Lyceum Lag... or... dynamic server allocation

[Darkniter]

<DIV>On Tuesday night primetime on the Guk server, the lag was so bad in the Lyceum of Abhorance that it was simply unplayable.  Combat arts that are supposed to take 0.5 seconds were consistently taking upwards of 3 seconds.  And that doesn't even begin to address the occasional 15 second lag spike.  Furthermore, this is not unusual.  Very similar lag has occurred in Lyceum every Tuesday night for the last 3 weeks, and also 6 weeks ago.  I'm sure it was probably there 4 and 5 weeks ago too, but I cannot address that as I was not there.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Clearly, this zone (and maybe a couple other raid zones) need to have more resources allocated to it during these play times.  Folks, this will only get worse!  More and more guilds are entering Vyemm's Lab, Lyceum, HoS, and DT.  If SoE doesn't address this, raiding will become impossible.  And as there is no level or AA cap increase in the immediate future, what else have we to do but raid?  Yep... it's going to get real bad.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>A possible solution might be to allocate more resources to the busy raid zones during the busy raid times.   From my experience these seem to be about 6pm to midnight EST.  Does the halls of fate, blackscale sepulcher, the nest of the great egg, and even barren sky or bonemire really need as much resources as you are giving them during those times?   The days of 3 zone-instances of sanctum of the scaleborn with 100 people each in them are over I suspect.  Can't you take some resources from there?   We need the bandwidth!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Rapscal -- Swashbuckling for the honor of the Legion of the White Rose</DIV> <DIV>Guk Server</DIV> <DIV> </DIV>

[Rorrak]

<DIV>It was tough - the lag made keeping debuffs applied and dealing with fizzles for the healers difficult, which in turn killed us on encounters we'd have in hand easily under conditions without lag.  Other guilds doing Lyceum in their own instances reported the same issues we had.  The rest of Guk was unaffected by lag at the time, indicating that the problem was Lyceum specific.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Raps - you need to swashbuckle your sig over here, I'll send you a PM.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>- Rorrak</DIV>