Guild Wars 2

I got a weird lag today and REALLY WEIRD !

I control my char but any skill I press will have 5 seconds delay while other people can move or doing anything as if they are playing just fine! Like, I was about to heal but it takes 5 MORE SECONDS + NORMAL CASTING TIME and I really wonder what the heck?

I press it so many times and it’s so unresponsive! Seriously Devs? [— —-— —-- – ——!
Did you guys ever take care about lag spike or you just ….——- —-—— – ——— —-—-?

BETTER CHECK THE INTERNET CABLE PLEASE! FOR REAL!

Oh and ranger is so bad right now in pvp so move your – and take care about them too. LAG SPIKE MAKE ME SO ANGRY! (I will capture video to you if you need it. )

You make it seem like anet is running the game off a couple of server mobos in some sweaty dudes basement. Gotta check that on single solitary ethernet cable.

Justin ODell.9517:

It’s late… and I can’t make sense of your Morse code.
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Justin Odell’s face when reading terrible questions.

Countless

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Had 6 4on5s in 9 rounds and flown out 1 tme by myself yesterday.. This is absolutely frustrating.

Are european servers in Europe Anet?
When I “whois” the server the server is identified as located in Austin….

Kicast.1459:

Are european servers in Europe Anet?
When I “whois” the server the server is identified as located in Austin….

I believe the EU servers are located in Germany. Last I heard the login has to do with the Austin servers that is why that comes up. But just due to the latency difference you get between the two regions I’d believe the US are here in US and EU are in Germany.

Justin ODell.9517:

001 031 300 201 111 000
105 310 010 302 000 010
520 022 101 100 100 110
000 110 305 200 220 000
021 011 021 100 100 102
111 210 510 301 111 111
205 130 010 211 103 051
030 102 205 130 011 201
300 100 100 102 251 515

Am I doing this right?

I am trying to figure out which “language” this is…the format looks familiar, but I can’t place it.

Helly.2597:

Kicast.1459:

Are european servers in Europe Anet?
When I “whois” the server the server is identified as located in Austin….

I believe the EU servers are located in Germany. Last I heard the login has to do with the Austin servers that is why that comes up. But just due to the latency difference you get between the two regions I’d believe the US are here in US and EU are in Germany.

Game server is in Germany, but every NA/EU player is tied to the login servers in austin, texas.
When login servers/transam cable or satlink goes down, then every EU player will get booted outta the german game servers, eventually. I am not 100% sure about the interval in which the login server asks for “recheck if person X is still person X”.

This is also PART of the reason why EU players got mass disconnects during the DDOS on NA servers (NA game servers is in same place as login verification).

Anyone from Anet could verify or correct me, but last time i spoke with a QA anet employee ingame, this was how it was explained to me

pdavis.8031:

Justin ODell.9517:

001 031 300 201 111 000
105 310 010 302 000 010
520 022 101 100 100 110
000 110 305 200 220 000
021 011 021 100 100 102
111 210 510 301 111 111
205 130 010 211 103 051
030 102 205 130 011 201
300 100 100 102 251 515

Am I doing this right?

I am trying to figure out which “language” this is…the format looks familiar, but I can’t place it.

Looks like Decimal but it isn’t. I’m trying with http://cryptii.com/decimal/text

Elrey.5472:

pdavis.8031:

Justin ODell.9517:

001 031 300 201 111 000
105 310 010 302 000 010
520 022 101 100 100 110
000 110 305 200 220 000
021 011 021 100 100 102
111 210 510 301 111 111
205 130 010 211 103 051
030 102 205 130 011 201
300 100 100 102 251 515

Am I doing this right?

I am trying to figure out which “language” this is…the format looks familiar, but I can’t place it.

Looks like Decimal but it isn’t. I’m trying with http://cryptii.com/decimal/text

Yeah tried decimal to text and that didn’t turn up anything. My guess is that it’s just a random string of numbers

The servers are kittened up. My kitten activates only 2 seconds later wtf

Looks like senary to me.

Justin ODell.9517:

001 031 300 201 111 000
105 310 010 302 000 010
520 022 101 100 100 110
000 110 305 200 220 000
021 011 021 100 100 102
111 210 510 301 111 111
205 130 010 211 103 051
030 102 205 130 011 201
300 100 100 102 251 515

Am I doing this right?

I want to say the binary flows strong with this one, but you have not enough 0’s and 1’s

Justin ODell.9517:

What, you guys have never seen combined zero-based alternating length encoded binary optimized for ascii text?

I read that, and I hear Sheldon’s voice from Big Bang Theory.

Justin ODell.9517:

What, you guys have never seen combined zero-based alternating length encoded binary optimized for ascii text?

Of all the threads on the forums, this has to be the most constructive one and most deserving of attention from the community and the developers. Thank you. Thank you so much.

But seriously, did you guys unplug and then plug the cable back in?

Now seriously.

I am having a problem with my connection. The problem is with the login server.

First of all my client doesn’t autostart anymore. Launcher always forces me to click LOGIN button, after that game starts in 5 seconds. In past just by running the launcher, game checked itself and opened automatically in full screen.

Secondly, client often loses connection to LOGIN SERVER while playing. Out of nowhere I get this error, sometimes during arena games, sometimes just while standing and chatting. Your login servers are ****** **. I am connecting from Poland via stable internet connection. Many times client was frozen on character selection menu, because of lost connection to the login server and I couldn’t click the “Play” button on any of my chars. Sometimes restarting client helps to establish the connection but there is no guaranty that it will get over after some time.

Justin ODell.9517:

What, you guys have never seen combined zero-based alternating length encoded binary optimized for ascii text?

No. Where did you?

Justin ODell.9517:

What, you guys have never seen combined zero-based alternating length encoded binary optimized for ascii text?

It doesn’t look like any of the formats I learned during ten minute’s research, assuming the word ‘alternating’ is modifying ‘length encoded’. There’s 00s in the length encoding, so it’s not alternating per character, and it’s not alternating per group because there’s some enormous groups. There’s characters other than ‘0’ and ‘1’ in both the first and last part of each group, and a group ‘520’ which I’m kitten ed sure isn’t 52 ’0’s, so that rules out marking the runs with the appropriate substitution. It seems unlikely it’s in octal. I’m assuming the optimization for ascii text involves dropping the highest bit in the byte.

Abaddon.2105:

Now seriously.

I am having a problem with my connection. The problem is with the login server.

First of all my client doesn’t autostart anymore. Launcher always forces me to click LOGIN button, after that game starts in 5 seconds. In past just by running the launcher, game checked itself and opened automatically in full screen.

Secondly, client often loses connection to LOGIN SERVER while playing. Out of nowhere I get this error, sometimes during arena games, sometimes just while standing and chatting. Your login servers are ****** **. I am connecting from Poland via stable internet connection. Many times client was frozen on character selection menu, because of lost connection to the login server and I couldn’t click the “Play” button on any of my chars. Sometimes restarting client helps to establish the connection but there is no guaranty that it will get over after some time.

If the problem was genuinely with the login server, no-one would be able to get in, so support would have heard about it. The problem has to be between your end and theirs, so call your ISP.

Justin ODell.9517:

What, you guys have never seen combined zero-based alternating length encoded binary optimized for ascii text?

I’d like my brain back, please.

So nice to see that devs recognize problem and take it seiously!
Sure, OP wasn’t too clear, but thanks for coming in to write something that makes me completely mad.
Your servers have seriously problems SINCE AUGUST and this is dev response? Better not answer at all, I prefer when you ignore it and not make fun out of players. Half of my team quit, rest is like ‘they never gonna fix this’ and invest 25% of previous time.
Congratulations, pve served nicely, bon appetite the brand new boring LS is here

I honestly don’t get any lag spikes unless it’s on my end.
edit: I’ve played multiple times in a effin Starbucks before on my laptop with out lag issues. Granted their Internet is supplied by Google but still, there could be like 10 other ppl on the WiFi and I can still play gw2 just fine if I want.

I still havn’t seen anyone proving that it wasn’t on there side. Alot of people play with poor connections. Alot of people play without realising there connection is actually a poor one.

In this case there could be something on the individual level causing these issues. As from what I can tell if this was a base problem on A-Nets side wouldn’t it effect a MUCH larger portion of the playerbase? And since this is a buisness wouldn’t they be doing anything in there power to make sure everything on there side is clear?

It COULD be something on A-Nets side that seems to only affect a very specific group of people. Yet there would be a similarity or a common problem between the individuals that once found could help to identify the problem. I can’t see how A-Net wouldn’t have atleast had an idea on how to mitigate the effects of the problem for these specific individuals.

Now I won’t claim to be an expert. But most often isn’t the simplest possibility the right one? To me this looks like people getting up in arms together about a massive problem on A-Net. But I havn’t personally seen any evidence that its on A-Nets side of the equation at all. This means I have to think that its something on the players side they just don’t understand is causing an issue.

And enough people are having similar issues (Almost inevitable in a large scale MMO happened all the time in the wow forums) that might not even be related to eachother much less A-Net grouping together and making a set of individual issues seem like some massive problem and then throwing it at A-Net. Rather than coming on here and ranting. Did you go through the the paths they offer in order to get in contact with them? Did you report your problems to them while giving them your systems specs if required? Did you check your own kitten internet using a tracking software to see if theres any issues on YOUR end?

Justin ODell.9517:

What, you guys have never seen combined zero-based alternating length encoded binary optimized for ascii text?

This is why YOU get paid the BIG bucks and those guys don’t.

Probably why they don’t allow code sharing to get others to help them make stuff. GW2 is really complex system, most of its coding people have never seen because its top of the line and the math just makes other peoples head swell up and explode… takes 10 year PHd to even get near you level am I right?

Yesss it’s sooooo on my side, that 5 people on team, ALL have this lag; small pvp guild almost stopped playing, because lag is still present – probably MY POOR INTERNET CONNECTION IS CONTAGIOUS. And 2-3 on enemy team lag so much that it’s visible from other player’s perspective. Everything else works fine, not even smallest problem. I’m crap at PCs sure, but it’s CLEARLY not internet connection, because lags affect tpvp MUCH MORE than anything else. And dev lauging in the face is dev laughing in the face. Even if there are some things to make it run more smoothly, but why should I lose my time, just as I did back in the October only to discover that it doesn’t matter.

Sorry for English, i write terribly when i’m really kittened off.

While I generally agree that lag is mostly on the client side, there are SOME times when lag is on the server side. In many cases, all that it takes is a reboot to get it fixed. However, in an environment when multiple computers are connected to a single server, and one of those computers has a laggy connection it can and does cause issues for others. Like in a pvp room.

So yes, it can very well be caused by your internet connection, or it could be that the servers need to be reboot. In any event, raging about it isn’t going to solve the problem. In my line of work, if I have a customer who is being a kitten, I take my sweet time in dealing with that customer. I will do my job, but I will do it EXACTLY by the book, and in the least efficient way possible, just to make him wait. Thats a part of customer service. I provide a service to you, and if you are going to be a jerk, you aren’t going to get anywhere close to my best service, you’d be lucky to get my worst.

How interstellar.

I had that yesterday in soloQ. My character would stop for up to 10 seconds and everyone would run around me the once the spike stopped all the skills and damage happened in a split-second then a new spike started. I even closed the client completely and restarted since it was worse than if my team mates had to play 4v5, but that didn’t help at all, in fact it made the spikes last 20 seconds and not all skills and damage appeared after the spike, only a few little things changed.
I will update with the /ip when I get home… but it was frustrating as hell. Grrr
Oh yeah, 1 other player on enemy team experienced the same. Keep in mind it had nothing to do with my internet, I had a bunch of software that use the internet running alongside GW2 and none of them stopped working.

Justin ODell.9517:

What, you guys have never seen combined zero-based alternating length encoded binary optimized for ascii text?

I’m not even sure thats a thing…

Google just pulls up this thread when searching for it :P

Blueskylightdragon.4876:

I got a weird lag today and REALLY WEIRD !

Poor you, you complain about 5 seconds of not being able to cast 1 heal skill.

Here’s a video of me not being able to give waterfields for 2 minutes.

Come back when you’re in my league

Pinkamena Diane Pie.8054:

Blueskylightdragon.4876:

I got a weird lag today and REALLY WEIRD !

Poor you, you complain about 5 seconds of not being able to cast 1 heal skill.

Here’s a video of me not being able to give waterfields for 2 minutes.

Come back when you’re in my league

You think yours is bad? It took Jesus 3 days to respawn…

oh you’re so funny and have knowledge too
except that my internet connection is fine, it was sarcasm all the way through
well not for the part that people i know left the game or invest less than half of previous time

Helly.2597:

Kicast.1459:

Are european servers in Europe Anet?
When I “whois” the server the server is identified as located in Austin….

I believe the EU servers are located in Germany. Last I heard the login has to do with the Austin servers that is why that comes up. But just due to the latency difference you get between the two regions I’d believe the US are here in US and EU are in Germany.

The /ip command in game give the auth server adress ????
I would be surprised….
It would mean there are one different auth server for each map you come in…I can’t beleive this.

Ok i have always problem at night with gw2 connection, only with this game so it’s not a connection problem. Now i’m trying to play since 10 minutes but everytime i log in and press a button, start to lag, i can’t write in chat, change map, use skill, nothing! Then send me to select character window with “client lost his connection and bla bla bla”.
Checked connection everything ok, no problem with other game.

skyd.9678:

Ok i have always problem at night with gw2 connection, only with this game so it’s not a connection problem. Now i’m trying to play since 10 minutes but everytime i log in and press a button, start to lag, i can’t write in chat, change map, use skill, nothing! Then send me to select character window with “client lost his connection and bla bla bla”.
Checked connection everything ok, no problem with other game.

Check with pingplotter…
you will see that you have plenty of packet loss at a stage when trying to reach anet servers…you can have a perfect connection for dozen of servers…the path to anet servers can nevertheless be misworking.

Again the issue is that anet server locations is not reachable to an acceptable level for an important amount of players in Europe.
Some vpn have been used in a large way to find workaround to the usual network path.

Justin ODell.9517:

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105 310 010 302 000 010
520 022 101 100 100 110
000 110 305 200 220 000
021 011 021 100 100 102
111 210 510 301 111 111
205 130 010 211 103 051
030 102 205 130 011 201
300 100 100 102 251 515

Am I doing this right?

Wow, it’s the code for the new match-making algorithm!

pdavis.8031:

Pinkamena Diane Pie.8054:

Here’s a video of me not being able to give waterfields for 2 minutes.

Come back when you’re in my league

You think yours is bad? It took Jesus 3 days to respawn…

That’s because he wasn’t just downed, he got nailed…