Your thoughts on the new beta 2

[JoG]

I have a lot of the same issues as most here. However I do not hear anyone talking about the low frame rates. Anything under 30 is not good. I average about 17 FPS and I have a decent machine and T3 speeds in connection.

Also the latency that is experienced when you approach an island. If you have no ships around it is usually a 2 or 3 second hiccup. But one time I was fighting and there were 4 ships near. I got a bit close to the island and it took over 20 seconds for the island graphics to sharpen. Needless to say I was sunk and never saw the battle end.

Yes the latency and frame rates have improved, but it is not good enough.

[Pirate Rose]

I mostly notice the lag when in battle with ships or other characters. The health and characters do not aways respond.

I also noticed another good thing, the cost of repair a sunk ship has gone down yet again, so no more 28 gold

[IceSphere]

I can walk, and turn just fine in a shop... BUT in the game, all that other stuff starts downloading, my frame rates drop to under "3" UGH!!!

The only thing that saves me is the dagger... I don't have to move much, they come looking for me.

I don't think they can fix the lagggg unless you move onto your own spot of the server for the game play (like when you are in a shop), and there would be too many players to do that... They might be stalling for faster servers.

How good of a game should you have for 10 million dollars..?

They bought Club Penguin for 350 million dollars... that is a lot of millions, and look at the graphics for that game...

[JoG]

A lot of the issues with lag stem from syncronization issues. I see this most prominently when my wife and I are playing together. The POC network is not the fastest or the software that is in beta is just not finely tuned yet. ToonTown suffered the same thing years ago too. And this game is written off of the same platform too.