The *OFFICIAL* fix the servers thread

Seriously. What is going on? Some kind of explanation as to why the servers suck would be appreciated.

I'm getting mapserved on a nightly basis. Lag is constant. Rubberbanding is expected now. When I don't get lag it's like I'm playing a whole new game.

And it's not just me. HUNDREDS of people, all over the world that love this game have the same ISSUES.

I'm not some whiny fanboi. I am a PAYING CUSTOMER. Fix your product, or I will take my money, and potentially your JOBS, somewhere else.

To all players tired of lag: Post your server and issues here.

Virtue - all of the problems above. AND ON DOUBLE XP WEEKEND. I SAY RE-DO DOUBLE XP WEEKEND.

Champion. Random bouts of "Disconnected to Mapserver."

I have spent all morning testing out my network and such to find this packet dropper. So far I can tell it is not my network. Therefore I went onto testing to their server. Now as most of you know you cannot ping their hosting servers. So I went ahead and used the last drop to their server, which I believe is their firewall.

I had no intention to be rude or pointing fingers. But I am trying to take a foot stand to this re-occurring problem and solve it once and for all. I have tried to use "TweakCOH" but that has no more use than my tracert's in command prompt. I will probably send a message to NCSoft's tech support in the future but not just yet.

Let me give some more details about my speific problem to see if we can come up with a solution. Having multiple tracerts from different areas can find the problem much easier.

I play mostly on Victory and occastionally on Virtue. Leaving DXP out of this issue I have little to no "Dropped Packets on Virtue Server coming from Florida. On the other hand Victory has a massive amount of dropped packets. It might just well be a Local Hub or a International Hub right before my connection with the Servers. But casting all blame off of NCSoft does not fix the problem.

Teamwork is the only way to fix this.

Hi, I'm having issues, too. Someone is spamming cross-posted messages across all the forums.

Triumph

I'm not having issues.

I was sent here by your cross-post.

You're welcome.

Click for Hot Sun Splitter Action

None lol

except in the itf

I play many nights during the week, and a few times this weekend. I RARELY have any problems with disconnecting or mapserving or anything. When I do dc, its usually because of some known issue from a new issue or update that gets fixed with the next patch, or it because of the actual internet connection at my house, which is in no way CoX's fault, more Bellsouth in my area for still 'upgrading' our lines after a year.

Sunday nights, as I saw as a common complaint time, are generally very busy times on the internet too for everything. Evenings, like after 6-7 until about 10-11, are this way as well. I'll bet this is a high game traffic time as well. Everyone home, nothing to do, so surf the web. That means that much more bandwidth being used in other places which to bottleneck. There's only so much bandwidth on ISPs. Depending on your area, if there's a lot of traffic trying to go through one place, which has more to do with your ISP provider and their infrastructure. Not saying that there are never problems on the CoX side, but in my experience I've had very little trouble from something on their side. Its usually something else between my computer and them.

Wow...this is a great way to lose rep! Why didn't I think of it???

No problems to report on pinnacle, of course, we ran all of the other vg's off of the server, so bad that one of the leaders came back and had to change his global to avoid the embarrasment. lol

i know guardian is low on the populatino server but during 2xp it was having issues.

and stard warrior..just to let you know people have issues with their servers all the time..its not always just everyone else.

it can and has been the server issues as well...to say otherwise is dumb.

Last nigth on Virtue there were times when our team was getting mapserver for not just a few seconds, but minutes. And unlike other times where after a certain length of time, you timed out and had to log back in, we'd mapserver, then not see the message but still be frozen, have a brief moment of movement, and then the whole cycle would repeat.

And it just wasn't our team, as both myself and another member checked with our respective SG's, and found that the problem was server-wide. Now if it was just me, I could put it down as problem with my system or more likely my ISP. However, if it happens in this broad a manner, what was going on?

I know it sounds far-fetched, but could there have been a malicious cyber-attack on the servers late last night?

I for one haven't had any problems that wasn't related to either my own equipment or my ISP for ages.

Once again, people, please consider that it may be your equipment, ISP, or somewhere inbetween that is the cause of the problem, instead of immediately assuming it is the servers.

I am not saying the servers don't have problems, but when only SOME people reports problems, then it is most likely NOT the servers, but somewhere along the line.

Just saying...