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Uthgaard
Reputable Gentlemen
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Posted - 2017.05.23 17:33:03 -
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I've noticed much worse module delay since returning, that wasn't present when I the game played before it went F2P.
This is mostly a problem when this occurs after a gate cloak. Previously, I could tap align, then tap cloak, and I could rely on that module activating. Now, about half the time the module doesn't activate - no error, but nothing happens. I talked to other players, and learned they had noticed it as well. Then, I even found it addressed in a 2016 youtube video.
This was not the case before 2016 - the game was simply more responsive. The new UI definitely has a degree of bloat to it, so I'm not sure whether that's the culprit, but it's not network related.
Unreliable module activation is particularly dangerous when you fly cloaked ships - you can't make it a practice to double tap every time, because with no cycle time, you risk placing the module on cooldown. So you have this vulnerable 1-2 second delay where you're waiting to see whether the module will activate or not.
I wanted to hear some more thoughts about it from pilots who have been playing for a while (bittervets can skip the condescension, as I'm looking for an actual discussion). |
Orin Solette
The Scope Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2017.05.23 20:05:33 -
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I've noticed it too but I could not tell whether it was just me or whether it actually got worse. I'm still not convinced TBH.
It's not just after cloaking either. I've noticed clicking on my modules has had more of a delay than I remember in the past. But I guess I've just been more annoyed about stopping modules and not being able to reuse the module until it stops blinking which takes a variable amount of time. |
Uthgaard
Reputable Gentlemen
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Posted - 2017.05.23 20:12:47 -
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Right, I didn't say it only happened to cloaking modules, I simply used those as an example. It applies to anything you click after coming out of a gate cloak.
Almost all of the ships I fly are cloaked ships, so the rhythm of align-cloak was very well ingrained. I've played since 2012 and have never seen this issue before resubbing this time.
Reactivating a module is a separate topic - while not new, that has gotten worse as well. I've seen afterburners continue on for upward of 10 seconds. |
Chainsaw Plankton
FaDoyToy
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Posted - 2017.05.23 20:45:20 -
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you have to wait till you start moving before you can cloak, too early and nothing activates because you are still cloaked. a lot of the time it is instant, a lot of the time it has a slight delay. been like that forever.
also that video you linked it appears he hit shift to over heat it and double tapped it and it turned the heat on/off. instead of activating heat and then turning the module on. they either have a sticky key that kept shift held down or double tapped too fast and were still holding down on shift.
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Uthgaard
Reputable Gentlemen
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Posted - 2017.05.23 23:12:04 -
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I'm aware how cloaking works, as I said I've been flying cloaked ships since 2012. This is not a question of simply being moving first. Where there was previously a smooth, reliable rhythm to move-then-cloak, every system, every time; there is now an inconsistent failure to recognize that the ship is moving and is no longer under gate cloak. |
Marika Sunji
Dark-Rising Wrecking Machine.
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Posted - 2017.05.24 06:25:43 -
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Uthgaard wrote: Let's move away from whether or not it exists, and focus instead on causes and solutions.
Wait, what? "I am not convinced this is a thing" "This is a thing because I say it is, now fix it." That's... not exactly how it works... |
Don Pera Saissore
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Posted - 2017.05.24 06:50:10 -
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Not sure since when but yeah cloak lag is a thing. Easy way to fix this would be to add a delay to deactivation once active so you could spam the **** out of the cloak on gate decloaks, i think that would be easyer than fixing the server :D In any case deaths caused by lag are reimbursable just make a ticket. |
Magnus Jax
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Posted - 2017.05.24 07:50:17 -
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I've not noticed anything the like and if it were a "thing" then we'd have seen many more posts on the subject, as we haven't it must mean it's not a general issue but more a personal one, either yours or your ISP.
Sounds like a latency or packet loss thing, perhaps the routing from your ISP to CCP is changed and it's being held up somewhere. Do a traceroute to the servers and see if it hops somewhere silly. |
Magnus Jax
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Posted - 2017.05.24 07:52:16 -
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Don Pera Saissore wrote:In any case deaths caused by lag are reimbursable just make a ticket.
This is false, it's only reimbursable if it's proven that it's lag on CCP's end. Which it almost never is.
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Don Pera Saissore
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Posted - 2017.05.24 10:29:31 -
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Wrong and wrong
Talk more to people and youll learn that its comon
My reimbursement request was never turned down, maybe its difficult for them to determine lag and they just want to close the ticket fast |
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Uthgaard
Reputable Gentlemen
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Posted - 2017.05.24 12:28:19 -
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Marika Sunji wrote:I didn't read anything in this thread except the most recent reply
Magnus Jax wrote:I didn't either!
Perhaps I set the bar a bit too high by expecting productive discussion from these forums.
Don Pera Saissore wrote:Wrong and wrong
Talk more to people and youll learn that its comon
My reimbursement request was never turned down, maybe its difficult for them to determine lag and they just want to close the ticket fast
Right. The GM I spoke with just said something something loglite bugreport. But I'm a dev for another MMO and I know that is just going to just join a stack of unsolved mysteries, since it places a huge burden on their team to identify and fix the problem.
My hope was to come here for more clues about exactly what patch it began occurring, and other random insight so I can poke at it, identify the cause myself and hand them a complete solution.
It's the only way it's likely to get fixed. |
Beast of Revelations
Hedion University Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2017.05.24 20:49:51 -
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This has gotten me killed several times already, and I've lost expensive stuff, expensive cargo, etc. One ganker even messaged me and said "how did I get you with that fit?" (I had advanced cloaking device). I said "stupid lag."
For those who don't know, there is now some lag present that was not there in the past. So when you hit align-cloak, you don't get fast-enough feedback that you've cloaked. Half the time it went through, half the time it didn't. It forces you to hit it again, as you don't see anything happening. Well, if it in fact DID go through the first time, you've now done a 'double tap' and it DECLOAKS you. And the guy just blows you out of the sky.
There's no excuse for this. If the load on the servers, or the code bloat, is so bad at this point that lag is unavoidable, the simple solution is to make it so that if the CLIENT gets the correct orders in time and in the proper sequence (align-cloak for instance), you get instant feedback from the client and are guaranteed to be cloaked irrespective of what the server received and when it received it. Or, fix the damn lag on the servers. I don't care which. |
Chainsaw Plankton
FaDoyToy
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Posted - 2017.05.24 21:15:46 -
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which is why you wait for the game to respond to your align input before attempting to cloak/activate mods.
I'm something like 99% sure it's been like that for as long as I've been playing. sure many systems are lag free, others will have a roughly one tick delay
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Beast of Revelations
Hedion University Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2017.05.24 21:19:38 -
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Chainsaw Plankton wrote:which is why you wait for the game to respond to your align input before attempting to cloak/activate mods.
Which is why you actually play the game and test what people are saying before theorycrafting.
Lag in this situation is just a killer. There is no 'wait for the game to respond.' You see, we've tried that too. If you wait, and realize you moved but didn't cloak, by the time you realize that, you are dead.
EDIT: That's another issue that seemed to pop up at the same time - one of your inputs going through (align) but another one not going through (cloak). If neither one went through, that would be better, because (assuming your gate cloak timer didn't run out) at least you'd still be cloaked, and you could just try again.
Quote:I'm something like 99% sure it's been like that for as long as I've been playing. sure many systems are lag free, others will have a roughly one tick delay
I've been align-cloaking since forever, and have only had this problem relatively recently. Seems like it started happening sometime during the last couple of months. |
Magnus Jax
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Posted - 2017.05.24 21:43:08 -
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Beast of Revelations wrote:I've been align-cloaking since forever, and have only had this problem relatively recently. Seems like it started happening sometime during the last couple of months.
Uthgaard wrote:My hope was to come here for more clues about exactly what patch it began occurring, and other random insight so I can poke at it, identify the cause myself and hand them a complete solution.
Been a covert scout since 2006. Worked then, works now. There was an issue with it once, quite a few years, ago which CCP quickly resolved and of course the time before TiDi. I never die unless I mess up, got lazy or outplayed OR the system is lagged for obvious reasons (which still means I kinda messed up not accounting for it). Never because of mysterious "module delay".
It's called understanding server ticks, understanding latency and understanding how to work with/around them.
If you have issues then it's not a server/game wide thing otherwise the forums would be awash with people complaining about it, since there's no outcry nor has there been any it's thus not a game wide issue. QED.
That MUST mean it's a local/ISP/routing issue, I'd hope that a dev for an MMO would understand these simple intertube issues. |
Uthgaard
Reputable Gentlemen
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Posted - 2017.05.25 02:00:36 -
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Beast of Revelations wrote:There is no 'wait for the game to respond.' You see, we've tried that too. If you wait, and realize you moved but didn't cloak, by the time you realize that, you are dead.
Don't bother trying to explain things to trolls who don't want to get it. It's a waste of energy and you can't teach a monkey. It's clear from their post history that they just sit here looking for people to argue with. I guess when you can't win at space pvp, you can try to win at chat.
They can continue to herp and derp all they like. I'm moving on because responding to random forum trolls doesn't help me identify or solve the problem.
Beast of Revelations wrote:EDIT: That's another issue that seemed to pop up at the same time - one of your inputs going through (align) but another one not going through (cloak). If neither one went through, that would be better, because (assuming your gate cloak timer didn't run out) at least you'd still be cloaked, and you could just try again.
I've been align-cloaking since forever, and have only had this problem relatively recently. Seems like it started happening sometime during the last couple of months.
Yeah. There was never any futzing around with server ticks or any of that nonsense. Was it about the same time that the UI was replaced with unresponsive bloatware? |
Beast of Revelations
Hedion University Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2017.05.25 02:55:22 -
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Uthgaard wrote: Was it about the same time that the UI was replaced with unresponsive bloatware?
For me this problem has been around at least a couple of months. How long has the 'unresponsive bloatware' been around? |
Uthgaard
Reputable Gentlemen
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Posted - 2017.05.25 03:43:55 -
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I have no idea. I usually only play this for a month or two each year before I get bored. I know it's within the last year. |
Nicolai Serkanner
Brave Newbies Inc. Brave Collective
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Posted - 2017.05.25 10:07:49 -
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Uthgaard wrote:
Let's move away from whether or not it exists, and focus instead on causes and solutions.
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Orin Solette
The Scope Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2017.05.25 14:08:12 -
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Magnus Jax wrote:Beast of Revelations wrote:I've been align-cloaking since forever, and have only had this problem relatively recently. Seems like it started happening sometime during the last couple of months. Uthgaard wrote:My hope was to come here for more clues about exactly what patch it began occurring, and other random insight so I can poke at it, identify the cause myself and hand them a complete solution. Been a covert scout since 2006. Worked then, works now. There was an issue with it once, quite a few years ago, which CCP quickly resolved and of course there was the time before TiDi. I never die unless I mess up, got lazy or outplayed OR the system is lagged for obvious reasons (which still means I kinda messed up not accounting for it). Never because of mysterious "module delay". It's called understanding server ticks, understanding latency and understanding how to work with/around them. If you have issues then it's not a server/game wide thing otherwise the forums would be awash with people complaining about it, since there's no outcry nor has there been any it's thus not a game wide issue. QED.That MUST mean it's a local/ISP/routing issue, I'd hope that a dev for an MMO would understand these simple intertube issues. Better idea - the buttons should work as expected by responding in the correct order if you click them one after another. You've basically explained how you've learned to cope with the problem. That does NOT mean it does not exist. |
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Don Pera Saissore
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Posted - 2017.05.25 15:05:33 -
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Magnus Jax wrote:If you have issues then it's not a server/game wide thing otherwise the forums would be awash with people complaining about it, since there's no outcry nor has there been any it's thus not a game wide issue. QED.
As a forum shitposting alt you should know that only a small number of people come here. Just because people dont ***** about issues doesnt mean there arent any issues |
Magnus Jax
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Posted - 2017.05.25 15:57:53 -
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Don Pera Saissore wrote:Magnus Jax wrote:If you have issues then it's not a server/game wide thing otherwise the forums would be awash with people complaining about it, since there's no outcry nor has there been any it's thus not a game wide issue. QED. As a forum shitposting alt you should know that only a small number of people come here. Just because people dont ***** about issues doesnt mean there arent any issues
What, you don't think that if mechanics or gameplay suddenly changed that would make people lose their ships more often due to increased lag or sudden changes to how stuff works, there wouldn't be 17 bazillion threads on this subject for eleventy weeks?
Go check these forums for recent threads on lag that have anything to do with what the OP describes, you won't find them. Nothing has changed recently that would explain his sudden issues, therefore it's not a game wide issue.
Orin Solette wrote:Better idea - the buttons should work as expected by responding in the correct order if you click them one after another. You've basically explained how you've learned to cope with the problem. That does NOT mean it does not exist.
I never said it doesn't exist. I said that it hasn't changed over the years, and it specifically hasn't changed recently, as the OP says.
It's still as it was and has been. So if anyone suddenly has more or different ones than he used to have it's not a game wide issue. How is this difficult to comprehend? |
Beast of Revelations
Hedion University Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2017.05.25 17:33:03 -
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Magnus Jax wrote:Don Pera Saissore wrote:Magnus Jax wrote:If you have issues then it's not a server/game wide thing otherwise the forums would be awash with people complaining about it, since there's no outcry nor has there been any it's thus not a game wide issue. QED. As a forum shitposting alt you should know that only a small number of people come here. Just because people dont ***** about issues doesnt mean there arent any issues What, you don't think that if mechanics or gameplay suddenly changed that would make people lose their ships more often due to increased lag or sudden changes to how stuff works, there wouldn't be 17 bazillion threads on this subject for eleventy weeks?
It's been affecting me for a couple of months but I haven't posted about it. |
Sobaan Tali
Caldari Quick Reaction Force
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Posted - 2017.05.25 19:36:15 -
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I think I know what OP is referring to, and if that's the case, then he's right...up to a point. There's been a very brief window of time between commanding a ship to leave gate cloak and when your ship actually does so when a module can be turned on prematurely but still properly activate the moment you leave gate cloak.
Where OP is right is that I've noticed that window has seemingly gotten harder to get the timing down, but it's not gone completely. I haven't seen any moments of hitting a module too soon not producing an error complaining of cloaking interfering with it like it should in that case like that, it either says that or my module fires the instant I leave cloak as it should.
Again, that's assuming the OP and I are thinking the same thing. We might not be. So far, what I have seen is that it's a little more difficult to nail down that trick (muscle memory ftw), but it's still possible to do so nonetheless.
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Don Pera Saissore
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Posted - 2017.05.26 01:08:27 -
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Magnus Jax wrote:Go check these forums for recent threads on lag that have anything to do with what the OP describes, you won't find them.
You narrowed it down pretty hard there...
There arent any. This is the first thread that i saw pointing out this issue
Do me a favor, search "lag" on the whole forum
Hardly any threads discussing lag, if we follow your logic then this game is almost lag free |
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