Why the netcode issue exists, and why it cannot be fixed.

[Dedayius]

I think at this point in the discussion few people don't understand what it is SE did. They just want it fixed. The easy fix is to make cast times longer so that if you happened to get a bit of lag, you would still have a reasonable amount of time to get out of the AoE. Unfortunately, the games entire difficulty revolves around getting out of AoE and so if they did this fix, it would trivialize nearly all the content, especially Titan HM.

I'm not sure what the solution is, but as more and more people hit the brick wall that is Titan HM if you have even a smidge of lag, subscribers are going to drop the game because they can't progress their character. Perhaps if you want to introduce OHKO mechanics the proper way would be more things like the first boss of Temple of Qarn where if you don't get to the properly lit square in time, you're dead.

[beforethechasm]

...I'm not sure what the solution is, but as more and more people hit the brick wall that is Titan HM if you have even a smidge of lag, subscribers are going to drop the game...

I believe this is why there was talk of adding buffs to a party if they continuously die.

[Dedayius]

I believe this is why there was talk of adding buffs to a party if they continuously die.

Interesting. Is this a community idea or one that the devs tossed out?

[xanj]

so basicly what your saying is what we have always known se doesn't care about its over seas market

[Teack]

Just a question about VPN. How is it supposed to make things better? I don't know much about networking and such, and I know nothing about VPN. But I read up some on it, and the way I understand is that VPN mask your IP but in the process it lowers your internet speed. If that is so, I don't understand how it would help.

My lag issues aren't really what has been discussed in this thread though. I would be extremely happy if I had 0.3 s lag. The worst days I can't even craft. You press the actionbar and then have to wait 5 seconds before the action is performed. It's been like this on and off the past week. Although late at night when not as many people are online, all lag issues goes away. Is SE squeezing more people on each server than they are able to handle?