Pardack
Caldari State War Academy
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Posted - 2006.10.16 00:07:00 -
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Originally by: GoddessHekate I try to persuade people to come and play EVE. Most are MMORPG players so they know a little about EVE and they are put off by the real time travel between systems which can be boring. Never the less, I still try to get people to join what was a great game. Now I have to explain to them as well as the boring traveling between systems, that they may have to wait in a queue when they get to a gate for it to activate, like I was for 4 mins this evening. Not to mention queues to log on now.
"Dont worry" I tell them, "it is only like that when it is busy." However the busy times are evenings and weekends when most people are able to play.
CCP is so proud of the single universe server setup. However, the amount of players has exceeded the capability of the hardware/software or even both. I think it is time that CCP swallowed their pride and split it up in to more manageable clusters like they do on most MMORPG, and give us the quality of service and gaming we deserve and are paying for.
I do not pay ú9 a month, to lost ships because modules will not activated during missions. I do not pay ú9 a month, to wait 30+seconds to move a module from my ship when fitting. I do not pay ú9 a month, to sit at a jump gate for 4 mins in a queue.
I think I will give the game another month and then I am quitting. After 2 and a half years, it will be hard to do, but the subscrition is now a waste of my money.
P.S. Sorry for the moan, but I just had to vent my anger.
I can semi-sympathise with your post, though the way it's worded comes across as just a whine. Anyway, the lag all around has got worse. Where I used to have a bit of lag and no queues, now I constantly encounter lag and have hit several queues.
Ordering more yaardware is a good thing, but as with the major yaardware upgrade that happened earlier this year, the benefits will probably be fleeting. They're throwing band-aids over problems all over the place but not seemingly addressing the root causes. The hardware will help in the short term but as more people join, the problems will again appear and we'll be in the same situation we're in today.
It's not an easy task by any means. I do seriously think CCP needs to get 100% behind server improvements and fix the current lag issues. I know they've got 'people working on it', but so far that hasn't helped lag from a customer's point of view. Sure, their metrics, RAM and CPU usage may have gone down a bit, but from my perspective the lag is still as bad as it has ever been.
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