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please fix the huge lag

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Pom Pom

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Ok you can now add me to the list of being unable to play. I admit I have not lagged at all UNTIL today. Freeze step, freeze step. Totally unplayable. I certainly hope someone is doing something about this. We are paying for this right?
 
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Baskum

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Here on Great Lakes I have been lucky this entire event until tonight. The Lag Monster reared it's ugly head and won't stop laughing at me. :)

Umm, EA/Mythic - Devs - someone please come tell us what is the deal soon.
 

Maplestone

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I have a sneaking suspicion that between Warhammer, Spore and all the other online gaming EA has been ramping up, they may be starting to max out the routers/bandwidth of their providers.

(of course, this is easily testable by checking if its only peak hours that are affected)
 

JoO

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I normally ping low 30's and here is a sample from the last few days.....Ya know Wrath of the Lich King came out today.


C:\Documents and Settings\JoO>ping greatlakes.owo.com

Pinging central-ae6.owo.com [159.153.233.71] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 159.153.233.71: bytes=32 time=135ms TTL=52
Reply from 159.153.233.71: bytes=32 time=135ms TTL=52
Reply from 159.153.233.71: bytes=32 time=134ms TTL=52
Reply from 159.153.233.71: bytes=32 time=133ms TTL=52

Ping statistics for 159.153.233.71:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 133ms, Maximum = 135ms, Average = 134ms
 
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Sweet Delta Eb

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Has there been any acknowledgment or reply from devs about these lag issues? Of course I can testify that Chessy is horrible tonight.
 

soze

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been gone all week, jumped on UHALL to see if Lag is still an issue

looks like it is

Unf***ing unbelivable. They still have not fixed it
 

Cutter

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D:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ping catskills.owo.com

Pinging central-ae3.owo.com [159.153.233.35] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 159.153.233.35: bytes=32 time=123ms TTL=56
Request timed out.
Reply from 159.153.233.35: bytes=32 time=122ms TTL=56
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 159.153.233.35:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 2, Lost = 2 (50% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 122ms, Maximum = 123ms, Average = 61ms


checked again real quick from cmd w/ 1 ping...lost 2 of the 4 packets, lol.
 

Cynic

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I've played UO for 10 years.

Never have I pinged triple digits to Great Lakes...

Never, until tonight.

It also seems like I am getting a higher ping from all the shards that I tested. I always pinged between 10-15 for both GL and Atlantic. Even the Japanese shards shot up from low 100's to high 200's.

What's the problem?!
 

Cutter

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its funny when you live near the east coast, but have a better ping to the west coast shards, and europe, than to the east coast shards
 

Dermott of LS

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...

My trace...

Target Name: lakesuperior.owo.com
IP: 159.153.233.83
Date/Time: 11/13/2008 10:22:20 PM

1 2 ms 1 ms 2 ms 5 ms 1 ms {Redacted}
2 11 ms 10 ms 12 ms 9 ms 8 ms {Redacted}
3 15 ms 18 ms 13 ms 14 ms 16 ms gig10-0-0-2157.tampfledc-rtr1.tampflrdc.rr.com [65.32.29.70]
4 14 ms 13 ms 14 ms 13 ms 11 ms ge2-2-0.tampfledc-rtr3.tampflrdc.rr.com [65.32.13.62]
5 13 ms 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms 25 ms te-3-1.car2.Tampa1.Level3.net [4.79.146.1]
6 71 ms 15 ms 51 ms 12 ms 15 ms ae-2-7.bar2.Tampa1.Level3.net [4.69.133.42]
7 12 ms 12 ms 14 ms 12 ms 13 ms ae-0-11.bar1.Tampa1.Level3.net [4.69.137.109]
8 30 ms 33 ms 44 ms 41 ms 32 ms ae-6-6.ebr2.Atlanta2.Level3.net [4.69.137.114]
9 46 ms 33 ms 39 ms 36 ms 43 ms ae-73-70.ebr3.Atlanta2.Level3.net [4.69.138.20]
10 45 ms 45 ms 43 ms 59 ms 46 ms ae-2.ebr1.washington1.level3.net [4.69.132.86]
11 56 ms 45 ms 53 ms 51 ms 58 ms ae-91-91.csw4.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.134.142]
12 45 ms 46 ms 45 ms 56 ms 45 ms ae-43-99.car3.Washington1.Level3.net [4.68.17.197]
13 46 ms 44 ms 46 ms 47 ms 44 ms ELECTRONIC.car3.Washington1.Level3.net [4.79.169.74]
14 143 ms 144 ms 143 ms 144 ms 154 ms fert07-eqx-iad.ea.com [159.153.224.230]
15 142 ms 144 ms 143 ms 154 ms 145 ms [159.153.233.83]

Stays decent right up to EA's servers.
 

Draxous

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You guys mind trying to constructively discuss stuff like this?

Like:

I see open frequent communication with us as something awesome.


Devs did say they were looking into it...
 

Dermott of LS

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...

"Why are we seeing so much lag since the 4th of November?"
We are trying to track down the cause of the recent lag problems and would like to request that if you are currently experiencing latency to send a traceroute to [email protected], make sure to please include the shard you are playing on as well!


Five on Friday
 

Nystul

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I email them a trace report daily...

I'm restarting it now. Hopefully a little simple math tomorrow can at least give a time range when the ping/packet loss goes away on my uotrace results.

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       13ms             23ms         0%          10141 / 10222         7ms / 5686ms
ge-5-2-126.hsa2.Baltimore1.Level3.net               4.78.142.25        5       22ms             20ms         0%          10165 / 10222         10ms / 5094ms
so-6-1-0.mp2.Baltimore1.Level3.net                  4.68.112.73        6       19ms             24ms         0%          10171 / 10222         10ms / 5297ms
ae-0-0.bbr2.Washington1.Level3.net                  4.68.128.210       7       14ms             24ms         0%          10178 / 10222         12ms / 4981ms
ae-13-69.car3.Washington1.Level3.net                4.68.17.5          8       15ms             31ms         0%          10134 / 10222         12ms / 4823ms
ELECTRONIC.car3.Washington1.Level3.net              4.79.169.74        9       20ms             23ms         0%          10172 / 10222         12ms / 4814ms
fert07-eqx-iad.ea.com                               159.153.224.230    10      116ms            124ms        8%          9391 / 10220          94ms / 338ms
* Unknown Host *                                    159.153.233.35     11      108ms            120ms        6%          9516 / 10220          93ms / 5562ms
 
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ForTheOcean

Guest
The fact that I, personally, have sent in 2 trace routes, I know of a whole bunch more that sent them in, and that FoF was a week ago and we haven't heard anything else on it, shows neglect by the devs, or whoever is responsible for communication with the community.

I understand that they may not be able to figure it out immediately, but come on, a week of silence on the issue? Atleast keep the players updated, it's the least I should expect for 12.99 per month.

BTW they did get it fixed although it turned out to be temporary, so I think they have some idea of what is causing it they just need to perma-fix it.
 

Maplestone

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Possibly, Dermott, but some of us are going in through fert08-eqx-iad.ea.com (although I suppose they may be different interfaces on the same router) and its an unnamed ip one hop upstream where my traceroutes get laggy.
 

MalagAste

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My lag is bad period...... I can't do squat in-game. My guild mates are screaming about lag..... they can see mine is worse then theirs is..... I feel like I'm back in the old dial-up days.

Another guild mate is on wireless and he is forever losing connection and getting ejected from the game. Basicly he logs in.... gets booted about 15 times screams, throws a fit and then says S**** this ...... and logs out.

We can't go on like this.
 

Dermott of LS

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...

I think there's something else going on because I was noticing lag that was equivilent to 500+ms level lag but at 140-150ms pings.

I think there's something more than just connection issues at work here.
 

Maplestone

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I was a little surprised at how bad it seemed with a ping in the 120ms area while I was all alone in some corner of the land ... but now its back down to 23ms and there didn't seem to be any noticable lag at all in the midst of an invasion battle with other player characters around (although admittedly I am getting a little sleepy now). So there's at least a correlation between ping and performance, even if there's some doubt about causation.
 
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walter_mitty

Guest
that's it for me with UO ive canceled my 4 accounts,

its been 10 days since i started to pancake about the lag and so far there has only been a msg from the devs saying they are looking into it,. :(.

10 days no word. they must have some idea. what is going on in the team they work in , if i was their team leader i would have started
motivating them to pull their finger out their A@$# before this. 10 days and still they haven't been able to solve it, they must be really bad at their job. bet you all the people that are good at there job have been moved to the newer EA games like spore and war hammer and the idiots that are borderline on sacking material have been put in the UO team.

they read these boards and not a single one of them has the decency to let us know whats happening.
 
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ForTheOcean

Guest
Same with me, I have 5 and 12 days remaining on my 2 accts. I will not be returning to ANY EA sponsored game.
The only way I would consider returning is if within these next 5 days I see a drastic improvement in communication from Joanne, and the lag issue fixed. Did anyone else here ever actually email Jeremy? I did and I received a response within about 10 mins on how to address my issue, and I am sure she had other things to do. And here it has been 10 days and nothing?
Community interaction is what the UO team is ALL about... Pfft.
 

Cetric

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The fact that I, personally, have sent in 2 trace routes, I know of a whole bunch more that sent them in, and that FoF was a week ago and we haven't heard anything else on it, shows neglect by the devs, or whoever is responsible for communication with the community.

I understand that they may not be able to figure it out immediately, but come on, a week of silence on the issue? Atleast keep the players updated, it's the least I should expect for 12.99 per month.

BTW they did get it fixed although it turned out to be temporary, so I think they have some idea of what is causing it they just need to perma-fix it.
The funny thing is im a network admin for the company i work for, and if this was happening as an ongoing issue that was not fixed because i practically ignored it, i'd get canned.
 

Tina Small

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GL's almost unplayable for me at the moment:

HTML:
Host Name                                     IP Address            Hop    Ping Time 
pos-0-10-0-0-cr01.denver.co.ibone.comcast.net 68.86.86.22           6      11ms
te-4-4.car2.Denver1.Level3.net                4.79.82.57            7      12ms
ae-32-56.ebr2.Denver1.Level3.net              4.68.107.190          8      12ms
ae-3.ebr1.Chicago2.Level3.net                 4.69.132.62           9      36ms
ae-1-100.ebr2.Chicago2.Level3.net             4.69.132.114          10     36ms
ae-2.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net              4.69.132.70           11     77ms
ae-82-82.csw3.Washington1.Level3.net          4.69.134.154          12     75ms
ae-33-89.car3.Washington1.Level3.net          4.68.17.133           13     66ms
ELECTRONIC.car3.Washington1.Level3.net        4.79.169.74           14     66ms
fert08-eqx-iad.ea.com                         159.153.224.238       15     161ms
greatlakes.owo.com                            159.153.233.71        16     163ms
Atlantic's just as bad:

HTML:
Host Name                                     IP Address            Hop    Ping Time   pos-0-10-0-0-cr01.denver.co.ibone.comcast.net 68.86.86.22           6      13ms
te-4-4.car2.Denver1.Level3.net                4.79.82.57            7      13ms
ae-31-51.ebr1.Denver1.Level3.net              4.68.107.30           8      13ms
ae-1-100.ebr2.Denver1.Level3.net              4.69.132.38           9      14ms
ae-3.ebr1.Chicago2.Level3.net                 4.69.132.62           10     38ms
ae-1-100.ebr2.Chicago2.Level3.net             4.69.132.114          11     36ms
ae-2.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net              4.69.132.70           12     66ms
ae-82-82.csw3.Washington1.Level3.net          4.69.134.154          13     75ms
ae-33-89.car3.Washington1.Level3.net          4.68.17.133           14     67ms
ELECTRONIC.car3.Washington1.Level3.net        4.79.169.74           15     66ms
fert08-eqx-iad.ea.com                         159.153.224.238       16     171ms
* Unknown Host *                              159.153.233.23        17     164ms
This is what I get doing a traceroute for Europa:

HTML:
Host Name                                     IP Address            Hop    Ping Time
te-0-1-0-1-cr01.santateresa.tx.ibone.comcast.n68.86.84.70           6      24ms
pos-1-8-0-0-cr01.losangeles.ca.ibone.comcast.n68.86.86.13           7      42ms
TenGigabitEthernet8-2.ar2.LAX2.gblx.net       67.17.197.117         8      43ms
* Unknown Host *                              67.17.192.226         9      162ms
* Unknown Host *                              80.69.16.174          10     168ms
fert02-ixe-lhr.ea.com                         159.153.156.10        11     164ms
* Unknown Host *                              159.153.156.138       12     160ms
 

Nystul

Lore Master
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I restarted uotrace around like 9am and came back to this... No packet loss but I still can't pvp with everyone else running circles around 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       16ms             17ms         0%          14852 / 14906         7ms / 443ms
ge-5-2-126.hsa2.Baltimore1.Level3.net               4.78.142.25        5       19ms             16ms         0%          14898 / 14906         10ms / 5413ms
so-6-1-0.mp2.Baltimore1.Level3.net                  4.68.112.73        6       28ms             20ms         0%          14895 / 14906         10ms / 5097ms
ae-0-0.bbr2.Washington1.Level3.net                  4.68.128.210       7       28ms             19ms         0%          14895 / 14906         11ms / 4746ms
ae-13-69.car3.Washington1.Level3.net                4.68.17.5          8       161ms            26ms         0%          14866 / 14906         12ms / 5385ms
ELECTRONIC.car3.Washington1.Level3.net              4.79.169.74        9       25ms             18ms         0%          14894 / 14906         12ms / 5342ms
fert07-eqx-iad.ea.com                               159.153.224.230    10      117ms            115ms        1%          14672 / 14906         36ms / 5644ms
* Unknown Host *                                    159.153.233.35     11      133ms            109ms        0%          14803 / 14906         30ms / 5083ms
 

Cutter

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

* Unknown Host *                           12.83.63.137      5      20ms        20ms       0%        51 / 51          20ms / 23ms
asn3356-level3.eqnwnj.sbcglobal.net        151.164.89.250    6      21ms        41ms       0%        51 / 51          20ms / 221ms
ae-31-51.ebr1.Newark1.Level3.net           4.68.99.30        7      22ms        26ms       0%        51 / 51          21ms / 34ms
ae-1-100.ebr2.Newark1.Level3.net           4.69.132.22       8      32ms        26ms       0%        51 / 51          21ms / 35ms
ae-4.ebr3.Washington1.Level3.net           4.69.132.101      9      27ms        26ms       0%        51 / 51          23ms / 36ms
ae-83-83.csw3.Washington1.Level3.net       4.69.134.170      10     28ms        29ms       0%        51 / 51          24ms / 36ms
ae-33-89.car3.Washington1.Level3.net       4.68.17.133       11     23ms        31ms       0%        51 / 51          23ms / 226ms
ELECTRONIC.car3.Washington1.Level3.net     4.79.169.74       12     24ms        23ms       0%        51 / 51          23ms / 25ms
fert07-eqx-iad.ea.com                      159.153.224.230   13     121ms       120ms      2%        49 / 50          111ms / 122ms
* Unknown Host *                           159.153.233.35    14     121ms       120ms      2%        49 / 50          115ms / 131ms
Same as nystul said...packetloss is mostly better (although I still have some...) but still unplayable. Combine even the small amount of packetloss I am getting with the high and unstable ping times...and I can't even pvp.
Come on Ea what is the problem. It was better for a few days and now its back to worse :sad2:
 

Nystul

Lore Master
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Stratics Legend
It's getting worse :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       16ms             29ms         1%          2379 / 2417           8ms / 4872ms
ge-5-2-126.hsa2.Baltimore1.Level3.net               4.78.142.25        5       35ms             27ms         1%          2383 / 2416           11ms / 5689ms
so-6-1-0.mp2.Baltimore1.Level3.net                  4.68.112.73        6       44ms             29ms         1%          2383 / 2416           11ms / 127ms
ae-2-0.bbr1.Washington1.Level3.net                  4.68.128.201       7       32ms             29ms         1%          2389 / 2416           12ms / 375ms
ae-23-79.car3.Washington1.Level3.net                4.68.17.69         8       17ms             36ms         1%          2376 / 2416           13ms / 319ms
ELECTRONIC.car3.Washington1.Level3.net              4.79.169.74        9       17ms             27ms         0%          2394 / 2416           13ms / 171ms
fert07-eqx-iad.ea.com                               159.153.224.230    10      116ms            131ms        5%          2279 / 2416           95ms / 365ms
* Unknown Host *                                    159.153.233.35     11      126ms            126ms        5%          2287 / 2416           83ms / 201ms
I send in my traceroute daily. I usually supply em with a good packets s/r of about like 5000+ too. It's pretty obvious where the lag is somming from maybe they can't afford to fix it lmao. That or they just don't care. I may as well transfer to a west coast shard to play. Hell, I'm pinging better on balhae now...

Would those routers/ip's be used for thier other games?
 
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Locker

Guest
I haven't played for at least a week due to the lag issues. Mine started when the invasions started. Wondering if they'll go away when the invasions are over. Oh well just another to add to the list of people with unplayable lag.

Peace,

-L
 

Shameful Joy

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WOW, I can play when hiting 130ms , but when the Packet loss starts its over for me. I've been playing 11 years and haven't EVER had this problem before, not for 2 or 3 days
 

Xenobia

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WOW, I can play when hiting 130ms , but when the Packet loss starts its over for me. I've been playing 11 years and haven't EVER had this problem before, not for 2 or 3 days
I don't know what system/ISP you had 11 years ago but I remember having horrendous lag for about the first 5 years I played lol Way back then it was dialup all the way baby! Ugh I am so glad that's over (well, until now that is)
 

GalenKnighthawke

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Stratics Legend
I think tonight is the first time in my history of playing UO when I was almost too lagged.....To do repairs.

:(

I wonder if the team has any idea how depressing that is.

All this content....And I can't even repair.

-Galen's player
 

Maplestone

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Would those routers/ip's be used for thier other games?
Tracerouting a few game-related servers, fert07/08 appears to be a major input for all of EA. It should be affecting a lot more than just UO, but googling around a little its mostly UO players complaining.

(I have noticed the last couple of days I seem to be encountering two different but fairly consistent speeds: a slow peak-hour ping and a fast off-hours ping)
 

Nystul

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Tracerouting a few game-related servers, fert07/08 appears to be a major input for all of EA. It should be affecting a lot more than just UO, but googling around a little its mostly UO players complaining.

(I have noticed the last couple of days I seem to be encountering two different but fairly consistent speeds: a slow peak-hour ping and a fast off-hours ping)
Hmmm odd.

The lag started for me around 9am. I wouldn't think that was much of a peak time on a weekday haha. Also I heard it calms down around 1am east. :x. Weak.
 
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walter_mitty

Guest
its like the traffic shaping you get from some ISP`S and company's don't like to admit they do that, or blatently lie that they do :(

could EA be prioritizing game traffic to war and spore. ?
would they admit that they are if they were ?
 
M

Messiah

Guest
It's almost as though they ignore us... 4th day in a row lag is so bad, the game isn't even playable..

 

GalenKnighthawke

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Tracerouting a few game-related servers, fert07/08 appears to be a major input for all of EA. It should be affecting a lot more than just UO, but googling around a little its mostly UO players complaining.

(I have noticed the last couple of days I seem to be encountering two different but fairly consistent speeds: a slow peak-hour ping and a fast off-hours ping)
I don't know much about how those big industrial servers work....Can they prioritize traffic from or to certain places? For example, can they rate traffic to Warhammer servers at higher priority than to UO servers?

If they are doing this, why would we just be noticing this now after Warhammer's been in operation for awhile?

I first thought someone was duping, but then why all shards?

Then I thought they were launching denial of service attacks on UO servers or something, but then why do the trace routes seem to implicate a server that serves more than UO, and yet it seems to only be a problem with UO?

-Galen's player
 

Maplestone

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I'm growing more confident that fert07/08 (or the pipe feeding into it) is getting overloaded - ping times max out and then it starts dropping packets.

Warhammer appears to be hosted off alter.net, so isn't going through the same routers (and it also means there's no need to worry about favortism).

I'm suspicious that the culprit is Spore. Traffic to spore's main content-sharing server goes through the same router that we do. Spore doesn't care much if it drops some packets or misses out on a download here or there, but we notice it instantly. edit: I think I may have jumped the gun there ... researching a little more, I noticed Spore's admins are putting some of its traffic stats online and the volume of content being shared in has been dropping since the release - might still be a lot shared out I suppose, but it didn't look like a growing game.
 

Lady Lava

UO Senior News Reporter
Alumni
This lag has been HATEFUL for me for 2 days !

I don't knowin nothin about no pingin just make it stop!

Game is unplayable for me with this lag and I have not had lag like this in years!



anyone experiencing major lag drama on uo.
ive had lag problems for 3 days now.

heres my trace route.


if you put gar2.ascva.ip.att.net into google( witch seems to be the problem hop). all the results are about major lag dramas.
 

Dermott of LS

UOEC Modder
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Stratics Legend
...

I noticed Spore's admins are putting some of its traffic stats online and the volume of content being shared in has been dropping since the release - might still be a lot shared out I suppose, but it didn't look like a growing game.

It didn't take long for people to figure out how shallow of a game Spore ended up being.

If it IS Spore, then it probably won't last too much longer (the lag).
 

Tina Small

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I'm growing more confident that fert07/08 (or the pipe feeding into it) is getting overloaded - ping times max out and then it starts dropping packets.

Warhammer appears to be hosted off alter.net, so isn't going through the same routers (and it also means there's no need to worry about favortism).

I'm suspicious that the culprit is Spore. Traffic to spore's main content-sharing server goes through the same router that we do. Spore doesn't care much if it drops some packets or misses out on a download here or there, but we notice it instantly. edit: I think I may have jumped the gun there ... researching a little more, I noticed Spore's admins are putting some of its traffic stats online and the volume of content being shared in has been dropping since the release - might still be a lot shared out I suppose, but it didn't look like a growing game.
It's funny. I just logged onto Sonoma. Traceroute shows nothing odd, getting the normal 60ish to 70ish ping. And yet as soon as I jumped over to one of the towns to see what was up with the invasion and was around someone in a certain guild I won't name, the lag started up again. Did another traceroute and the ping's still in the same normal range, and yet my character's moving like she's slogging through wet concrete. When I logged out and tried to log in again, I got the infamous "out of synchronization" message, telling me to start over again.

I really think at this point that we may have one or more things going on: (1) EA has shrunk the amount of server space they've allocated to UO, perhaps reassigning a lot of it to another game or two; (2) a ton of folks have recently returned to UO and they're putting a huge strain on things; or (3) all the pixel crack goodies have made the hackers go nuts running their devious little programs so they can "win" at all costs and the programs they are running screw up client-server communication for everyone that gets in their immediate area.
 

Maplestone

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The moral of the story here is that imaginative gamers are going to start coming up with their own wild ideas if left frustrated too long :)
 
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What do you expect, its only a game! OOPS my bad we pay for this abuse. This was one of the better events ive played up to now. But now its just unplayable. Complaints have been pouring in for over a week now but it hasnt affected me till the last few days. My way of handling it was to just log out. They dont care to fix it and as they lose customers they will finally figure out maybe they should pay attension next time. If they have customers left to pay attension to!
 

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I do have to say the timing on this one sucks...

the best event in game in a LOOOONG time and I can't play... and sure sounds like oodles of others can't either.

Its friday night and I was looking forward to playing this weekend... yet I some how doubt that this will be fixed so that's possible.

... :sad4:
 

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I was going to suggest we use the other thread for rants and outrage while keeping this thread for people who want to contribute data/ideas.
 
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