What changed?

I'm coming back to Teek after a year or two break. I've noticed zoning times are far far longer than any of the TLP's I played in the past. I feel like I'm back on 2000 live servers on 56k dialup. It's nuts. I've also noticed that if I have a large chat window open for auctions my framerate drops dramatically.

I'm on a 300 cable connection and while my computer is old (15yrs) it's worked pretty much fine for EQ going as far back as the Phinny TLP. I7 cpu, SSD, 8g ram, 5752 GPU, etc. Nothing special but should be able to run eq.

What changed between Yelinak and now? I'm getting horrible choppy framerates and tons of stutter when mouse looking. The zone times are the biggest problem though. Very long.

they updated to a 64-bit client last year that may not play as well with your old computer

teek also has 3-4x more people than Yelinak. they increased the server capacity on teek, which could contribute to the loading times.. maybe

Yeah, I was in Shaman 3 and General 11 last night.

The client uses DX11 now. If you don't have up-to-date drivers for a system that old, then you're not going to get good performance regardless of server load. There have only been a few dozen threads on this subject in the last year.

If they just start / keep banning these cheat accounts and their 1000 krono disappeared they would make more money and many other great things would fall into place

I don't doubt there is cheating. I just haven't seen any.

wait till velious, then check out SG. they will be in SG from velious all the way to OOW, same spot, same group, killing the same mobs non stop, when you walk close, they magically log out.

i recorded them a few times and sent the video in, they dont ban them for some reason, despite how much they are petitioned they are always there.

sometime around OOW/PoR release, they switch from SG to instanced zones in RCoD and there behavior goes untracked from there on, you can sit in RCoD and watch them zone in/out of instances all day.

not sure what they are collecting... or if these zones have good cash drops.

they cant ban the krono, the farmers are tricky, they will offend on one account, then trade to a non offending legit account. they never lose krono in a ban, its all on a level 1 on another account, that only logs into collect krono from offending accounts.

and since the trade of krono is so rampant on TLEs, they would have one hell of a time tracking these accounts, and may result in non offenders getting banned if they took action just based on the persons trade history.

i suggested it in another thread, and they most likely wont go for it, but you can stop all of this, force people to have a legit non prepaid credit card on file to trade krono.

when the offenders credit cards start getting banned, they will have no choice but to give up, because they can farm all the want and collect all the krono they want, they just wont be able to trade them till they have a legit credit card tied to the account.

You are probably already doing it, but using a solid state drive really quickened up zoning on one of my computers. I think it is weakest of the three I use, 10 year old laptop, but it beats my other two computers hands down. Loading/login seems about the same, just zoning is incredibly fast. I ended up buying ~one of the lowest performing SSDs, it still outperforms real iron. Maybe $26 for it?

They are banning them in droves and wiping out KR as well. The 3rd party site they are selling them for $16 vs $11 a couple months back. They don't have as many to sell and are trying to keep profits up. When people figure it out KR will have a lot more buying power they will explode in or to play conversion.

I know someone that sold something on Teek and the next day they were missing 4kr from the sale. They petitioned and the response back was basically "The player traded fraudulent Krono, and thus the Krono were removed. These Krono are lost and will not be recovered." GM Spoom.

I would be wary of accepting Krono right now or you might be out an item an KR.

Zone times are teek have been pretty noticeable tonight. I normally get through pretty fast, but tonight I'm seeing minute plus zone times, vendors taking 5-10 seconds to populate inventories, and other oddities.