serious issue,

at the moment im paying for 4 accounts,on a game i cant play that has event content thats stopping on the 17th.and no end in sight to it being fixed, you cant even get a reply from EA about it its just all falling on deaf ears. :(
 

Basara

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The Lag is an EA issue ONLY if it starts in one of the last three lines of the trace.

In Snakeman's cases, he's having an alter.net issue, not an EA issue - one that gets made worse at the times that EA's problems kick in to compound them.

For example, when I'm having trouble with EA's server, it's at the point where I leave Sprintnet for EA's servers, going to Lake Austin.

IF the problem is at "fert" or "edge", or one step before or after, it's EA - if 2 or more steps before those servers, then it's the net backbone - unless of course, it starts on the first hop, in which case it's either your ISP or your modem.
 
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laurlo

Guest
Im not having lag.. but I'm not going into the new areas, if it was EA wouldnt everyone be affected? or would it just be server regions?
 
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HeathBar

Guest
I came home from work and there was no lag, I wanted to rejoice! Then just a while ago it jumps up to twice as bad as it was all last week and the hops on my tracert look totally different. What gives? :(
 

Nystul

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This is the FIRST time in over a month I've been back into the teens-twenties ping wise. It's been in the hundreds lately which is why I closed one account and why I haven't played lately.
 
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Asmodai

Guest
just wanna declare that the lag is still on europa. please fix it for us as well?

anyone with a slightly low ping is lagging badly, but those with speedy cons dont seem to suffer, meaning 70% of europas european pvp'ers with relative high latency are suffering majorly from this.
 
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trammelite

Guest
current lag on europa makes game next to unplayable. the screen freezes for seconds, you dont even see WHAT killed you.
since 4 hours now, unbelievable !!
 
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BadManiac

Guest
Might as well add mine too, playing from Canada on the Europa Shard. Hops 11-13 look like the main problems for me.
Code:
Tracing route to central-eu1.owo.com [159.153.156.138]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  DD-WRT [192.168.1.1]
  2    11 ms    21 ms    10 ms  70.77.60.1
  3    27 ms    17 ms    15 ms  rd2cs-ge3-1.ok.shawcable.net [64.59.171.3]
  4    20 ms    20 ms    21 ms  rc1wh-ge6-0-0-1.vc.shawcable.net [66.163.77.206]

  5    32 ms    32 ms    30 ms  rc1so-pos11-0.cg.shawcable.net [66.163.76.9]
  6    50 ms    46 ms    47 ms  rc1nr-pos0-7-4-0.wp.shawcable.net [66.163.76.194
]
  7    47 ms    73 ms    45 ms  rc2sc-tge0-0-1-0.wp.shawcable.net [66.163.73.182
]
  8    75 ms    72 ms    69 ms  rc1sh-pos13-0.mt.shawcable.net [66.163.76.73]
  9    83 ms    84 ms    86 ms  rc1hu-pos1-0.ny.shawcable.net [66.163.76.14]
 10    85 ms    83 ms    83 ms  rd1ny-pos10-0.ny.shawcable.net [66.163.74.21]
 11   160 ms   156 ms   159 ms  195.66.224.186
 12     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 13   223 ms   207 ms   218 ms  62-244-180-54.cust.exponential-e.net [62.244.180
.54]
 14   163 ms   163 ms   174 ms  80.69.16.174
 15   170 ms   172 ms   169 ms  fert01-ixe-lhr.ea.com [159.153.156.2]
 16   155 ms   171 ms   155 ms  159.153.156.138

Trace complete.
 

Nystul

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It's back worse than ever for me :X

Code:
Host Name                                           IP Address         Hop     Ping Time        Ping Avg     % Loss  Pkts r/s              Ping best/worst
er-1-fe00.gsv.md.atlanticbb.net                     207.255.176.1      4       10ms             22ms         1%      1173 / 1186           8ms / 314ms
ge-5-2-126.hsa2.Baltimore1.Level3.net               4.78.142.25        5       15ms             19ms         0%      1184 / 1186           10ms / 89ms
so-6-1-0.mp2.Baltimore1.Level3.net                  4.68.112.73        6       14ms             24ms         0%      1184 / 1186           11ms / 164ms
ae-0-0.bbr2.Washington1.Level3.net                  4.68.128.210       7       17ms             27ms         0%      1183 / 1186           12ms / 4922ms
ae-13-69.car3.Washington1.Level3.net                4.68.17.5          8       14ms             30ms         0%      1177 / 1186           12ms / 240ms
ELECTRONIC.car3.Washington1.Level3.net              4.79.169.74        9       19ms             26ms         0%      1180 / 1186           13ms / 5255ms
fert07-eqx-iad.ea.com                               159.153.224.230    10      114ms            125ms        7%      1094 / 1186           111ms / 318ms
* Unknown Host *                                    159.153.233.35     11      117ms            120ms        7%      1099 / 1186           110ms / 451ms
It's obvious where the ping issues and packetloss is... EA needs to check thier hardware. I'll be shutting my last account down if it's not addressed & stabilized i'll be out. I can deal with the imbalances, bugs, and everything else, but what fun is it when you can't even walk around in the game and do something as simple as putting your suit back on without getting frusturated cause it takes two minutes...
 

Maplestone

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It starts with 144.223.246.6, a sprintlink hub, and goes on to the ea hubs.
I'm seeing a spike at 144.223.246.6 as well, but only in the 123ms range so I'm not missing the server heartbeat as often.
 

Cutter

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It's back worse than ever for me :X

Code:
Host Name                                           IP Address         Hop     Ping Time        Ping Avg     % Loss  Pkts r/s              Ping best/worst
er-1-fe00.gsv.md.atlanticbb.net                     207.255.176.1      4       10ms             22ms         1%      1173 / 1186           8ms / 314ms
ge-5-2-126.hsa2.Baltimore1.Level3.net               4.78.142.25        5       15ms             19ms         0%      1184 / 1186           10ms / 89ms
so-6-1-0.mp2.Baltimore1.Level3.net                  4.68.112.73        6       14ms             24ms         0%      1184 / 1186           11ms / 164ms
ae-0-0.bbr2.Washington1.Level3.net                  4.68.128.210       7       17ms             27ms         0%      1183 / 1186           12ms / 4922ms
ae-13-69.car3.Washington1.Level3.net                4.68.17.5          8       14ms             30ms         0%      1177 / 1186           12ms / 240ms
ELECTRONIC.car3.Washington1.Level3.net              4.79.169.74        9       19ms             26ms         0%      1180 / 1186           13ms / 5255ms
fert07-eqx-iad.ea.com                               159.153.224.230    10      114ms            125ms        7%      1094 / 1186           111ms / 318ms
* Unknown Host *                                    159.153.233.35     11      117ms            120ms        7%      1099 / 1186           110ms / 451ms
It's obvious where the ping issues and packetloss is... EA needs to check thier hardware. I'll be shutting my last account down if it's not addressed & stabilized i'll be out. I can deal with the imbalances, bugs, and everything else, but what fun is it when you can't even walk around in the game and do something as simple as putting your suit back on without getting frusturated cause it takes two minutes...

Ya me too. It was fine all day, then all of a sudden it just came back worse than ever. The packetloss pretty much makes it unplayable.

Code:
Host Name                                  IP Address        Hop    Ping Time   Ping Avg   % Loss    Pkts r/s         Ping best/worst

bb2-g3-2-0.bcvloh.sbcglobal.net            151.164.43.156    4      5ms         5ms        0%        52 / 52          4ms / 7ms
* Unknown Host *                           12.83.63.137      5      21ms        20ms       0%        52 / 52          20ms / 24ms
asn3356-level3.eqnwnj.sbcglobal.net        151.164.89.250    6      21ms        22ms       0%        52 / 52          20ms / 79ms
ae-31-51.ebr1.Newark1.Level3.net           4.68.99.30        7      32ms        25ms       0%        52 / 52          21ms / 34ms
ae-1-100.ebr2.Newark1.Level3.net           4.69.132.22       8      26ms        26ms       0%        52 / 52          21ms / 34ms
ae-4.ebr3.Washington1.Level3.net           4.69.132.101      9      35ms        26ms       0%        52 / 52          23ms / 36ms
ae-83-83.csw3.Washington1.Level3.net       4.69.134.170      10     32ms        28ms       0%        52 / 52          24ms / 34ms
ae-33-89.car3.Washington1.Level3.net       4.68.17.133       11     24ms        32ms       0%        52 / 52          23ms / 194ms
ELECTRONIC.car3.Washington1.Level3.net     4.79.169.74       12     24ms        24ms       0%        52 / 52          23ms / 26ms
[b]fert07-eqx-iad.ea.com                      159.153.224.230   13     122ms       121ms      9%        46 / 51          121ms / 123ms[/b]
* Unknown Host *                           159.153.233.35    14     121ms       121ms      9%        46 / 51          121ms / 122ms
 
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ForTheOcean

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cdm-66-76-31-98.lfkn.suddenlink.n66.76.31.98 7 26ms
cdm-66-76-30-141.tylrtx.suddenlin66.76.30.141 8 30ms
cdm-66-76-30-5.tylrtx.suddenlink.66.76.30.5 9 32ms
66-76-232-13.tyrd.suddenlink.net 66.76.232.13 10 64ms
xe-10-3-0.edge3.Chicago3.Level3.n4.53.96.13 11 57ms
ae-32-52.ebr2.Chicago1.Level3.net4.68.101.62 12 57ms
ae-5.ebr2.Chicago2.Level3.net 4.69.140.194 13 66ms
ae-2.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net 4.69.132.70 14 86ms
ae-92-92.csw4.Washington1.Level3.4.69.134.158 15 80ms
ae-43-99.car3.Washington1.Level3.4.68.17.197 16 76ms
ELECTRONIC.car3.Washington1.Level4.79.169.74 17 79ms
fert08-eqx-iad.ea.com 159.153.224.238 18 176ms
* Unknown Host * 159.153.233.71 19 176ms


Wow it was fixed for like 2 days, then I come back from work, and see this... Are you kidding me EA this is just bad buisness.
 

Shelleybean

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The lag has returned for me - and still no explanation from EA regarding it either.
 
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Old Man of UO

Guest
It's unplayable for me on any shard, with 800ms pings and 30% packet losses. No point even running a trace route once again.
 

Nystul

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The packet loss has doubled for me since my last trace route...
 
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sapphirediablo11

Guest
ARG!!! NO!!! It has come back over 200 on my main shards ARG!!! step.... ... ... ... ... .... ... ... ....


That is all
 

Cutter

Visitor
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Maybe they are doing physical maintenance on servers and that's why it is lagging again...maybe they are currently fixing it.
One can only hope:thumbup1:
 
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sapphirediablo11

Guest
Maybe they are doing physical maintenance on servers and that's why it is lagging again...maybe they are currently fixing it.
One can only hope:thumbup1:
Yes.. or maybe the found a cure for dupisum.. and are now implamenting it :D
 

Lady_Rachel

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The lag is terrible right now on Atlantic.
At least for me and a few others I know playing.
We seem to be doing the 3 step freeze dance.
Unplayable at this point here.

An update on the issue would be most welcome.
 
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