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POTCO Crashing More?

(I think this is the right forum. :P)
Recently, the Caribbean has acquired a horrible plague of game crashes. An unusual amount of people have caught this crashing epidemic (not to mention how many times those individual players crash themselves o_o). This can get very annoying, and really doesn't help when your internet connection isn't very strong. I know that some players are experiencing this sickness, but how many pirates here are getting affected by it? And what do you think may be the causes of this issue?

~ Mr. Spammy

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.

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Originally Posted by HammyTheSquirrel (Post 353357)

Recently, the Caribbean has acquired a horrible plague of game crashes.

Wondrous phrase created by the one and only, ME!

It makes me angry when I do extremely well in an invasion (like I probably earned about 3000 rep), and go to jail... only to crash and find that everything is over. >:O

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.

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Originally Posted by Stephen O'Malley (Post 353371)

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.

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Originally Posted by Stephen O'Malley (Post 353371)

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.

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.

I have a high end pc and sometimes i am walking around and the game completely disappears! then the report a bug page comes up. i had no idea what happened but it says the game was experiencing issues on the log in page.

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Originally Posted by Richard Keelhawk (Post 353608)

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.

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Originally Posted by Richard Keelhawk (Post 353608)

yeah... I have been getting tons of those kind of things when I crash. I have probably sent in about 15 bug reports by now. >:O

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Originally Posted by HammyTheSquirrel (Post 353622)

yeah... I have been getting tons of those kind of things when I crash. I have probably sent in about 15 bug reports by now. >:O

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'm getting REALLY mad because of this issue... I have already crashed about 20 times in less than half an hour. I can't even play the game anymore. >:O I think I'll try reinstalling the game and see if that changes anything. :(

EDIT: No... I will not reinstall unless it would actually work... :/ I only posted that ^^ because I was a little annoyed. @_@

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 went to Live Chat (again) and didn't get much out of it. :/ Here's the copy of it... (with Me as.. well... me ;))

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info: A Technical Representative will be delivering World-Class support to you shortly. With 1 guests in queue, your wait time is expected to be 1 minutes.
info: You are now chatting with 'Chris'
Chris: Hello Me!
Me: Ahoy!
Chris: Looks like you are experiencing some latency issues?
Me: Well... some part of the issue is from my internet connection, I know... but the game is crashing a lot more than it should be, and other players I know are also crashing or getting extra lag.
Me: well... crashing more than normally.
Chris: One moment while I check our server status.
Me: okay.
Chris: Everything looks fine on this side! I suggest you check your connection matey.
Me: Hmm... would reinstalling the game change anything?
Chris: I doubt it.
Chris: If you are using any messanger services while playing (AIM, Yahoo, MSN or skype.) I would suggest shutting them down.
Me: My connection is shown at "Low", but I have played it before with that... and I tried reconnecting and it didn't change anything.
Me: The game is also sending me to the "Report a Bug" page a lot of the times I crash. I have probably sent in about 20 of those reports.
Chris: Lets take a look at one.
Chris: What is your email address?
Me: [insert said "Me"'s email]... most of them were just ones that only told you to submit the logs it had opened.. I sent about three of the ones that require a description.
Chris: I am showing that you have a firewall up.
Me: yeah
Me: the responses to those reports told me what to do to "fix" the issue...
Me: and I still had the issue after
Me: I sent in a couple of reports after I tried fixing the issue with those instructions sent to me.
Chris: I have a very high latency.
Chris: You ping is around 606.021 ms.
Chris: You may want to contact your ISP.
Me: Hmm... well we just switched to another ISP...
Chris: That may be your problem.
Chris: Contact them and ask them to run a line test.
Chris: Then make sure your speeds are what you pay for.
Me: Line test?
Chris: They will know what you are requesting.
Me: I'm still kind of confused why other people are getting similar issues.
Chris: Some people have slow connections.
Me: I mean that they are suddenly all getting the same issue at the same time as I did.
Me: the crashing and lag has suddenly increase for no obvious reason.
Chris: This is the first report I have gotten today matey.
Chris: I would contact Cogeco Cable.
Me: :/ I still do know that MANY other people are all having the same issues...
Chris: Ok, then I will speak to them when they come into live chat.
Chris: As for your issue. You have 600+ ping at times.
Chris: That high of ping will get you disconnected from Pirate Online's servers.
Me: Okay... thanks for the help anyway. :)
Chris: Also,
Chris: If you are using wireless internet.
Chris: You should try using a wired.
Chris: A wireless connection is never suggest in gaming.
Me: The problem with that is I can't move our desktop computer anywhere near the modem and router...
Me: so I can't actually get it a wired connection.
Chris: That is a real bummer.
Chris: Then you will have this issue tilll then
Me: Okay. Thanks for the help!

I'm still confused about WHY (if it is apparently MY issue) other players are getting this...

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.