How bad is the lag on Alexina?

• Raj wrote on 2010-12-30 20:49
  Well, a lot of people are telling me that the lag on Alexina is horrible.
  Really, how bad is it?
  (In comparison to Ruairi would be awesome, but just tell me your personal experiences.)
  
  Quick Responses Please, the Installation is at 90%
• Adelynn wrote on 2010-12-30 20:56
  My personal experience:
  I ping at less than 30, and live close to the server, and have constantly rubberbanded, randomly D/C'd, frozen in game for seconds at a time, and have an r1 elf magnum that sometimes takes 5 seconds to load.
• radionoise wrote on 2010-12-30 20:57
  Let's see, there's two ways our server works nowadays...
  
  1. Busy times of the day: Monsters take 10~20 seconds to spawn and will just sit there, waiting for you to kill them.
  
  2. Idle times of the day: Monsters spawn right away, but they also bring with them fury from hell and will aggro, multi-aggro, hyper-aggro you and find creative ways to to frustrate you until they get bored and kill you... all before you can load a single skill.
  
  During both times of the day, there's consistent lag spikes (around one every 30 seconds to a minute) that last ~5 seconds, where skills such as Thunder and Crash Shot will drain your MP to 0 regardless of their actual cost, or fail to execute (Crash Shot, at least). Let's also not forget rubberbanding, etc.
  
  There's also a new twist they added in the past few days, now you can get stuck for 15~20 seconds while monsters and other players are able to move... turning you into target practice, not even being able to summon a pet or use a pet that is already summoned to defend yourself.
  
  And yes, I'm frustrated... this is getting ridiculous now.
• Zid wrote on 2010-12-30 20:59
  How bad is it?
  
  I don't want to play on Alexina anymore. That's how bad it is.
• Adelynn wrote on 2010-12-30 21:02
  Oh, I should mention to, that some of these skills manage to self-cancel because of lag. Like Magnum. Because that's not enough of a stamina sink when it's working PROPERLY.
• Archibald wrote on 2010-12-30 21:03
  I would take a server transfer card this very minute. thats how bad. Even though I love how nice our server is.
• Peter wrote on 2010-12-30 21:05
  It used to be just fine.
• Adelynn wrote on 2010-12-30 21:06
  "Used to" being the key words.
  EDIT: Spawn lag on a pretty empty channel. Wee~
• Raj wrote on 2010-12-30 21:08
  :\
  Playing on Tarlach now.
• Peter wrote on 2010-12-30 21:12
  Good choice.
  I'm actually playing less and less because of the lag. Whenever I D/C, I just exit instead of logging back in.
• Windx wrote on 2010-12-30 21:33
  What's rubberbanding?
• radionoise wrote on 2010-12-30 21:41

  Quote from Windx;269060:

  What's rubberbanding?

  
  
  When get to one place, but are teleported back to where you used to be... it's pretty horrible if you're doing range (start missing even though your aim meter says 99% only to realize your character is actually two rooms back) or using blaze, where you just start wasting MP trying to knock back a tree :I
• Windx wrote on 2010-12-30 21:43
  ohhh like when your using smash and it keeps going back and back?
• Cide wrote on 2010-12-30 21:44
  alexina's getting to a point where it's becoming nearly unplayable.
• MrpewX2 wrote on 2010-12-30 21:57
  sounds horrible :I
  /wants server change card to see how its like