Rikti Attack Lag

Hello!

First off, Rikti attacks are one of my favorite parts of the game. I love 'em. I participate in them whenever I can get to the area in question, sometimes traveling several zones to do so.

Yesterday (07/18/2010), on Virtue, there was a Rikti invasion in Talos in the afternoon (around 4:00 EST), and the lag was monumental - much, much larger than usual.

Further, I then noted - since I had some time - that Rikti attacks appear much more "laggy" (for lack of a better term) 'recently' - not a very helpful term, I know, but the last 2-3 I've been in have been slow, with everyone on the team(s) complaining of the lag. And since it's everyone in the area, I'm tempted to suggest the odds of it being *my* computer seem low.

It occurred to me that nobody's mentioned it on the Forums 'recently', so I thought I'd mention - Rikti attacks have grown very sluggish. It's my personal suspicion it has something to do with Ultra mode and so many character models in a small area - but I have nothing whatsoever to base that on.

(Yes, I know - many players, small area, inevitable lag, etc. I know that, and I'm okay with it in general. But what I'm mentioning is that it seems worse / performance seems to be declining.)

tl;dr - Has anyone else noticed Rikti attacks have become more lag-filled?

Virtue... why does that not surprise me? It seems like there's a lot of various issues lately that are Virtue specific... this might be one also.

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