Why have the servers turned to crap?

While I am not stating that there were no server issues, because I was not monitoring them, a team drop cannot confirm it either. If a hop somewhere before the server drops for whatever reason, the team can drop as well. Without an official response stating that there were in fact server issues we can never know exactly what caused it. Things like a trace can help point you in the proper direction but until a red name comes on and says anything we wont know.

Fail is acting as if one has proof without knowing the the entire story and I don't have that information. Can you be right? Sure, but you can easily be wrong as well. Same goes for me. I do agree that flames should be left at the door but that is up to each individual poster.

I know why I am so crabby and argumentative. It was 114 today and I have no AC. That's 45.5 for those across the pond. I need to get that fixed and I will be a bit more mellow.

For what it's worth, the Infinity server had no issues at all that I noticed... Hardly even a lag spike during peak hours. Ran very very smoothly for me. I recall thinking during leveling that either I should be impressed that they had managed to run a stable 2X Weekend, or that I should be disappointed that not enough people bothered to play that it created the lag spikes. Ah well. More fun for me. :P

Someones being a little super critical, the servers are fine the game has grown into a much more demanding world than the servers were originally spec'd to support they are still supporting the game fine this dbl exp weekend I had only 1 bad server moment that was late sunday the event was almost over anyway and the blip of an incident was a maybe 5 minute freeze.

Still having lagfests inside missions, occasionally. my entire 8man team was fighting it earlier and finally just ended the mission prematurely (skipped optional objectives) to get out of it. i turned on my netgraph and wasn't see much of anything in the way of spikes, despite what we were going through. Slow motion power activation, NPCs who were also experiencing the lag times, etc. Honestly, it felt like an old-style hami raid, from before then 50 person zone limit and hami changes.

Since it wasn't just me or even just a couple of us, but was the entire time, it does appear to be server related.

It was kinda interesting for us to have a nice conversation via lag-speak while we'd wait for the current freeze frame to pass. Well, i found it humorous, anyway.

I too am having issues with the East Coast servers. I have even run ping plotter and seen that the packets are not dropping at my end but at the far end.

I logged into every server last night and ran netgraph... Sure enough every east coast server shows packet loss.

I am seeing it for both east and west, but like you its further up the pipe. I'd suggest opening a ticket with support (I have one open myself) Hopefully if enough of us document it, they may do something about it.

Got a ticket already I am waiting on a response that does not question my hardware.

I tried to spell it out in my Ticket what I was experiencing. That I had ping plots that showed packet loss and sudden surges of delay.

Were still on page one of their check list and I am having to tell them everything I already told them but put it in the proper blank.

I've been on teams where everyone experienced mapserving, teams where only some of us did, teams where everyone was fine while many people in our collective global channels were complaining about it.

It may indeed be one or more issues at the server end, but that can always be exacerbated by issues with a local pc, an isp or the general, uncontrollable fluctuations of the internet at large.

Most amusing crash I've had of late? Using the last charge of the Vitalize (heal other) day job accolade power completely crashed (all the way to restarting and verifying files) both the "healee" and I.

Recharging that so I can see if it's repeatable.

I don't know what server the OP was playing on, but there were problems on some servers like Champion(which I play on). Why do you think we're getting another double xp weekend?