The infernal price of lag.

[MadDog21 230]

If this belongs in complaints, it is one, please move it for me. I couldn't see the complaints rules, and I don't care to violate those and get skinned for it.

Twice today while engaging in long, protracted battles in Iran and Ft. Knox III and yesterday in Crash, the lag was incessant. The answer, of course, for the spinning tanks and the inability to continue competing is to refresh the browser which I did repeatedly, far, far too often. That in itself is maddeningly frustrating, but the coup de gras was at the last flag. Lagging again, I refreshed to finish the matches. Upon the reload completing, the last flag had been capped, the match reset to new and I earned absolutely nothing for my efforts and expenditures in my very temperate use of drugs. These were long contests, and my earnings would've been substantial. No joy thanks to incessant lagging.

Before some helpful soul indicts my computer and/or ISP, I use a very current and hot MAC Quad Pro and best cable ISP available in the US. The cause is not on my end for these frustrations. I appeal to Tanki Developers to get this corrected. It's patently unfair as well as frustrating. Enough recent frustration comes with the lack of parity with the rebalance. Refunding crystals, then hiking the cost for repurchases substantially while diminishing the performance of equipment twists my knickers more than enough. The merits or demerits of that philosophy will reveal in time, but the failed performance of the game is inexcusable. The rumor mill suggests departure of many Tankers. I think that's mostly whining and caterwauling, but, surely, some leave in disgust. I wouldn't consider departing due to the RB, but, if the performance of the game continues to squander my resources and time, and it denies me what is my due as well as the pleasure of the play, then the thought of bidding adieu burbles. Please, Tanki, turn your attention toward this. You police and moderate the game and chat for so-called "fair play," but the most heinous "cheat" is when the game's failed performance cheats the Tankers.

Thanks for your ear. Blessings.

MadDog21

[lingbao 8]

i like ur writing :D

and... i hate lags... i mean really..keep refreshing every 20 seconds ,,,,

also it should be thx for your eyes :P

Edited December 28, 2012 by lingbao

[r_ProFromSlo0 28]

Yes this is happening me now for the past 2 days, i allready lost about 200 crystals!

P.S this is my other acc(from Dr.Urbi)

[WookySpolf 63]

I can hardly even load battles, and when I do, tanks jerk around everywhere and eventually just keep spinning etc. Very frustrating.

[skitee 555]

I noticed that I had this problem expansively. I have sorted it out now, not by clearing caches or anything else, but by going into the Flash player settings (you can get there by right-clicking the Tanki game screen) and changing the "amount of memory this application can store on your computer" (or something along those lines) to "unlimited". It may be worth trying that yourself, now I no longer have lag except for the first minute of two of playing.

[Meliora 1,652]

Oh my goodness, this guy somehow thinks this complaint will surpass all the others, but they're all the same. These topics are unnecessary and will go no-where.

[Alklines 1,751]

Tanki servers need to be spread out world wide!

 

 

Edited December 28, 2012 by Alklines

[wertweuri 76]

So called excuse:

Sorry, but this is going on for like hmmmm, I don't know : One year?

Doesn't look like that to me. Instead of spending time & money on updates and "Rebalance"(I personally think they were not necessary), they can invest that time & money to build an alternative server on USA for "Alternativa PlatForm", that will hopefully reduce lags AND/OR increase the so called FPS. Correct me if I am wrong...

[r_harshshah0 0]

Such a comment of issues well known to the dev and mods , coming from such a experienced person is shocking .

Edited December 28, 2012 by r_harshshah0

[r_heyou0 1]

... ... ...*praises these beautiful words spoken of MadDog21. Quite elegant, and well stated. I do believe that sums up all arguments with out a dispute.

 

Yes, harshshah, I believe that MadDog21 knows they know. However, at times it feels like Tanki Online is unable to hold a steady game having conditions like such. This is why we need someone such as MadDog21 whom has such tenacity, and influence to speak for us all. ~Thank you.

[smokemypole 7]

Well put MadDog. Myself and friends are also experiencing lag to such a degree that we can't play popular maps. Or if we do it ends up a waste of drugs, and loss of crystals, as we endlessly try to log back in. Why is it becoming worse though? A few months ago it happened every now and then, and then suddenly it became a huge problem. It's like one of the updates has caused it to happen.

[r_S.Y.R.I.A0 1]

So called excuse:

Sorry, but this is going on for like hmmmm, I don't know : One year?

Doesn't look like that to me. Instead of spending time & money on updates and "Rebalance"(I personally think they were not necessary), they can invest that time & money to build an alternative server on USA for "Alternative PlatForm", that will hopefully reduce lags AND/OR increase the so called FPS. Correct me if I am wrong...

finally someone who agrees with me, the balance was not necessary, it was a waste of money and time, and the lags they are"working" on, thats not happening either, i have been getting lags more and more since they put those notifications up.

as for all of you complaining about the crystals, your not alone i have lost several thousands of crystals due to lags, tanki will not give them to me, whining to help@tankionline.com wont help you, it never helped me. btw i sent 2 emails, both a month apart...NOTHING happened to benefit me in terms of crystals. <--- to the people who will ask if i have been spamming them with emails, i have not so don't mention that.

[BarKode 2]

When you are refreshing due to lag, you still get your prize even though you were refreshing. The game only kicks you off after 5 minutes of no activity. So even when you are reloading, your name is still in game, and all you would need to do is ask someone you were playing with how many crystals you earned.

Hope that helps.

[r_S.Y.R.I.A0 1]

It's like one of the updates has caused it to happen.

hint: the re-balance

[r_fsdfsdf0 12]

When you are refreshing due to lag, you still get your prize even though you were refreshing. The game only kicks you off after 5 minutes of no activity. So even when you are reloading, your name is still in game, and all you would need to do is ask someone you were playing with how many crystals you earned.

Hope that helps.

No offense but do you call that a solution?? :lol: The man also complained about lag and the frustration it brings and you tell him to use a friend as a backup solution just to see how much crystals he earned? What about the gaming experience? Is he playing chess or did I just miss something? Which brings me to my brilliant idea (selfish me!):

 

To all the people complaining about the lag, I have found at least 2 solutions:

 

1. Devs should implement an "End turn" button and Tanki online should become a turn based game!

It goes like this: I shoot my thunder once, press the "End turn" button, then wait. My opponent receives the shoot in about 30 secs (let's assume I'm at the North Pole just for the sake of discussion and just because I can). After another 30 secs I receive his message on the battle chat. "That hurts!". And after another 20 secs he writes to me again: "I think you pushed me off the edge of the map. I will begin to fall in about 10 secs. Not sure though..let's wait and see. ETA 9, 8, 7 ..."

 

2. Or better yet, I have another brilliant idea: Players with lags should have a "Buy no lag" button!! Just imagine the opportunity! C'mon people, work with me here, I've got funds to move...

Edited December 28, 2012 by r_fsdfsdf0

[MadDog21 230]

Thanks for your effort, BK, but it's happened so frequently I've developed the habit of checking my crystal count prior to my final refresh. Upon returning and as described in my original post, there is no change, hence Im NOT receiving earned points or crystals.

When you are refreshing due to lag, you still get your prize even though you were refreshing. The game only kicks you off after 5 minutes of no activity. So even when you are reloading, your name is still in game, and all you would need to do is ask someone you were playing with how many crystals you earned.

Hope that helps.

[Crotter 1]

I predict this issue will only continue to worsen.

 

I predicted what the rebalance would actually result in months before it happened. No-one listened then but you are all finally figuring it out now right?

 

These issues are connected not technically but financially. The bottom line is the owners of tanki are accepting higher loads to their servers than ever before in terms of total player numbers WITHOUT upgrading server capacity.

 

They clearly have no intention whatsoever of investing in server upgrades EVER. Anyone considering paying into this scam ought to think carefully before doing so.

 

An organization behaving in such a criminal manner would have long been sued out of existence if it were US or EU based.

Edited December 28, 2012 by Crotter

[splitterpoint 10,986]

I'm still wondering why I don't get common lags; even when I use our old windows XP computer

It must be the place of residence...

[Dihos 2]

Must be your epic internet.

[splitterpoint 10,986]

I have a sitecom X4 router.

 

 

It wasn't expensive at all. :ph34r:

[icerugby 1,886]

I agree! lags r so annoying but its fortunate that wen I"m 1st, the game reloads in time after i refresh the page to receive my payment. So i might not b as angry as u maddog however it is a obstacle in our way of battle due to the frequency of lags.

[BoRn.To.Be.WiLd 29]

i don't lag :P

[r_Otto_I0 0]

When you are refreshing due to lag, you still get your prize even though you were refreshing. The game only kicks you off after 5 minutes of no activity. So even when you are reloading, your name is still in game, and all you would need to do is ask someone you were playing with how many crystals you earned.

Hope that helps.

 

Thanks for your effort, BK, but it's happened so frequently I've developed the habit of checking my crystal count prior to my final refresh. Upon returning and as described in my original post, there is no change, hence Im NOT receiving earned points or crystals.

I experienced the exact same here, you hardly will find me agreeing with md but in this case he is just right and this gets serious annoying and takes away all fun of the game.

Edited December 29, 2012 by r_Otto_I0

[TheGoodTheBadTheUgly 1]

i feel your pain OP but here what you could try download standalone flash player(or projector as they call it) and goto tankionline FAQ and copy the server URL and open it on the said player. it kinda work for me in terms of lags i get alot less of em and loading is waaaayyy quicker. give it a try OP :)

[dungu 25]

I agree with everyone's opinion who experience these lags and it has worsen since RB.Eversince RB until now, I wonder how will the game be after the new year sale as I have not spend any of the refunded crystals yet and planned to do so at the sales. I assume, after the sale a lot more guys will be back seriously into the game. I assume, the lags will even worsen.., but it's yet to be seen.. :unsure:

Again, I assume, TO Devs are not as stupid as I am,( btw, the name dungu means noob in my language, just as long as you don't space-out the last letter of my name or else it'll mean something else in english!) they already made plans to increase the hp of the servers. That leaves just 1 question.. When? Note: The Sale will be within 24 hrs.! (Or will there be another 'Disappointment Surprise'??)

Just a point to ponder, why don't TO ask for feedback thru' Pool Questions on where the lags occur mostly, e.g. Southwestern US, Australia, Southeast Asia, MIdeast..so on. Just by making the Pool, players know that TO IS trying to overcome the problem, thus regaining trust from the players..even though if the Poll is useless..(asking players what kind of music do they hear when playing is useless since TO have bigger problems to overcome).Unless TO have other plans......... :ph34r:

Anyway, to everyone who read my comments, have a nice holiday and Happy New Year!! :D