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It's been raised SOOO many times, countless requests, emails and threads on the matter.

CCP: WHEN WILL YOU FIX THE CONNECTION ISSUES FOR AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND?

You can't hide behind our hardware, ISP or console memory leak issues on this one. The ENTIRE Corp of The Southern Legion have experienced game breaking lag in both PC, and any pub match that isn't Oceania. These levels of framerate drop and lag have NOT been experienced in other AAA shooters on the PS3 by members of our Corp. And no matter who we face on the globe: US, EU or Asia, we experience obvious and crippling connection issues, while our enemies stomp us and laugh.

This is a game/server issue, and the evidence is right in front of you. The Southern Legion can no longer effectively compete in Planetary Conquest, and we have bled districts because of it. The charity of other Corps like Seraphim Initiative to donate a district or two, while VERY MUCH appreciated, does not provide incentive for us to participate in PC.

This is not an issue that should be providing canon history for the New Eden Universe. It is solely CCP's responsibility to provide adequate playing conditions for the players of Dust and Eve to create their own story. If TSOLE were to drop from Dust all together due to the issues we face, then your claim to have made a game where the players make the history is no longer accurate.

It's on you CCP. We don't want to leave and we ARE a formidable force when we have playable conditions. We implore you to provide a response and an investigation into what I have just raised.

- Zekariah

I will second this. Not only are we bleeding districts, but bleeding the will to go on. While public matches, even on US servers and EU servers are fine, as soon as we hit PC, were cripples. It's that, not a string of losses, that's sapping our will to compete.

We all desperately want to have a shot, but any time we hit PC matches, we get crippled. It's like trying to fight a guy with 6 arms, each wielding a bazooka, with a knife, blindfolded, and no legs.


We have done everything you're reps and support guys have asked, Checked with ISPs, cleared caches more times than we can count. Reinstalled at least 4 times personally (and a few have done it more than that). Nothing has cleared it up. Even rebooting during Warbarge as some have claimed works... doesn't for us at least.

AU / NZ guys are being crippled, and TSOLE's community is fracturing under frustration.

I mailed the CPM about this. Hopefully I'll get it on their agenda.

Otherwise, let's keep bumping this till we get a response.

Dunno..

Everyone has issues in PC. Particularly with lag and FPS drops. I know AU/NZ have some latency issues otherwise and I am not trying to downplay those; but AFAIK... This isn't just an AU/NZ problem and there's apparently a fix for at least some of the issues that might be making it into 1.2 (Not sure offhand, would need to ask)

CCP knows there is problems with PC when it comes to framerate, and like I said... I'm think there's fixes incoming soonish in the upcoming patch. Not sure if those fixes will address this specific issue, but CCP is at least trying. You haven't been unnoticed or forgotten.

What is your request? To not lag while playing against other people while being in Oceania region? Don't think that's possible to be fixed so quickly, but hope 1.2 improves it a bit. :)

My request is that a fix for PC be put in place so that server preference is not such an advantage over the other team. It works both ways. We crushed Hellstorm when we got server preference and frankly we should never be able to just 'crush' them. If we win it should be due to our tactics and talents. But it was a hollow victory, as were our victories over Nyain San. We could tell they just couldn't land a good shot.

Mirror that to us, and the fact that it is extremely rare for us to get server preference, and you can see why we are so frustrated. We know we can give these elite teams a better show if given the chance. We'd just like the chance.

I'm sure a few ppl on here are getting tired of hearing the same old "PC is laggy" whines. But the prospect that this issue is getting good attention from CCP is the only thing that is keeping me and a few others around. I'm here for more than just pub matches.

So I guess the second half of my request/question is: "How much attention is this request getting?"

Whining implies that the request is not an acurate one. Hellstorm proved themselves against all of ROFL not just SL, and even though we lagged playing against you guys we would do so again if given a reason or chance. You always brought a good fight. I would like to say that you get it worse than most but I don't believe it to be true. Even North America suffers from massive lag fests at random times morning, afternoon and night. CCP is paying attention and they are continuing (I hope/believe) to fix these things as they figure out how to. Part of the problem is discovering the source of the issue.

You southern legion guys are not that great, particular your tankers compared with me and the attorney general.

I would boast more about beating your enforcer tanks with my madugers, but checking the stats enforcers are overpriced gimped tanks anyway. The caldari one is the olny one that had not gimped PG and states that benifit missile launchers (range increase in blasters for a glass cannon, lol, they gave gal a **** tank to complement the perfect maduger), also hybrid weapons are better anyway, so having a proper bonus to missils still doesn't make the flacion worth its pricetag.