Is it lag or something else?

[van_arn]

I'll just get this out of the way: are you on wifi?

Since you've been around for ages, I'd assume you're already familiar with the way the game counts aoe ticks-- mob casting bar > anything graphical.

If that's out of the way, then I'd say it's your network or your ISP. Do the basic stuff to make sure your hardware's fine, then once that's clear you might consider something like the Tunnelbear trial to see if rerouting your connection would help.