Quote Originally Posted by Winzhi View Post
Well apparently we do since the lag is still going on and SSG is very quiet about it eh.
This is my beef with SSG at the moment.

Yes, we all know THEY know about the lag.
Yes, we all know they are supposedly "working on it".

But.... there have been major lag problems for the better part of 6 years now, and they have been promising fixes for about that long, without any meaningful result. Or at least, nothing tangible that can be seen or measured from the client side. The fact that they seem to completely ignore the lag threads on the forum, and that they have now resorted to removing skills from Loremaster to reduce the lag leads me to believe they currently have no idea where the lag comes from and how to fix it.

We're talking about a game with 17+ years of code (they started building this well before the launch in 2007), and unfortunately a lot of people with expertise of the old code have been let go and aren't coming back. On top of that, they keep releasing new content, and every time new content gets released, new things get added to the database, which will grow ever larger, and thus cause more performance issues.

Now, what IS the solution? I do not know..... but I do know that SSG just ignoring the lag threads as if all is well with the game is an insult to the players.

So yes, please..... Ravinian, Cordovan? Please give us a status update as to what is next in combatting the lag.

64-bit servers?
More servers on bare metal hardware vs virtualization?
More resources for servers? New hardware in general?

Where are we at with all of this?