When Should I Play To Avoid Lag?

[Juckler]

I need guidance from all you players who live in the game. Since DDO and SSG refuse to fix the lag, when is the best time to play to experience the least, or should I take my "sick of dying from lag" behind and play another game? Thoughts?

 

[WielderofGigantus]

Morning EST, also try avoiding popular areas. Lordsmarch plaza was much better in regard to lag. Also try avoiding the guild airship, market, and harbor.

 

[Blaster]

This is just my personal experience, but I've been focusing on playing anytime before 6 or 7 PM Eastern USA time on the US servers during the weekdays. On weekends I've been trying to get out before 3 or 4 PM Eastern. Things seem to be more stable for me then, but you can still run into some big lag spikes, and ships can borderline unusable.

After restarts, like today, things had been pretty smooth up until about 7PM EST. It's also good to check the Discord because it's more real-time there, so you'll see if people are going on about lag or not at the moment you are looking to play.

(I have toons on all the servers, but I only really log in to Moonsea for rolls at this point, so I can't really say how well performance is on that server during peak US times.)

 

[Juckler]

This is just my personal experience, but I've been focusing on playing anytime before 6 or 7 PM Eastern USA time on the US servers during the weekdays. On weekends I've been trying to get out before 3 or 4 PM Eastern. Things seem to be more stable for me then, but you can still run into some big lag spikes, and ships can borderline unusable.

After restarts, like today, things had been pretty smooth up until about 7PM EST. It's also good to check the Discord because it's more real-time there, so you'll see if people are going on about lag or not at the moment you are looking to play.

(I have toons on all the servers, but I only really log in to Moonsea for rolls at this point, so I can't really say how well performance is on that server during peak US times.)

Thanks Blaster!

 

[FaceDancer]

Another good resource (especially right now with all of the lag) is here:
https://www.ddoaudit.com/who
This will give you a real-time assessment of how many peeps are on which server at a given time.

 

[Kimbere]

I need guidance from all you players who live in the game. Since DDO and SSG refuse to fix the lag, when is the best time to play to experience the least, or should I take my "sick of dying from lag" behind and play another game? Thoughts?

2026?

 

[Leamos]

I experience lag spikes very rarely, I don't have specific times, but usually not weekend and not evenings. Server Moonsea

 

[irnimnode]

Now there is the billon dollar question.

 

[Dandonk]

2026?

 

[The Narc2]

Move all your playtime to Cormyr they have no lag.

 

[irnimnode]

I rember when that on came out was really cool back then. At my age if I see the next sun rise I am one happy camper

 

[Br4d]

If you are solo and have a 100-120 ping as most ECUSA have then Moonsea from Noon EST onwards is very playable. It's slightly laggy at first when logging in but if you stay on the same character and relaunch the client every 3 instances or so it will become very smooth as the EU population plays through prime time in the first couple of hours and then begins to logoff for the night.

I've had almost no lag since I decided to exclusively play on Moonsea.

 

[justin credible]

I need guidance from all you players who live in the game. Since DDO and SSG refuse to fix the lag, when is the best time to play to experience the least, or should I take my "sick of dying from lag" behind and play another game? Thoughts?

February 30th