Time to be serious about the game

[Gamedan]

I just logged off (I think) because the lag is so bad that everyone playing was complaining about it. Heck, I posted a comment in Global1 and it took 30 seconds for it to show up. Looting is impossible.
I believe this is the reason I stopped playing the game in the first place. So whomever is maintaining the game - let's get serious. I'm willing to pay a $14.99 fee a month for a Fallen Earth that works but come on.

[Gamedan]

Follow up: When I did log off I had two recipes going. After my first comment I had a feeling something was wrong so I logged back in and - neither were being made so I had to start them over.

[FuinhaCanadense]

Weekends, specially sundays, are the worst time to play because of the huge lag. Weekdays are fine though.

[Gamedan]

Originally posted by FuinhaCanadense:

Weekends, specially sundays, are the worst time to play because of the huge lag. Weekdays are fine though.

And we accept that? Doesn't bode well for any reboot

[FuinhaCanadense]

Certanly it's not good, with such small player base the servers shouldn't lag this much. The good side is that this lag lasts 1-2 days. But to be fair, it's annoying and a big problem

[william_es]

To repeat this for the one millionth time:

The lag is caused by some defects in the original game engine. it can't be fixed. Ever. They aren't even try to fix the issues, because... it's impossible to fix. It's why they stopped development of the game originally.

They're supposedly re-coding the game in a new engine. They just put up this old version of the game for free in the meantime. They aren't charging anything for it, since they know it has issues.

[FuinhaCanadense]

I didin't knew that, thanks for the info. I just thought it was from servers not handling well the amount of players in weekends.

[Gamedan]

Originally posted by william_es:

To repeat this for the one millionth time:

The lag is caused by some defects in the original game engine. it can't be fixed. Ever. They aren't even try to fix the issues, because... it's impossible to fix. It's why they stopped development of the game originally.

They're supposedly re-coding the game in a new engine. They just put up this old version of the game for free in the meantime. They aren't charging anything for it, since they know it has issues.

So the original game planners were that bad? Well, I do hope they are coming up with a reboot and they fix this issue. It was bad Sunday night, very bad, so bad everyone was getting very frustrated especially when it took 20 seconds to post a comment or 1 minute to loot

[Lord Commissar]

Originally posted by william_es:

To repeat this for the one millionth time:

The lag is caused by some defects in the original game engine. it can't be fixed. Ever. They aren't even try to fix the issues, because... it's impossible to fix. It's why they stopped development of the game originally.

They're supposedly re-coding the game in a new engine. They just put up this old version of the game for free in the meantime. They aren't charging anything for it, since they know it has issues.

Do you have any links or info regarding the rework?

[william_es]

Originally posted by Gamedan:

So the original game planners were that bad? Well, I do hope they are coming up with a reboot and they fix this issue. It was bad Sunday night, very bad, so bad everyone was getting very frustrated especially when it took 20 seconds to post a comment or 1 minute to loot

They weren't "bad". They just made their own game engine, and unfortunately, It just has some flaws. This game was supposed to help sell licensing of the game engine to other parties. That never happened.

This game, at the time it came out, was actually pretty revolutionary. They were doing a lot of stuff that later mmos did, such as actual aiming at enemies, instead of just hitting tab and letting the character auto-attack (MMO's like world of warcraft are one hair away from an idle game as far as I care).

[Planewalker]

You can ask for a server restart ingame or on the discord when the lag gets too bad.

[∞]

Meanwhile i play fallout76 wishing it was fallen earth. I tried to play the game as it is now, but the overall service, free or not, has no quality for me to spend my time there. Surely when game came out was revolutionary, but today in its current state its not even worthy to be online.

[Gamedan]

Originally posted by FLiP:

Meanwhile i play fallout76 wishing it was fallen earth. I tried to play the game as it is now, but the overall service, free or not, has no quality for me to spend my time there. Surely when game came out was revolutionary, but today in its current state its not even worthy to be online.

Oh no, I was thinking about trying Fallout 76!

[BREEZ]

Originally posted by Gamedan:

Originally posted by FLiP:

Meanwhile i play fallout76 wishing it was fallen earth. I tried to play the game as it is now, but the overall service, free or not, has no quality for me to spend my time there. Surely when game came out was revolutionary, but today in its current state its not even worthy to be online.

Oh no, I was thinking about trying Fallout 76!

Like every other game in the world, the value of a game is often weighted by what you like to do, who you like to do that with, and is everything working when I show up...I spent some time playing FE recently and the lag/delay was about .500-.700 -never really notice much.

OFC, I do not know how many players where on the server.

[Alt0153]

yeah its why the game was doing daily reboots to try and keep then lag problem in check

[BREEZ]

...now I have a taste for spaghetti...uncoded.