Getting fed up...

[r_ThatOneGuy0 2]

Ok so ive donated(bought) well over 300 dollars into the game mainly because i thought it would be great and sofar all thats happend is fatal lags (start lagging and dosn't stop) and ''Connection closed by server'''s when i haven't even clicked on a battle! Can somebody at least explain why the f*** this keeps happeini EVERY 20 MINUTES?! This game was so great but thease damn updates keep screwing it up!

 

 

Update=CRAP!

[hogree 4,179]

Ok so ive donated(bought) well over 300 dollars into the game mainly because i thought it would be great and sofar all thats happend is fatal lags (start lagging and dosn't stop) and ''Connection closed by server'''s when i haven't even clicked on a battle! Can somebody at least explain why the f*** this keeps happeini EVERY 20 MINUTES?! This game was so great but thease damn updates keep screwing it up!

 

 

Update=CRAP!

 

complaints section?

 

anyway, i do agree that since the updates, there have been loads of lags which gets u well annoyed espescially when you are about to get a large battle fund. But the updates do help in their ways... It happens often to me too but its not as bad as you make out.

[r_AdvocatusDiaboli0 861]

You do realize that its really hard to get a stable version of a browser game?

 

The problem is known to us, and it is being fixed and every single thing is being looked into. And by the way, IMHO the lags have reduced after the update.

[r_M1A-Abrams0 1]

IMHO the lags have reduced after the update.

Complitly wrong there were lot less lags before update

today server 1 restarted at 3:25 GMT-5 when there was still 6 hours left till restart and that was bc of lag

server was lagging continously for about 5 hours

After last update we have a lot lot lot lot more lags then we had before

[r_DaSpamer0 14]

Ok so ive donated(bought) well over 300 dollars into the game mainly because i thought it would be great and sofar all thats happend is fatal lags (start lagging and dosn't stop) and ''Connection closed by server'''s when i haven't even clicked on a battle! Can somebody at least explain why the f*** this keeps happeini EVERY 20 MINUTES?! This game was so great but thease damn updates keep screwing it up!

 

 

Update=CRAP!

its happen only when those servers r fulls and ppl keep getting there.. so go to server 3,4,5 ....

[r_Pin4er1630 25]

Ok so ive donated(bought) well over 300 dollars into the game mainly because i thought it would be great and sofar all thats happend is fatal lags (start lagging and dosn't stop) and ''Connection closed by server'''s when i haven't even clicked on a battle! Can somebody at least explain why the f*** this keeps happeini EVERY 20 MINUTES?! This game was so great but thease damn updates keep screwing it up!

 

 

Update=CRAP!

 

Chill out. Play on the 3,4.... servers. They are not so overloaded. It's much more comfortable.

[r_ThatOneGuy0 2]

Can you atleast explain how the previous versions were better then the new ones?

P.S. I was playing in server 8 it had about 1100 ppl, thats not a full server...

[testxtestxtest 10]

Rule #1 to avoid lag: don't play during peak hours.

works all the time :)

[eessydo 17]

Doesn't matter what server you are on, right now about 1 in every 2 games results in a lag out or a server connection closing. It used to be that 9 in every 10 games was great prior to all the new servers being added. Then it was about 1 in 5 games and even if you lagged out, it would sync back up. Albeit annoying sometimes because smart players would use the lag out to get to the flag :)

 

Now you just lag out completely in both the game AND the server. Updates are making this game more unstable, not more reliable.

 

On a side note, even just two weeks ago you could get on a server with around 1300 people on it and have the 1 in 5 games unplayable. After these last couple of updates, doesn't matter what the load on the server is, before long everyone starts spinning in circles and your stuck out of the points race.

[r_AdvocatusDiaboli0 861]

I just played 3 games in a row without a single second of lag on Server 2. I guess it has to do something with the overloading of certain servers.

[r_fullMonty0 3]

And I gave up trying to play about five different games past couple of days on high number servers.

[r_ThatOneGuy0 2]

I agree with eessydo

[eessydo 17]

5 games this morning all on servers with less than 1000 players, 5 lag outs. A couple when I was in the points race with some decent crystal pay outs on the winning team. I spend more time playing for nothing nowadays, than I do earning crystals.

 

Stability updates = crap

[Raaish 26]

Mine doesn't lag that often these days......Today it was extra kaggy(2.34 FPS!).Well for like 5 mins....

[r_Pin4er1630 25]

Can you atleast explain how the previous versions were better then the new ones?

P.S. I was playing in server 8 it had about 1100 ppl, thats not a full server...

Answer is really simple. Every update makes game looking better but heavier. 90 % of players have weak or buggy computers. That's why the quality of game falls down. I had 25-35 FPS before updates and I still have because I switch of different processes that overload processor and RAM. All you need is - to make everything to your PC that we advice on our forum. Also there is a problem with foreign providers. They just limit traffic for Russian servers!

Good luck :)

[MonkeyMagic 89]

Can you atleast explain how the previous versions were better then the new ones?

P.S. I was playing in server 8 it had about 1100 ppl, thats not a full server...

Answer is really simple. Every update makes game looking better but heavier. 90 % of players have weak or buggy computers. That's why the quality of game falls down. I had 25-35 FPS before updates and I still have because I switch of different processes that overload processor and RAM. All you need is - to make everything to your PC that we advice on our forum. Also there is a problem with foreign providers. They just limit traffic for Russian servers!

Good luck :)

 

So are you saying that the lag is caused by everything else and its nothing to do with tanki? the game is lagging sooooooo much at the moment. every single game on every single server. lost crystals, lost points, lagging out to find your team has lost or gained a flag due to lag. players leaving en mass on both sides.....

 

its killing what is an awesome game and needs sorting out big time. saying play off peak, or on servers with less players is not acceptable.

[eessydo 17]

Answer is really simple. Every update makes game looking better but heavier. 90 % of players have weak or buggy computers. That's why the quality of game falls down. I had 25-35 FPS before updates and I still have because I switch of different processes that overload processor and RAM. All you need is - to make everything to your PC that we advice on our forum. Also there is a problem with foreign providers. They just limit traffic for Russian servers!

Good luck :)

 

I am going to have to call BS on this one Pin4. Just to make sure I did everything asked in the forum. Cleared my browsers cache, cleared the Flash Cache, Same results. Clearly this game is becoming LESS stable not MORE stable with each update.

 

TO have the game degrade this much suggests issues on Tanki's side, not on every player that doesn't reside in the RU. At this point I would be quite happy with a roll back to the code 6 months ago, because while refactoring the existing code, they clearly created more issues than less.

 

I guess at the end of the day, we'll see how much tanki wants to have its customers outside of Asia be happy. Clearly one donating customer is quite pissed or he would have never started the thread.

[r_Fiasco0 7]

I have some expereince. I couldn't get a game to load well until FIrefox!

[eessydo 17]

I have some expereince. I couldn't get a game to load well until FIrefox!

 

I can run this game on any of the 4 browsers on my computer, firefox, opera, chrome and internet explorer. That is really not my issue nor the issue of most players here in this forum. The problem is lag-outs from games, which are becoming much more frequent, sad to say.

 

Not sure if it is just US based players or not, but at this point it is starting to aggravate customers.

 

 

UPDATE:

 

After clearing my cache, I now have more problems. many more connection closed by server error messages.

[king_beast88 19]

I have noticed a increase in game lags during what I assume to be peak hours for the server locations. I have never been kicked off a server due to lag just about half the players leave and after 2 1/2 mins to 5 the battle catches back up with players pushing people off and stealing flags dring the lag. I play on broadband and a T-1 LAN line in U.S so speed in not the issue it has also happend during non peak hours however not as long a lag time or on as many games.

[panzer-runner 2]

There has been way more lag recently. Regardless of what Pin4er163 says, it certainly IS Tanki servers. (or their host) I mean to sit and just blame the whole world, and to say stuff like "90 % of players have weak or buggy computers." is just a troll like insult to everyone who has these issues. Perhaps instead of telling everyone its THEIR fault, consider the fact that people from ALL over have these issues , Mac , PC, Europe, UK, USA, etc. Firefox, Safari, Chrome, no difference. It seems easy to understand. It is the way Tanki handles (or DOESNT) people who have high pings to the server. The server has to try and balance time so that a person with very little latency doesnt get an advantage over someone with a large latency. Eventually, if the spread gets too large, the server chokes and everyone suffers as it tries to recover :(. The disconnects however must be due to bad connections or plain server overload, and blaming the world makes no sense. With 1000 pipes into 1 pipe, I hope Tanki is on a stable and LARGE pipe. When I traceroute, my latency is tiny from Chicago until I hit the Netherlands, then it goes up a little bit, and again in Russia, it goes up a little bit, but the pings are respectable by gaming standards. Therefore, it is NOT my connection that gives my the lags, PLUS the fact that if it was just me, then everyone else in a game would not be affected.

 

Here is a solution I brought up before. CO-LOCATE

 

Decentralize the servers so they are located in different locations and route people to the appropriate server based on the ping they have to the various locations. Have a server in USA, UK, EU, Russia, etc rather than directing all worldwide traffic into one hole. The internet is not about central services, quite the opposite. Plus, if you did that, times are localized and traffic shaping works better. Of course its easier to blame everyone else :roll:

 

This trace shows I have no lag, but I just left 3 games in a row that stalled due to horrible lag and frozen games.

Traceroute has started ...

 

traceroute: Warning: s.tankionline.com has multiple addresses; using 62.152.57.19

traceroute to s.tankionline.com (x.x.x.x), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets

1 x.x.x.x (x.x.x.x) 1.900 ms 9.104 ms 1.329 ms

2 x.x.x.x (x.x.x.x) 15.802 ms 13.671 ms 12.701 ms

3 vl80.aggr1.chgo.il.rcn.net (207.229.191.130) 15.602 ms 16.470 ms 12.177 ms

4 tge1-1.core3.chsl.il.rcn.net (207.172.19.41) 13.892 ms 28.588 ms 32.424 ms

5 tge1-4.core1.lnh.md.rcn.net (207.172.19.234) 78.126 ms 81.969 ms 214.535 ms

6 tge1-4.border1.eqnx.va.rcn.net (207.172.19.179) 40.616 ms 36.840 ms 37.725 ms

7 10g.r0.eqix.ash.va.us.iptp.net (206.223.115.120) 37.902 ms 38.630 ms 37.216 ms

8 1-4.r0.thn.lnd.uk.iptp.net (91.194.117.146) 119.093 ms 121.523 ms 123.728 ms

9 4000.r0.p2.m3.ams.nl.iptp.net (91.194.117.128 ) 119.373 ms 119.050 ms 152.142 ms

10 * * *

11 ctk.r0.k3r8.anc.fra.de.iptp.net (87.239.191.142) 124.741 ms 125.346 ms 126.344 ms

12 te7-2-pontiac.stk.citytelecom.ru (217.65.1.229) 169.742 ms 170.635 ms 167.993 ms

13 te4-1-21-alpha.msk.citytelecom.ru (217.65.1.197) 185.446 ms 161.624 ms 158.663 ms

14 te4-4-9-fibius.msk.citytelecom.ru (217.65.1.250) 163.769 ms 164.355 ms 163.776 ms

15 62.152.57.19 (62.152.57.19) 169.975 ms 168.982 ms 168.191 ms

[MonkeyMagic 89]

This is going way past a joke now. no matter what server i play on, no matter the time of day, when i play a game it lags. every single game. i have given up playing, its THAT bad. also, i was buying drugs in the garage yesterday and the server lagged, i went from 1200 crystals to minus (yes minus) 600! wrote to tanki, problem still there, no reply nothing. what a disgrace. very VERY disappointed that no one from tanki has reacted to the points on this thread. not even a comment stating that they acknowledge there is a problem, they are on to it and will fix it soon.

 

i have lost 100's of crystals due to lag (you know u use drugs and then you lag out), lost games and now the fiasco with the minus crystals in the garage! not a happy tanki player at all. seriously pissed off.

[eessydo 17]

THere is a solution I brought up before. CO-LOCATE

 

Decentralize the servers so they are located in different locations and route people to the appropriate server based on the ping they have to the various locations. Have a server in USA, UK, EU, Russia, etc rather than directing all worldwide traffic into one hole. The internet is not about central services, quite the opposite. Plus, if you did that, times are localized and traffic shaping works better. Of course its easier to blame everyone else :roll:

 

 

This is an idea I have had for a while and have not voiced, good idea and great presentation.

[testxtestxtest 10]

FUD and lies -_-

[king_beast88 19]

I will say that Tanki is more than likely ignoring the lag issues due to 2.0 comming out and perhaps hopeing the problem will go away by then with 2.0 being more stable, or their attention is soley on the preperation of 2.0's launch. If the problem has not yet recieved enough complaint that their traffic drops and they loseplayers/$ especially the higher ranked buyers then maybe the will stop treating this like an isolated problem and fix it.