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  1. pheret
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ballista View Post

    edit: did a trace route to the east coast servers IP and it's tiing out after pccwbtn.net router and it's the same hop that AION (another NCSoft game) is having problems with. Any way to fix?
    It's possible that the next hop may just drop/deprioritize pings, so I'm not sure that the traceroute is so bad
  2. pheret
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by HMO_Medic View Post
    If you don't mind sharing, what did the PCCW people have to say ?

    thanks,

    HMO

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    PCCW was pretty cool about it. I talked to a guy who gave me two different email addresses to send my pingplotter to and said to give them all of the information I had, and I linked them to this thread to point out all of the information gathered. In response I got an email forwarded to me where one department asked another and the reply they got was:

    "This issue has come up before this issue is not in our network, but rather NC Soft on the return to certain customers most often with Comcast. The issue appears to more troublesome to Chicago gamers. There is nothing we can really do as the issue is not in our network."

    I forwarded that to NCSoft Support who said:

    "We appreciate you bringing this to our attention. We're aware of some latency issues with one of our peer ISPs. Our Network Engineering Team is in contact with them and is working to clear up the issue as quickly as possible.

    If you have any questions or concerns please let us know, but in the meantime we must continue to be patient until the problematic ISP resolves their connectivity issues."

    I wanted to play so badly that I ended up connecting my wireless data card to my desktop and have been happily killing until the issue hit me again tonight, so it's not just my home ISP (AT&T), but also now:

    LOCATION: Chicago
    ISP Provider: AT&T wireless
    SERVER: Pinnacle
    Problem: Delays in animations, button lag, and net_grap 1 showing mostly red

    That said, I understand how it could still be a network configuration on either side causing it, so I'm sitting tight and just playing as much as I can and signing off when it's too frustrating.
  3. pheret
    I play on Pinnacle and started having this problem Tuesday night - freezing after zoning, delay in animation, a lot of rubberbanding and game nearly unplayable. Net_graph 1 showed huge amounts of red. Interesting thing is that it seemed to exacerbate every time I zoned and get slightly better after a bit (well, yellow taking over for most of the red).

    Being on a team made it worse, and standing alone, not in a team on a mission eventually made the netgraph go mostly green with just a few bars. Then, very very late last night it resolved and I was able to play for a while. But the problems are back today, just hovering in my base gave me a steady stream of red lines.

    Pinnacle
    ISP - SBC, Chicago
    Problem - red spikes, delay in animation, rubberbanding, freezing graphics

    I've also emailed PCCW and gotten a reply, then forwarded that on to NCSoft in the hopes that it will help.
  4. pheret
    I think people are missing the boat on the jetpack boosters. I will not only buy it (as soon as I figure out why the payment screen only wants Visa when all my CCs are Mastercards and I swear I've used them before*?), but I wish I could set it on auto-renew.

    $4.99 a month to have two more powers on each character rather than spending two power selections on travel? For how I play, and the enjoyment I'll get out of it, totally worth it. Usually I make sure to get the two temp powers from the mayhems and milk them as long as I can (and maybe the Goldbrickers jetpack too) and then respec into travel when they wear out.

    Lovelovelovelove and $$,

    Pheret1

    *aaaah, noscript, how I both love and hate thee. all set now
  5. pheret
    I've been slowly working on this base since last year, and am not quite done yet - it will be several more months before I get the prestige to add the last two rooms. For some of the last two years I've been the only active member, although there are usually two or three of us these days. But I'm pretty happy with the base right now, enough to post pics!

    Overview

    Entry:
    View when zoning in
    Looking at entry from workshop

    Workshop:
    Workshop - view from entry
    Workshop - looking at entry and med bay
    Workshop - from teleporter bay hallway

    Med bay:
    Med bay and experimentation library
    View of far wall and transporter room from med bay
    One more 'cause it's my favorite

    Lounge (part of energy room):
    Entry to lounge and Arachnos infiltrator weapon racks
    Lounge looking down
    Lounge looking up
    Skylight and captured Longbow Chaser

    Energy:
    Ley tap and weapon/trophy cases (looking into Control room)
    Trophy cases

    Control:
    Control room

    Teleporter room:
    Looking into Control room
    View from Control room
    Looking into Entry and Control rooms
    View from workshop


    I don't post much (at all), but read this forum and check out everyone's pics for ideas and tutorials all the time, so thank you all for the great help!

    Edited to fix URL and to mention that I'm open to constructive criticism!