EH Crashing

[Mordicus]

<div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div>A few guilds crashed in EH this weekend. For anyone who doesnt know, this zone has endless amounts of trash and for a new guild it may take close to 3 days to complete. It is my opinion that the better guilds will have it down to 8 hours soon enough. That being said, my guild, Strike, was up to the second floor and had been in there about 3 hours when the entire zone crashed and booted us all out to Lesser Faydark. We spoke with a GM and he said there wasnt anything he could do for us. If it were any other zone we likely would have been done in that 3 hours time. The problem is fairly obvious, it is a very long zone and as such allows for more error, like crashes. A myriad of guilds have crashed and been forced to suffer the lockout. Id like to propose that a special rule be made for this instance that allows a GM to go into a file, track a guilds progress then reopen the zone up to where they left off. <p><span class="time_text"></span></p><p><span class="time_text"></span></p><p><span class="time_text"></span></p><p>Message Edited by uccellin19 on <span class=date_text>02-03-2007</span> <span class=time_text>03:33 PM</span>

[Vormulac]

<P>we cleared tier 1 last night was set up for tier 2  zone just crashed on us sitting there. so now we are locked out with only 1 tier completed. This is bull[I cannot control my vocabulary]. NM your new encounter  i hear crashed 3 EH's last night upon reseting after wipe. Fix your [I cannot control my vocabulary] or lose another 30 customers. And i dont mean to your [I cannot control my vocabulary]ty game vanguard.</P> <P> </P> <P>Vormulac Unsleep</P> <P>Guild Leader <A href="http://shatteredmoon.org/" target=_blank>Shattered Moon</A></P> <P>Neriakithicor</P><p>Message Edited by Divinemd on <span class=date_text>02-03-2007</span> <span class=time_text>02:32 PM</span>

[Petgroup]

They did not test the new named they added into this zone, if they did, then they would have known what actually happens when you pull him.Testing on Live servers FTW.<div></div>

[Libnok Daemon]

<DIV>The zone sucks, plain and simple. All the lag and zone crash issues aside. I play this game a lot and I must say making a zone that (if everything goes perfectly) takes 8 hours to clear is absurd! If this is the direction of things to come I see no way I can possibly continue playing, I need to work, as do other subscribers.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>As for the current state of the zone, we have been lucky and our zone hasn't crashed. But that really makes no difference as we cannot get by the Gardner who's lag inducing charm has made the encounter impossible (unless by extreme luck). How do you expect people to defeat an encounter that freezes the client side game for 10-15 seconds every minute? Yes, it was bad prior to this last update, but now there is at best 1-2 seconds of actual charm, the rest is a blur of lag.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>In my opinion SOE truly wants people to leave this game, SOE refuses to listen the community and address the issues that plague the game. I want to like this game and I think it has so much potential but is not being utilized.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>/sigh</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV>

[Nevar]

Lag sucks it is true but 10-15s is not bad at all for that mob. It can be dealt wtih and I do agree it sucks that that is whats holding people back. Last night we went through with a full minute of a spike. Pretty [I cannot control my vocabulary] horrible

[Libnok Daemon]

<DIV>Well, the mob used to cause 5-10s lag when the charm broke. Crappy, but doable. Now, you know exactly when the charm STARTS ( the game freezes)  when it ends (the revive screen is up). There is no moving your toon through the lag, there is no casting...there is nothing except a picture of EQ2 on my screen.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Like I said before, you would need EXTREME LUCK to make it through this encounter as is.</DIV>

[Nevar]

Luck yes, extreme no. I mean it charms 6 people, we have 4 fighters holding aggro for the most part one of us is not charmed and if we are then snarks grabs it <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Vormulac]

<P>So yeah the lag sucks but we got a response from a GM saying we all went linkdead at the same time viewing the logs that is probalby what he saw and i can undertand that response. Now what actually happened is we  all got kicked to character select. There was 18of us in zone standing between tier 1 and 2 in the valley most afk others doing portable tradeskill stuff or talking and what not on vent.  So might be someting worth looking into if there is a bug with eh that makes it blink from time to time. This happend saturday afternoon about 3-4pm cst btw if a dev wishes to look into it further. Not asking for a reset or anything like that but at least maybe see what can be done to further prevent it since this zone does take a long time to complete.</P> <P> </P> <P>Vormulac Unsleep</P> <P>Guild Leader <A href="http://shatteredmoon.org" target=_blank>Shattered Moon</A></P> <P>Neriakithicor</P>

[TuinalOfTheNexus]

<P>Splitting EH into 3 seperate zones with access quests completed by killing the nameds wouldn't be the worst idea ever.</P>

[JoarAddam]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Nevarer wrote:<BR> Lag sucks it is true but 10-15s is not bad at all for that mob. It can be dealt wtih and I do agree it sucks that that is whats holding people back. Last night we went through with a full minute of a spike. Pretty [I cannot control my vocabulary] horrible<BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P><BR>We shouldn't have to treat lag as a "working as intended encounter mechanic"</P> <P>between stuff like this and my girlfriend riding my butt for more "away from game" time, it's getting real hard to stick around.</P>

[Trynnus1]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> TuinalOfTheNexus wrote:<BR> <P>Splitting EH into 3 seperate zones with access quests completed by killing the nameds wouldn't be the worst idea ever.</P><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P><BR>Why? You only want the zone available to the "uber guilds" or guilds that have 3 years to complete a zone?</P> <P>My Guild finally got down the Tarniax on Friday night and let me just say that it is a shame 95% of the players in the game will miss out on this content. I have no issue with zones being difficult but anything that "needs" more than 5 hours is too long.</P>

[Computer MAn]

Ahahah I hope your kidding because way more than 95% of my server at least has seen Tarinax or killed him considering how much a joke DT has become.

[JoarAddam]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> TuinalOfTheNexus wrote:<BR> <P>Splitting EH into 3 seperate zones with access quests completed by killing the nameds wouldn't be the worst idea ever.</P><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P><BR>This would work for me...  but you'd have to set up some kind of single use "key" so that you still have to complete the first 2 each time you moved to the next one.  I don't mind going in there 3 straight days, I just don't want to be kicked out halfway through for something that's SOE's fault.</P> <P>It's all a plot...   Dev's don't want certain guilds to complete the zone this soon, so they sent "Clumsy Joe" from accounting in to kick a few plugs...  I could draw it out into a much longer and larger plot encompassing the guilds that have beaten it and why SOE wanted them to and not us, but I just took a pain pill...</P>

[SinIsLaw]

<div></div>Yepps, anything to help with these lags blocking progression ... we got kicked out last week when Guk crashed so it was game over for us as well then /sightAbout the lags, I really hope sony will solve these issues, imagen once more guilds start to do EH on weekly bases and u have like 5 -6 guilds in there on a weekend, LAG + the encounter script chram lag thinggybob = why would anyone bother ... <div></div><p>Message Edited by SinIsLaw on <span class=date_text>02-06-2007</span> <span class=time_text>10:21 AM</span>