Extreme server lag in the event areas due to bots?

Hello everyone,

In the last 2 weeks I am having extremely bad server lag at the event areas. I checked multiple settings and I am quite confident that the problem is happening on the server side and it's only happening on the event areas.

I am quite a bit confident that this is related to number of bots running at the event area 24/7. Does anyone know if there's a part of the event area that is not lagging 24/7? I would like to go there and start hunting there.

Until recently when I drank glorious fortune potion, I could usually get around 50 items before the potion run out. These days thanks to the lag I'm not getting as much. It seems like drinking the potions is a waste of money now.

Let me know if there are some parts of the event area that I am missing it's not lagging 24/7.
Thanks a lot everyone.

Maybe once or twice each session I'm hunting in the ToT areas I get about a 1-2 second freeze. I don't hunt in the bot city that is winter spur (snow) area though, I typically go to the waste (desert). It's definitely only happening on the subserver, i.e., won't affect people in Britain or Luna. I think there's a server line around the champ spawn area that splits the island in to two subservers, north and south. But yes, because of all the bots/spawn that's going on and the server not being able to keep up.

Thank you so much for letting me know.

I remember I went to the desert area when the event first started. Then I realized I get more items if I farm beatles. Let me go back to the desert area and see if it is better than beatles area now.

The packs of Gargoyle bots flapping around in particular lags me out.

PlayerSkillFTW said:

The packs of Gargoyle bots flapping around in particular lags me out.

If anybody else has a good alternatives to beetles please let me know. I would like to get a human and garg chest before  the event is over for my alt characters.

Roughly speaking my areas of hunting are along the lines on this map:

shootgun said:

If anybody else has a good alternatives to beetles please let me know. I would like to get a human and garg chest before  the event is over for my alt characters.

I'd grab a luck potion or two (either from the store or in game). They give such a large bump to drops (I think the description in store is like "50% more reward points" or something of the such) that you can easily get enough drops for the shogun chest within a potion or two (regardless of bots).

Mariah said:

PlayerSkillFTW said:

The packs of Gargoyle bots flapping around in particular lags me out.

try toggling off gargoyle flying, it may help? 

https://uo.com/wiki/ultima-online-wiki/technical/creating-macros/available-macro-actions/

So this is the conspiracy thread? Where i ask if Mesanna has the ability to detect 3rd party clients why are they not all banned? 

the bots i was talking about in my other post was how ive noticed the walking around checking spawn bots dont log in UNTIL the gm's are online. (i have had an EJ banned due to blocking their path and killing them) maybe nothing. maybe something. seems odd.

Grimbeard said:

So this is the conspiracy thread? Where i ask if Mesanna has the ability to detect 3rd party clients why are they not all banned? 

From what I have read on discord groups. People are using them as there is no alternative available for some bugs.

I’m guessing if popps is getting frustrated over a lich looting 1 shogun arti. People would probably find it exponentially more frustrating to be killed, stat lossed, and fully looted (of non insured items) due to client bugs. 

Covfefe said:

Grimbeard said:

So this is the conspiracy thread? Where i ask if Mesanna has the ability to detect 3rd party clients why are they not all banned? 

From what I have read on discord groups. People are using them as there is no alternative available for some bugs.

I’m guessing if popps is getting frustrated over a lich looting 1 shogun arti. People would probably find it exponentially more frustrating to be killed, stat lossed, and fully looted (of non insured items) due to client bugs. 

Also it seems that some guilds work closely as a team, so if one member of the team is suffering from a bug it would affect negatively all members of the team. 

I would be pretty annoyed if when I went gray/red my own guild members attacked me due to a bug in their client. I too probably would encourage them to fix their client over kicking them out of the guild and losing friends.

however none of that excuses botting in trammel. That should be banned.

Covfefe said:

Grimbeard said:

So this is the conspiracy thread? Where i ask if Mesanna has the ability to detect 3rd party clients why are they not all banned? 

From what I have read on discord groups. People are using them as there is no alternative available for some bugs.

I’m guessing if popps is getting frustrated over a lich looting 1 shogun arti. People would probably find it exponentially more frustrating to be killed, stat lossed, and fully looted (of non insured items) due to client bugs. 

Also it seems that some guilds work closely as a team, so if one member of the team is suffering from a bug it would affect negatively all members of the team. 

I would be pretty annoyed if when I went gray/red my own guild members attacked me due to a bug in their client. I too probably would encourage them to fix their client over kicking them out of the guild and losing friends.

however none of that excuses botting in trammel. That should be banned.

Everyone in your guild deserves to be banned