Hey there, folks. Wanted to make a quick post to share some design theory behind the new spawn system as a whole, and try to allay some concerns about recent issues.
Our main goals with the new system were to…
While there have been no shortage of growing pains as we’ve worked through ...
Read more External link →I am with Deutsche Telekom. I have massive problems during prime time. My ping goes up to 170ms, while it stays at ~60ms in the moring. When i tracer cobalts IP i get a huge increase when it reaches 80.157.129.202. Other users in germany suggest it is because Deutsche Telekom has very bad peering. My Cobalt name is BlauesAuge
Edit: I once tried using a VPN from my University when i had realy bad ping. With the VPN my ping went down to ~80.
Thank you for the information. If you have some free time today, could you please send me a PM with the full traceroute? Much appreciated!
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No, not public unfortunately.
Here you go. Connery is in Las Vegas. Definitely worse than AMS in terms of overall latency, although Connery is the most diverse in terms of physical connection distances.
Both Miller and Cobalt are physically located in Amsterdam. Here is a chart I put together showing the average latency of all players into both worlds between 9 PM and 10 PM CEST tonight.
The chart shows that about 50% of the people had 50ms or better, and about 80% had 70 ms or better. Assuming you were at 130ms for that hour, you would be in the bottom 5% of all players. Definitely not good and not normal.
It could be a problem unique to your route into the datacenter, or there could be congestion in the datacenter itself (we had similar problems with Orange and Deutsche Telekom in the past). If you don't mind sharing one of your character names (via reply or PM), I can do a bit more digging to see if anyone else is having similar issues.
As far as server latency go...
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I want to say this spawn system is the best, but it's frustrating when it goes one step forward and three steps back, and then two steps forward and two back.
Now the construction spawn system is entirely gone and priority 2 no matter how close, then you can't spawn at a fight at all and then you can't even spawn one base back at all so you won't get camped to death.
I really really want this system to work, but comparing it to the old system, it's much better but extremely frustrating.
Construction is in limbo at the moment, but that should be worked out in the next update.
Good to know thanks for the fast reply though it's weird the support staff said I didn't even have it certed.
Yeah, kind of strange. It's possible they don't have visibility into that skill line since beacons are gifted by default. There are currently some quirks like that that exist, and they can only go by what they can see.
If the change to refund spawn beacons made it through, you wouldn't even see that Spawn Beacon cert line in the list. So the good news is that you didn't lose anything, the bad news is that that change didn't go Live in the last update like we intended.
Seems like a bug. Unless this is an old screenshot, (or possibly if you're in cutoff territory,) you should be able to spawn at either of those two Sunderers.
Yes, its a bug. We're currently looking into it.
Thumbs up. We should do another round of loading screens soon.
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I received a basic cookie-cutter reply to my ticket, with all the usual "repair/reinstall/delete files" stuff.
This has persisted between different installations of Planetside 2 on different hard drives (my old one was a standard disc drive, and my current HD is an SSD), so I know for a fact that I don't have corrupted files.
The ticket response basically said I should create an issue on the bug tracker, which I did, but beyond that there was no additional help offered to help troubleshoot the issue directly.
My bug tracker - https://dgcissuetracker.com/browse/PS-4058
Here are others that were in the system before mine:
Thank you for the information. Already starting to see some better repro steps that we should try right away.
/u/Wrel not bannable for real?
You will not be banned for using this overlay.
Hey u/wrel or u/ps_nicto , can either of you talk about this?
Can you open a ticket with CS please and/or submit a /bug report? Our initial attempt to repro this bug failed. The issue seems to be specific to certain characters.
Was hoping to have that addressed for this update, but it looks like that didn't make it. When this is fixed, it should be a client-only update, so no down time necessary.
Thanks. I'm hoping that if I keep up the good work they will offer me a full time position at the end of the summer.
Still working on both of these, no ETA.
Sorry you are having trouble getting into the game. If you don't mind sharing one of your character names here (or privately via PM), I can take a look on our end and see if I can help.
Edit - Thanks for the information. Good news is that this crash has only affected 9 people in the last week. Bad news is those 9 people are crashing ALL the time. Looks like it is a conflict between our in-game chat (Vivox) and something else running on those PCs. Hope to have more information for you when folks return from holiday tomorrow.
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