Age of Conan

Okay I will lay down $15 for a month very shortly.

The only thing stopping me now is the 4k lag spikes. If they have not been fixed by now I wonder if Funcom will ever be able to fix them.

Have they been fixed?

Not something I experienced at all during my return( from august until a few days ago). I'm still in the process of deciding if I want to throw down another $15 on another month. The problem really isn't performance, content or lacking gameplay any longer, the problem is the populations at present. I'm not sure what server you were on, or whether you plan to start anew. On deathwhisper the numbers just aren't there to offer any lasting appeal. I could log into Bloodfin(SWG) right now and find more people.

If I were you (and I'm not, so take this with a grain of salt) I'd wait a few more months see where things stand. It's not the money I'd be worried about, it's the time and effort in building a character that's a bigger issue IMO.

Originally posted by donjn

Okay I will lay down $15 for a month very shortly.

The only thing stopping me now is the 4k lag spikes. If they have not been fixed by now I wonder if Funcom will ever be able to fix them.

Have they been fixed?

The funny thing is that Craig an co never announced the performance increased that came with sep 17th patch (patch 2.0). However as an active forum reader and poster I picked up that latency got dramatically improved with this patch. There is simply no more posting on this. I woun't lie to you though, I got one latency spike yester day. It was very brief though and this is not an issue any more.

As fare as population issues go, some of the servers have low population. Others are however booming as all people now coming to the game only join certain servers. You can read more on server populations in the AoC forums.

Ive come to the conclusion that the lag spikes are a ISP issue and not a server issue. How? At home I get the lag spikes, I went to a friends and played and magicly there were none whatsoever. Also look at people posting about them, You'll see a lot of people saying they dont have them. If its a problem with Funcom's servers, EVERYONE will have the issue.

I dont have any lag playing last month for 1 month....

Originally posted by ganton

Ive come to the conclusion that the lag spikes are a ISP issue and not a server issue. How? At home I get the lag spikes, I went to a friends and played and magicly there were none whatsoever. Also look at people posting about them, You'll see a lot of people saying they dont have them. If its a problem with Funcom's servers, EVERYONE will have the issue.

Actually, I noticed a bit of server lagg since the last patch, we had 3 lagg spikes in 8 hours saturday and the whole group had them so it's server wide. Could off course just be a temporary issue with Crom also, havnt got one since.

Generally the spikes are down a lot however.

i just got the game not long ago and have not experienced any bad lag spikes so far. If you are looking for a populated pvp server on US, go for Tyranny. Don't complain if you get ganked though.

Originally posted by ganton

Ive come to the conclusion that the lag spikes are a ISP issue and not a server issue. How? At home I get the lag spikes, I went to a friends and played and magicly there were none whatsoever. Also look at people posting about them, You'll see a lot of people saying they dont have them. If its a problem with Funcom's servers, EVERYONE will have the issue.

If it was a problem with my ISP, EVERY MMO I play would have that problem.

I play on Wiccana PvE.

Not because it is a roleplay server but because it is the largest populated PvE server by far.

Anyone know how it is now?

Originally posted by donjn

Originally posted by ganton

Ive come to the conclusion that the lag spikes are a ISP issue and not a server issue. How? At home I get the lag spikes, I went to a friends and played and magicly there were none whatsoever. Also look at people posting about them, You'll see a lot of people saying they dont have them. If its a problem with Funcom's servers, EVERYONE will have the issue.

If it was a problem with my ISP, EVERY MMO I play would have that problem.

Where are the US servers located? Never done any research on this myself, however I agree it's probably not on your end.