Please fix Lab lag so we can all play, now only leagues of 4 are being run instead of 6 because of the lag

[OrionX]

The lab is probably my most fun endgame event.

But I work and I can't always get there early enough to queue up and get a spot.

But recently the people who lead these have decided that they don't want to run with 6 teams because of the lag and they run with only 4.

Don't get me wrong, they have every right to do so and I am grateful that they organize these things.

Please do something in the future so more of us can enjoy.

 

IDK what's needed in the background, but maybe you have fewer mobs, with more HP and higher rewards or whatever it takes.

 

 

[Ukase]

I feel bad for you on this. I guess what I don't get is there was a time a month or so ago, when on Excelsior our league leader would have 6 teams, and I'd hear about this lag. Now, I play with minimum settings, even though my card can handle the ultra graphics. I frankly don't see much of a difference between the two. And the only time I get noticeable lag is during the mapserver event. 

I might rubber band now and then, but generally, I mash a button, I see the recharge time, and it's ready when it's supposed to be. I'm not at all clear why everyone else has lag and I don't. But I do feel like the labyrinth is a lot of fun, and I disconnected due to my isp having a hiccup a week or so ago, and I couldn't get into the league either. So, I have felt that disappointment. 

On one hand, it's truly amazing that people across the world can all meet digitally to tackle various npcs. There's so many places for those bits and bytes to bottle neck. 
Each player's individual system could have a bottleneck from their ISP, or even their own memory, particularly if they're using some of the more bloated software applications in the background. And it is painfully true that some players are playing on machines that are just woefully obsolete. But, they continue to function so buying a nice new one is not on their agenda. 

I'm not smart enough to know the solution. I don't know if they paid more money for stronger servers if that would address this lag issue so many people have. I don't know if they all had U-verse if that would fix it - probably not. I hear the internet in Europe makes the internet in the US look like turtles racing. I don't know if it's literally this old code and the old graphic engine that runs the game that is the culprit. If so, I don't know that there's a solution that isn't time consuming and cost prohibitive in terms of time and money. 

What I do think is perhaps there's an opportunity for someone to run another lab event either several hours before or after the one that's normally run.