This is getting a little bit beyond a joke now guys.

OneKhajiitCrimeWave

So i am in Cyrodiil (nothing good EVER comes from that opening statement but hey ***) and we're in a good fight at Alessia, and obviously the lag spikes are insane (because when are they not at peak during taking/defending a keep)... suddenly i DC after we break the inner doors open. Annoying as hell, so i load back in to find we had taken the keep (yay) but obviously no AP for the parts i played in it except the player kills at the time (boo)....

So i then realise that EVERYONE in my group DC'd, all 12 of us DC'd at the same time. I then see that there's a bridge fight going on. Off i go towards it because bridge fights are epic and there's nothing funnier that using a javelin to send that NB trying to sneak along the wall (there's ALWAYS one) to their watery grave....... and DC again. Come back to find the good fair bridge fight over (no AP again) but surrounded by 6 DC Mag DK's. (FUN!).


Now, there's a number of things to draw from this:

1. Your xbox 1 EU Megaserver is either not up to spec for the strain put on it (HIGHLY LIKELY)
2. Your xbox 1 EU Megaserver is powered by hamsters and you haven't swapped them out at the end of their shift. (poor hamsters)
3. Your team has decided to eat MOD or crabcakes instead of maintaining the xb1 EU Megaserver correctly and as such most of the player base on this server have been experiencing a higher than normal number of DC's (we had 8 different disconnects in HoF, 7 in MoL and now upwards of 20 in Cyrodiil at 1 keep.

PLEASE for the love of the 8 Divines can you find a solution to this. I have submitted MULTIPLE tickets and emails to your customer 'service' team who tried to tell me that they were "unaware of issues with disconnects from my server and that it must be my ISP" ..... well i have changed ISP's now anyway and it's still just as bad, if not worse. The fact it happens to SO MANY PEOPLE and your Customer Service team are unaware of it is actually quite disturbing.

Regards,

Someone who WAS enjoying their time in Cyrodiil before your server went full potato on my group.

Bhaal5

Think they have been aware of this since launch.... Since nothing major has been done to improve it over the years, i dare say they dont care much for it either.
(Meant to be a small improvement with summerset)

reprosal

People need to realize that games have come a long way but there is only so much that can be done on a 60 tick server refresh rate. I am not even sure what the XBL platform uses but for compatibility issues, it is tough to improve on that aspect.

DuskMarine

reprosal wrote: »

People need to realize that games have come a long way but there is only so much that can be done on a 60 tick server refresh rate. I am not even sure what the XBL platform uses but for compatibility issues, it is tough to improve on that aspect.

not really it all comes down to how experienced is the team running it with megaservers. ive seen zenimax practically go from having no idea to having somewhat of an idea and hopefully a full understanding of it come summerset. theres plenty of other developers who couldve had eso running on servers with little to zero issues with it. it all comes down to experience, and the quality of the servers bought. so we can only wait right now.

Marginis

Number 2, probably. Poor hamsters. Although I will say I've never really run into major server lag except for once, back in the early days on xbox ESO. To be fair though, I am on NA (but I've been hearing reports there too).

DuskMarine

Marginis wrote: »

Number 2, probably. Poor hamsters. Although I will say I've never really run into major server lag except for once, back in the early days on xbox ESO. To be fair though, I am on NA (but I've been hearing reports there too).

yea theres a few massive spikes but hopefully summerset clears those up

reprosal

When you have a full instanced zone like Cyrodiil it is a lot of stress on whatever server they are running. I mean I am sure they have dedicated resources allocated but having over 64 players in the same ‘general’ area puts stress on any environment.

I am sure they have competent staff.. Why do you think most AAA games have nothing bigger than a 64 person isolated server? Even then... lots of lag on certain games depending on net code (looking at you EA first person shooters)

Sting864

Marginis wrote: »

Number 2, probably. Poor hamsters. Although I will say I've never really run into major server lag except for once, back in the early days on xbox ESO. To be fair though, I am on NA (but I've been hearing reports there too).

There was a post earlier about the hamster getting loose and instead of rounding him up, the ZOS people ran away like Forrest Gump...
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/409081/missing-hamster#latest

inthecoconut

I could be wrong, but aren't they addressing a lot of these issues? Better server stabilization, better optimization, and also easier credit for AP rewards? Not saying these issues don't exist, but I'm hopeful to see some of them addressed:

https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/26367

Marginis

Sting864 wrote: »

Marginis wrote: »

Number 2, probably. Poor hamsters. Although I will say I've never really run into major server lag except for once, back in the early days on xbox ESO. To be fair though, I am on NA (but I've been hearing reports there too).

There was a post earlier about the hamster getting loose and instead of rounding him up, the ZOS people ran away like Forrest Gump...

Yeah, those are the same hamsters, didn't you know?

DuskMarine

inthecoconut wrote: »

I could be wrong, but aren't they addressing a lot of these issues? Better server stabilization, better optimization, and also easier credit for AP rewards? Not saying these issues don't exist, but I'm hopeful to see some of them addressed:

https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/26367

dont believe it till you see it. fixing things like that are not that easy with closed betas cause they have no idea what a full server load can do to it.

stojekarcub18_ESO

They have tried(?), and can't fix it...so update 18 you can just stroll buy a keep being taken and get your rewards.

Marginis

DuskMarine wrote: »

inthecoconut wrote: »

I could be wrong, but aren't they addressing a lot of these issues? Better server stabilization, better optimization, and also easier credit for AP rewards? Not saying these issues don't exist, but I'm hopeful to see some of them addressed:

https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/26367

dont believe it till you see it. fixing things like that are not that easy with closed betas cause they have no idea what a full server load can do to it.

Cautious optimism.

ak_pvp

"Surrounded by 6 MagDKs."

I believe that is called a MagdKakke

Yolokin_Swagonborn

Cyrodiil has been a joke since ZOS abandoned it sometime in 2015. They have been rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic ever since, deleting torchbugs, deer, messing around with skills.

The fundamental problem is that so key stakeholders in the company don't seem to know what they want to do with PvP. I don't know how to address that problem from the outside. There was a time where PvP'ers couldn't get their gameplay features by ZOS because it included PvP. I still want an explanation for that time period as it makes no sense to me.

These little tweaks will never solve the problem. AoE caps came and left, performance tweaks happen all the time. We still don't have the game that functioned at launch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUzFW0Y11BM

I don't want tweaks, I want this game back.

Marginis

Yolokin_Swagonborn wrote: »

Cyrodiil has been a joke since ZOS abandoned it sometime in 2015. They have been rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic ever since, deleting torchbugs, deer, messing around with skills.

The fundamental problem is that so key stakeholders in the company don't seem to know what they want to do with PvP. I don't know how to address that problem from the outside. There was a time where PvP'ers couldn't get their gameplay features by ZOS because it included PvP. I still want an explanation for that time period as it makes no sense to me.

These little tweaks will never solve the problem. AoE caps came and left, performance tweaks happen all the time. We still don't have the game that functioned at launch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUzFW0Y11BM

I don't want tweaks, I want this game back.

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Tabbycat

I usually only can play for about an hour in the morning throughout the week because by the time I get home the lag is so bad I normally don't want to deal with it unless I'm doing something where I don't have to worry about my character being killed (such as crafting writs or research).

I hope the changes that come with Summerset helps.

DanteYoda

Could there be a lot of people using hacks? That would make the servers go to hell too.. I know no one likes talking about cheaters but every pvp game i've played had these in them.. and honestly nothing makes a server more unplayable than 3rd party hacks..

Its a main reason i gave up on pvp.

DuskMarine

DanteYoda wrote: »

Could there be a lot of people using hacks? That would make the servers go to hell too.. I know no one likes talking about cheaters but every pvp game i've played had these in them.. and honestly nothing makes a server more unplayable than 3rd party hacks..

Its a main reason i gave up on pvp.

bad thing is their still running around saw one that was still able to climb walls which is sad but it is still happening you just gotta hope you dont find them.

Waffennacht

Poor poor hamsters

Karmanorway

And ball groups ...