comments on last night's changes?
I have an alternative idea that may help reduce lag, but first I want to hear how it's currently going.

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What is this update supposed to do? Remove resource downloading while playing and only do it upon logging in?

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Well we still get resources to download. Not sure why though.

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So, far it's fine.

I'll have to see how it is during siege times to give a proper informative post about the new change. It's during siege times when lag gets really bad and the army of domains really effect the game play lag issues.

EDIT:

I've been playing for 3 hours now and the lag picks up here and there at spots. When a new player joins the game I still have to download rsc, and that lags and freezes me.





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I haven't been on today, but last night after we downloaded all of our resources, and when it wasn't lagging, the game played better than ever, but when it did lag, it was for a good 5-10 seconds or longer. I agree with Jeebs, I think part of it was players logging in, but it was also the middle of the night and I didn't see anyone logging in and continued to get resource downloads fairly frequently.

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I would vote for your alternative solution, playing the game is horrid, everytime some logs in or relogs it causes resources to load at around 150k-200k bytes at a time, each taking around 30 seconds, and sometimes triggers the same amount directly after its done

When I relogged I was rendered to take 10 minutes just to mule some gold, the resources kicked in when it logged my char out, kicked in again when loading char page, started again when loading icons, and again when I clicked on the char I wanted, and took forever for continue to appear, upon clicking it needed more resources and it only half-loaded the screen and my inventory before another resource session, followed by delay spikes of 40+ then every screen change was around 20k resources(takes like 5 seconds for me)

It took me alltogether 15 minutes to mule 37k gold

Also, when traveling to nb I got resources lag of 700k resources and took litterally 7 minutes to load, then another 120k bytes while walking up the road 3 times

Edit: took me 10 minutes to start ffo, 44.9mil bytes at first, I heard others have only 22mil and 33mil, but yea

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From what ive seen people logging in causes downloads still which cause lag and freezing. i have played since the game has been rebooted and its nice but the people logging in lag keeps killing people.

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It has to be fixed before someone decides to be an a-hole and abuse it too. That's what I'm worried about.

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When you're fighting monsters, you'll get a periodic download of resources ranging from 70-100k bytes. I'm guessing that somehow the resources for monsters is dropped and is needed to be downloaded again.

Oops, forgot to mention you can barely fight or pot-chug when this is happening.

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I wanted to get on to check out how its running today, but due to the massive resource downloading just to get on, I don't think I'm going to have the chance before I have to leave for work.

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to be honest thats probably the game simply loading the monsters drops (gold, items,etc) or maybe thereicon or such. 100k isnt bad its the 200k-500k+ files which we need to worry most about.

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Huckey168 wrote:

to be honest thats probably the game simply loading the monsters drops (gold, items,etc) or maybe thereicon or such. 100k isnt bad its the 200k-500k+ files which we need to worry most about.

Even a 70k resource dl can last a minute+ depending on if the game is lagging ontop of it, what we need to worry about is ANY resource dling, and when fighting mobs and a champ spawns ita around 260k bytes depending on champ size etc

Also, be right back spam relogging during domain warfare cause haze said it ;D

But yea, honestly the game resources is worse now, its just brutal, its constant, never weakens, and is impossibly annoying when someone logs on during a huge training party, also the huge byte dl before starting can repel players, I was tempted to play ffthg instead but I wanted to see if the wait was worth it

Example: today me z jeebs some rw some knight and xalin were irendi training and we had to have the healers manually stop dling resources just to heal during logins/relogging and mob resources, it was soooo bad

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Another issue i see is the delay settings

Setting network delay to 0.
Setting network delay to 5.
Setting network delay to 9.
Setting network delay to 0.
Setting network delay to 9.
Setting network delay to 8.
Setting network delay to 7.
Setting network delay to 6.
Setting network delay to 5.
Setting network delay to 4.
Setting network delay to 3.
Setting network delay to 2.
Setting network delay to 1.
Setting network delay to 3.
Setting network delay to 4.
Setting network delay to 0.
Setting network delay to 2.
Setting network delay to 1.
Setting network delay to 2.
Setting network delay to 1.
Setting network delay to 0.
Setting network delay to 1.
Setting network delay to 0.
Setting network delay to 3.
Setting network delay to 4.
Setting network delay to 8.
Setting network delay to 0.
Setting network delay to 2.
Setting network delay to 0.
Setting network delay to 2.
Setting network delay to 0.
Setting network delay to 1.
Setting network delay to 0.
Setting network delay to 7.
Setting network delay to 0.
Setting network delay to 1.
Setting network delay to 3.
Setting network delay to 0.
Setting network delay to 1.
Setting network delay to 2.
Setting network delay to 3.
Setting network delay to 0.
Setting network delay to 7.
Setting network delay to 8.
Setting network delay to 0.
Setting network delay to 2.
Setting network delay to 3.
Setting network delay to 4.
Setting network delay to 3.
Setting network delay to 0.
Setting network delay to 2.
Setting network delay to 3.
Setting network delay to 0.
Setting network delay to 2.
Setting network delay to 5.
Setting network delay to 0.
Setting network delay to 6.
Setting network delay to 7.

all that was just while sitting away in town %3

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Really early this morning we were getting downloads ranging from 800k-1.5mil while we were already logged in. This was when there was probably 6 players on.

Just now I waited about 20 minutes to download and log in to the game.

Your alternative is more than likely the best shot.

Even if people are fine with the way things are now, it's pretty simple to lag the game how you want by just logging in and out.

Edit: While the update is a good idea and works to reduce in-game lag, we're constantly lagging from the process.

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Po wrote:

Huckey168 wrote:

to be honest thats probably the game simply loading the monsters drops (gold, items,etc) or maybe thereicon or such. 100k isnt bad its the 200k-500k+ files which we need to worry most about.

Even a 70k resource dl can last a minute+ depending on if the game is lagging ontop of it, what we need to worry about is ANY resource dling, and when fighting mobs and a champ spawns ita around 260k bytes depending on champ size etc

Also, be right back spam relogging during domain warfare cause haze said it ;D

But yea, honestly the game resources is worse now, its just brutal, its constant, never weakens, and is impossibly annoying when someone logs on during a huge training party, also the huge byte dl before starting can repel players, I was tempted to play ffthg instead but I wanted to see if the wait was worth it

Example: today me z jeebs some rw some knight and xalin were irendi training and we had to have the healers manually stop dling resources just to heal during logins/relogging and mob resources, it was soooo bad

I suppose your correct forme the 100k packs are instant so they didnt seem like an issue but the 200k take a minute or so.

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You may have a really good connection compared to others, in nsay for a moment saying he was froze for 5 mins off of 50k resources using dial-up

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Po wrote:

You may have a really good connection compared to others, in nsay for a moment saying he was froze for 5 mins off of 50k resources using dial-up

well to be honest dial up is almsot guaranteed to lag more than any other form of internet but ya i see what you mean. and yes i have heavy duty internet thankfully.

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I just got on finally, and it appears that it is lagging near constantly. I think we should try your other idea.

Also while I was on everyone in dsay was telling me they've been having the same issue, so I know its not just me.

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Feels sluggish to me and I'm still getting spikes. As others have stated it feels like you're having to download resources when spawns appear etcetera.

Waiting to see how domain warfare goes tonight.


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Everyone's suggesting gaku go with his other idea, but does anyone even know what that is? When no one's logging on or off, the game handles pretty smoothely, so smoothe in fact that I havent seen less chop since Malthros hosted. When people log on it totally blows because the resource download is indeed a *****, and I'd hate to see what happens when everyone tries to log in from a reboot or update or something, but as for logging on I only need to download like 17 million my first time and after that i dont have to download much at all.

tl;dr game speed is the best ive seen in years when the game population is being stable, but gets pretty stupid when so much as one person logs on. If there was a way to make it so that the resources are permanently downloaded I think the game would run fine.

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