There are known memory leaks in Firefox, that's pretty well understood by now. Flash's issue is mainly excessive CPU usage, which, in the right circumstance, can degrade performance as well, and even cause crashes in its own right, depending on what else is running.
Flash as a media platform can indeed be prone to memory leakage. It doesn't help that the majority OS, Windows, has very poor memory management capability to begin with.
Wrap all this together, and yes, things can begin to suck very quickly.
Lag, generally speaking, is another matter.. It can be caused by poor connectivity, too much crap running at any given time, malware/adware/spyware (see "too much crap running"), server overload...
Or, simply enough, some kind of "bottleneck" occurring anywhere between your computer and the server in question.. Anywhere in the dozens of "hops" in the routing chain between you, the server, and back can introduce lag into the mix.. and hundreds of things can cause it.
I get lag every now and then, but I know where it comes from. My ISP sucks, even though I ostensibly have 8mb down /1mb up broadband, and it shows usually reasonably close to that on the various speedtests.. Latency and Bandwidth are different things entirely.
Fixing lag.. good luck on that. Yeah, some of it is probably due to Evony's server mergers and their network not being optimized for the particulars involved.. but it's hard to tell, in all honesty.
Far as the memory leaks go.. There's a fix. You may or may not want to use it.. but I'll share it here. Google a program called "Cleanmem". Find a reputable source, download and install, if you're running Windows. Yeah, it's a windows only thing.. Sorry Linux guys, but Linux doesn't have an equivalent API set to allow for the memory cleaning, so far as I've found.
When you install it, it makes an entry into Windows Task Scheduler.. by default it sets itself up to be run every 30 minutes.. (you can change this to whatever you like.).. and when it runs, it goes through and frees up the memory that is being claimed by the programs you run, but not actually being *used* by them.
You don't lose data, it's completely safe.. I've used it, I've recommended it to my alliance mates and my roommate, and they've all used it without issue..
Essentially, it just goes through and frees up the "leaked" memory again. Saves you from having to reload and whatnot. If you're on a system with low amounts of memory, set it for every 10 min instead of every 30..
It doesn't actually repair what's broken in FF or some particular flash coding.. but it does provide a very simple workaround.
<19:42>[DPS]: can i have the coords of that 'real life' please.. i'dd like to scout it
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