Ok, just finished our shard EM Event. We met at the HOC and as the offsharders piled in the lag got worse and worse. We then took a moongate and when I wasn't around about 20 other characters, I could move jerkily but move fairly decent.
We got to the area where the actual fighting was taking place and it was horrible lag, one tile at a time about every second while the preliminary monsters were killed. As soon as the boss popped, which was a Slasher of Veils I got in a few licks I think but without being able to see anything that wasn't old news I'm not sure I even hit him but I was then sucked in to him and lost total connection. Could not get back in the game for probably 5 to 7 minutes which meant of course he was dead.
By the time I got rezzed the corpse had gone public and the loot did appear in list form but was moving constantly with people taking things out so you could not grab anything nor even get the time to read the stats on the item. Again, after probably a minute of this I lost connection again and had a horrible time logging back in and by the time i did corpse was gone.
In actuality this was worse than before because before I could run around very well with dozens of the event goers on screen, the only problem then was the corpse but that still exists so it is now actually worse than before. Before at least I could help kill the minions and even the boss without much problem - the only thing was I couldn't loot but that still exists and now I can't even move, let alone kill the stuff.
And by the way just so you understand, I don't lose internet connection, only the game, I am still talking to my group in TS. I am running fibre optic internet with 200/100 and a very high end comp that absolutely flies in any other task or website.
I am considering trying some other game but I do dearly love the experience and the challenge of being able to do so many different things and I don't think there is a game like this even available. I've tried SotA a little and the graphics are wonderful but I'm not into PVP so from what I've seen so far, that appears to be the prime draw.
I am terribly disappointed, I play this game to have fun which includes all the facets of it, crafting, rp, fighting everything including bosses, mini bosses, and event bosses. Now I find myself constantly trying to offset the many problems of the game and that seems to be the consuming task which is not why I play.
Right now I am seriously mulling in my mind if I could survive without UO and that's something I have never done before in the last 16 years. And I'm not threatening, I'm just trying to face the facts, I have 10 accounts, many of them given to me by my daughters and friends when they quit and I hate to see them go but at this stage I'm just totally wore out of fighting this battle.