I love to play Spiral Knights. But lately, the lag is ridiculous. In the games, I often can't move (I run in one place) and can't use any weapons or shields (They twitch but don't work) and all the monsters are attacking me. Then I can move at the last second before I die. Then in most games, it's like the screen keeps skipping because it's lagging so much. Finally, every time I play in lock down, it's lagging so much, it's like I'm looking at screenshots. I know it's not just me because all my friends on Spiral Knights say it lags so much for them (even my best friend quit until the lag gets fixed), they should really do something about this ridiculous lag.
Extreme lag
It says it can't test my connection :/ and like I said, I know it's not just me because everyone I play with experiences this bad lag. (And yes, I do live in NA)
i put my graphics on low, and i don't lag hardly, only when theres a good 10-20 mobs do i lag, but even then, its only for a few seconds. it depends upon your computer, i use a mac laptop, and it runs smoothly 2009 model i think.
Want to see my lag? This is the worst yet:http://s1162.photobucket.com/albums/q536/Ecmanl/?albumview=slideshow. On a VANADUKE RUN!!!!! Even Iyen said I have epic lag! It's just a matter that too many people are playing at one time. I always lag when there's a lot of action, so I think that less people should play at one single time. Just think about it! We can stop lag and make SK a better SK! Wanna do it?! *sarcastic yeah in the backround*
http://www.dslreports.com/smokeping
Can't quite be helped without your location and internet information, which I'm assuming is not in North America and/or very low quality.
If you live in NA, use the service I linked to measure your internet connection's reliability (probably works outside of NA, not sure). If it aint green 99% of the time, you have problems only your ISP can solve.