Ok the time has come to ask this as we are all suffering. Whats up with the servers. Sure their in the green but are they really. The lag in the games is getting way way to much to even try to fly. Im.sorry and happy to say this but theres to many people flying for what we have. Its great to say the community has grown to such proportions. But its just time to face the facts theres to many folks for the sreves to handle. Ive noticed in off peak time the planes appear as a dot from.a distance. The names are normal size everything works or almost works. Lol. But when there are so many people trying to fly at once the dot in the distance is no longer there the names are smaller the lag is out of control. And i have a great conn by the way. But there are fewer and fewer off peak hours as the community grows its been what over two years since the servers expanded to give us room. Time to face it we must expand again i mean how many new players are there with new ones every day. We getting jammed up

The lag problem doesn't just come from the servers. The server has to communicate with all players on that server at that specific time, so if one player has a very slow connection then the game you are in starts to lag. I have an incredibly fast connection, roughly 152mbs download and 15mbs upload, probably better than a lot of the servers, but if the server has to communicate with a player with a slow connection then that is when the lag seriously kicks in. Unfortunately, I don't think it is possible to put a minimum connection speed clause into the game, but this would kill a lot of the in-game lag problems.

From.what zup.has said the lag cannot be caused by one player. This has been like this before. Every game ive been in for three days lags its not the people its the servers. They are trying to communicate with to many people at one we need to spreed out again . Im not rich but i could kick in a few bucks for more.or better servers. Lag was never an issue with the old severs that some here Rember

I think both of you are right. I agree with KK that an individual player lagging has a very specific set of symptoms that we all recognize. Bullet hits from us don't kill them or kill them late, and flight pattern is erratic as data stream pauses and catches up (plane does a whacky straight line extrapolation from last position/velocity and suddenly catches and zooms at mach speed). But Darraxx may be pointing at a whole-game lag, and yeah, it's pretty bad right now. Through the years we've come to understand this as a players per server issue, and zup usually winds up adding server(s) and problem gets solved.

Of course servers cost money. One would hope that Z's business is taking in sufficient revenue from the additional players, but that's a business question to which only one man has the answer.

Manfred

You know i.play a few other games and i see this quite often. How come ive never seen it here.