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So this weekend it has been very hard to play at peak hours.  My event finished half an hour ago with final standings posted, and I still don't have my prize yet.  Not that it would matter because they system is in no-pay mode, and not for the first time today.

My question is:  Is this buisness as usual for release events from now on?  If not, could you please explain the reason why this is a one time only thing.  What the problem is and what the solution is.

Actually, the last release went much smoother.  Don't know why, but I played the entire release rather easily.

Jejohns

grotto

I expect this lag from now on at every release. The population is not decreasing (despite the "efforts" from WotC) and the system as it is is fundamentaly flawed. They have tried to eliminate the lag several months ago and obviously didn't do a very good job. So until the magical collection server is implemented I don't expect anything significantly better than what we have now.

I couldn't agree more.  It is clearly getting worse.  Whether its due to more players, just the influx of more cards/larger collections whatever I couldn't tell you.  From  my observations I stopped trying to open the store and navigating rooms at the same time since about week 4.  I now get disconnected navigating between rooms approx. 5%...not a lot, but pretty disappointing as you'd think it would be a pretty basic request.  I've especially noticed mondo-humongous problems using my collection.  Just now I lagged out trying to change pages on my collection, which to me is revolting. 

I'd like a fact check from a programmer.  But it seems like if I'm timing out just switching pages that the only thing the client has on hand is the picture base, and each tim you open a page of your collection, instead of calling the server for the contents of your collection and keeping it locally for the session/changes that the client only gets those 24 cards that are showing at a given time.  It seems terribly inefficiet to have to keep making calls to the server over and over again when you're managing your collection.   I suppose it might just be the only way to deal with security... but wow... I find it incredibly disgusting when I set one card tradeable...and then try to set a different card tradeable and have the request time out to the point I need to relog... a lot of wasted time on my part... and I do have a tolerance level... granted it's higher than most.... but they can lose me as a customer.

Oct 25, 2009 -- 10:38AM, EngineKid wrote:

the lag has been growing slightly.  i notice it much more now every session.  it is noticed by clicking on the OK button, or clicking on a creature to attack, or clicking on a land for mana; nothing happens at all, so you must click again, and sometimes a third time, and sometimes you will click the third time just as it finally works which ends up canceling what you wished to do, thus making you hesitate and than click a fourth time to finally tap a land.  i have an excellent, stable connection.  once again it is not me, it is the MTGO server.

if we take this towards conclusion, we are headed down same path as v2.0-2.5.  the lag is getting progressively worse again.

But surely that cannot be.  That's what v3 was supposed to fix.  And we all know that other than UI, click lag, and many missing features, v3 is doubleplus good.