Father Xmas

Well the instability was player induced griefing due to a faulty client (summon vet reward rikti monkey and crash everyone within visual range). Hopefully this will be cleared up shortly.

Memory. Plain and simple. You have too little, the integrated video is stealing some of it and you have a whole lot of stuff running in the background. What happens is the game is liberally using the page file because by itself is using 1GB or so. When you try to bring up the Wentworth's UI the game needs to make room and the drive light stays on as the OS is trying to find enough infrequently used 4KB chunks of real memory, the stuff you don't have a lot of, to swap out to make room. It turns out that all that page swapping causes the game to stop talking back to the server. After two minutes of that the server boots you.

Now there are a few things you can do, annoying as they are.

0) Shut down or exit out as much stuff as possible before starting the game. Save your real memory for the game, not a dozen or so of "helper" apps sitting in your tool tray next to your clock.

1) Use /unloadgfx before clicking on a WW employee. This causes the game to load only the graphic objects and textures in the local area.

2) Shop at a empty WW. I find Kings Row to be a pretty empty place. Why? Because players with their multitude of costume items are a big memory hog.

3) Shop as soon as you start the game and login. I rarely had problems when playing over at my parent's house with their 512MB wonder.

4) Last ditch, exit the game completely while in WW and restart it. This is about as minimal memory usage you will see. Just exiting to the login screen doesn't flush all the resources the game has loaded while you've been playing.

5) The obvious fix but it will cost you some money is to buy more memory.

Even before I14 and the AE box being in the store or the Game Card at 7-11, Rite Aid and other stores, I noticed a lot of new players since the start of this year. Not sure if it's caused by advertising of the game itself, associated advertising due to all the features written about CO and DCO or cheap game boxes at Big Lots. It could also be churn from other MMOs while players are waiting for new content there.

I think anywhere but in a thread they are being repressed. I believe it's intentional.

Since this appears to be a problem with missing game assets, that is the rikti monkey pet, I'm guessing the build team is going to triple check that all game assets and references pointing to them are correct before they try another rollout.

Someone in build and QA is going to have a bit of explaining to do.

Yep, quote pyramids are a thing of the past, but old threads still have them.

I found and posted it yesterday in a different thread about the same subject so I only needed to search my own posts this time.

Yes by all means this should be fixed by now. However I would like to point out the those in charge of coding the web site and those who wrote the script that checks the server status at the server farms may only be peripherally associated with Paragon Studios and may be under and get their marching orders from NCSoft directly. In all likelihood the web monkeys are in Seattle.

Yelling at the game developers isn't going to accomplish a whole lot. If you want to yell at someone, try PMing or VMing Niviene about your concerns. See should be able to bring these problems to the attention of the appropriate people.

I'm reading the OPs post as the GF has a GvE box code but is stopped by the insistence to enter some kind of payment method and is wondering if a Game Card could be used.

Personally I don't know, never reactivated an account that way. You could always try buying one of those Visa Gift cards and using that.

Well they have zero posts now, they may have had numerous posts that have been purged over the years.

Announcement from the end of June.

For one reason or another new players have a tendency to start their characters on the servers with the most population so it becomes a positive feedback loop. Also their reputation of Freedom as the unofficial PVP server and Virtue as the unofficial RP server may contribute to their popularity.

Also those indicators are load and not population but they do tend to go hand in hand.

It wasn't broken per se but an aspect of it provided infinite XP if you knew what to do and the devs couldn't figure out a way to fix that without breaking the whole CoP trial so it was pulled. Read about it here

No but if those in Australia isn't seeing the problem but those in the states are, then it's implied that the problem is with one or more switches the US players go through that Australian players don't and not the game servers in general. Or do you think NCSoft wire transpacific players through a different switch?

If you are talking bookmarks in your browser, they are dead. If you are talking about links to other treads within another thread, I would say it would be highly unlikely.

If you have the titles of the threads you use to have bookmarked, you can always you the forum search to look for them and then bookmark the new location. That's what I did.