Hi everybody! I am starting this in order to complain for the poor client policy of the Admins of Lineage 2. I wonder what is so special in this game that in order to join the Naia server you have to write down the code over 20 times each night so to accidently join in. Then you go to aden to do your kartia daily and the moment you check out a shop the game crashes again and another 20 attempts are required to join server. Lolz! I really wonder (addressing the developers) you folks havent you made enough money already from all those years that lineage community flourishes to buy decent servers that could manage all the players who just want to join after a heavy day at work and relax a bit? Also(addressing players ) who would be dam enough to give real money to a game that can play only when everybody is at work or during late night hours?To your information there are less known but still very nice free to play mmorpgs that never have that kind of heavy traffic and they respect their future clients!
You must understand that the "Bots" as you call them are actually buying items from the store. (vita pops i guess) And the development of Lineage: Eternal or Blade and Soul require a lot of money.
Another plus is that they are excellent comunity ... they will never qq on forum, they exping effectively, spend RL money, they dont require any attention or instructions for noobs how to play, so they are make the CM/Admins live a lot easier.
Every gaming company loves these players. (it would be stupid not to)
I rarelly complain about full server traffic, but this moment I am on edge!
It is close to impossible to login during most hours of the day and night and it's even more annoying when you manage to login and then get D/C because the server stability is great!!!!
I'm being ironic!
Jesus christ, restart NAIA maybe? Just bring it DOWN so afk people can get the hell out of the server!
This is one of the rarest times I have complained about server status, im usually very calm.
PS; I couldn't care less about bots flooding the server. Not my problem, I just wanna log in and play. FML
i agree with skelton.... all i wanna do is play aswell, i get like 1-2 hour blocks where i can play when the kids are in bed and stuff,
and last night, i tried 20 attemps at 8pm all failed to log on, then at 10pm another 20, and all failed,
ive only been back to l2 for like a week, was realy enjoying it, but if i cant log in....i might aswell play another game.... not that i want too... i dnt have a choice..
If they increased server cap, people wouldn't be afraid to log out because they wouldn't be able to relog again for the rest of the day, thus making our life easier and less stressing. I think it makes sense.
Games are supposed to entertain us, not cause further stresss in our daily routine.
They need more servers in GMT +1 or something like this. It can't be possible that there are so less official Servers. So I could go back to the private one...
Increase the server cap back to 6000 and fix the issues with it. Server stability is below descent anyway. Random disconnects every now and then.
This is not an excuse to suffocate a bigger community in numbers just because NCWest staff can't manage issues.
It's like making a six member family that used to live in a three bedroom apartment move in a small one with nothing but a room and kitchen. You know they will fit after lot of stress and effort but it won't be exciting or pleasant at any point even after that.
Thank you NCWest for making our lives a challenge.
PS; Now I'm waiting for the siege to begin so I can relog again, after that, well good luck everybody. See ya in two weeks again.
news flash NC personal don't read forums over the weekends ;)
also do a search as this has happened many times before cause bots make good rmt from events like these, nothing new and doubt anything will happen to address the obvious issues..
Btw, server slot limit can't be increased without hindering its stability.
There is still lag sometimes, at least on chronos. I guess we have to deal with the traffic problem too now.
Why not provide free transfer from chronos/naia to the other less populated server that were mostly light, instead of letting players smash their keyboards typing the password over and over again.
Can NCSoft explain why you reduce maximum server capacity to 5500 players? Any reason for it? You think that will fix lags? Make 0 capacity and it will 100% fix all.
Banning bots will not help. When you ban for example 85+ lvl bot, in few second new bot 1 lvl appear. And he takes same 1 slot on server. So banning bots will just decrease average bots lvl on server. I dont say that banning bots is useles but it will not help in THIS issue.
Also facing once with full server players start to keep toon logged even they dont plan to play in close future - just in case they will need those accounts online. And this make our issue more terrible.
And one more thing that I failed to understand. I check few accounts during high server traffic and found out that some accounts can log from 1st attept even if server is full, some account can log from 3-5-10 attepts, and some accounts can't log in 30-60 min. Yday I made a bet about 1 account that I will be able to log him from 1st try and I win it. I dont think that it's "lucky" account. Maybe it's because of NA/EU location. Or maybe some other reason.
And few more words about bots. Last 2-3 month I start to spot stup1d bot-trains like fullparty (with OOP ISS+HL) in AntNest, or full party in VoS where only 1 DD hit (it was spoiler) and rest of DD just follow MA w\o hitting mobs. All those bots never use mentorship system and for sure - no ss. I dont know if it's bad bot-train setup or bot-owners have any reason for those slow-farm/exp trains but they take too much places on server. With current fast 1->85 exp I expect most of bots be 85+ lvl but atm like 85% of bots 50-85 lvl.
And one more thing that I failed to understand. I check few accounts during high server traffic and found out that some accounts can log from 1st attept even if server is full, some account can log from 3-5-10 attepts, and some accounts can't log in 30-60 min. Yday I made a bet about 1 account that I will be able to log him from 1st try and I win it. I dont think that it's "lucky" account. Maybe it's because of NA/EU location. Or maybe some other reason.
Well my CP healer always logs on first attempt. Yesterday I pasted the direct connection lines from wtfast in notepad++ to count my login attempts - 913. My CP iss - 129. If we apply location logic - Greeks are blessed with fast lane, Dutch with the middle one, Bulgarians - with the middle finger :P
Yes from now the farmers and cheaters can't create new characters, but while their exist characters are running, the high traffic won't decrease, so would be good a ban hammer on this weekend.