Crafting hall instancing/load?

[esheep]

(Hoping to get a Turbine response...)

For quite a while now, it's been the case that the Kundarak Crafting Hall is very laggy at times, and often an unpleasant place to have left your toon on logout (load-in times seem to skyrocket there).

Frequently some of the responsiveness can be restored by switching instances... I was wondering if someone could take a look at how the instances are being split, maybe they need to be split more often... It's getting to the point where I avoid the House K crafting hall nearly at all costs.

Cannith Server -- if it's not a global problem.

Thanks!

[-Avalon-]

I see the lag as a price I have to pay for having a bank, an auction house, a vendor, and crafting all in one tiny area...

I would love for it to go away, but anytime I teleport there I have a long load time, anytime I zone in from House K I get a long load time, if I crash in there or just log out in there it takes me 3 or 4 tries to log back in...

Have even seen when I log in inside the C-Hall I may appear stuck in the floor or other nearby objects....

They really need to do an optimization pass on these zones using normal computers (not gaming machines) to see what a good many people go through... For instance, I am so glad I have teleport because I despise doing ANYTHING in the marketplace... unfortunately, every once in awhile I get a Pear-Shaped moment... which oddly enough, out of probably a hundred or more zones in game, the ONLY place it "Oops"es you to is the Market? Never anywhere else?

[Enguebert]

There are two places where i have lag when i enter :

Marketplace and craffing hall (both cannith & kundarak one)

In Marketplace, after zoning, if i run to a merchant, often he is not there and i need to wait 30 sec to have it displayed

In Crafting hall, i ALWAYS have a long freeze the first time i put my mouse pointer on top of one of my item. Computer freeze often for 30-60 sec, hard drive works a lot, then the pop-up window with the item description
And this happens ALWAYS and ONLY in crafting hall and ONLY the first time i put mouse pointer on top of item

[Merlin-ator]

I only have loading issues with the crafting hall (Sarlona). I have to wait 10 minutes at the EARLIEST to load into House C's hall from logout, and if I alt-tab out, it crashes the client (keep in mind I'm one of the few people who can successfully alt-tab out of windowed DDO). If I log out of the Kundarak hall, I expect to be waiting for no shorter than 30 minutes to synch. The obvious solution is "don't log out in there", but it's not something I usually think about until after I do it or the next login. The sad thing is that the crafting hall is such a convenient area to log out in. Check the Auction House, bank your high-order Siberys shards, deconstruct your items, sell what you can't break down, maybe drink a pot and make some shards before logging out. Right after I do, I start kicking myself and realizing what a fool I've been, and wondering what about the crafting hall is so amazingly hard to synch to.

[Shadow7375]

I always have loading issues when entering the crafting hall. I keep freezing and the blue loading bar does nada .. Very annoying. I keep hitting space bar and ESC till it finally works .. Sometimes takes up to like 3 or 4 minutes.

[baletraeger]

I purposefully avoid logging out in either crafting hall because of the load time issue; as requested countless times, both halls need static instances that are not shared/

[Kinerd]

It's never going to be fixed. My advice is to follow player-found workarounds, either those suggested here or others, or reconcile yourself to ridiculous load times that would crimson any emotionally invested developer.

They know.

They don't care.

The end.

[GrampaBill]

I don't know about them not caring, I think it's due to them going through your toon's complete inventory on entry to the crafting center. It's the only explanation I can think of to justify the hard drive activity when it loads.

If I'm right, it's a side effect of them being able to automatically increase the stacks of ingredients when you de-construct as well as being able to automatically pull ingredients out when you construct.