On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Blair, Keith (Keith Blair) wrote:

>
> Two lag-zones that I've noticed.. The area out front of (and inside of) the
> Freeport Bank brings me to a crawl everytime. In ButcherBlock mountains, the
> path leading directly to the docks - as soon as you turn the corner around
> the mountain and can see the dock entrance - it slows down considerably.

Both docks (Freeport and BB) are slow. When I was using a
Voodoo1 card on a K6-200, it was basically impossible for me
to get on the boat because my framerate droped to about 2 fps
at the docks (1 fps when the boat appeared). All of
Butcherblock is pretty slow, about the same as North Ro, but
it is by no means the worst.

The West Freeport gate is really bad (go fight at the South
Gate if you're a newbie here - yes you'll have to zone if you
die, but you are much less likely to die when you can actually
see what's going on). Other places with noticable slowdowns
are:

The stairs in Unrest just outside the barkeep room
The entrance and courtyard in Cazic
Pretty much all of Rivervale
Any place in Crushbone with line of sight to the castle
Open portions of Blackburrow

> It annoys me greatly the number of people that just sit in the bank at
> Freeport doing absolutely nothing but taking up space.

They are probably in groups and talking. I do not experience
much lag there, so others may not be experiencing your
problem.

> Last night I couldn't
> even get INTO the bank because people were standing around blocking the
> door, the hallway and then the windows as well as the door to get around
> inside.

Hah. In UO, they made the entrances to all the banks one tile
wide. To move through someone you had to have full stamina.
Idiots would stand in the entrance thus requiring that you
shove through them to get by. If someone else wasn't at full
stamina and waiting to shove through, you basically couldn't
leave or enter.

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John H. Kim
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