How bad is the lag on Alexina?

• Kaeporo wrote on 2010-12-30 22:02
  If Crash Shot fails to explode one more time, i'm going to flip.
• Adelynn wrote on 2010-12-30 22:16

  Quote from Cide;269074:

  alexina's getting to a point where it's becoming nearly unplayable.

  
  
  I just ran Shadow Warrior. I froze every single time I tried loading Magnum AND regular range. Five minutes of lag, and I still almost won, with all of that, but I was freezing up more horribly than ever. Lags like that usually meant D/C. Three of my pets died to lag. I ended up getting killed, too. Such bull ****. x.x
• Malogg wrote on 2010-12-30 22:19
  It's a shame, too. Lag aside, our server is one of the nicest. It is drama/hacker free, for the most part. Too bad about the whole lag thing. >.<
• Karuta wrote on 2010-12-30 22:38
  I'd take a server change card too, I love being on Alexina but..I can't even grind anymore @_@
  
  Between my already horrible connection and freezing every 10 seconds, trying to do anything is a pain. I can't even talk in game sometimes its so bad.
  
  I used to be able to do grind conflict hardmode, with the monsters standing there not doing anything during early evenings but now..the servers so unstable they go hyper ai without warning < < every few seconds.
  
  We had a pretty decent sized protest about the lag at the music festival, one of the GM's even showed up at our meeting place before it started, when we were gathering everyone. :gloom2: They still haven't acknowledged the issue in any way yet though.
• Claudia wrote on 2010-12-31 01:19
  Yeah, I get this rubberbanding often.
  
  And mostly lag in combat, sometimes monsters take time to spawn, then i'll have a skill like Defense loading, the game will freeze for ~5 seconds, then it resumes, but the monster has already knocked me down and hits me before I have time to do anything.
  
  At first, I didn't mind, but now that i've died a few times due to the lag i'm getting a little disheartened.
• Meikeru wrote on 2010-12-31 01:28
  It's not that bad if you know how to abuse it.
  
  If you know you can finish the sm/dungeon easily do it when there's low traffic. Ex: Ciar, Alby
  If you know you're getting slaughtered under normal circumstances... hope for ai lag. Ex: Semis and Finals
• radionoise wrote on 2010-12-31 01:44

  Quote from Meikeru;269561:

  It's not that bad if you know how to abuse it.
  
  If you know you can finish the sm/dungeon easily do it when there's low traffic. Ex: Ciar, Alby
  If you know you're getting slaughtered under normal circumstances... hope for ai lag. Ex: Semis and Finals

  
  
  We shouldn't have to revolve our playing schedules around AI lag just because their "latency fixes" involve making all enemies really, really mad.
• Karuta wrote on 2010-12-31 01:45

  Quote from Meikeru;269561:

  It's not that bad if you know how to abuse it.
  
  If you know you can finish the sm/dungeon easily do it when there's low traffic. Ex: Ciar, Alby
  If you know you're getting slaughtered under normal circumstances... hope for ai lag. Ex: Semis and Finals

  
  
  Its bad. Always.
  
  It's bad when you freeze for 5 seconds constantly and have to worry about getting killed.
  
  We did find ways to abuse the lag (Ex: conflict) but it's getting worse with each maintenance practically. It's not just monster ai now or spawn issues, it's rubber banding and freezing. I think the only place it's not laggy is housing channel.
• radionoise wrote on 2010-12-31 01:49

  Quote from ACME;269610:

  Its bad. Always.
  
  It's bad when you freeze for 5 seconds constantly and have to worry about getting killed.
  
  We did find ways to abuse the lag (Ex: conflict) but it's getting worse with each maintenance practically. It's not just monster ai now or spawn issues, it's rubber banding and freezing. I think the only place it's not laggy is housing channel.

  
  
  Besides the common 5 second lag spikes that the server experiences simultaneously, now there's 10~15 second user locks where you really just do stand there while mobs eat you up... And something new I just experienced, 8 second load time Magnum Shot even when there were no lag spikes occurring at the time. It all adds up to a very frustrating gameplay D:
• Cide wrote on 2010-12-31 01:58
  i'm starting to think the only way they're going to fix alexina is if their server machine for it just completely gives up and breaks entirely orz
• Offspring wrote on 2010-12-31 03:19
  Ever been N+3ed by a skeleton before? That's how bad it is.
• Adelynn wrote on 2010-12-31 03:24

  Quote from Meikeru;269561:

  It's not that bad if you know how to abuse it.
  
  If you know you can finish the sm/dungeon easily do it when there's low traffic. Ex: Ciar, Alby
  If you know you're getting slaughtered under normal circumstances... hope for ai lag. Ex: Semis and Finals

  
  Explain to me how I'm going to abuse THE WHOLE GAME locking up for 5 seconds almost every minute, if not every minute. And sometimes, it's only the monsters that don't freeze. owo
• Marie wrote on 2010-12-31 03:26
  Housing Channel not laggy ? Do castle dungeon :D? (Trying to be positive here ;;)
• Cide wrote on 2010-12-31 03:41

  Quote from Marie;269982:

  Housing Channel not laggy ? Do castle dungeon :D? (Trying to be positive here ;;)

  
  
  i actually did experience a bit of spike lag on hch today... orz
• Adelynn wrote on 2010-12-31 04:22

  Quote from Marie;269982:

  Housing Channel not laggy ? Do castle dungeon :D? (Trying to be positive here ;;)

  
  
  I have exhausted my positive after losing over 30 feathers to revive my pets, which I only needed to do because of LAG.
  Got stuck at 99% aiming, game freezes five seconds, next thing I know, my tiger is dead and I'm getting knocked back when I should have hit.