POTCO Crashing More?
 

I have noticed this a lot lately, people have just been randomly logging of and coming back on saying things on the lines of, "POTCO!!! Y U CRASH!!!" Luckily, this has not been happening to me though.


P.S.

Wondrous phrase created by the one and only, ME!

I haven't noticed much crashing, but certainly a lot of server lag lately. I have an 18MB connection, so I know it's nothing on my end.

Yeah, today I was leveling Dog off of the veterans, and I usually experience no lag at all, but it took about 5-10 seconds for each loot drop to show it's contents, tonics were VERY laggy, and enemies were responding weird.

POTCO Developers refuse to do weekly maintanance to remove numerous packet files constantly hogging the server tower's memory.

Geez, even a restart for the server would free up some resources, yet they never do so because that counts as a "server disruption".

They must be too worried that a simple restart can damage the whole game and others game files.

Just logged into the game today this morning, wanting to create a new pirate just for the fun of it.

Crashed after the loading screen reached 30%.

Logged in again, same steps.

Crashed after loading screen reached 30% again...

Something is wrong with the small patch they gave to the live files.

Pirates Online is always in a "crisis" state every patch.

Always problems.

Plus...

Some bugs that came up during launch still exist in the game today!!!

Why is that? They were reported, too!


List of old bugs still not fixed:

"Fast Switch" being one of them. Always had existed.

"PvP Glitch" being another. Still works to this day.

"Voodoo circle rendering" being the third I can think of. Lags you so bad when 2+ circles are surrounding allies or enemies.

I have crashed when I try to switch to a different pirate.

I think Ice Storm is right, and the POTCO servers are just getting severely backed up. Hopefully they will reset and move at a faster pace once the new updates hit live.

I don't know why this has been happening, but they may be hiding something just because it will be hard to explain and may take a while to explain, or maybe they just don't feel like telling why. I suggest that you follow their suggestions, but I too have been experiencing this too, and my connections haven't changed for over a year.

@ the big text:

Hahaha! This excuse again?

They blamed the ping issue on me every single time because of my "ISP", too.

This is obviously NOT an ISP problem, this is Disney's server towers recieving and registering too many packets at once/being overloaded with packets that it is time for maintenance again.

If you guys remember this notice:

This was the only REAL maintenance Disney has ever done for the Pirates Online game. And guess what it did...

You got it! It made Abassa ping times always 130ms or lower, playing the game from the East Coast.

Not only that but, even game actions were responding much, much quicker. I couldn't believe how much of a performance increase I got that day during a PvP match. Gosh, I was able to play "High" graphic settings while maintaining a solid 40 FPS in a 3v3 match.

That's how much the lag (ping times) disappeared after this major maintenance.


In conclusion, the tech people blaming it on you, is, most of the time, Disney slacking on their server maintenance to keep the game running at optimal download/upload speeds in retrieving/registering packets sent by our client.


By the way, they probably use Windows Server 2003 or 2005 for their towers.

And probably sharing it with the other Disney games.

Maybe it's outdated technology too. They refuse to upgrade from XP D:.

It was probably server-related, your computer received a different order in commands to process efficiently, or something with your connection changed/improved.

It could be many things, but these make sense in my opinion.

You could also try a wired connection, assuming you are on a wifi connection.

I cant report bugs cause it keeps rejecting to stop cross site scripting wut? :pirate1:

Didn't you crash like 10 times today?

I'm definitely crashing more. With the browser, I maybe crashed once or twice. Now, it doesn't come as a surprise when I crash around 5 times a day.

No.

This problem started occuring after a small patch from last week or two that is causing the game:

• To NOT load into PvP matches
• To crash when the game is first loading up after login
• To give you the message "There was a problem going to the destination"
• To give you high ping times (Exceeds 1000ms at times)
• To give no support via Live Chat for subscription refund

Man, I honestly can't believe that small patch caused so much more problems to arise. They should have did a rollback last week. It's terrible.

Even with some lightspeed internet you will still lag. I have 27 mb/s download speed and 4.6 upload speed last time i checked. I checked my ping and got a line quality grade A with my ping being 14, 2 jitter and 0 pocket loss. These good results are because i pay extra for my internet. But this shouldn't even be an excuse for them because most games will run perfectly fine with anything above 2 mb/s...even when there are like 50+ people in one spot.

This site will tell you:
http://speedtest.net/

If Disney goes against your results here than you know they don't know what they are talking about.

Pirates_Online.exe uses bandwidth in a strange way.

I honestly can't tell if it's optimized for P2P or P2S. It can become a mess when you enter a heavy populated area. Panda 3D was never meant to run "Top Dog" on a connection. It was more for local creations.