Hoping that between Technical Issues and here I'm putting in the right place.
I was doing a T2 on Ruby Knight Gate. The level before the Basil stop was an Arena one and immediately it loaded weirdly because even after it hit 100%, my character was still not in battle mode as shown here:
It took quite a while, possibly 5 minutes for my character to move. Even so, I noticed that as soon as I stepped on the Party button, it wouldn't activate even if I was solo at the time. Not even a message or anything would show up:
Waiting and doing random actions wouldn't do anything and after maybe 15 minutes of waiting (Not being idle though), the game suddenly takes me to Haven.
When I return to Haven, at the Arcade, none of the gates could be activated, nor the Alchemy machine. Trying to talk the NPCs wouldn't work either. I didn't get any prompts for any of those actions. I saw players around me, and even one who ran towards the horizon. Literally. He passed the area one could walk and disappeared into the horizon.
It's a bit annoying because I had to use CE to reach this level and I couldn't even play it. I'm guessing asking for a small compensation would be a stretch, specially since it might be a fault on my side but at least I would like to know if there's an explanation as to why this happened in order to attempt avoiding it in the future.
As for technical aspects:
Using Ubuntu Narwhal. No steam. Had no other applications open other than Skype.
Thank you for your time.
5 minutes is an exaggeration.
Try living in australia, almost everyone has it.
That kind of lag, is the failure to connect from your computer to the SK servers.
Even though you click something, and it shows it client-sided, the thing will not activate as the server has not registered you clicking it.
Solutions i used to fix it.
1) if your router is extremely old, change it. My router was four years old when this was happening to me. I changed it last week and it works like a charm.
2)better internet. You must realise that bandwidth is streteched out amongst everyone using your internet. If you're like me, youngest in a house of 7, just grin and bear it.
3)go to processes, find the one that says java, and kill that process. Restart SK and it should work aswell.
Honestly its just delay. If you have ten seconds delay and you take a swing at air, it wont show up. But if a wolver strolls onto that spot where u made that swing ten seconds later, it'll get hit by the ghost attack.
TL;DR - develop godly movement prediction