Sarezar
12-05-2010, 03:49 PM
I turn myself into a Greater Hero, I raise my Charisma to eighteen from zero,
I equip my Paladin TOD rings, and charge ahead with my Favoured Soul wings,
I try to dodge the Disnjuction spheres, but alas they have dispelled all of my gears,
My buffs got dispelled, I wish I was quelled! Who cast that Prayer? I swapped the spell...
It must have been the undead Priest... my God, I'd rather someone had cast Grease!
What am I?
Answer: A very frustrated player because my client freezes everytime my UMD skill changes.
OK, the riddle sucks, but I wanted to try one more time to draw some attention to this issue. All the actions described above change the UMD number, and the moment that happens, the client freezes. It may be for half a second, it may be for 3-4 seconds. It gets worse the longer DDO is running, and it's worse when it happens while you are moving.
A rather irritating example is when Fear is cast on you and you don't have fear immunity. Even if you save, your UMD changes due to being Shaken. Then 3-4 seconds later Shaken is removed, which changes UMD again. Now, imagine 2-3 monsters spamming Fear, and your client freezes for 1 second every 3 seconds.
Devs, please consider fixing this in the next available opportunity. Claiming that you do everything you can to reduce lag and then creating a form of lag yourselves that is constant and has nothing to do with network connection or number of players is rather disappointing.
Please find another way for item UMD check to work.
I equip my Paladin TOD rings, and charge ahead with my Favoured Soul wings,
I try to dodge the Disnjuction spheres, but alas they have dispelled all of my gears,
My buffs got dispelled, I wish I was quelled! Who cast that Prayer? I swapped the spell...
It must have been the undead Priest... my God, I'd rather someone had cast Grease!
What am I?
Answer: A very frustrated player because my client freezes everytime my UMD skill changes.
OK, the riddle sucks, but I wanted to try one more time to draw some attention to this issue. All the actions described above change the UMD number, and the moment that happens, the client freezes. It may be for half a second, it may be for 3-4 seconds. It gets worse the longer DDO is running, and it's worse when it happens while you are moving.
A rather irritating example is when Fear is cast on you and you don't have fear immunity. Even if you save, your UMD changes due to being Shaken. Then 3-4 seconds later Shaken is removed, which changes UMD again. Now, imagine 2-3 monsters spamming Fear, and your client freezes for 1 second every 3 seconds.
Devs, please consider fixing this in the next available opportunity. Claiming that you do everything you can to reduce lag and then creating a form of lag yourselves that is constant and has nothing to do with network connection or number of players is rather disappointing.
Please find another way for item UMD check to work.