Sadly I think it's still very much present for a lot of people, it's just that it feels like our bitching is falling of deaf ears. I know personally the lag was so bad that after my second or 3rd solo MM I said fuck it. Even when trying to hunt in FFA I would have to hunt at a lower level because when it came time to the boss the lag was so bad that I would not be able to pull out and healing tools.
The lag is killing Entropia for me and my desire to play, and while I don't want to speak for other people. I think some others would agree...
I agree 100% with this.
I came back to EU after a few month break and in practically no time I'm at a point where I'm ready to walk away again because the lag is so frustrating. I'll take a break and play any other game I own and it runs fine and then I come back to EU and within 2 minutes I'm like "ugh this is fucking bullshit" with the lag happening non-stop.
Mobs can attack you non-stop but every 30 seconds or so the gun just stops shooting for 4-5 seconds. Same thing when trying to switch to fap. I'll switch and the timer will go like the item was used but no points healed then it stalls waiting to use again for 4-5 seconds. Meanwhile getting this piss beat out of me by mob. Then if I'm lucky it'll start healing. More often then not though I just die because I can't heal - just standing their like an idiot. Then there's lag with auction, lag with HoF, lag...lag...lag!
The lag problem is caused by a routing issue with the company they use for hosting above.net which is owned by Zayo. I've tried tracing the packets while in game and when lag happens I notice lots of dropped packets on their end when routing through their network.
Some say they don't have lag and other do - it's not 100% based on your location but a lot of factors that can influence the routing such as location, isp and sever load balancers that decide how to route your packets through the network.
Anyways, they appointed a new CEO just now... let's see what this captain can do about this sinking ship. But at longs as people as still forking money over to them why the hell should they do ANYTHING?? I'd say arrange a boycott day where everyone logs in but no one spends 1 pec to put a blip on their radar that we want shit done but it's impossible to organize the community in this fashion.
Additionally, the only way they can "fix the lag" is if they just move their servers to a different provider - someone with their shit together like Amazon AWS.