Pleeaase fix the lag in Stormwind on Moon Guard

[Ferio-moon-guard]

SW is usually fine, but the fact that Love is in the Air does have quests around the city, it inflates a lot the number of active people.

[Dracen-moon-guard]

It’s just the holiday event right now. I was there yesterday completing my Fool for Love achievement, the lag was pretty bad but it’ll die down in time as the holiday nears its end.

[Stellwrath-moon-guard]

The SW lag is always crazy bad during events, like holidays or new Trading Post listings. Sharding would fix the problem but in the process would defeat the entire point of an rp server.

@Petersen-atiesh

@Sendryn-sentinels

You could try turning off most addons to see if it helps at all.

It doesn’t. I run no addons and still get obnoxious lag in Stormwind most of the time. Why don’t the RPers go RP in other cities? They’re just RPing. Ironforge and Exodar are awesome cities. Leave Stormwind (and Orgrimmar?) for people who are playing the game and using the portal rooms and other amenities that you don’t need for RP.

As for this, we’d all LOVE to be able to do rp in another location, the issue is that outside of SW( or Org in Horde case), there isn’t anywhere literally every member of the faction could easily end up, SW and Org are literal cultural centers for the factions. Places where all types from across the faction and beyond mingle and coexist.

If that changed it’d be wonderful, but then Blizz would likely just be moving all of these event’s to mainly center in that location instead. Overall, it’s just a crappy situation where Roleplayers get shafted, along with anyone else on MG and the like. It’s doubtful Blizz will ever do anything meaningful to help the situation either since RP isn’t a facet that they see as profitable or a focus, it’s just a side thing some weird nerds are doing over in a corner.

[Petersen-atiesh]

@Stellwrath-moon-guard

As for this, we’d all LOVE to be able to do rp in another location, the issue is that outside of SW( or Org in Horde case), there isn’t anywhere literally every member of the faction could easily end up

If Blizzard can ham fist Man’ari into the Alliance with the Not-see excuse, you can come up with a reason for your character to be in Ironforge.

[Sendryn-sentinels]

@Raïsin-moon-guard

They can shard

RP realms are specifically not sharded. We asked for RP realms to not be sharded. If you want sharding, go to a Normal server.

[Raïsin-moon-guard]

Doesn’t change the fact that the solution is as simple as sharding.

[Hèrne-moon-guard]

@Stellwrath-moon-guard

As for this, we’d all LOVE to be able to do rp in another location, the issue is that outside of SW( or Org in Horde case), there isn’t anywhere literally every member of the faction could easily end up, SW and Org are literal cultural centers for the factions. Places where all types from across the faction and beyond mingle and coexist.

I like Valdrakken and our more recent zones, but it’s a headache to expect everyone to be 70/80 AND have zone campaigns +side quests fully done JUST to be able to use the better zones, we need campaign skips for folks who’ve done it on one and just don’t want to have to unlock whole cities and zones again.

[Guthild-moonrunner]

Pretty much it’s a crapshoot where lag doesn’t exist.

Did a TW dungeon…lag. Did another one…no lag.

Farmed cindercones…lagtastic.

Like I said… crapshoot.

[Fluffibus-dalaran]

its lagging on dalaran as well, my guess is the high volume of players is causing problems, cause this happens in isle of dorn every single hour when theater is up

[Zinobeia-moon-guard (Zinobeia)]

There’s really only two things that can be done to potentially alleviate this issue without sharding. Either way, it’s going to take an enormous effort on whichever party would feel motivated to action. However, highly doubtful that either party would, but here we go:

1. Blizzard needs to make it to where all of the main cities have the amenities Stormwind has, and yes, that includes portal hubs, so that the players can spread out and not weigh down the processing servers that Stormwind is based on.

Or;

2. The community needs to spread back out to other servers and re-establish themselves on those servers. We got too comfortable being on Moon Guard for whatever reason and obviously now we’re feeling the effects.

[Ventorath-wyrmrest-accord]

@Sendryn-sentinels

Older cities and zones on RP realms don’t have sharding, so this is why there’s lag. Roleplayers decided that they’d deal with the lag, because they didn’t want to be split up into different shards for socializing reasons and for events.

This is true and something I’m okay with dealing with during larger events/holidays and for a couple days when the Trading Post rolls over and everyone is there.

But Moon Guard specifically has become unplayable in Stormwind starting with 11.0.5. It was ONLY bad with the things listed above before that patch. Then it started being a constant, everyday thing and it has not stopped.

Moon Guard has not grown since then. It’s not even particularly crowded in Stormwind most of the time (Vs pre-11.0.5), and yet things like Skyriding or Double Jumping on a Demon Hunter / Dracthyr are blatantly delayed. Everything is delayed.

It’s the usual “too much going on at once” lag right now with 2 different holidays and a new trading post being present at the time of OP’s post. It’ll reduce when these Holidays end.

But it’ll still be unacceptably laggy, as it has been since 11.0.5.

Blizzard 100% broke something then. Not sure what.
It deserves to be fixed.

If they can’t figure it out, then it’s bad enough that Sharding should be turned on regardless of what Roleplayers want. Even RP is obnoxious when there’s a 2 second delay on everything.

[Smoldra-stormrage]

That’s why RPers need to stop crying about the lag.

I don’t know what else they expect if there are a ton of them all in a tiny spot and not being sharded like other reams because THEY asked for it to be that way.

[Sendryn-sentinels]

@Raïsin-moon-guard

Doesn’t change the fact that the solution is as simple as sharding.

Yeah. It does. Because roleplayers don’t want sharding. It kills the RP.

@Ventorath-wyrmrest-accord

But Moon Guard specifically has become unplayable in Stormwind starting with 11.0.5.

I have the same small amount of lag there that I’ve always had. Nothing more.

@Smoldra-stormrage

That’s why RPers need to stop crying about the lag.

Roleplayers usually aren’t crying about the lag. It’s the more often than not the people that don’t RP yet are somehow still on an RP server… crying about RP rules for RP servers.

[Azaylia-moon-guard]

Thats not true for ALL rp realms. I know TB Is sharded with other RP realms. It’s only MG and WRA which were the biggest RP realms do not have sharding or at least I believe so. They could just allow sharding with other RP realms but sounds like that won’t happen.

[Ventorath-wyrmrest-accord]

Sharding is when they split a population into multiple phases to help server stability / lag.

It has nothing to do with seeing people on other realms. That’s CRZ (cross realm zones). Which also doesn’t apply to RP Realms in capitals and older zones.

What you’re seeing is Connected Realms. Most RP Servers are part of a Connected Realms cluster because they’re dead. Farstriders, Silver Hand, and Thorium Brotherhood are connected. They’re effectively the same realm and are treated as such. They still don’t Shard under normal circumstances.

[Sylvaern-moon-guard]

I don’t know about anyone else but it’s kind of difficult for me to enjoy RP when the main city is so laggy that it takes 2 minutes just to get from the portals to the canals. If MG is unstable and ridiculously laggy due to sharding being absent then what’s the point in trying to RP? This all seems counterintuitive to me. Cheers.

[Sendryn-sentinels]

@Azaylia-moon-guard

I know TB Is sharded with other RP realms.

You’re mistaking sharding for Connected Realms or CRZ.

These are all very different things.

[Erilihn-moon-guard]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: we should have SWTOR-style sharding that allows us the choice between being in the “main RP shard” (no population cap, probably lots of lag in high pop areas) and other smaller shards (with population caps to ensure minimal lag). That way if you’re trying to actually play the game and the lag is bothering you, you can choose to go to a smaller shard while RPers can still remain in the main shard.

This would also enable us to do more open world RP/big coordinated events in current content zones. As it stands right now, current content zones are sharded just like any other realm, which makes it hard for us to RP in them unless we’re just RPing in a group with friends. If we had the choice of what shard to be in, it would negate the need for Blizzard to forcibly divide us in these zones.

This would also potentially be a fun way to try out having a “main RP shard” that is shared between multiple RP servers, but we might have to wait a little for the animosity between RP servers to die down a bit more first. Some old school MG/WrA people reeeaaally hate each other lmfao.

[Sendryn-sentinels]

@Erilihn-moon-guard

we should have SWTOR-style sharding that allows us the choice between being in the “main RP shard” (no population cap, probably lots of lag in high pop areas) and other smaller shards (with population caps to ensure minimal lag).

That’s not a thing in Old Republic, unless something changed within the last month or two. All of their shards have caps. But there’s only a choice of PvP shard and then the normal ones. They auto populate as needed. You can try to swap into another, but oftentimes one is depopulating or it’s full.

[Voxheart-moon-guard]

@Sendryn-sentinels

There’s really not much Blizz can do there.

Unless it’s a server-side* hardware limitation…then they could spend some money