Feedback Request on Network Delay

[Rhylee_Mau]

So are we never going to see any fruit from this, im getting tired of dieing from plume and eruption im not standing on, on my screen and my wife's screen as we both have tracked our chrs and our LS members chrs in the ifrit battle getting hit when they are off of the dmg spots. Plume at 35% is the worst, Just asking so I know what we are paying for this month.

IMO the most sensable way to go about this is change the way player's position is reported. That should help people with under 200ms lag. Every 3rd step position reporting really is annoying. The only way I could see for people in the 300ms range is actually adjust / design the fights now and in the future to allow for a 300ms delay and reaction time before exploding.

[Dragonhaven]

yup simple quick fix they seem to be avoiding

[Dragonhaven]

Can we get a reply as to when this issue will be fixed? Bahy? Rikki, Enkrateia, this is our LS's 1xxxx'th run with this issue killing us as plume goes off and everyone is safe we have even frapsed this issue for you and nothing seems to spark a reply.

[Kirei]

Tracing route to traceip.ffxiv.com [202.67.52.81]
over a maximum of 50 hops:

1 1 ms <1 ms 1 ms home [192.168.1.254]
2 24 ms 23 ms 23 ms adsl-98-68-157-1.cha.bellsouth.net [98.68.157.1]

3 27 ms 31 ms 31 ms 12.81.101.58
4 30 ms 31 ms 27 ms 12.81.32.96
5 41 ms 23 ms 25 ms 12.81.32.111
6 26 ms 23 ms 25 ms 74.175.192.138
7 40 ms 39 ms 41 ms cr1.nsvtn.ip.att.net [12.122.148.14]
8 43 ms 41 ms 37 ms cr2.attga.ip.att.net [12.122.28.105]
9 33 ms 33 ms 31 ms 12.122.117.121
10 34 ms 33 ms 33 ms 192.205.36.158
11 207 ms 206 ms 206 ms ae-6.r03.atlnga05.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.5.1
88]
12 60 ms 60 ms 59 ms ae-8.r21.dllstx09.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.9
1]
13 101 ms 100 ms 128 ms ae-4.r21.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.4.2
5]
14 206 ms 199 ms 206 ms as-0.r21.tokyjp01.jp.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.4.4
5]
15 198 ms 198 ms 208 ms ae-1.r25.tokyjp01.jp.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.2.7
3]
16 198 ms 297 ms 195 ms ae-5.a20.tokyjp01.jp.ra.gin.ntt.net [61.213.162.
170]
17 189 ms 190 ms 189 ms ge-2-2-1.a20.tokyjp01.jp.ra.gin.ntt.net [61.120.
146.94]
18 202 ms 206 ms 203 ms 219.117.144.2
19 191 ms 195 ms 191 ms 219.117.146.149
20 202 ms 194 ms 199 ms 219.117.146.129
21 201 ms 192 ms 204 ms 219.117.146.46
22 199 ms 201 ms 201 ms 202.67.52.81

Trace complete.

[kenkesey8]

My network delay is absolutely horrible too - makes the game unplayable.
When I enter any of the 3 city-states (Gridania, for example), not only network lag increases, but graphics lag too. As a matter of fact, it is so intense, that my character sometimes disappears from the screen and the game sometimes freezes for 5-10 seconds, which is unbelievably annoying.

I'm playing from Hungary, and I have a 5Mbps network connection, so that should not be the problem. It is not my hardware specs either, I have a four-core phenom2 CPU and a decent GPU too. I also tried lowering graphics settings, I even switched to a 1024x768 screen and lowest settings, and still the same issue - unplayable in Gridania, and quite laggy everywhere else too. Characters and NPCs download with an about 10-20 seconds delay, and fighting actions are also started with this delay
- if anybody knows any solution, please tell me, because this lagg entirely kills the joy in this game :/

Also, sorry for my bad english.

[Dragonhaven]

Thank you very much for increasing the delay between his abilities!

[Verence]

• Date & Time: December 28th, 8:00am - 9:00am EST
• ISP: Time Warner Cable
• Network Type & Speed: Broadband 10 Mbps

Trace Results:
1 9 ms 7 ms 7 ms 10.88.9.1
2 10 ms 8 ms 7 ms te1-3.wacotxsou-er03.texas.rr.com [24.26.192.31]
3 9 ms 10 ms 8 ms te3-8.wacotxcen-er03.texas.rr.com [24.26.192.134]
4 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms te2-0-0.wacotxmhe-rtr1.hot.rr.com [24.26.192.126]
5 12 ms 23 ms 23 ms te0-7-0-0.dllatxl3-cr01.texas.rr.com [72.179.205.88]
6 10 ms 11 ms 11 ms 107.14.17.136
7 47 ms 45 ms 47 ms ae-3-0.cr0.lax30.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.0]
8 48 ms 49 ms 51 ms ae-1-0.pr0.lax00.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.129]
9 53 ms 49 ms 50 ms pacnet.com.any2ix.coresite.com [206.223.143.138]
10 155 ms 155 ms 155 ms gi8-0-0.cr1.nrt1.asianetcom.net [202.147.0.121]
11 146 ms 145 ms 148 ms gi1-0-0.gw1.nrt5.asianetcom.net [202.147.0.178]
12 146 ms 151 ms 145 ms squareco.asianetcom.net [203.192.149.210]
13 147 ms 145 ms 145 ms 61.195.56.129
14 159 ms 155 ms 155 ms 219.117.144.2
15 147 ms 151 ms 147 ms 219.117.146.149
16 157 ms 157 ms 157 ms 219.117.146.129
17 160 ms 157 ms 174 ms 219.117.146.38
18 156 ms 156 ms 158 ms 202.67.52.81

Trace complete.

Hope this gets fixed soon, pretty annoying to be safe on your screen and blow up anyway. Repeatedly. For an hour.

[Joji]

I'm playing from Norway, and whenever i hang out with my US friends, there is a delay of 1 second. Lets say i run in front of the group and we do a chocoborace. On my screen i'm the first in front of the pack when in fact they tell me i'm 3rd, 4th or even 5th. When i fought Ifrit yesterday I died 4 times in a single fight as a MRD because of this delay problem. I were miles away from the eruption and lava, but i still got killed. Ifrit's animation had the same delay, so i pretty much have to predict what he does well over a second before something happens. Luckily we made it since i was the only one from a far away country, my other friends from US saved the day. It seems the sync of servers are way off.. i sense it everywhere and not just in the big fights. As someone said earlier, it is more noticeable when fighting Ifrit Ogre or Moogle since the actions you do pays more consequence. This is exactly the same problem i had when i played XI and it needs to get adressed ASAP. It could very well be a reason for alot of people leaving the game, and that makes me sad. I love the game SE made, iv'e been here since the very start of alpha and i still want to stay. But please adress this issue SE as "Very important".

[Illusion]

• Date & Time
  Saturday, 31 December 2011, 16:11:26 GMT
• Internet Service Provider
  UPC Ireland / Dublin
• Network Type and Speed
  Cable / 30Mbit
• Tracert Result

C:\Windows\system32>tracert -h 50 traceip.ffxiv.com

Tracing route to traceip.ffxiv.com [202.67.52.81]
over a maximum of 50 hops:

1 10 ms 9 ms 10 ms 79.97.94.1
2 11 ms 7 ms 9 ms 109.255.249.222
3 25 ms 22 ms 23 ms 84.116.238.58
4 23 ms 25 ms 60 ms 84-116-130-94.aorta.net [84.116.130.94]
5 23 ms 23 ms 23 ms 84.116.134.34
6 27 ms 23 ms 22 ms 80.150.170.5
7 283 ms 284 ms 283 ms tyo-e4-i.TYO.JP.NET.DTAG.DE [62.154.5.226]
8 272 ms 273 ms 271 ms 80.150.170.106
9 278 ms 272 ms 270 ms 61.195.56.133
10 279 ms 280 ms 279 ms 219.117.144.6
11 280 ms 279 ms 284 ms 219.117.146.153
12 276 ms 274 ms 277 ms 219.117.146.141
13 272 ms 270 ms 270 ms 219.117.146.50
14 272 ms 270 ms 272 ms 202.67.52.81

Trace complete.