Potential Solution for lag

[apollan]

There is a service called ReduceTheLag that someone made a topic about in another server I was playing on. You can get the 30 day free trial and it will connect you through a different IP, closer to the server host (or something like that). If do decide to give it a try, make sure you set location to France before using it. Hope this helps!

Here's the link: http://www.reducethelag.com/

[OGTUCKER117]

Wouldnt this be the same thing as using a VPN set in france?

[konked]

this doesnt fix the problem with the server, it cant handle this many people simply.

[maud]

Anyone had any luck with the reducethelag.com thing? Kind of seems too good to be true...

[Shadowbox]

This won't help at all. The problem is not the connection to the server, it's the server being unable to handle the load on it. Don't waste your time and wait for the devs to get a fix out or for population to subside a bit.

[apollan]

It's worth a try. and yeah I guess it's like a VPN. But this could be useful for people who experience lag even during non peak hours, people that live far from France. Would love to see if this helped anyone

[unfkcble]

with 7000 players overhead even official servers were laggy. just wait.

[Thany]

i'd say it is worth a try.. i have had absolutely 0 lag in the past few days of playing here..

[TaylorShift]

Is anyone here stupid enough to actually think the location your IP originates makes a difference? The reason your ping in america is close to 100 is because you are halfway around the world. Think about it. Even if you vpn to have a France IP, all those packets still have to traverse the internet to your house. Your geographical location makes all the difference.

And as far as 7000 players making official servers laggy, 7000 concurrent players didnt even exist on retail servers.

If you pay for a VPN or this "reducethelag" service you are being had. The reason your ping will APPEAR better is because your SOURCE PING requests to the server will now originate from a euro IP, to the euro Server, however your actual connection as far as response for you will be no different, as you will still be traversing the internet to reach that VPN server, which is located, you guessed it, IN EUROPE..

Think of it like this. Say you are shipping a UPS package to Paris, France, from New York, USA. Just because you decided to ship it FROM a UPS store in FRANCE, which will make the UPS delivery time drastically shorter, you still have to get it to that UPS Store.

[Quickbowjob]

Yesterday at 6.8k players i was doing just fine, had no delay.