Quote Originally Posted by jomuff View Post
On SS56 the lag is getting worse daily. We have had players give up on attacking as they cannot get their waves timed to land in the correct sequence. Some days all you can do is farm and that takes more time than it should because of the spinning clock. Then you have missing reports and it will show you have emails, but when you click on your icon to read them, they are gone. You cannot always send group mails, or the system tells you they are sent, deducts speakers and then they disappear (Sort of like an Evony customer service rep) never to be seen again. Even War Declarations disappear from your inbox.
I think that a large part of the problem is that the bots create more traffic on the server than an actual player would, and the servers are simply overwhelmed and cannot keep up. The concept seemed to be that player activity would decrease over time on the servers, instead players quit and their accounts become someones alt, then they are ran by the bots. Now the accounts are often more active than if they were still ran by the original player. So instead of fewer players and traffic on a server over time, it seems to actually increase. ( Go ahead and laugh, its my story and I'm sticking to it )

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I dont think th group mail problem is caused by the lag. I first saw it on s115 even before the first merge, when only few people actually used bots and most accounts on the server were active. And I know about 10-15% of group mails never made it. So not something new or bot related.

The missing reports are a problem, which I relate to the fact on ss59 that something went wrong during emergency maintance when they tried to fixed the fact no email was coming throught. The next emergency maintance all war reports from few hours before it were gone... And it has been like it since then, but I cannot speak about other serves, as I dont experience it.

I think the traffic does play a huge part of the lag and for sure, botting increases it considerably. But still some servers are worse than others, which makes me a bit wonder, if there is another factor which can play a role in the lag. Like the hardware or something else.