So I've been playing Spiral Knights with my roommates since the game released on the fourth, and starting last week we started getting ridiculous spikes in latency. It's at the point that we actually can't do tier 3 runs because we can't time our shielding because the action goes off about a second after we press 'x' on our keyboards. The bar on the top right is constantly showing 2-3 bars, with 2 being the one that stays more often than not. Now, before you start asking the usual customer service questions, yes, I checked if it was our computers or our ISP. Our internet speed is fine and I talked to a representative the other day to make sure it was working fine and confirmed it with speedtest.net. And since I use a pc and my roommate uses a mac and we both have the same issue, it's definitely not the computer, so I'm left to conclude that the problem is on Three Rings' end. We live in Baltimore, so I understand if there was latency because of that, but it was fine up until last week, so i'm just confused.
Is there a way for us to improve latency on our end, or is it just the influx of new players and the servers can't handle it?
Looking forward to a reply.
Playing with my friend at his house, we do invariably suffer a bit of lag. Alone, we both have no issues unless the game itself is causing problems (and at that point everyone is complaining, not just us). Reviewing the connections for the game however we noted that the game itself forms at least 10 connections upon start up. Why, I don't know. I'd think one connection would suffice. But with that many connections going it's possible that it's doing other stuff while you're hacking and slashing, like checking for mail and browsing news about the game and stuff.