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Omega Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
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Posted - 2006.09.04 00:49:00 -
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 Originally by: RedClaws
oh please the game is fine. Try moving your ass out of jita maybe or shutting down those 3 other accounts you aren't using.
I'm a rathunter in 0.0 space, locals ranging from 1 tot 40 when theres nothing special going on : little to no lag.
Now in combat there is a bit more lag yah but imo bookmarks are the major cause of trouble in eve atm.
I've seen games in a much much worse condition
Well,
I live in 0.0 and I get lagged out in systems with only a few (less than 5 sometimes) just because of the node sharing structure.
I think the OP has some valid points and concerns. Look at the real world. What usually happens to companies that have a queue of Customer Service tickets that is getting longer and not shorter? You begin to lose repeat buyers. Or if the manufacturer issues patches to your software applications that contain "Stealth Code" that suddenly invalidates functionality?
These aren't new or unique incidents specific to CCP. Companies for decades have faced similar problems. Those that can handle it come out the other side with a product that is even better than what they had before.
But the fact remains that despite the best efforts of a great company (no other game company communicates as much as CCP in my experience), they seem to be sliding further down the slope, not climbing. The list of known issues is quite long, and does not seem to get any smaller (my personal pet peeve is the broken bonuses on POS Control Towers).
And now with the recent Dragon Patch, I am once again confused. You mean to tell me it was only after installing Dragon on TQ that CCP became aware of what a problem BM copying was? And this because the default threshold on the jump queue system was left at 85% and not the 95% it was supposed to be? This statement implies that CCP has NO WAY of measuring what game actions or mechanics are impacting their servers. But wait, if that is the case, how did they pinpoint the fact that BM copying is impacting it now? Hmmm. To me it means that either they don't have a means of definitively stating what is causing server lag and they are making an educated guess, or they do know for sure and have all along but haven't taken any action until now. I don't know which is worse, but neither is optimal.
They should be fixing what is broken. Instead they are applying Marketing 102 (and this I can speak of from experience): When customer base starts getting restless and I cant give them fixes for broken functionality, lets give them something shiny and new to distract them. Whether this is what they are really doing or not, who knows. But I can tell you this is what many companies do in situations like this so it is pretty suspicious. Its sort of like a couple whose marriage is on the rocks deciding to have a baby because that will fix what is wrong with the relationship. Instead all it does is bring another person into the same mess as before.
For the record, I have 8 accounts and I will be here until something better comes along (because despite all of this I have vented, this is still the best game arround). But unless CCP addresses this, then it will be that much easier for someone else to come along with something better. And I will happily flush by $100+ a month into someone elses game.
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