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Cacheelma · Jul 16, 2007, 11:49 AM // 11:49

What lag?

And why should your personal dilemma affect my gameplay experience?

upier · Jul 16, 2007, 11:50 AM // 11:50

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Originally Posted by freekedoutfish

The main point is that it wouldnt remove lag from the game. Even if they removed any events or festivals until GW:EN preview or full game, you will still have some people getting lag.

How would we then fix that lag?

And what about after GW:EN? should we put the events back in or keep them out?

This wont fix lag for everyone, and it might not even be the cause of lag.

Like I said - IF this can do anything about the lag - I would be willing to give it a shot.
If they know this won't change anything - then well I was wrong. Like I said in my first post - it's based on an assumption. Since strangely now I have absolutely no lag - and strangely, my FL is almost empty. So are the towns.
It seems to me that the servers aren't able to deal with the huge amount of players logging in. And it feels strange to me - that if that is the case - that A.net would encourage MORE people logging in - UNLESS of course - the amount of players playing has NOTHING to do with lag!
(That of course means that we can also stop 3/4 of the bot threads here since the main reason why so many people are against them is because they cause lag!)
If they are having problems with huge amounts of players being online at the same time - maybe they should be just happy with their weekday turnout instead of wanting moremoremore!

BUT like I said - this is my view on the lag and what might be causing it - but then again - I am no expert in this field and if I am wrong I have no problems being told so! We live to learn!

Dione Davore · Jul 16, 2007, 12:12 PM // 12:12

@OP
Stupid idea.

If something is there for free you either like it or not.
Play it or you don't.

You can't make the choice for all those who like it.

Aerian_Skybane · Jul 16, 2007, 12:27 PM // 12:27

Um, how bout no. They are optional, they are fun when I do them, and I didn't lag at all on my crappy computer.

Oh wait I did a little last nite, but it was def my ISP because they are jerks and limit bandwidth during a thunderstorm (jerks).

upier · Jul 16, 2007, 01:23 PM // 13:23

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Originally Posted by Dione Davore

@OP
Stupid idea.

If something is there for free you either like it or not.
Play it or you don't.

You can't make the choice for all those who like it.

But what you fail to see - is that the event isn't free.
Some of us are "paying" for it with lag. And disconnects.

That is the reason why I asked this question and it wasn't if the events should stay or not - it was IF the events are causing lag (at least partially) - would you like them to stay? (for the time being - until they sort it out!)

And it seems that the majority of players (if not all) who peeked into this thread seem fine with paying with lag (or are fine with certain people paying with lag) for the events!
That's all i wanted to know actually.

(Once again - this being based on the assumption that the massive amount of players participating in the events IS causing a strain on the servers! If that isn't the case - like stated a few times before - then there is actually no dilemma!)

Hyper.nl · Jul 16, 2007, 02:05 PM // 14:05

Don't go blame or hurt the events, fix the lag instead. And for me it's fixed. No more lag since dragon festival weekend.

SpeedyKQ · Jul 16, 2007, 02:12 PM // 14:12

The problem is lag, then, and not the events.

The idea of requesting Anet to stop making the game so much fun, so fewer people will play, is pretty absurd. I can think of all kinds of creative ways to make less people want to play, if that is the goal.

Moa Bird Cultist · Jul 16, 2007, 02:18 PM // 14:18

GW is equally prone to being fail during the week too. You just don't notice it as much 'cause we're all working or at school, etc. I agree with what most people are saying - keep the events, they are a nice little distraction that keeps interest in the game high. Although, I somewhat understand where celestial is coming from, they can be a real pain when you've previously planned otherwise of a weekend. I haven't had a decent farming weekend in months for one reason or another.

redant751 · Jul 16, 2007, 02:38 PM // 14:38

/not signed
I enjoy the weekend events, if you are experiencing lag talk to your I.S.P.
I have not experienced lag in months.
Just out of curiosity where are you located.

Dallcingi · Jul 16, 2007, 02:39 PM // 14:39

Agree, toss events please.... before the RA event, I had green dot and got 2 glad points... (actually this was like 3 hours before the event) and when I logged on later at night for some double fun (or so I thought) massive lag kicks in making it unplayable. I play for like a few minutes and get tired of it and quit. RAge quit at that... and then I did this about 5 more times the entire weekend, my biggest streak only like 4.... now, this morning, I have no lag at all yet again! but now the double faction is gone..... how messed up that is. Why dont they just extend it like the little dragon festival..... since I bet no one could have played in that massive lag. But hey, im just saying that, I don't really want an extended RA event cause thats just lame.

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Originally Posted by redant751

/not signed
I enjoy the weekend events, if you are experiencing lag talk to your I.S.P.
I have not experienced lag in months.
Just out of curiosity where are you located.

And in my case, its not the i.s.p.'s fault, it's actually guild wars' fault. why? I played and enjoyed CS and warcraft 3 lag free. And I haven't experienced lag in GW in months either, heck even an entire year! (besides the fact when I used to have dial up still =p) it just kicked in last week. I would enjoy the events if there wasn't any lag though but it just ticks me off.

Navaros · Jul 16, 2007, 02:52 PM // 14:52

Just because some people are drowning (metaphorically speaking) due to lag it doesn't make it "okay" or "make things better" to make everyone else drown with them.

The suggestion in the thread title - which is equivalent to "Make everyone drown together!" - is ludicrous.

thor hammerbane · Jul 16, 2007, 03:25 PM // 15:25

I lag, but i still want these events. to be honest, my lag wasn't that bad over the weekend; it wasn't worse than my regular lag. Thanks to the event, I got my first glad rank, and im on my way to getting my second

Levi Garett · Jul 16, 2007, 05:57 PM // 17:57

No lag here and I'm enjoying all the non-pvp events.

Dr Strangelove · Jul 16, 2007, 06:06 PM // 18:06

So... you're unhappy with the events therefore no one should get to enjoy them.

Right.

HayesA · Jul 16, 2007, 06:12 PM // 18:12

Oh go cry elseware; because i believe most of use enjoy these fun little weekends. I know I do; yes even the pvp ones. Because I go to RA, and read the chat. It's funny reading everyone whine about balences, and she said he said.

Lag? Sure, I had a little bit. But I EXPECT lag when I play ANY online game. Why? Because I know what needs to be done for your message in chat to be displayed to everyone. I know how connections are supposed to work.

First, i'd liek to say: your connection doesn't go directly to anet servers. hoooooo no, sir! First it has to go to your local isp's routing servers. Then, to the next routing server (called a hop.) From there, more hops? Then hits the anet servers. From there, your packet gets processed, and sends out to every one in yur party, or in town. That's quite a bit of traffic!

So, it really could be anything holding up the connection; some hop somewhere being retarded, or, actually, the anet servers are under such a load, it just slows down. Which is understandible, seeing that how many billiion connections it handles in an hour? Probably a lot. Any servers would cry.

So, finally, stop whing about lag. Be thankful you're not pinging 10,000ms/s ALL the time. Then that's a pretty big problem.

So, wah wah wah. lag is so mean to mes. wah wah wah.

Pff.

HayesA · Jul 16, 2007, 06:12 PM // 18:12

Oh go cry elseware; because i believe most of use enjoy these fun little weekends. I know I do; yes even the pvp ones. Because I go to RA, and read the chat. It's funny reading everyone whine about balences, and she said he said.

Lag? Sure, I had a little bit. But I EXPECT lag when I play ANY online game. Why? Because I know what needs to be done for your message in chat to be displayed to everyone. I know how connections are supposed to work.

First, i'd liek to say: your connection doesn't go directly to anet servers. hoooooo no, sir! First it has to go to your local isp's routing servers. Then, to the next routing server (called a hop.) From there, more hops? Then hits the anet servers. From there, your packet gets processed, and sends out to every one in yur party, or in town. That's quite a bit of traffic!

So, it really could be anything holding up the connection; some hop somewhere being retarded, or, actually, the anet servers are under such a load, it just slows down. Which is understandible, seeing that how many billiion connections it handles in an hour? Probably a lot. Any servers would cry.

So, finally, stop whing about lag. Be thankful you're not pinging 10,000ms/s ALL the time. Then that's a pretty big problem.

So, wah wah wah. lag is so mean to mes. wah wah wah.

Pff.

HayesA · Jul 16, 2007, 06:12 PM // 18:12

Oh go cry elseware; because i believe most of use enjoy these fun little weekends. I know I do; yes even the pvp ones. Because I go to RA, and read the chat. It's funny reading everyone whine about balences, and she said he said.

Lag? Sure, I had a little bit. But I EXPECT lag when I play ANY online game. Why? Because I know what needs to be done for your message in chat to be displayed to everyone. I know how connections are supposed to work.

First, i'd liek to say: your connection doesn't go directly to anet servers. hoooooo no, sir! First it has to go to your local isp's routing servers. Then, to the next routing server (called a hop.) From there, more hops? Then hits the anet servers. From there, your packet gets processed, and sends out to every one in yur party, or in town. That's quite a bit of traffic!

So, it really could be anything holding up the connection; some hop somewhere being retarded, or, actually, the anet servers are under such a load, it just slows down. Which is understandible, seeing that how many billiion connections it handles in an hour? Probably a lot. Any servers would cry.

So, finally, stop whing about lag. Be thankful you're not pinging 10,000ms/s ALL the time. Then that's a pretty big problem.

So, wah wah wah. lag is so mean to mes. wah wah wah.

Pff.

HayesA · Jul 16, 2007, 06:14 PM // 18:14

Wow, crap. Sorry for the... 9 posts? Holy crap. D:

White knight lord · Jul 16, 2007, 06:18 PM // 18:18

The weekends are just a useless attempt to keep people in the game until they come out with something and well they work....The way i see it the x3 drop weekends ruin really any posibility of getting an item that is worth soemthing becuase more or less it have alerady been flooded in the market so if your trying to make money by selling stuff your SOL and buying items well people are too greedy so they charge rediculous amounts for crap which has been flooded into the market but samuri i guess you dont pay attention to the market.

tyche7 · Jul 16, 2007, 06:32 PM // 18:32

/unsigned

I for one love most of the events (some I don't really care about but I know others that do so keep them all).