I had a serious problem with this the other night in the Overthere zone. It
was around midnight Hawaii time and my group (4 others) were fighting
sarnaks. The puller announced Inc and headed back to the group with a
sarnak in tow. Within seconds, all four of my group mates went LD. The
sarnak started hitting on me. I fired up selos and started to run. Even
with a MM drum equipped, I couldn't outrun the sarnak. Then I start going
LD as well and eventually got the Disconnected from server message. I had
to do a hard reboot and when I logged back in I was in FV naked. Lost a
entire bub of EXP due to lag. To say the least I was quite pissed off.

At the time of the disconnect there were only around 10 people in the zone
and around 600 people on the server. Thats not enough people to cause
normal lag so the only explanation I think is valid is there was either a
server problem or a router problem.

Galtin of E'ci

-----Original Message-----
From: Kimes, Dean W. [mailto:dean_kimes@...]
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 4:25 AM
To: 'eqbards@egroups.com'
Subject: [eqbards] Patch effects (OT)

This was the stated reason for the patch, but I found that either it had
quite the opposite effect, or by coincidence there were far more connection
problems last nite than I have ever seen in 14+ months of play. I haven't
been disconnected more than once on any given night since I got my cable
modem 6 months or so ago. Last night I was disconnected 12 times. On about
half those occasions I was disconnected and left at the "You have been
disconnected" screen while EQ locked up the computer forcing a hard reboot.

I was apparently not alone in my difficulties. A /who in Lake of Ill Omen
showed 60 characters present, but 23 of them were LinkDead. I have never
seen so many LinkDead characters in one zone before.

Did anyone else have troubles? Was there perhaps some other network issue
at work or was this caused by the patch? If it wasn't caused by external
sources and isn't fixed I guess its back to Asheron's Call for me, as the
game was totally unplayable last night.

Kit
Somewhere in Warsliks Woods, only wish I knew where

>The servers were down for an emergency patch today.
>Coincidence? Someone want to see if this still works?

The servers went down yesterday to fix problems with sound that were causing
people to crash and lock up randomly. Last night was the first time in four
months that I was able to play the game with sound for more than 5 minutes
before I had to reboot my computer.

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