Originally by: Scoutsy

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I never post on here usually as I don't really go for the smack-talk or arguing - I just like to play Eve and enjoy the thrill of PvP. The only reason I'm adding my voice to the the thread is to swell the numbers of people who are saying "enough is enough". I don't mind going into battle and losing my ship and/or pod - that's all part of playing EvE, you play and learn. On this occasion though, things have been very different and the excessive lag has made the game totally unplayable.

Yes, we will all learn and we will adapt. New tactics will be adopted because as of now absolutely nobody will be jumping through gates with a large fleet, or indeed into a system with a large fleet at the other side. I have been in many a battle but I have never experienced lag on the scale that I and many others have experienced over the last couple of nights.

We've had people stuck for over 60 minutes in nowhere-land. We've had people watching their corpse next to their pod, next to their still-live ship. We've had people with ships "out of control", fully into armor and structure with no modules visible, watching their shields recharge. We've had people die and kill who have received no kill-mails or loss-mails. We've had people die who have even received insurance-payouts twice on the same ship.

This is nothing to do with ATLAS or WI or any other in-game alliance or rivalry. This is entirely to do with CCP and a game that isn't working properly. CCP have encouraged large fleets and the taking/defending of space with Dominion but obviously lack the software and/or hardware to support the gameplay that is a consequence of the new patch and its related changes.

Instead of the smack-talk we should be pulling together to get them to fix it, because very few of us on here are part of the 80% or so that are pottering about in Empire contributing the bulk of CCP's income, who are also completely oblivious to this almighty screw-up.

Come on people - you can beat your chests and scream at the moon in defeat or victory, but at the end of the day we are the ones who are paying for this game that doesn't work right.

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