Yeah, yeah, I’m always bitching about latency but guess what.
Since the channels got cut down my latency is finally reaching the stable numbers, although far from perfect it is now far from being disastrous.
I’m happy but at the same time ■■■■ this, there are not enough monsters and the spawns weren’t changed to compensate for the lower ammount of channels.
Oh, lower server stressing = more stable ping = IT WAS THE SERVER’S FAULT NOT MY ISPs
I WAS RIGHT
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Why fix netcode and upgrade server hardware when you can just reduce the channel capacity of the server and band-aid fix problems while inconveniencing players in the process. 
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nice for IMC -.- now it will be more hard leveling
Well, obviously they killed channels for two reasons.
1- Lower server consumption
2- No need to fix the netcode now
3- We killed our own game’s community so no need for that space!
4- Let’s make the game feel more lively by placing everyone in just 2 channels!
But actually this just worsened dealing with bots. If only they increased spawn rates.
Even if they did increase spawn rates, I try to switch channels so that I’m not in a channel with bots. Now I am always going to be in a channel with bots. If I log on the game and have to fight bots for kills I am probably going to end up uninstalling in frustration.
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What IMC wants is for us legit player to be friends with BOTS and RMT’ers and !@#$%^& each other for monster kills while IMC just sits, sips coffee and watch us die in vain, genius IMC, you literary killed your game for good 
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Good guy IMC wants to cure your MMO addiction. They know they were responsible when they gave us Ragnarok Online.
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Imc works in iToS in their spare time. kToS is their priority.
Anyway, waiting for solid changes to throw money on imc.
To be fair, Ragnarok Online never had channels and I never liked the channel system in the first place. I’d prefer no channels and just instant respawn at random location just like RO.
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I’d love to see that too, but sadly ToS is not coded nicely like RO.
If they put 100+ players in a same channel, everyone in the channel get lags and can’t do anything regardless of mob spawns.
Channel system is a bandaid to something that’s already broken by default.
Hold on, I must have missed something, since when did they cut down channels? Is there something out there explaining which channels were cut from which maps?
But they lowered channels of the only good grind spots in this game 210+ for example EVAC got lowerd to only 2 channels… Which means a big KS fest for only 2 grinding parties.
All those useless maps ok lower channels are good but for grind spots…cmon son.
Channel number actually changes every maintenance, people just didn’t complain about it before because it didn’t affect grind spots. Think it depends on how many players are on the map during the week.
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Yeah, channels were a pretty stupid thing to do. Especially hated it in Mabinogi, game was so social yet you’d have the chance of missing out on running into a friend or someone who would be your friend in the future, just because you two were in a different channel at the same time.
Basically the kind of truth my life needed. See, guys, IMC isn’t completely bad!
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I have the same shitty lag after the mateinance this is a ■■■■■■■ joke
Maybe you had nice ping?
My ping went from an unstable constant 300-400ms to 150ms-400ms
I’ve never had issues with ping tbh, but the way things stand, the change makes no sense. Either kill bots entirely, somehow, or work on coding the game so respawn is immediate. I used to switch channels a lot too, although theoretically, less channels= more players per map per channel = higher spawn rate would make sense, and that’s exactly why we’re not getting it.
I’m thinking they’re just lazying out and postponing everything until they have merged the codebase with KToS. We’ll see If their response time changes by then.
Damn I see it too. How can anyone play the game with all those white boxes everywhere??
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