Tota

Well, i just want to know how you feel about SOE playing along with us since nearly 8months. In my opinion i would like to see them stopping to work on progression on add ons. I heard rumors about lags on english servers (with no localization) are minimal in comparison with for example german servers i'm playing on. so maybe its not that important for you as for me, but as i said for 8months, i love to see anyone from soe posting here the truth about their/our lagproblem.

Feel free to discuss

Morara

They should drop the translator completely on the European Servers. It doesn't seem to serve any purpose other than to complicate targeting, add lag, and poorly translate the UI.

Some manual localization of the UI would solve the problems completely.

The weird thing is that Sebilis (Japanese PvE) doesn't have that kind of lag, which makes me think the translator isn't running.

Pinski

Your rumours of minimal lag on english servers is completely incorrect. We get the same lag as you.

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Morara

English server lag is entirely different. The lag generated by 5 raids in a zone on an English server can be equated to a single group on a French or German server.

Pinski

You don't need 5 lags in a zone to create lag on an English server. 1 raid is more than enough. I saw the Innovation Growth video, and get this, that's normal lag on Nektulos with 1 raid in the zone.

The lag is not because of translation, it is the same damn lag on the English servers.

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Vegaxe

WTB more gerbil ram!

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Tota

The biggest problem i have isn't which server is the NorrathianLagKing, for me the most important thing is : when do we get playable raidservers ? 8 months with lag and without any useful help or information ist not even remotely imaginable.

Angelys

8 months? Storms has been laggy for 18 months now, it started back in T6! I remember not being able to cast on the black queen more than once every 10 seconds sometimes, and burning the captain in Fountain of Life was impossible most of the time...

I've lost all hopes of playing on a non-laggy server now. =\

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Tuna

Seriously Pinski, you have no idea what you're talking about.

There's enough people who got toons on French/German AND on English servers and they all say the lag on the non-English servers is ridiciulous.
I play on Splitpaw and while SP does have its bad days with lots of lag it's in no way comparable to the French and German servers I've tried.

Hell, a while ago I even checked French and German servers for raid guilds in need of a Briggy and their reply was: "Don't transfer! I'd have left this server a long time ago if not for my guild."

Pity really... Claws of Veeshan sounded like a nice guild.


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Yea, sometimes I think that Pinski just has to whine about everything SoE related. Makes me wonder why he still plays this game if he has such a bad opinion of the company that runs it. He must live a sad sad life.

I have played on both the Japanese and English servers and haven't noticed any difference in lag, though I have not raided on the Japanese server and that's the only time I experiance lag on AB. Really the only zones I lag in are HoS, occasionally LoA, CMM and MMIS. And it's the lag in LoA that really frustrates me.. *cry* It totally ruins my Defiler DPS!

The way you are all talking it sounds like the lag is a huge and consistant issue, the only time I've had lag that is like described (one spell every 10 seconds) is right before what ever zone we're in crashes. I remember MMIS going down one night right as we pulled Mayong. /sigh Of course you know the GMs wouldn't let us back in.

So is the lag situation (not related to the translator please) constant and everywhere? Limited to a few zones with problems? As I mentioned earlier on AB those 4 zones are the ones we have the most consistant problem with. Is it the same on other servers? Is it possibly that those zone servers in our AB cluster need replaced/upgraded.... OR is it that the code for those zones is buggy? I bet if we put our heads together we could atleast come up with an idea we could give SoE on how to solve our problem.

On the topic of translator lag I can imagine something like that causing some issues, but I have never to my knowledge played on a server with a translator enabled so have no idea of how it works. But I know in FFXI the 'translator' there was really just pre-written phrases that were localized for the client and if you didn't use the pre-written phrases what ever you typed wasn't 'auto translated'. How does EQ2s work? Is it used much?