Adjustments to Beseiged - 7/10/2006

[NynJa]

Well last time I crashed in Besieged...it sucks because I knew it was coming.


I felt/heard my PC working harder than it usually does in Besieged, and that was promptly followed by a nice CRASH. I'm thinking next time I'm going to keep an eye out for these signals that my PC is trying to work around the shit that POL is feeding it durring besieged, and when my FPS starts to drop in spikes, I'll just hide in a corner and hope fort he best:D

[ircgeek]

I've crashed with 700 people. I've crashed with 300 people. Hell, I've crashed in Dynamis with 30.

It happens. Booting those level 40s that people are so offended by won't fix your problem. Instead of 300 level 40s and 400 level 75s crashing you, you'll just have 500 level 75s crashing you.

[Jahuran]

SEteam(Steve):We are pleased to announce a compelling new part of Besieged. Players will now be able to obtain RotZ equipment from Besieged NMs.

Blabla defeats the Mamool Ja Unibrow.
Blabla finds an Earthen abjuration body on the Mamool Ja Unibrow.
R 90 %
R 76 %
Songokukyousquall's lot for the Earthen abj body 700 x 200
R 54 %
Blabla >> FUCK NO
Sephirothkunuchan's lot for the Earthen abj body 800 x 350
Blabla's lot for the Earthen abj body 65
R 32%
R 10%
R 0%
POL-ERROR 512 Disconnected from server.

SEteam: Hahahahaha oh god hahahaha good one steve-chan lets head to the bar and sing karaoke hahahaa.

Whenever I do besieged I switch my pc to dynamis settings with mog tools. It helps a little with lag but I still warp all over the place.

[Artica]

Ragnarok fails @ besieged, lost the candescence for the second time yesterday. Ironically both times most of the hnm shells were in dynamis or camping something.

[Ivve]

Ragnarok fails @ besieged, lost the candescence for the second time yesterday. Ironically both times most of the hnm shells were in dynamis or camping something.

You mean the level 20 army couldn't carry it alone? But the cure II's!

[Septimus]

Ragnarok fails @ besieged, lost the candescence for the second time yesterday. Ironically both times most of the hnm shells were in dynamis or camping something.

You mean the level 20 army couldn't carry it alone? But the cure II's!

All of those damn level 20s kept the level 75 people in the HNM linkshells who were off doing other things from getting in. Ban them!

[ircgeek]

Ragnarok fails @ besieged, lost the candescence for the second time yesterday. Ironically both times most of the hnm shells were in dynamis or camping something.

You mean the level 20 army couldn't carry it alone? But the cure II's!

Instead of losing after 5 minutes, they lost in 10 minutes.

[DeadLegend]

Seems kinda goofy to blame a besieged loss on king camps. Unless of course ragnarok only has 500 lv75s, and they somehow all packed themselves into the dragon's aery at once. You can always hope for the other 4500 people on the server to maybe show up. I play in almost every besieged and usually don't see very many king campers at all. Ifrit's besieged level spread seems fairly balanced though with 55s-75s.

Ifrit's lost the AC twice, both times in the early afternoon (eastern time), and almost lost it last week at the same time of day(best besieged ever). During the 2 losses we only had 250-290 people in zone, including afkers, the losses were not during any camps and no dynamis were taking place. We simply lost because it happened at a crappy time of day when nobody is on.

If every pld in a besieged had a koenig cuirass, and every war had a ridill, and every rdm had an af2 hat, it probably wouldn't change the outcome very much.

[ircgeek]

As is, our Besieged turnouts only hit 700 during JP primetime, meaning there's usually 500-600 max. The lowest I've seen was around 200-250 people, and it was around 6 EST during Kings. Plenty of people online, just most of them waiting on Fafhogg and/or KB.

[Dustybrown]

Well last time I crashed in Besieged...it sucks because I knew it was coming.


I felt/heard my PC working harder than it usually does in Besieged, and that was promptly followed by a nice CRASH. I'm thinking next time I'm going to keep an eye out for these signals that my PC is trying to work around the shit that POL is feeding it durring besieged, and when my FPS starts to drop in spikes, I'll just hide in a corner and hope fort he best:D

I don't know if the problem I have is the same as yours. What basically happens to me (and a few other people in my LS that I've spoken to) is that everything will be fine, then suddenly the game will completely lock up and you can see the S>R isn't flickering at all. The game basically seems to "freeze" for a second or 2. Then a box will come up saying "an error has occured and POL needs to close... do you want to send a report to microsoft... yes/no". Then POL will just vanish and you have to go back and restart from the menu.

I'm 90% sure it's a bug because before the last patch I never ever had it happen to me even with max people in Besieged. Now it happens maybe 1/3 times. As for something else I've noticed from those I've spoken to... no one who plays on PS2 seems to have this problem. It's not windower either cos it's happened to me in Windower and when not in Windower.

I did notice though, it seems to happen less when you participate for a bit, then go hide in the corner. But then what's the fun in Besieged if you're basically throwing out a Cure III then hide in the corner for the next 10 minutes?

[ircgeek]

I don't know if the problem I have is the same as yours. What basically happens to me (and a few other people in my LS that I've spoken to) is that everything will be fine, then suddenly the game will completely lock up and you can see the S>R isn't flickering at all. The game basically seems to "freeze" for a second or 2. Then a box will come up saying "an error has occured and POL needs to close... do you want to send a report to microsoft... yes/no". Then POL will just vanish and you have to go back and restart from the menu.

I've had this quite often lately, too, and not always in high traffic areas like Besieged. I've had POL D/C on me millions of times, but I've never had it just outrightly crash like it does now (once or twice a week) until sometime after the April update.

[BRP]

I can place my life in this bet.

No server is as bad as Migardsormr. No, it's not because of the level 20 mules skilling it up. It is because my server is filled with people who simply don't give a damn, but mostly filled with fucking morons. There is 2-3 other smart people that try to direct the masses of morons, but it never works.

We've lost 4 times, and almost lose on any level 3+ Undead or Mamool Ja. We will be losing soon.

[Ivve]

Ragnarok fails @ besieged, lost the candescence for the second time yesterday. Ironically both times most of the hnm shells were in dynamis or camping something.

You mean the level 20 army couldn't carry it alone? But the cure II's!

All of those damn level 20s kept the level 75 people in the HNM linkshells who were off doing other things from getting in. Ban them!

Never said they were keeping others out, just that they're leeches. Healing magic skillup whores are only so useful.

I don't know if the problem I have is the same as yours. What basically happens to me (and a few other people in my LS that I've spoken to) is that everything will be fine, then suddenly the game will completely lock up and you can see the S>R isn't flickering at all. The game basically seems to "freeze" for a second or 2. Then a box will come up saying "an error has occured and POL needs to close... do you want to send a report to microsoft... yes/no". Then POL will just vanish and you have to go back and restart from the menu.

I'm 90% sure it's a bug because before the last patch I never ever had it happen to me even with max people in Besieged. Now it happens maybe 1/3 times. As for something else I've noticed from those I've spoken to... no one who plays on PS2 seems to have this problem. It's not windower either cos it's happened to me in Windower and when not in Windower.

This happens to me as well. POL closes itself in beseiged about 50% of the time that I attend (hence why I stopped going :/), and 2/3 of the times that it does, it's when the ending CS triggers.

[Septimus]

My crashes are different. If I crash in Besieged (or in Whietgate), I have to hard reboot my computer. It just stays frozen on the last graphic while the music continutes to play.

It totally sucks ass.

[Ivve]

My crashes are different. If I crash in Besieged (or in Whietgate), I have to hard reboot my computer. It just stays frozen on the last graphic while the music continutes to play.

It totally sucks ass.

Do you still receive XP/IS if you wait long enough? I know from time to time I can d/c during a party and still end up with exp for the last fight. Doesn't work for me with beseiged, though.

[inafume]

When I crash in Besieged, it's an immediate crash to desktop. No warning whatsoever (maybe what Nynja said is right, but I can't really tell if my computer is going bonkers at that second).

It's a crash bug, therefore it is SE's problem to fix.

[Septimus]

My crashes are different. If I crash in Besieged (or in Whietgate), I have to hard reboot my computer. It just stays frozen on the last graphic while the music continutes to play.

It totally sucks ass.

Do you still receive XP/IS if you wait long enough? I know from time to time I can d/c during a party and still end up with exp for the last fight. Doesn't work for me with beseiged, though.

Generally it happens right at the end, so I get back in after the closing cutscene. The one time I managed to get in before the cutscene I did not get any XP or IS. So either way it is a big old goose egg.

[aurik]

I have the same issues as the above. I believe it is when the client starts preloading the data/sound for the "finish" cutscene, because the consistent proximity to the retreat message is uncanny.

[NynJa]

Well last time I crashed, my game slowly started lagging untill POL crashed.


I dont think its essentially a bug, but your client gets overloaded and POL just goes "Ok this is too much shit coming in and out, I dont know what to do CRASHHHHHH".

[Septimus]

Well last time I crashed, my game slowly started lagging untill POL crashed.


I dont think its essentially a bug, but your client gets overloaded and POL just goes "Ok this is too much shit coming in and out, I dont know what to do CRASHHHHHH".

I really wouldn't care so much about it crashing if I got the XP and IS when I logged back on. Especially after that one hell Mammol Ja Besieged; even with all five generals down we managed to pull out a miracle win. I crashed when the last mob was at 10% health. >_>