EVE General Discussion

Indeed. Same old fanboi comments from people who've based their avatar on their night elf rogue.

Sorry, but it's a simple fact that there's virtually no way the issue is on CCP's end. Thousands of other players do not have this issue.

The likely sources are your home network, your ISP, and anywhere on the assorted backbones between your ISP and CCP.

My ISP had a similar issue and they were, as ISPs typically are, pretty incompetent about resolving it. Persistence, and a not-insignificant amount of troubleshooting their internal network (in as much as I could from user-land, but at least all of their routers were configured to respond to ICMP requests originating from inside their network) eventually got them to fix it.

Try using PingPlotter (or a similar tool) to figure out where the problem is and take it from there - it's guaranteed to be more effective than impotently raging at CCP, who almost certainly cannot do anything about it.

When your alt supports you, you should wait longer than 30 seconds to respond.

This is literally the weirdest reply I've seen for a while.

Anyway, socket closed is an intermittent issue for me personally - hardly get it anymore though, and I never cared much anyway as the gameplay is awesome and well worth occasional hiccups. *shrug*

Take care and enjoy whatever else you play.

Have you considered the fact that, if the problem is still around after 3 years, it might be on your own end? Or was 'I have a 120Mb connection and no problems in other games' as far as you got, troubleshooting wise?

this is real problem really. Ive seen plenty of MMO's that can easily handle dropped packets and stay connected. If ccp would care anyway, they would review their netcode.

pot,kettle...tea?

in MMO's like wow, or guild wars I would play on crappy connections, with 500 ms latency, and I could raid, do 5mans, ect. If I did the same thing in eve I would simply get socket closed errors and couldnt play. thats really bad netcode.

You have to be very careful in making sweeping judgements like that, when operating in an environment that's doing QoS shaping. Every ISP I know of shapes their network, so things like HTTP and such pop up superfast (hey look, proof you 1000MB* connection is THAT fast!!! *1000MB is not an actual speed rating. 1000MB is the name of the package you purchased. Actual speeds may vary.).

In that situation, sure, Program X will run scorching fast, while Program Y is lagging out, because program Y's data is getting choked to death.

EVEs netcode isn't THAT bad. I used to play EVE via sat internet over in Iraq. It worked, well enough. It just doesn't like when ISPs do funky things to it's data.

"plenty" is not a numerical stat. As far as I can even guess, you can make a 38-page thread with only 50,very vocal players. Not a hard thing to do.

Also, I wasn't pulling the "it's not because everything else works that it's not your fault" cardin a serious way either. At most, blame your ISP for traffic shaping, poor local connections, or some sort of local fuckups. EVE is, by itself and in design, quite sensible to packet loss, something that doesn't affect many other MMO's out there.

Pull up Ping Plotter, do some tracing with it and if you get regular packet loss between you and TQ, then it's neither your fault nor CCP's. And if your ISP can't solve it... well, you're boned.