lagging and other issues

Things got worse on second mission and upon entering third, we decided to call it quits, Tank crashed and never came back and the MM couldn't fix his bug preventing him to enter any mish, not even after resetting his router. This doesn't look too promising with upcoming I21 Headstart on Tuesday, even without it, it's bad enough to pay for a game unplayable at weekends. To be honest, I'm so annoyed at this stage it crossed my mind this could be done by NCSoft themselves to promote players moving into the new VIP/pro/elite/whatever server, I know it's silly thought, but too annoyed atm to think clearly:

lag is making the game unplayable. Protector is super slow too. Moving is ok, but the powers and mobs are lagged.

I'm throwing my 2 cents in, with the hopes this gets noticed, and resolved. Virtue is extremely laggy right now. Netgraph bar is mostly red.

Union isn't much better, few green, odd yellow and quite alot of red. Had a number of crashes due to lagging out during loading a map

Liberty is suffering as well.

As far as the lag being implemented to promote Beta play, that same thought occurred to me weeks ago. Probably not, but it occurred to me never-the-less.

I know that CoH wants and needs to be competitive. But even if they get new players, they're not going to keep them if they can't resolve these issues.

From a business model perspective, the idea of developing a new way of doing business is an exciting thing. Yet when the product doesn't deliver, sales will be negatively impacted. But, that's not anything they don't already know.

I'm sure that they are aware of this and are trying to figure out what changed between yesterday and today. I would not be at all surprised to see the servers go down for some unannounced (20 minutes?) extended maintenance again.

Virtue having this happen too...If it helps, the lagspikes are also happening in lineage 2 for me, another ncsoft game.

I'm currently having issues with just about everything CoH related. At about 4:00am EST I was participating in a LAM on Virtue and had extremely bad lag. I then experience a lock up that require a reboot of my system. Later on in the day I log back in and still experiencing rubberbanding, and while teamed multiple lock ups of the game.

Then while trying to get to the CoH mainpage it took me quite a few tries before I was able to just get in but I was never able to get to the forums. I found the direct link to the forum page and was able to finally log in and check to see if anyone else is experiencing this problem.

I have also tried other servers but the problems are still the same, rubberbanding, and longer than normal load times.

Thanks

SB

I've been having all of these same issues today. Thought it was maybe an issue with my computer so I defragged, cleaned up the drive, updated everything and still wound up crashing after lots of frustrating lag. Before today CoH has never crashed. But it would completely lock up during a mission and I'd have to force quit. After two crashes and ridiculous lag I've given up on playing today. I hope it gets fixed soon.

Server: Virtue
* The buff icons were not appearing
* Powers took forever to activate
* The powers would still have the circle around them as though they were being activated (so I'd have five of them going at once)
* Animation for powers wouldn't go, but I'd hear the sound effects.
* And after lots of lag the game would eventually completely lock up then crash.

And of course, I go and take a screenshot with Netgraph on and it works just fine:

Still getting a ton of lag in-game. Almost constant packet loss, it's making the game unplayable. I did a pingpath trace, here's the result;

Tracing route to cityofheroes.com [64.25.35.107]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
  0  Anthony-PC [192.168.1.7] 
  1  192.168.1.1 
  2  192.168.2.1 
  3  10.102.0.1 
  4  10.100.20.210 
  5  ip-153.lcturbonet.com [206.159.191.153] 
  6  nv-67-77-33-221.sta.embarqhsd.net [67.77.33.221] 
  7  nv-69-69-252-229.sta.embarqhsd.net [69.69.252.229] 
  8  206-51-71-169.dsl.lightcore.net [206.51.71.169] 
  9  bb-lsvgnvxb-jx9-01-ae0.core.lightcore.net [206.51.69.157] 
 10  bb-snjucacl-jx4-02-xe-1-1-0.core.lightcore.net [206.51.69.161] 
 11  te2-1-0d0.cir1.sanjose2-ca.us.xo.net [216.156.84.13] 
 12  206.111.6.122.ptr.us.xo.net [206.111.6.122] 
 13  0.ae1.XL4.SJC7.ALTER.NET [152.63.51.41] 
 14  0.so-7-0-0.XT4.DFW9.ALTER.NET [152.63.10.13] 
 15  GigabitEthernet7-0-0.GW13.DFW9.ALTER.NET [152.63.102.221] 
 16  ncsoft-gw.customer.alter.net [152.179.113.90] 
 17     *     cityofheroes.com [64.25.35.107] 

Computing statistics for 425 seconds...
            Source to Here   This Node/Link
Hop  RTT    Lost/Sent = Pct  Lost/Sent = Pct  Address
  0                                           Anthony-PC [192.168.1.7] 
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
  1    0ms     0/ 100 =  0%     0/ 100 =  0%  192.168.1.1 
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
  2    1ms     0/ 100 =  0%     0/ 100 =  0%  192.168.2.1 
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
  3   28ms     0/ 100 =  0%     0/ 100 =  0%  10.102.0.1 
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
  4   27ms     0/ 100 =  0%     0/ 100 =  0%  10.100.20.210 
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
  5   27ms     0/ 100 =  0%     0/ 100 =  0%  ip-153.lcturbonet.com [206.159.191.153] 
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
  6   34ms     0/ 100 =  0%     0/ 100 =  0%  nv-67-77-33-221.sta.embarqhsd.net [67.77.33.221] 
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
  7   30ms     0/ 100 =  0%     0/ 100 =  0%  nv-69-69-252-229.sta.embarqhsd.net [69.69.252.229] 
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
  8   34ms     0/ 100 =  0%     0/ 100 =  0%  206-51-71-169.dsl.lightcore.net [206.51.71.169] 
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
  9   33ms     0/ 100 =  0%     0/ 100 =  0%  bb-lsvgnvxb-jx9-01-ae0.core.lightcore.net [206.51.69.157] 
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
 10   53ms     0/ 100 =  0%     0/ 100 =  0%  bb-snjucacl-jx4-02-xe-1-1-0.core.lightcore.net [206.51.69.161] 
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
 11   46ms     1/ 100 =  1%     1/ 100 =  1%  te2-1-0d0.cir1.sanjose2-ca.us.xo.net [216.156.84.13] 
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
 12   52ms     0/ 100 =  0%     0/ 100 =  0%  206.111.6.122.ptr.us.xo.net [206.111.6.122] 
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
 13   51ms     0/ 100 =  0%     0/ 100 =  0%  0.ae1.XL4.SJC7.ALTER.NET [152.63.51.41] 
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
 14   71ms     0/ 100 =  0%     0/ 100 =  0%  0.so-7-0-0.XT4.DFW9.ALTER.NET [152.63.10.13] 
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
 15   68ms     0/ 100 =  0%     0/ 100 =  0%  GigabitEthernet7-0-0.GW13.DFW9.ALTER.NET [152.63.102.221] 
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
 16  ---     100/ 100 =100%   100/ 100 =100%  ncsoft-gw.customer.alter.net [152.179.113.90] 
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
 17   98ms     0/ 100 =  0%     0/ 100 =  0%  cityofheroes.com [64.25.35.107] 

Trace complete.

Lag was crazy for me today, although I've been experiencing intermittent lag over the course of the month. Some dayas the game has been playing fine, and then at least once a week, bam, a day of lag.

Netgraph 2 looks like the spikey green ones Scharrode's posted. Ping goes as high as 500-something.

Nice that I've finally found a thread with similar problems.

Okay, this is annoying.

This is the first time I have ever had lag two days in a row. If this is the way it's going to be from now on, I have to seriously reconsider continuing my subscription to this game and spend my money somewhere else.

Fix it, or I vote with my money.

Yesterday i didnt noticed much, but today freedom is really going bad. Netgraph filled with redbars, powers 'hanging' on cast and mobs defeated yet standing.

Oh gee, another day of intermittent lag spikes. -_-; Why am I not surprised?