DJ_Shecky

While the problem probably is not with NCSoft itself, there could have been an issue with their ISP at the time. This problem could have been a port on a switch in one of their data centers, or a port on a specific router that his path was going through.

I do know that in the past there have been instances where NCSoft knew there was an issue on their ISPs end after enough of us complained and gave them the information to go back to their ISP with. It took a number of months for NCSoft to convince their ISP to fix the issue and only with the amount of information that we as players were able to give them.

That being said running a pingplotter, or even trying to get a reverse resolution from the address that NCSoft gave T_Immoralus returns no DNS information at all. Even the normal sites I use to find out ISP and location information did not give me an ISP for that IP, only a geographic location of Atlanta, GA.

Now can we conclude that there isn't a network issue somewhere, no, but we cannot confirm it. I haven't seen any packet loss on the NCSoft end, but I also watch my own path go through ATT only. It is possible that there is traffic shaping going on (since it is not illegal to do so thanks to no net neutrality rules), yes. Is it possible that either NCSoft's ISP is slowing down t_Immortalus' ISP? Yes. Is it possible the reverse is also true? Yes. Is it possible that there was work being done on those nodes at the time of that particular pingplot check? Yes, and probably the is the most likely answer.

Considering I know of a bunch of people who have been long time players who are sick of the bugs, getting overly frustrated with Lag, and possibly new minimum hardware requirements that we are never informed of directly, you are not going to maintain player population anyway. you now get a spike when new content comes out and then it drops off to a certain level. The game for a great many is more about community at this point, friends they have made etc...

the code itself needs to be optimized. The performance degrading on my machine has increased expoentionally over the last few issues, to the point where I not only have to turn off Ultramode, but still see lag, rubberbanding, and game freezing even in modes which had always run properly on my machine, and I am not the only one that has been experiencing this.

The game has a memory leak, which needs to be addressed.

There are a bunch of things, and I'm not even talking about the problem with the in-game e-mail system where you have to open message to jsut be able to read the whole thing, where you can't scroll on the individual e-mails in the preveiw anymore.

I don't expect this to be Bug-free, nor did I say bug free in my initial post, but let them have a 4 month period to just go on a bug hunt and fix what they can instead of trying to fix while putting out new content.

As a Network engineer, When designing or upgrading networks, I do things one step at a time. Every programmer I know (including myself back in the days of my coding) knows that the more you layer, the more bugs there are, and the more you add on before looking for bugs, the worse it is finding them.

I watch the Beta boards, and while there are people out there who do bug hunt, there are more that don't and use the beta as a way of getting a sneak peak at new content. Also I have seen issues brought up in beta in the past that raised a lot of concern but were never addressed, and then created problems at launch or shortly thereafter.

I don't expect miracles, but having a 3-4 month cycle with no new content, just to go through, optimize and fix what can be so the game runs smoother and is more able to accept new content easier is something that while a pipe dream, would be beneficial to the game as a whole.

You are right, they won't. but it NEVER HURTS TO ASK! This is a suggestion board and to tell someone something like this is stupid to ask, well you just are of no help to the game or to anyone in an instance like that.

Cool, then I am sorry if I missunderstood what you were saying. sometimes getting old you misread things.

I doubt it. As much as I like the Devs and appreciate all they do and how hard they work, they seem to be on a mandate to worry only about putting out new content.

when one keeps putting out new content on top of new content, without fixing issues, what happens is it becomes more difficult to find where the root cause of problems are. Right now, I've noticed performance problems since I21.5. and while I expect some issues since I have an older machine that still runs very well, the issues are beyond what I would consider acceptable. at I21 I had no problem running the game at a very high graphics level with no problems. Now I've dropped almost all of ultra mode and down below what I used to use on normal mode just to try and mitigate rubberbanding and freezing. Has it worked? Not really.

Why, do you all ask, don't I post my DX Diag, Hijack this etc, in a post here? Because, I am a network engineer and consultant for a living. I have a bunch of software on my machine that I use for work, and that has been there for years which will I will be told by the gurus in this community to remove from my machine, and I know this because I did post that stuff a number of years ago.

Truth be told we need at least 1 issues that is nothing but bug fixes. I've been asking for this for a long time, and it should be done 1 at least year at minimum. Will it, no because that doesn't bring in numbers. But it would keep people around longer and make the game more enjoyable.

All depends on what stuff I have, and what stuff I can get, but I won't count anything out until I try to get it.

Excellent. good to know. that was going to be my next step. I was already used to it ******** about the main CoH program being a keylogger.

I thought it might be a false positive, but Kapersky doesn't give me many of those and I did a google search on it which showed someone on the lineage II forums who had the same thing hit them today.

I'm keeping an eye on it.