No chat server available - *freeze*

[SmurfAsH]

This happens at random times when playing, the game freezes, most chat tabs vanish (all but the info tab usually), info tab says "No chat server available" when unfreezed.

Not only do chat increase the usage of CPU resources but will also reload if it would lose connection to server for too long time, so could be hard to tell when a chat reload is a cause or when it's an effect.

The other times the game freezes is usually when generals land back on home island from adventures. This used to be twice, 15mins after and 30 mins after but with skills it happens a lot more because of varying travel times on generals.

That's an old issue.
For me it's been worse after all those "Improvements to reduce the frequency of locked zones." that followed the fix of "overlapping generals"-bug.

[Thejollyone]

and on and on and on - its getting to the stage I'm about to give up

Level 70 player and seriously annoyed enough to walk away for a few months until BB sort it

*Had to re-log time and time again to just finish this adv.

Please watch the language

[lordloocan]

Ok, tried 2 other flash games when tso was lagging on chat, freezing etc, after it started not before. On both of those chat worked fine, was only tso with the issue.

[Salem_Warrior_1]

this problem isnt worth losing your tempers over, simple thing is BB use flash, they know its not good for a game thats pushing the packets of this magnitude threw, said millions of times, but always same rubbish answers, look else where, THB given up telling them what they know and dont wana fix cos of the money involved reprogramming database ect
yes game freezes, flash is a pain,but were stuck with it forever cos BB want to take and not give, Remember BB are a business primary to make money

[t00tie]

Attachment 1

I finally managed to catch a screenshot of "no chat server available".

This was probably due to network maintenance this morning but this is exactly what my original grounds for posting looks like.

[t00tie]

Forum attachments don't seem to work so well, here is the same image on imgur. Note the chat window with "no chat server available", missing all but info tab and spinning thing with "connecting to chat server" overlay. The rest of the game is typically frozen when this happens, not even buff animations running.