Open Beta Lag Issues

[Athelstaine]

What is the name of the program that folks are using to bypass lag due to location. I am still experiencing lag every other combat and when i am am trying to interact with people/objects. It's not too bad,but it is enough that it will be a death sentence in rvr. I just experienced my first CTD,but the lag and ctd may be due to opening day craziness.

I just remember seeing someone mention a program that you can download to help with lag. For the life of me i cannot find any info on i though.

[Isak]

Gamepath.

I do know I am not going to use it, if I still have bad lag then I guess I will just be out $40 and go play Total War till Dragon Age comes out.

[Fhuul]

Notwife and I having odd issues with lag - seems like one or the other will have a laggy experience. If we relog, then it might switch to the other person and persist until the next relog attempt.

At one point, she was pinging over 500K ms, while I was plodding along with no issues. Checked my router, there's no funky QoS stuff going on, so not sure what the deal is.

[Athelstaine]

Yeah,it came and went there for abit till they brought the servers down for the restart. I'll just deal with it till it goes live. If it's still there,i may just go do something else instead.

[aishrod]

I have also noticed ( for some people) that if you logg in and have some nice lagg, logg completely out to server select, and then back in. It dropped my ping by 500 points

[Athelstaine]

Okay,dumb question. Low ping is good then? I averaged anywhere form 40 - 350 from the times i checked. I am sure there was a lot more variation going on.

[Jealousy]

I just paid for a Gamepath account. It took about twenty minutes to set it up. The difference it made in Aion OB today was absolutely *UNREAL*. Everything was happening the instant I pushed the button, as opposed to the nasty lag-bursts of up to thirty seconds (30 seconds!) for most of CB and OB earlier today. Not being a compensated endorser, I can definitely testify that $6/month is nothing compared to what this service does for you.

[aishrod]

yes, the lower the better, you wanna be under 250 or so

[Drakhon]

Not being a compensated endorser, I can definitely testify that $6/month is nothing compared to what this service does for you.

That may be true, but it's only getting you to a level that you should already be at. The network issues are not NCSoft's fault, but as they are the one selling their product to us and the problems are on a much larger scale than local routing (which would be the user's responsibility to deal with the ISP about), it is their responsibility to work with the ISPs to get it fixed.

It's not much money and most people that will pay to play the game can probably afford it, but we should not have to and most will refuse to do so.

[Chaelyn]

Hmph; I can honestly say that I am NOT paying some third party in order to make the game run properly....

I dont' have lag issues with any other games (with the exception of forts in WAR but that's graphics card issues not lag per say).

I had no problems in CB, and didn't expect any in OB, but it's unplayable right now.

6$ isn't a lot, but it's the principle of the thing... Why should we, the players, have to shell out *MORE* money just to make the game playable?