Server Migration

Gonna take this opportunity to ask if there is some reason that we have an extremely high rate of pet failures here as compared to other servers? I'm not talking about when your pet takes a while to pot because of lag I mean when your pet straight up doesn't pot. I've played on other servers where this NEVER happens but for some reason it seems to happen fairly often (used to happen multiple times every zak run) which results in a lot of deaths.

 

Could somebody explain to me how to ping the server, please? I ought to share my results, since I'm having some problems with lag.

 

I get this when I try pinging the server:

ETA: Googled this problem and fixed it, so here's my ping results:

 

The server and website have been really laggy tonight.

 

My current ping is 171ms and yet the lag I'm getting on the forum is really bad. (Not ingame right now, been out and am heading bed-wards very soon.)

As I mentioned in the chat box, there doesn't seem to be any obvious correlation between the ping and the amount of lag I'm getting at any given point in time.

 

82ms here in Ontario. The game was terribly laggy for me since last night (pot input, skill lag, etc). Since this morning, the forums have followed suite and are equally laggy.

 

Spoiler

Pinging royals.ms [162.218.94.38] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 162.218.94.38: bytes=32 time=201ms TTL=48
Reply from 162.218.94.38: bytes=32 time=194ms TTL=46
Reply from 162.218.94.38: bytes=32 time=205ms TTL=48
Reply from 162.218.94.38: bytes=32 time=224ms TTL=46

Ping statistics for 162.218.94.38:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 194ms, Maximum = 224ms, Average = 206ms

I'm from Singapore so this is supposedly faster for me in game (I've only been able to get on during weekends cos work and it seemed fine).
Recently, I concur with some of the others- the forums have been lagging really badly- and since the forums and the game itself share the same server- this could be indicative of something worth looking into.

Good luck Matt :>

 

Well, after some time observing what exactly lags and what not these are some of the things I noticed:

There is next to no movement or attack latency, however pots and buffs have noticeably more lag.

The main thing that kills me is still auto-pot failure, but it got worse with the server migration.
Aside from the alarming frequency of the failure rate, the thing that now makes this so deadly is that it can easily take up to 2 seconds before your HP updates to the actual value.
This means that you can easily take another hit, and die BEFORE you see your pet auto-pot failing.
Example: I was at Skeles just now, and died at seemingly full hp (3.9k) to a 2.7k hit. At no point did I see my HP go down (and my eyes were glued to it)

Another thing that stands out: HP pots take much longer to actually pot than MP. I need to spam HP multiple times before it actually pots, MP never misses a beat for me.

This doesn't always happen, there are times where things are a lot more responsive and don't lag as much. But the frequency of the lagspikes mean at least 5 deaths a day for me.

I'm thinking about recording some of these issues, let me know if that would be of use to you.

 

^This. So much this. Even if I don't grind at mobs that 2 or 3hit KO me... yet, I still notice I can take 1 or 2 hits below my alert bar before my pet finally pots. The only thing that is different for me is that my HP-bar is reasonably accurate, meaning I can tell when my auto-pot is lagging because whenever my HP runs below my alert-bar, it flashes like a disco ball.

 

You posted in the shoutbox already, I answered you there even though it clearly says not to ask for GMs or post issues in there, and now you posted in a thread that has nothing to do with your issue. Please read the rules before posting in the future.

 

I'm guessing you posted in the wrong thread?

 

The offending party deleted his post, lol. Poor John :3