The server is handling chat badly, its been like this for almost a month, so I'm surpised no one has posted it.

we get large universal bubbles of chat lag, the sector doesn't lag, its the chat. really annoying when you wait a minute for the next 20 messages to fill the screen.

It has been reported, but not here. I don't know what's up with it yet, but will check around.

I think Mecha was mentioning that the chatlag coincides with WH transits of large fleets/convoys. I can't confirm that, but It would make sense.

I agree - ever since the last client update I believe, I have experienced MUCH chatlag. I have teh impression that it's getting worse, but I have no data to back that up.

yes, I'd agree. but the chat didn't lag when they first put convoys in, and it defenitly didn't do it for large bubbles. the chat lag is ANY time, you dont have to be in a convoy sector to have it.

I see several causes of lag:
1) convoy jumping/entering (not so much when a convoy leaves, and even then not always)
2) many ships in the convoy having to dodge a roid or player (ripple effect, one ship causes dozens of bots to change course)
3) spawning convoy (this often causes massive lag, 1s+)
This is definetively a problem that has been neglected for a while. a1k0n did some experiments with rate limiting. Maybe we could repeat that experiment. It looked promising.

no, the sector itself when a convoy comes, just is a little jerky, I'm talking about channel 100 not responding for two minutes. I was fighting someone, we didn't stop fighting, even though chat wasn't working.

Spider had some ideas too, he should post em.

When they added that extra second at the end of the year to resync the calandar it caused a temporal rift between the VO universe and Earth.

heh heh....

earth is a bizzilion **** loads of anything, away from VO, anyway.

I blame a dev. I just don't know who's turn it is to get blamed.

Well, it's traditionally a1k0n's fault...

Dunno.

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so a1k0n...what is up with it?

oh, and it For sure is getting worse...it happens more and more now.

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