Mission board lag - is it back or is it just me?

XW_Ziggy

XW_Ziggy
One of the patches around 2.3 made HUGE improvements to the terribly slow mission board. 15-20 second delays (and sometimes even timeout failures) were reduced to under 5 seconds.

I don't know quite when it started but this evening all I could think about was how bad the mission boards are again. 10-second waits are back again :(
 

graeme.firth

graeme.firth
It's not just you, I've noticed it happening to me also and a few friends have said the same.

No where near as bad as it used to be though.
 

Troz

Troz
Same here, also "failed to load a complete list of missions" - not sure if that is related.
 

Darth Llama

Darth Llama
To me this has always been the way it works.. the 'improvement' never did anything that I could see.

If I play during times when there aren't a lot of players on, yeah sure.. mission board comes up quick.. but if you play during peak times, you're looking at 30 sec minimum to load and probably a few time outs.

The mission board simply can't handle it when there are many players all trying to get missions.
 

Shiro Akai

Shiro Akai
Sometimes boards are snappy, sometimes I expect them to load and wait... and wait... and wait... Not 3- s. but few times it is considerably longer.
 

BuzzBee

BuzzBee
It's back, accompanied by some fairly frequent crashes to desktop during the mission loading screen, for me (bug reports sent).
 

DelphinusCombaticus

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Yep ~28 second delays here in Aus.
And then sometimes it doesn't retrieve a full list. And i'm in the minority of having actually decent internet.
I do think the number of missions available has increased with wing missions, causing the issues.

It would be great if they could make the whole Station UI more snappy by preloading/background streaming and caching the data when you start docking or something.
The amount of times I've softlocked the UI by pressing something before the Authority Contact data downloaded is just not funny. At least I know how to unlock it (open the engineers panel).
 

XW_Ziggy

XW_Ziggy
Raino said:
try another DNS server - cloudfare 1.1.1.1 or 1.0.0.1
Click to expand...

The new Cloudflare DNS servers are definitely faster than Google's (for me at least) but that doesn't seem to have any effect on the mission boards.

What was typically 1-2 seconds after the 2.3.10 fix has become more inconsistent:

Sometimes now it's 'only' 5-6 seconds, which is still 3x slower than it was a few weeks ago
Sometimes it takes 20+ seconds and then has a soft-timeout (where it tells you it couldn't retreive a full list)

So, at best it's now 3x slower than it used to be, and we're back to the timeouts that spawned several multi-page threads of people moaning last year.

I've searched the forums and it looks like lots of people started complaining about slow mission boards again early March, right after the 3.0.2 patch - there are even a few bug reports with QA-Mitch acknowledging that they'll look into it.
 

Maro-Val

Maro-Val
Yes same here. It was fixed, but with the latest patches it got really slow and with MANY errors. Could not retrieve mission list etc.
Who cares now.. bugs get fixed and re-appear and fixed again and then again here they are. That is going on for months now, so i have accepted that this game is beyond repair.
 
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