vending map

[Frogboy]

@caffran....dude where you been, there's like what seems to be nearly 100, if not more autotrade shops set up. if theory is correct and you have 1 autotrader per real player on the server, then you've got over 150 autotraders in a rather small area just south of central pront, and up near the tool shop, reset room, upgrader, and possibly even now around the weapons shop (haven't been to pront in a while nor have i been on much lately so i don't know). having that many people in one area can cause a great deal of packet congestion. also, this lag is server side as it's trying to render everything from the actual server to your client. packets collide and things get laggy, it's just the nature of it unless the server as well as you are on a really really good connection, something of the nature of T1 or higher internet connection.

i'm not trying to bash you so i hope you don't take it that way, just letting you know that this issue with autotraders isn't because of people with poor graphics renderers, as even on gravity official servers there's tons of people on at all times, with thousands of vendors and lag really doesn't seem to be an issue there though i haven't gone back to any official server.

would a better and more optimal graphics card help? probably a little bit, but considering the requirements to run RO are extremely low (a comp running Win98 and a cheap 8mb graphics card could run the game well enough) then i doubt the graphics cards and processing speeds of people is going to make that much of a difference.