Is anyone else seeing that the "new" forums take a long time to load? 
Frankly, I am hesitant to think it is my connection/equipment.

All lag is the direct result of EVERYONE else having a Nixon-era computer and IP-over-Carrier-Pigeon connection.

All of it.


Regarding "new and improved forums" - Leading up to this, I think they were careful to not say that the change would be an improvement.

OldCoaly wrote on May 2^nd, 2013 at 2:47pm:


It's such bullshit, too. I have a carrier pigeon connection, which is currently downloading Neverwinter at somewhere between 113 / 118 kb per sec. Yes, kids, that was kilo there. But I rarely experience lag unless I log on at the weekend. I have a two cans and a piece of string connection and I am basically good in the UK, since I don't play in prime time. Don't get me started on lag o clock though. That's horrible if you live in Japan, Australia, NZ or areas close... right at prime time too.

Die, Crunch.

Crunch ButtSteak wrote on May 2^nd, 2013 at 7:15pm:


We won't know until you try. Get on it!

Terebinthia wrote on May 2^nd, 2013 at 3:37pm:



My Carrier Pigeon Connection downloaded it yesterday at about 250Kb/s ( yup Kilo-Bytes ).

As Tere, Lag is a figment of my imagination... well unless you take into account the lag generated by being in the middle of melee in a raid, where there's a lot of stuff happening on the screens [ And the source for that one is clear : a 7,5 Year old computer ]  or the rare server wide lag spike that gets everybody frozen in place ( including mobs ).

Now the new fucked up forums are... well fucked up...
I don't like SWTOR forums, I don't like NWO forums, ( I don't like them to the point that I don't visit them ) Why the hell did they have to go the same way with a stupid forum style that gives headaches to read, is not resizing with the browser ( come on that's web coding 101, Lesson 3 [ the first two lessons are : what is a computer and what is a web page ] ).

Dickbutt wrote on May 3^rd, 2013 at 10:17am:


Nope, that's bytes for me... for bits I use : Kbits/s or Mbits/s or I give the Telco Class ( E1, STM1/OC-4, OC-192, ... ) when relevant.

Though there's about 0 chances for it to be relevant for pigeon carrier connections, as it has it's own RFC. See RFC 1149 for more details about Avian ( not limited to pigeon ) Carriers  : http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt

karatekid wrote on May 3^rd, 2013 at 12:42pm:


April 1, 1990

Flav wrote on May 3^rd, 2013 at 11:03am:


For those of us who have been in the industry:
kB = Kilobytes
kb = kilobits

For all others who don't know how the shift key works back in 1998 (IEC), they use kbit. 

LOL that needs to be posted to official.

Dark_Helmet wrote on May 7^th, 2013 at 11:49pm:

The Diamond is the german equivalent of the PEGI label. In this context, "freigebeben ab 12" means approved for 12 years and up.

Darth Anonymous wrote on May 9^th, 2013 at 8:14am:


https://www.ddo.com/en/forums

Old direct link doesn't work anymore.

Darth Anonymous wrote on May 9^th, 2013 at 8:14am:


Bet you have the old ip in your hosts file, like a lot of people did. The new stuff is on a new server/new ip, you need to go into your hosts file and delete the line.