Alright, so I've updated this slightly. Post reviews, comments, and I will try to incorporate.
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[quote who="Greg30007" reply="4" id="2952565"]If you spot [DT] in lobby or in a game take it as holiday. Is rare like diamonds for them to be on their main accounts. [/quote] I rarely smurf. True, I feel like the only one in DT sometimes and I'm sure I'm getting smurfed by my own clan sometimes *cough* Tyr *cough*, but such is life.
[quote who="Xmasbeer" reply="7" id="2949576"]I tried multiplayer once online. Never again, my frient lives next town only 10 kilometres away and we had lag of tremendous proportions.[/quote] If you play diplomacy, the lag has been fixed. The other versions still have it though.
I think the changes were made to Diplomacy only. Diplomacy has been flawless.
There's a lot of people that play online. 50-60 usually. You don't need any add-ons to play online, but most of the action is on Diplomacy.
Or playing badly (i.e., me).
Well, the server seems to be working well. Thank you again Yarlen.
2nd game, 31 players on, still working. Time will tell now.
I can't tell you how many are on, but so far it's been flawless. Played a 5v5 and everything was smooth. What did you change?
https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/409159/page/1/#2944645
https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/409159/page/1/#2944645
Most excellent. Once I get a game going, I'll let you know. Thank you.
I've heard back from Yarlen and Josie this morning, and they are actively working on it. Josie hinted at some testing that has been going on. If that means anything about balance simulations for Rebellion, I don't know.
I can log into diplomacy now, but the lag is just completely unbareable. We can't even set up a game.
Can't even log in now.
Yarlen, yesterday and today the lag has been quite bad. The patch worked, but it seems something else is wrong now.
Now that the minidump/desync monster and the lag monster have been crushed, we have a new multiplayer issue the community must face. Together, we can stomp out the last of the monsters once and for all: I need everyone to send me $5 by PayPal to get kbroke and ManicGonzo new computers, ASAP.
WHIP, move this to the Rebellion section of the forums. It will get more attention there.
https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/408939 Yarlen, I love you. /I'm not gay
I don't think many of us realized that if one is down the other is not necessarily also down.
I hate to report it, but the ICO server is down. You wouldn't be updating with the patch would you?
Seems the server is down.
[quote who="Yarlen" reply="16" id="2938511"]Probably not, as the cause is unrelated to the server code. We're testing a fix internally now that does appear to have solved the lag issue. If it pans out, we'll release it in a patch in the nearish future. [/quote] Awesome!
[quote who="Yarlen" reply="24" id="2931390"]We're still investigating it, but the server's resources are barely being utilized at all. I'm wondering where folks who are playing together are from though? It could be that the distance to the server is a cause if folks from Europe are trying to play folks from North America or China or something.[/quote] It has nothing to do with distance. It is definitely on ICO's side. My bet is there is a problem with a rou