This maintenance should fix the extreme lag that we have been experiencing since the January 11 maintenance. If the fix is successful on Chronos, we will apply it to all other servers next.
Any chance of a double XP weekend to make up for our lost time and money?
Don't get your hopes up. I suggested double xp for the same length as the lag issues existed and refunding all xp boosts purchased within the past 2 weeks. However...that will probably never happen.
Any chance of a double XP weekend to make up for our lost time and money?
There are no plans to host double XP events in the future, but we will consider compensation of some form. Once I can get an update for that I'll let you know. For now, let's make sure this fix gets rids of the system lag that affects everyone.
Xp rune still worked as intended though.
The Runes may have been working, but they do you no good if you can't level due to extreme lag/shots not working, or you keep dying because of it.
Thanks so much for fixing this problem! I hope you will give us some form of compensation for the problems caused by these issues, they have affected everyone.
This maintenance should fix the extreme lag that we have been experiencing since the January 11 maintenance. If the fix is successful on Chronos, we will apply it to all other servers next.
Thanks Sace for testing your fix in Chronos. Always in Chronos... And Nevit Rune 100% and Rune 100% SP spend time.... And items are not refundable.
Thanks for this great experience Trully Free. It's really a great experience, one day high traffic, other day server down, other day extreme lag...
New event: Crash server. What problem will have now in Chronos? :p
Enjoy new event. It's trully free*
*In Chronos, event starts at 9.00 PST and finish at 9.05 PST. Naia event starts at some hours what Chronos. Ah no no, it's a the european server. Event starts then at 9.00 PST. :p
Ok i wish to know if this maintenence will also fix the problem with shots, because every1 is talking here about lag issues, when its no use to have no lag if you cant exp with shots on...tnx and hope you finally fix all problems.
I just love how some in this community beg for compensation whenever the slightest thing goes astray... ok, ok this was some what HUGE. Just play and have fun and stop asking for freebies, IMHO.
Sometimes we forget it is just a game. Compulsive video gaming is a modern-day psychological disorder that experts say is becoming more and more popular. The first signs of gamer addiction is the continual request for free stuff or compensation for lost gaming time. A gamer with this "problem"often become very good at asking for more of their "fix", either directly or indirectly. They may use pleading, manipulation or even threats and blaming to get it.
I just love how some in this community beg for compensation whenever the slightest thing goes astray... ok, ok this was some what HUGE. Just play and have fun and stop asking for freebies, IMHO.
Sometimes we forget it is just a game. Compulsive video gaming is a modern-day psychological disorder that experts say is becoming more and more popular. The first signs of gamer addiction is the continual request for free stuff or compensation for lost gaming time. A gamer with this "problem"often become very good at asking for more of their "fix", either directly or indirectly. They may use pleading, manipulation or even threats and blaming to get it.
It depends if you paid money for something that expires.
Say you paid for the 7 day rune but only got 5 hours of use out of it because of the server side issue. Its not the same as buying the 7 day rune and then your internet dies for a week.
When the server is marked as "Light" but you can't log in that is because we have it up on a restricted-access level only while we verify fixes. As you can see from it going down again, it's not looking good so far. :( We're still testing and trying to make it work tho, so please remain patient and cross those fingers!
I wonder why Naia seems the only server to be unaffected by this issue. I don't play on Chronos nor Magmeld, but I wish to all to be able to play again.
Here's hoping shots work now too !!!! That lag was horrid! Glad y'all found a fix for it :)
From sace's post it doesn't look good.
30 min is the expected downtime if everything goes as planned, which apparently it isn't. The extended down time comes from them testing more and then deciding which build is more stable and then rolling back the build if needed.
When the server is marked as "Light" but you can't log in that is because we have it up on a restricted-access level only while we verify fixes. As you can see from it going down again, it's not looking good so far. :( We're still testing and trying to make it work tho, so please remain patient and cross those fingers!
In a professional software environment, the appropriate recourse would be to push the last good build to production, and properly QA test a proposed future build.
Here, it looks like a poorly tested build was pushed to production, and now proper QA testing is being done after the fact.
If NC West considers itself a professional software company in the slightest, then please restore the event-enabled build to production. Yes, it means that players on Chronos would be getting fragment drops again. But, at least core functionality worked in that build.
Or.... barring proper QA etiquette, get someone who is good at spin. Call this an event where Shilen's awakening has caused instability in soul shots and healing potions. Players will hate the event, but at least not think soul shot behavior was based on technical incompetence.
you need something bigger than fingers the server propably got hacked cause wasnt laggy in game play only specific things lke ss using of mailbox saw event items from pick up etc
in a professional software environment, the appropriate recourse would be to push the last good build to production, and properly qa test a proposed future build.
Here, it looks like a poorly tested build was pushed to production, and now proper qa testing is being done after the fact.
If nc west considers itself a professional software company in the slightest, then please restore the event-enabled build to production. Yes, it means that players on chronos would be getting fragment drops again. But, at least core functionality worked in that build.
Or.... Barring proper qa etiquette, get someone who is good at spin. Call this an event where shilen's awakening has caused instability in soul shots and healing potions. Players will hate the event, but at least not think soul shot behavior was based on technical incompetence.
I'll be waiting than this maintenance will be aplicate in all server than suffering with general lag ( move, itens and performance). Good Luck for all us.
In a professional software environment, the appropriate recourse would be to push the last good build to production, and properly QA test a proposed future build.
Here, it looks like a poorly tested build was pushed to production, and now proper QA testing is being done after the fact.
If NC West considers itself a professional software company in the slightest, then please restore the event-enabled build to production. Yes, it means that players on Chronos would be getting fragment drops again. But, at least core functionality worked in that build.
Or.... barring proper QA etiquette, get someone who is good at spin. Call this an event where Shilen's awakening has caused instability in soul shots and healing potions. Players will hate the event, but at least not think soul shot behavior was based on technical incompetence.
What makes you think NCSoft is going to start taking advice on how to run this game now?
Looks like you're right, Alkemist. It's already twice as long as predicted. Nope doesn't look good at all. But it's nice to know they're hard at work on the problem.
I sorta chuckle when they say 30 minutes down ..is that Game time or real life time?? if its real life time ...... ooo that is 12 hours ?? I am too tired.
Do the Math :confused:
I sorta chuckle when they say 30 minutes down ..is that Game time or real life time?? if its real life time ...... ooo that is 12 hours ?? I am too tired.
Do the Math :confused:
if you're an old l2 player this is nothing uncommon. still I still complain when a something is take longer than what was said.
I sorta chuckle when they say 30 minutes down ..is that Game time or real life time?? if its real life time ...... ooo that is 12 hours ?? I am too tired.
Do the Math :confused:
Yes, because having it come back up exactly at 30 mins and still be a mess is SUCH a better option
Looks like you're right, Alkemist. It's already twice as long as predicted. Nope doesn't look good at all. But it's nice to know they're hard at work on the problem.
All I can say is I'm good at breaking stuff, but this time it wasn't me! Maybe the server hamster misses xmas and wants it's tree back!
If any of you are old Sieghartz players, you should be very familiar with this ss lag, we had it throughout prelude while other server are playing with ss just fine.
As with many others who played before L2 was free I am disapointed. But you ppl are playing a game, get over it, leave your house and meet people face to face. I love L2, but I'm not going to harp on the people who do this for a living. I am sure they have put in countless hours trying to fix the problem. I would rather they find the solution then spend time reading all these ignorant posts.
Worst case scenario - the dev team will need to provide a rework. Compensation would be nice, bought 400nc coins for one of those skill agathions which up until now, has gone almost unused.
They should just revert the game back to the way it was prior to wednesdays mantinence...that way whatever it is that was applied gets fixed before being applied to the servers.
As with many others who played before L2 was free I am disapointed. But you ppl are playing a game, get over it, leave your house and meet people face to face. I love L2, but I'm not going to harp on the people who do this for a living. I am sure they have put in countless hours trying to fix the problem. I would rather they find the solution then spend time reading all these ignorant posts.
levi please...dont say we all put ignorant posts... Thats why its called "forums"; for people to post whatever they feel, think, etc... ur showing your ignorance by not knowing this... and ncsoft make this "forums" exactly to spend time reading and feeding back on all players... so you go and meet people face to face, and dont come in here with those comments... no offense of course.
levi please...dont say we all put ignorant posts... Thats why its called "forums"; for people to post whatever they feel, think, etc... ur showing your ignorance by not knowing this... and ncsoft make this "forums" exactly to spend time reading and feeding back on all players... so you go and meet people face to face, and dont come in here with those comments... no offense of course.
Pffff, i'll give you my 10 points but it's not Taringa!
The server is back up, however we could not confirm a fix for the lag. The fix instead caused various crashes despite rollback attempts. For now, it looks to be staying up with crashing, but again, the lag is not fixed. :( We'll continue to work with the devs on getting a fix for this.
Hey Zoph! lol its Nadia was just reading to see how maint is doing dont look to promising according to sace message =( I hope they get it up and running.
The server is back up, however we could not confirm a fix for the lag. The fix instead caused various crashes despite rollback attempts. For now, it looks to be staying up with crashing, but again, the lag is not fixed. :( We'll continue to work with the devs on getting a fix for this.
The server is back up, however we could not confirm a fix for the lag. The fix instead caused various crashes despite rollback attempts. For now, it looks to be staying up with crashing, but again, the lag is not fixed. :( We'll continue to work with the devs on getting a fix for this.
So now we have both Item Server lags AND crashes?
Hello,
this event reminds me on the beastfarm update,when the "dev" reminded us of the benfit to overhit mobs for better rewards,haha.
Now u cant use soulshots properly (all inventory item/npc are lagged) but can same easily exp just by spaming skills. Its an (i hope) unwillingly way to show us what really matters to be successfull in this game nowadays. The usage of skills is the main key now which i find a very big improvement in this update. If I dont use the right skills in certain situations, I wont survive long :)
I noticed in the very first moment that gear and element power was reduced to the usage of specific skills compare to the way the game worked before.
Its perfect moment now for us players to finally understand all of our new skills and its a bit stressfull time for the workers of ncoft who resonsible to repair this error but doing their best (i hope).Just a thought,have fun
The server is back up, however we could not confirm a fix for the lag. The fix instead caused various crashes despite rollback attempts. For now, it looks to be staying up with crashing, but again, the lag is not fixed. :( We'll continue to work with the devs on getting a fix for this.
The fix instead caused various crashes
you sure you can call that a fix lol?
The server is back up, however we could not confirm a fix for the lag. The fix instead caused various crashes despite rollback attempts. For now, it looks to be staying up with crashing, but again, the lag is not fixed. :( We'll continue to work with the devs on getting a fix for this.
OK OK OK...We get the point... LOL turn the server back on! WE WILL PAY PER MONTH!!!:D
Love this trail and error technique being used by professionals lol what try are we on now? 74? and the attempt just made the game worse - D3 needs to come out sooner
thats y the server is down to fix that problem the shot issue is part of the lag i just hope it works when it comes up
Here's hoping shots work now too !!!! That lag was horrid! Glad y'all found a fix for it :)
what part of the lag issue do you not get? The part where EVERYTHING is delayed by lag or the part where SHOTS are part of the EVERYTHING that is delayed. Some of it has short delays and some have very long delays that make it seem like they don't work at all ie..SHOTS.
take yur time ncsoft, i'd rather servers to be down and the issue to be fixed :p
ss were working last night as well. that doesnt necesarily mean everything is fixed. let us wait and see before we start piling on the praise.
Server is up again and seems to be surviving. We're continuing to monitor it closely.
Awesome, seems working well for me and my wife, however, i saw a post from you saying that no xp bonus was planned for everyone that was unable to play for ~4 days. i supported ncsoft during this situation, and i think that everyone ESPECIALLY those that purchased time sensitive items (not to mention those that missed out on event items), should get some form of compensation.
NCSoft needs to start thinking about their clients. The last person I'd want to piss off and alienate would be those that are spending money purchasing NCCoin.
You need to figure out some form of compensation and implement it quick. thats my 2 cents.
thanks again for the the fix, /very happy to be able to play again!
NCfail must really be cutting costs these days if they can't test a fix on (what used to be?) the PTS server anymore ...
now they have to test fixes on LIVE servers instead...
the word 'incompetent' comes to mind
If you had any knowledge of servers you'd know that no matter how much you test on "test" equipment, you will still have to test it on production equipment, to make sure the fix actually works
Never thought I would say this, but... They were right, the game went free to play and it turned into a private server (Lags, Sucky Events, Random Server Crashes, Awful Playerbase...)
i hope they refund 50% XP runes or give everyone a free rune becauses its been like this for at least 3 days so 45% of the time paid for that item has gone to waste...
Maybe the should call you to fix it? You know so much about the problem, and how "serious" they are taking this problem to be.
3 days?don't really look serious,don't be a nut hugger won't take you anywhere.
do you know how many people are wasting 7 days runes?just cause can't exp?
it's just stupid you say such a thing like that,if they were working right and doing their jobs,we won't have like 10 times restart per day and a lot of lag.How do you expect we play TW/Siege tomorrow?
Everything was working and then we crash!! Why? Please explain.
honestly would it have been so difficult to announce a server downtime/restart? servers dont just restart on their own (yours dont anyways) someone hit a button, we could have been informed. i enjoy the drama, but wtf.
Why not remove the event item. Tersi’s Light Agathions from the game. Without fragments dropping anymore there's no reason to have it summoned. It could be possible that when more then 400 are out and the continent is filled with light could be causing an issue with the fragments no longer dropping. Having the continent filled with light was only to effect fragment drops. The only time I had lag with SS is when server was more crowded and more people had the Agathion summoned out.
Maybe if enough people complain about ncsoft and complain that the server is down again they will work harder to fix it.....
Everyone needs to learn how to deal. They will have it up when they have it up.
maybe if enough people complain about people complaining, more people will complain about the complainers and then maybe we can spawn a whole group of people who complain about the complainers complaining about the other complainers. maybe, lets give it a try
maybe if enough people complain about people complaining, more people will complain about the complainers and then maybe we can spawn a whole group of people who complain about the complainers complaining about the other complainers. maybe, lets give it a try
We're looking into the crash and we'll get Chronos back online ASAP!
i wonder how much u get paid to put up with all this lol i feel sorry for u cause its out of ur control but ur the middleman between a terrible company and a angry mob of players lol
btw any news on compensation yet? another week of vit event? full vit for 3 days considering we lost 3 days of playing?
Should really just remove the little agathions... Honestly at this point it's better to take em out and make all the random afk'd accounts go bye bye and it'll free up server pop
Why not remove the event item. Tersi’s Light Agathions from the game. Without fragments dropping anymore there's no reason to have it summoned. It could be possible that when more then 400 are out and the continent is filled with light could be causing an issue with the fragments no longer dropping. Having the continent filled with light was only to effect fragment drops. The only time I had lag with SS is when server was more crowded and more people had the Agathion summoned out.
spectres stil drop tradeable buff scrolls even if not levelled up.
3 days?don't really look serious,don't be a nut hugger won't take you anywhere.
do you know how many people are wasting 7 days runes?just cause can't exp?
it's just stupid you say such a thing like that,if they were working right and doing their jobs,we won't have like 10 times restart per day and a lot of lag.How do you expect we play TW/Siege tomorrow?
You do not understand the nature of the problem they are facing, so you have no authority to speak about whether or not they are taking the problem seriously.
And, I am not 'hugging nuts', I am stating something rather obvious, namely, that no one who is complaining about these issues has the remotest of ideas of how these systems work, the nature of the problem, and the process they employ to solve these things. Instead, everyone is acting rather self-interestedly and complaining about their lost money, etc. I did not say anything about people not being refunded for their lost money, I agree with you, they should be compensated. But for you to insult them, telling them they do not know what hey are doing, and they should find someone who can, is just plain ignorant. Wake up.
I don't care if I do or don't play TW or Sieges over the weekend, I can wait another two weeks. Can you? And here my point above comes back. Your concern is for YOUR money and YOUR play time. NC is working on the problem, that's clear, and you think too highly of yourself, so much that you come here and post naive comments about their capacities as employees for an industry you have no knowledge of. (Maybe you do indeed, however, your comments emit ignorance and not knowledge). Relax, read a book, take a nap, do the dirty, I don't care. Just don't try and tell me what I said was stupid, when in fact, your comment is not justified by any means.
stopping the event is fine with me as well as im sure more than 50% of players. just dont take the items out yet especially since we havent even been able to play long enough to use the ones we currently have.
Everyone wants ss fixed and lag fixed, but no one wants the server to be down to do so. So basically what does everyone want a server with no ss and unbearable lag which u cannot really lvl right in or a fixed server so you can play as normal. Technically issues happen in today's world of technology, half of you are from pserver so you even know shxt happen. Be happy you have something to play.
server back up, ss seem to be working like they were before unannounced restart after 15mins ingame, and thanks again for the roll back, just lost another 15mins and quest items/xp. a simple announcement would have prevented that, but why bother typing anything in gm announcement. sweet.
We're looking into the crash and we'll get Chronos back online ASAP!
If everyone got there accounts hacked and stripped and then told there is nothing they can do, trust me they wouldn't care if the server worked or not.
server back up, ss seem to be working like they were before unannounced restart after 15mins ingame, and thanks again for the roll back, just lost another 15mins and quest items/xp. a simple announcement would have prevented that, but why bother typing anything in gm announcement. sweet.
How do they announce a crash before it happens? I don't think they have the money to employ a full time psychic.
There are no plans to host double XP events in the future, but we will consider compensation of some form. Once I can get an update for that I'll let you know. For now, let's make sure this fix gets rids of the system lag that affects everyone.
The big question is what sort of compensation is going to be given to those who bought XP runes, still had/have time, but were unable to really put them to use because of the state of the servers?
It may seem like one headache after another. However, many of use who do buy XP runes, and would like to reap their benefit, become miffed when we really do not have the ability to use them to full effect.
How do they announce a crash before it happens? I don't think they have the money to employ a full time psychic.
i didnt mention the word crash, i think i said restart. if server crashes, i can understand that, you are saying that it did. Even if Sace had gotten on and said, hey sorry had a server crash going to have it back up asafp, that would be cool too.
either way, crash or not, we should be informed.
by the way, how much would it cost to employ a full time psychic (or even a part time one).
The big question is what sort of compensation is going to be given to those who bought XP runes, still had/have time, but were unable to really put them to use because of the state of the servers?
It may seem like one headache after another. However, many of use who do buy XP runes, and would like to reap their benefit, become miffed when we really do not have the ability to use them to full effect.
Thanks in advance.
As posted previously, we'll consider compensation once the lag issue has been fixed on all servers. Only then will we know the full impact of the issue, and that influences the consideration.
Im glad I was busy tonoght and couldnt play. I would prob be frustrated like the rest of you. Instead I got a T time for 1030 tomorrow and plan on enjoying some fresh air and sunshine.
As the lag fix does seem to have improved the situation, it is going to be implemented to the rest of the servers over the next couple of hours. Please see this post (http://boards.lineage2.com/showthread.php?t=229343) for more updates on those maintenances.
The server still got problems i suggest you try to find and fix the problem.shots still not working and you are facing problems that are very often in pirate private servers.do not hesitate to ask for help if you can not find out what the problem is.
my reguards and wishes for the problems to be solved.:)
The server still got problems i suggest you try to find and fix the problem.shots still not working and you are facing problems that are very often in pirate private servers.do not hesitate to ask for help if you can not find out what the problem is.
my reguards and wishes for the problems to be solved.:)
Yeah, Soulshot lag is annoying, yeah. Time to consult outside help I guess.
Seems SS lag is after 5k ppl online. Maybe server hardware needs an upgrade.
get rid of the having to be logged in for mentee/mentor buffs to be applied and add vitality regen while logged out. this will make many ppl log out for sure.
Just finished my Swamp daily, took me 1 hour 30 mins to do it. Soulshots work once out of 10 hits if that, spiritshots work once out of 5. The teleport device at DE village was not working for like 10 mins. 5 second delay between picking up adena and seeing it appear in the chat box. Disconnected when i returned myself to hand in the quest.
Really awesome job you guys did on fixing the server, you deserve a rise in your wages ... really.
i know how to get a fix by tomorrow.
if we all go to NC West HQ and riot, they will all of a sudden have a fix for all of the lag issues across all the servers the bug is affecting. NC doesn't have enough motivation to get things done as far as i can tell. I've been playing NC games for going on 12-13 years now, and money was never much of a motivator for NC.
seriously how hard is it to write a simple script that kick every lvl1 char with the summon out from server..
The fact that you think that server population has anything to do with this is laughable. The server used to be capped at 6700 and there wasn't lag. Even the week before they cut the event short on Chronos and Naia (when the servers were pretty much ALWAYS at cap) there was no lag. Kicking level 1's out will do nothing.
The fact that you think that server population has anything to do with this is laughable. The server used to be capped at 6700 and there wasn't lag. Even the week before they cut the event short on Chronos and Naia (when the servers were pretty much ALWAYS at cap) there was no lag. Kicking level 1's out will do nothing.
Yes, people seem to have really short memory. We were completely fine with lag until after last maintenance. Before it we had tons of more event farmers and the servers were almost full constantly but without lag. Shrinking the population now won't solve the underlying problems.
In a professional software environment, the appropriate recourse would be to push the last good build to production, and properly QA test a proposed future build.
Here, it looks like a poorly tested build was pushed to production, and now proper QA testing is being done after the fact.
If NC West considers itself a professional software company in the slightest, then please restore the event-enabled build to production. Yes, it means that players on Chronos would be getting fragment drops again. But, at least core functionality worked in that build.
Or.... barring proper QA etiquette, get someone who is good at spin. Call this an event where Shilen's awakening has caused instability in soul shots and healing potions. Players will hate the event, but at least not think soul shot behavior was based on technical incompetence.
Did anyone at NCSoft even read this? It's software dev 101. Roll the server back to last known good state and work from there. I have played this game for 6+ years on and off and this is not unprecedented I know, but at least learn something from past mistakes. It's called SVN use it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Subversion Hey its free to play too....
Soulshots working here and there for a bit then goes back to major delays, health pots doing the same thing as well, click on it, 10 seconds or so later it kicks in.
Skills,etc seems to be working on the money but SS and health pots? no sir.
movement seems to have no lag issues here.
First I thought It had to do some major ping issues, I even re-installed my comp, thought it could have been my comp with anti-virus,etc,etc, nope.
I hope to see the sever back up 100%.
What they seriously need to do is a MAJOR League Overhaul on the server upgrade to accommodate more and more players instead of server heavy all the time, very heavy traffic on the game servers.
Off topic here for a sec: SilkRoad Online had same problem, all servers were always at maxed out capacity and no one was able to log in and many players left the game, however at least in silkroad online you can be in the queue if you are unable to log in, once next in the queue, your logged in, I wished l2 had this implemented feature, would be nice.
Would be nice to see how many people are on, on the servers themselves out of the maxed capacity that the server can hold like silkroad does.
But I rather choose l2 any day of the week over silkroad but thats just me, been playing since beta basically(ati 9800xt time :))
I knew 100% that after the god expansion update, ALL servers would be overloaded and heavily congested, guess my assumption was right after all.
Well I have 6 charcs on cronus, I created the other 4-5's cause of the double exp and sp event before god expansion, but now working on my destroyer to lv 76 to obtain grade s, and working on tyrant to lv 61 for a grade, looks like I wont be able to anytime soon, darn.
Soulshots working here and there for a bit then goes back to major delays, health pots doing the same thing as well, click on it, 10 seconds or so later it kicks in.
Skills,etc seems to be working on the money but SS and health pots? no sir.
movement seems to have no lag issues here.
First I thought It had to do some major ping issues, I even re-installed my comp, thought it could have been my comp with anti-virus,etc,etc, nope.
I hope to see the sever back up 100%.
What they seriously need to do is a MAJOR League Overhaul on the server upgrade to accommodate more and more players instead of server heavy all the time, very heavy traffic on the game servers.
Off topic here for a sec: SilkRoad Online had same problem, all servers were always at maxed out capacity and no one was able to log in and many players left the game, however at least in silkroad online you can be in the queue if you are unable to log in, once next in the queue, your logged in, I wished l2 had this implemented feature, would be nice.
Would be nice to see how many people are on, on the servers themselves out of the maxed capacity that the server can hold like silkroad does.
But I rather choose l2 any day of the week over silkroad but thats just me, been playing since beta basically(ati 9800xt time :))
I knew 100% that after the god expansion update, ALL servers would be overloaded and heavily congested, guess my assumption was right after all.
Well I have 6 charcs on cronus, I created the other 4-5's cause of the double exp and sp event before god expansion, but now working on my destroyer to lv 76 to obtain grade s, and working on tyrant to lv 61 for a grade, looks like I wont be able to anytime soon, darn.
Didn't we have this same issue a couple years back... massive lag and shots not working... NCSoft, just take a look in your old maintenance logs for the fix.
#1 move server back to event state b4 everything went nutz and let the event end normally. I would rather try to login for an 20 minutes vs not playing at all due to shot and other lag.
#2 revise mentoring system so that you get buffs of X duration so the mentor doesn't have to be on 24/7 or hey if they are so anxious to get ppl to be awakened just make it so the mentees have buffs regardless of whether the Mentor is logged in or not OR start ppl at 85.
#3 snag the TI bots. You know they are there they all run on a similar path!
#4 Put one server up that is pay to play for us people that don't want to put up with the free to play crowd and all associated with it.
The fact that you think that server population has anything to do with this is laughable. The server used to be capped at 6700 and there wasn't lag. Even the week before they cut the event short on Chronos and Naia (when the servers were pretty much ALWAYS at cap) there was no lag. Kicking level 1's out will do nothing. (posted by another)
This is what i have been saying all along.... even with event items on the go, all was fine before the maintenence. I swear something has been mucked up on the item server...... event was meant to be removed wasnt it? yet we still have half of it and now also problems with all items.
Played this game for over 4 years.... events dont do this kind of damage.
As for the suggestion of a que to get in game..... it would work for the bots for sure, for innocent players like us? nope!<!-- / message -->
I've been doing aa bit of reading on people's opinions due to this massive problems on Chronos server as well as a couple of the others that seem to be experiencing the "lag issue" and how people are in belief that its due to the amount of players on said servers.
While the amount of players may have a role to play in maxing out the servers, this is definately a software issue and not on the players end either. The game ran fine until maintenance, where upon we started to have the issues of lag, pot lag, item lag, etc.
Here are in my belief, the way to fix them.....
1. NC must examine what the differances were between the fully functional software and the updated software they had for the game and that should help narrow down the areas to check on what miight be causing the glitches.
2. As for everyone's views on the increase server capacity, NC would have to go buy all new hardware, configure the software database over to these enlargened servers and then send it live. By doing so, we'd still maintain all of our toons but then there would be an increased capacity available on the servers, possibly helping allow more people to be able to log in to their accounts.
3. With doing so from part 2, NC could look into making new servers offering COMPLETE character transfer's over to new server (ie: If new said server was called Rockhorn, then someone wishing to transfer their character over to there from lets say Chronos, would be allowed to do such and ALL items on character and in private WH would transfer aswell). Now they'd have to put a catch in there obviously, so lets make it that "Rockhorn" would be only available for Character transfer. This being done allows the load to be lightened possibly on other servers and then noone is going out and making brand new toons but still able to use their original toon and continue on in their processes.
Talking about while you are on the game and going to pick a server to jump on.
Interesting, can this specific site can be found by browsing ncsoft or l2 site?
It is complete unaffiliated with ncsoft/L2. So i guess its sounds as if you are worried about trusting it etc, use at your own risk, i use it all the time, it looks like i have javascript enable but blocked cookies and flash on it. I'm use google chrome.
I have no idea how it works etc, I got the link from another forum page somewhere here.
I'm kinda surprised to not here the most likely cause. I noticed just now that the specter of light is lagging very severely. As in the primary thing thats lagging like crazy. I've also noted folks playing the mini game in an automated manner.
I suspect a new program came out thats crashing the server. Or the process in which an existing program plays the game is creating excessive lag on the server.
The only actions that really seem laggy is activating the specters, and picking up items. Not brave enough to test combat.
there is lag on everything..changing sub for 5 mins ? Talking to NPC and getting quest update after 3 mins ? Something is realy wrong and i dont think its cause of external programs...maybe DDOS ?
Just roll back the servers to the start of the event. also make it so only level 40 and up can do the event. Everything will be fine then. Unless you have just screwed the software up . LOL. I was still having problems at 4 pm eastern when I logged off to watch NFL playoffs.
I cant get back into Chronos at 1030 PM cause it is full. Go figure........
This event cost me alot of exp and also my items expired and I did not get full use of them....
O well.. Go NC. I hope you figure out what the problem is.
there is lag on everything..changing sub for 5 mins ? Talking to NPC and getting quest update after 3 mins ? Something is realy wrong and i dont think its cause of external programs...maybe DDOS ?
DDOS you would not be able to connect to server at all not just lag some parts of the game out. They just managed to destroy their own server with a stupid event.
Hi...
I do not know if this is right place to post.
:confused:
From yesterday to today some of my items are gone.
Eg: Adena, Soul Shots S, Weapons, and some others.
From bag and wherehouse.
DDOS you would not be able to connect to server at all not just lag some parts of the game out. They just managed to destroy their own server with a stupid event.
not entirely true...you would experience lags as well..all just question of size of DDOS...if like 2-5 GB..you connect but laggy as hell..when more than 10 GB..they kill DNS server and bb :D
not entirely true...you would experience lags as well..all just question of size of DDOS...if like 2-5 GB..you connect but laggy as hell..when more than 10 GB..they kill DNS server and bb :D
to be honest it almost sounds like a DDOS attack from the way you described it