Lag on Excal, Saturday evening

[Svartmetall]

Constant lag spikes, constant as in every 40-50 seconds, red lag and everyone frozen for 5-10 seconds. ML4 and ML5 raids have been called off because of the lag. Guildies are logging because the game is unplayable.

This has gone beyond a joke. GOA, please check your terms of service agreement with OT, because they are manifestly not competent to provide the service you need.

 

[Draylor]

Ping plotter running for last 3hours+ shows a lag spike every 4-5minutes.

Unplayable.

 

[FoxeH]

been awful all day

 

[Xarnus]

Lagging in fights, next thing i see im dead, falling off boats,... this has gone from slightly annoying to simply unplayable.

 

[Grimmen]

idd I really needed that ML4 which btw is a raid that is rarely done and I called off everything for it. Now I am not sure I can call off my meeting I have tomorrow at the same time ML4 is supposed to be done instead.

This really takes the piss

 

[Funkybunny]

yep.. i think we should get a couple of free days each for this!

 

[popa]

if u dont like dont pay maybit goa move a bit

 

[Wert]

Hmph, well what will you do, i know, lets leave DAoC and make them go bankrupt

 

[Quixor]

woot NF lag due to all 3 realms zergin... fun!

This lag sux, im runnin along and all of a suddn im dead with about 2 fg of mids/hibs standin ova me! NF Needs more server space GOA! get rid of those crappy lower lvl bg's!!!

 

[Lakashnik]

dude. im lagging everywer and anywer every few minutes
so is every1 by me. its not just in the frontiers.
its in bgs frontiers dungeons everywer.
hell was doing some friendly duels earlier in gothwaite harbour and laggg.
i have given up playing 2nite and hope it well be bit better tomoz. altho not counting on it.
but yeah. the lagg is intolerably stupid.

 

[Lakashnik]

yep.. i think we should get a couple of free days each for this!

i would rather have them fix the problem than get a couple of free days of an unplayable game.

 

[Daedalus]

I recently did a defragmentation.
That and putting Cache Armor Skins only instead of Full Caching seemed to help a lot.

 

[Litmus]

aye, totaly pathetic..

happeneing on prydwen too

 

[Svartmetall]

Ended up logging, game is unplayable. Fucking incompetent ***** at Opentransit should be fired for providing such a shitty "service", it's totally unacceptable.

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[Jinxster]

Lag Lag Lag

I've played DAOC for two years and never L'D before NF came out. It's not even when I'm in NF, it can be anywhere at any location either in Classic, SI, TOA or NF. It's not just me, it is everyone I am ever grouped with, from all over Europe, even solo'ing you do not escape the lag spikes every 3-5 minutes. Sort it out quickly GOA before WoW comes out or this will be another long term customer you will have lost!!!

I love the game but this is simply not playable and I'm not paying eight pounds a month to play on this laggy shite!!

SORT IT

Jinxster - Warden (50) rr3 ml4
Jnx - Void Eld (44) rr2 ml1

 

[Flimgoblin]

hope you got some pingplots.

Jinxster - https://forums.freddyshouse.com/showthread.php?t=40615

news said they'd sent some reports to OT - lets hope something gets done about it soon

 

[Skilgannon]

As paying customers we deserve at the very least a public statement from GoA as to what is happening and what measures they are taking to resolve it.

Totally unacceptable atm.

 

[Svartmetall]

I have screenies of the solid red lag - 19 instances (and I missed a few due to typing other stuff, plus were many more before I thought to start logging it via screenshot) in two and a quarter hours according to the in-game clock. On each and every instance I was frozen solid for nearly 10 seconds. Happened to everyone else in my group, from all over Europe, at the same time.

I will never play another game hosted by GOA. This is just unacceptable.

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[jokke]

its a shame to see a great game like daoc go down like this

 

[Succi]

played on both english servers today , both total shite connection

get your act together goa

 

[Draylor]

Unplayable.

Well I said that, then played another few hours tonight.

Lag spikes every 5minutes or so, constantly losing stick, having to wait for LDs at least every half hour - dunno why I bothered but just about managed to have fun despite it.

Just about: but lets hope its sorted out soon, it really is beyond a joke now.

 

[Fana]

Was indeed pretty much unplayable today, even crafting was no use since you would end up cancelling your production alot. And RvR was beyond a joke, ld or "connection reset by server" every 4-5min for most of my grp.

 

[IainC]

As paying customers we deserve at the very least a public statement from GoA as to what is happening and what measures they are taking to resolve it.

Totally unacceptable atm.

We have, it was in the latest Friday News.
Have you run a pingplot to see where the lag is originating from? The people who have posted in the pingplot sticky thread about the lag this weekend suggest it's a couple of routers in Amsterdam and a router in Paris.

I understand it's frustrating playing under these conditions however we at Goa are doing as much as we can to sort it out. You have to realise that the issues are outside our network and as such we have to report them to the admins of the companies running the affected hubs and get them to act. Not easy unless you can prove to them that their equipment is causing a problem.

 

[jokke]

OpenTransit Network
Some lag issues are sometimes due to network problems, mainly for players that connect out of France. We thank all those who reported the problem to us and provided ping plots. They have been transmitted to OpenTransit who will analyse them and will be taking the necessary measures to enhance the traffic quality.



it affects 99,9% of the players where i play

 

[Dreamor]

Is there anyway that we can make a formal complaint? The lag now is just making it unplayable at the moment.

 

[Castus]

We have, it was in the latest Friday News.
Have you run a pingplot to see where the lag is originating from? The people who have posted in the pingplot sticky thread about the lag this weekend suggest it's a couple of routers in Amsterdam and a router in Paris.

I understand it's frustrating playing under these conditions however we at Goa are doing as much as we can to sort it out. You have to realise that the issues are outside our network and as such we have to report them to the admins of the companies running the affected hubs and get them to act. Not easy unless you can prove to them that their equipment is causing a problem.

Maybe they should add a ping plot guide into the game cd now and a disclaimer on the cover ' game is laggy and we expect you to submit ping plots '.It`s not up to the PAYING customers to provide your evidence.It`s not the odd one or two who have very bad lag/spikes.Give OT a copy of the game and let them try play it a week if they need proof.Do they sit there when GOA mention the lag issues over tea and biccies and say we are all lying and making it up?

 

[Edaemos]

The lag is even worse today, its really appauling that a game is unplayable at the weekend due to lag, complete rubbish.

 

[Neffneff]

Suppying evidence of faults/bugs is something i expect to do in a beta test..not on nearly 3 year old full release. i understand the problem may not be directly your fault...but it IS DIRECTLY affecting your product, and hence imo should be top priority before all else. it's getting ridiculous..i cant even communicate the fristration i felt earlier today trying to get SoM done for hours on end..most of the time eaten up by deaths from lag, and LDs.

 

[scorge]

We have, it was in the latest Friday News.
Have you run a pingplot to see where the lag is originating from? The people who have posted in the pingplot sticky thread about the lag this weekend suggest it's a couple of routers in Amsterdam and a router in Paris.

I understand it's frustrating playing under these conditions however we at Goa are doing as much as we can to sort it out. You have to realise that the issues are outside our network and as such we have to report them to the admins of the companies running the affected hubs and get them to act. Not easy unless you can prove to them that their equipment is causing a problem.

Requiel is only trying to help, so please no one have a go at him for the Lag

As for sending pingplots in, done that. I play the game for fun, but when it requires me to do more work than fun to play they game, then i think it might be time to take a break till its fixed or move on to something new.

I know it helps but you shouldn't expect your customers to send ping plots in. What do we get for using our time to send the plots in and help you resolve the problem, we get the privalige of playing a game we pay for, sounds a bit cheeky

I understand it's frustrating playing under these conditions

Its not frustrating its unplayable.

You have to realise that the issues are outside our network and as such we have to report them to the admins of the companies running the affected hubs and get them to act. Not easy unless you can prove to them that their equipment is causing a problem.

I think most people are beginning to realise that now, unfortunetly we do not pay opentransit a monthy fee.

You have reported it what a month ago? if so Opentransit must have come back with a responce It just shows you what relationship GoA have with OT if you have to prove the is a problem, sounds like opentransit dont think there is one, or cannot seem to find it

What are GoA going to do if OT say that they cannot undo the "Maintenace" that was carried out, the "Maintenance" benefits 99% of other companies who pay xxx € million more than it does GoA. If they undo "the maintance", OT will lose more money. Highly unlikely but possible, Now do yo think GoA as a company would tell its customers that the lag is never going to go away because OT cannot change it. Or do you think they would keep Customers hoping that it would go away, each month collecting the subscription fee, until it no longer was profitable to keep the servers running?

I like most people have set our subscription renew to "none", i like DAOC think its a great game. But dont expect to get my money for something that causes more frustration than fun. If for some reason my subscription is renewed without my authorisation then expect

 

[Culanan]

We have, it was in the latest Friday News.
Have you run a pingplot to see where the lag is originating from? The people who have posted in the pingplot sticky thread about the lag this weekend suggest it's a couple of routers in Amsterdam and a router in Paris.

I understand it's frustrating playing under these conditions however we at Goa are doing as much as we can to sort it out. You have to realise that the issues are outside our network and as such we have to report them to the admins of the companies running the affected hubs and get them to act. Not easy unless you can prove to them that their equipment is causing a problem.

Are they unable to see it themselves? Surely such a major provider would be able to investigate a complaint and see where the problem originates?
Unless ofc they didn't pay the monkeys who run their equipment enough bananas last month and they've gone on strike