For the last 8 months, my server, Bristlebane, has been undergoing periodic problems with 1017. I realize that this is happening for other servers as well, but the problems are more longstanding and pronounced on BB than on most others.

Since Gates, its been nearly unplayable in primetime US. About once every 4-6 weeks we go through a several week period on nightly 1017 upon zoning. Tell times increase to silly proportions, lag makes playing in some zones make me physically nauseous.

We have been treated to a variety of explanations for this problem. ISP problems on the part of the customers, overcrowding on the server, SWG, etc.

http://boards.station.sony.com/ubb/everquest/Forum3/HTML/051747.html

It needs to be corrected.

Yes, BB needs to be nuked. :)

Fix Rodcet nife while your At it, My server Crashes SOOOOOOO much , mad annoying

I play on Bristlebane and during this weekend was the only time I've had problems with 1017 and it went away after like an hour or so.

Nobody does want to take responsibility for connection problems and it is hard to get things sorted. Just think though, if you call your modem manufacturer, ISP, SoE, and phone company and complain to them all, you're wasting the time of probably three of those four companies. Those are the figures they're looking at.

The server lag and 1017 garbage has been happening across all servers since GoD came out.


Bristlebane has always had a problem with it since forever though (

There will be a patch soon to address this. Check out Rod Humble's posts here (http://www.mobhunter.com/article.jsp?articleid=902094910) in the discussion below the article.

If neither of these solutions work then we will have to look at opening up even more servers to handle the increased load.

Ahh yes, great solution. "If you don't like the lag, cough up $75 or put up with it!" :moon:

"cough up $75 or put up with it!" "

Chipmunk food is really that expensive>?

I think the idea is that opening a new server will reduce the load of other individual servers. However the load on the chat/login/world servers is not affected, instead they are still under heavy load from the higher number of people playing, and the casino trade/save overload.

My question really is this: Why did they bring the casinos back when they clearly are NOT working well enough for prime time? Which is better, a silly in-game plat sink that they have to postpone (again), or the ability to log on and actually play without constant LD's on zoning and laggy tells, etc ? Seriously poor call on someone's part. What were they doing for the week or two with the casino down? Just hoping that the EXACT SAME THING wouldnt happen again?

$@#*& the Casino, I want to be able to play reliably.

I have to agree about the casino. Nothing is worth going through this.

However, I am sad to see that the months and months of problems on BB are getting overlooked by everyone's rush to believe that these two "fixes" will cure a problem that has only been around since the release of Gates.

Well the thing about BB problems I guess is that only people who play on BB regularly see them. There's no objective evidence that it's any better or worse than any other server. God knows Xegony has it's problems too, it's a release server and who knows if they've ever upgraded any hardware on it. But we're all too busy creating Drama for each other to worry about silly things like zone crashes (common) and server login problems (also common.)

Well, maybe you aren't looking in the right place for "objective evidence". Since there is no place that SOE posts any statistics, all we have to go by is the nightly server population board, and the amount of BB players who are 1017 in chatrooms each evening.

I don't count zone crashes.

I count things like, getting 1017 when you haven't even logged in yet that day. Half the raid 1017 when TLing, everyone who dies to enrage 1017, zoning = 1017. These things have been happening for months. Seems like about 2 weeks out of every 6 for the last 8-9 months we get this problem. And yes, its of that magnitude. Of course it has gotten worse with Gates, but its been there all along. And its not an occasional thing. Raids have been affected because the amount of guild players has been halved, 1017 lasts for 30-40 minutes at times.

In re. the SOE thread, the head of CS probably "unaware" of the problems because his Indian language course hasn't taught the word "problem" yet. But I'm sure he will be fluent within a year or two. Just be patient!

For myself, I have enjoyed a few nights of logging early and watching a few movies on TV instead of dealing with the frustration. I feel for my guildmates, however. It's been taking many several hours to get the right classes online for certain trials and once together they become plagued by 1017 literally for hours. And that's just to zone in. Heaven help them if a member dies. They all sit waiting for the missing member to return, unable to move forward or back. At least the timer on the GoD instances isn't what it is with LDoN ot Time. I really feel for people trying to get through either of those.

This 1017 is getting old. So far my guild has had to cancel 2 raids because half the guild 1017's when we zone into the raid zone. We also had one raid fail when the entire guild lagged out after a pull and went 1017 when they died. A couple of people (self included) take over an hour to get back on some times. The 5 min with or without crash zoning is a pain also. The other night while agro kiting I couldn't get half of my spells to go off due to casting lag. And my tells are over a minute late. So far SoE owes me for 1017 causing:

Two lost raids.
One lost Flag due to going 1017 after a lag death during a flag mob kill.
One death from coming back from a 1017 in the middle of a respawned area.
Two deaths from going 1017 in combat.
Two deaths from going 1017 on a pull.
Three failed LDoN adventures due to multiple 1017 problems.

And the fun just keeps adding up.. It is getting to where the only place anyone can play is PoK/Nexus.

Why do you think it might be from the casino?

I've never even seen the thing!

yeah the casino. I loathe the casino spammers in the bazaar, I never went looking for the in-game one.

WOO HOO!! SoE fixed my 1017 problem... I have been error 1001 for two hours now..

Hey, at least the error's number is lower. That's a good thing, right? =P

Hey, at least the error's number is lower. That's a good thing, right? =P
Omigod they nerfed the error message number too?!??!

The casino added to problems last time, but wasn't it determined to be some kind of memory leak causing the last rash of 1017 errors?

Emarr is an older server too and its getting to be like clockwork. As soon as I see the tells start to drag, I get myself somewhere safe...depressing, since I've taken it into my head to do my epic.

Emarr was intentionally taken down last nite, tho, around 7 pm. Don't know if the hamster fell off the wheel again but maybe it's a good sign that they're trying to pinpoint the issue. Too bad my guild wiped to Zland right before...I had to sit for an hour desperately trying to log in my alt SK so I could summon their corpses. (The GM announced a 1-hour downtime...but that was 1 hour in dog years.)

Well...I am NOT attempting Fear while this is happening. :rolleyes:

The problem is that on the older servers like MMarr and EMarr the hampsters are over 5 yrs old now and tend to stumble and fall a lot.. What IS that in hampster years anyway??

I've been getting a lot of 1001 errors since GoD. I don't know if I've "seen" a 1017, though. Do you get an error message box like the 1001?

What I have been getting is constant client crashes and machine reboots. Happens as soon as I zone in somewhere... After I've been there for several minutes... Seems most frequently to happen just after I've just given my pet some weapons.

Well I read on another post a couple of things to try with eqclient. Maybe after work I'll give that a shot.