I understand your frustration. 

I have had this happen to be before the lag got bad.

It happened to me once again today. - I spend on this game, and i feel cheated when i loose hundreds of drachma trying to do a simple upgrade of a building. I do not spend like some do, but this is my hobby and i do not mind spending on my hobbies/obsessions. 

When i am cheated out of my drachma, i also have to start to question why i am spending on this game.

I think i have been victim of this many times in the past.

A deliberate ploy by Plarium. You get used to accepting coalition mission rewards in one place and then lo and behold Plarium have put a new item in that spot and you get winged with a double agreement in place when you don't want it.

what we have to do is be careful, sometimes our wifi is saturated and the system is slow.

It has ever happened to me and it was always because I wanted to do things too fast, think before acting lol ;)

This is a serious problem for my coalition.

I have had many many members that have vented their anger in our chat.

This is a known problem, i have seen it talked about in other forum posts.  I do not understand why they set the "buttons" up in this fasion, and i do not understand why some of the drachma spending features give a warning, and others like this one (that has an issue that is costing people drachma they did not intend to spend) do not.

Is there a dev that is willing to address this ?

To be honest - i have had over 20 members vent about it, and if 20 complain i will bet another 20 suffer in silence.

Hello, the only thing I can answer you is to be careful when you want to improve a building. Now that you know it, wait until the two buttons appear.

We learn by our mistakes.

reporting a serious lag on 16-17 of december

Check this link, the system lag is gonna be fixed soon.

https://plarium.com/forum/en/sparta-war-of-empires/news-and-announcements/87870_wanted---beta-testers--your-chance-to-earn-2-000-drachmas-/

Ashu said:

Check this link, the system lag is gonna be fixed soon.

https://plarium.com/forum/en/sparta-war-of-empires/news-and-announcements/87870_wanted---beta-testers--your-chance-to-earn-2-000-drachmas-/

i have read the link, and NOTHING mentioned about the lag!  

Ashu said:

Check this link, the system lag is gonna be fixed soon.

https://plarium.com/forum/en/sparta-war-of-empires/news-and-announcements/87870_wanted---beta-testers--your-chance-to-earn-2-000-drachmas-/

i have read the link, and NOTHING mentioned about the lag!  

Bill Almorra said:

Hello, the only thing I can answer you is to be careful when you want to improve a building. Now that you know it, wait until the two buttons appear.

We learn by our mistakes.

and the newer players that do not know?

I have no buildings to upgrade so it does not effect me - but i am not able to warn every new player in sparta.

They set this disaster up.  They are the ones that can fix it.

I think the original post is accurate in every way.

Look, this are not just isolated cases here and there. As previously mentioned, this is a world wide issue and the suggestion that we as players must do this, or that, or some other thing is simply a deflection of responsibility. We pay Plarium with time and real money to play the game, and we should not have to do anything more than to log on and play the game. Players from all over the world are complaining and the response from Plarium is that one needs to do this or change that, all time consuming and sometimes beyond a players abilities to accomplish. All of these suggestions by VIP reps are not uniform, one says do this, the other says do that, and in the end nothing changes. January? Seriously? C'mon man, one could lose their whole army between now and January. This lag or mini-freeze that is going on affects every aspect of playing, not just upgrading, but fighting, raiding, sieging too.

The game is virtually unplayable in the present state. How long must we wait for it to be fixed, because if we are to wait until the beta test is done and if the past is any measure of the speed with which this issue will be addressed, the game will remain unplayable for quite sometime. How many of you would buy a new car if the dealer said to you, oh by the way, when you want to drive your new car you have to get in, then get out and run around it 5 times clockwise, and then get back in it, and then get out and run around it counter-clockwise 5 times, get in the backseat say the Lord's Prayer, and then if you are lucky it will start and run.

Everyone is being asked to risk years of time of money while nothing changes. Promises I have seen for over 3 and half years of consecutive play, that is everyday without missing a day for that period of time and I am more than a little weary of being told to be patient, being told that those promises will be fulfilled, when I have not seen things get better but worse.

i am very sick about your amateur supoort.

has anybody registered at plarium that megalaggs have been around for days and the game is unplayable?

Normally you have to give each player 10,000 drachmas as compensation, that would be appropriate.

Hello, everyone. I have a couple clarifications to make for you:

1) The issue with Instant Upgrade button that does not load properly due to lag has been reported and is currently being fixed. Our developers will try to put the fix out as soon as it is possible. Remember that lag does not necessarily depend on us, so claims that this is some sort of malicious plot are coming into conspiracy theory territory. If you have lost Drachmas in this way, please contact Support and explain the situation;

Dimitri - thank you for the update.

I am very gratified to see that palarium is fixing the problem.  Up until now - when this issue pops up in forums it is just ignored by palarium staff.

I do not think people were accusing palarium of intentionally making lag - but if there is a bug that costs players drachma every time there is lag - from palarium servers, or players systems / internet providers, palarium profits from it in a large way.

Plararium and its staff have not addressed the issue - and it has been reported to them many many times over a large period of time.

I think they are not conspiracy theorists, but players concerned about issues that hurt other players.

An message to let them know that palarium acknowledges the problem and will fix it is all they needed.  That is what the forums are for - communication.

Ididicus said:

Dimitri - thank you for the update.

I am very gratified to see that palarium is fixing the problem.  Up until now - when this issue pops up in forums it is just ignored by palarium staff.

I do not think people were accusing palarium of intentionally making lag - but if there is a bug that costs players drachma every time there is lag - from palarium servers, or players systems / internet providers, palarium profits from it in a large way.

Plararium and its staff have not addressed the issue - and it has been reported to them many many times over a large period of time.

I think they are not conspiracy theorists, but players concerned about issues that hurt other players.

An message to let them know that palarium acknowledges the problem and will fix it is all they needed.  That is what the forums are for - communication.

Hello!

Agree, the main purpose of this forum is communication, and we, Community Managers and moderators are something like "communication channel" between players and developers. Every week we're conveying players' opinion and information about game issues to developers.

Unfortunately, we can't affect the fixing speed of game issues, but we do our best to inform our developers about all of them in time.

Btw, we refreshed our servers yesterday. And now there should be no lag issues in the game. And as for the issue with Instant Upgrade button, who knows, maybe the fix will be ready much sooner than you expected ;)

Shrek said:

i am very sick about your amateur supoort.

has anybody registered at plarium that megalaggs have been around for days and the game is unplayable?

Normally you have to give each player 10,000 drachmas as compensation, that would be appropriate.

i agree with Shrek 100 %,10k drachma's is fair compensation for mental pain and suffering we'v experienced last 3,4 days +i want 20k drachma,you cheated me for wasting drachma,buying legendary key's and receiving identical general items,over and over again.we can not take those drachma's home,we can only spend in this game.

waiting for plarium's Santa Claus with 30k drachma's in his bag for me,i was good boy all year :P

Tonaya 

waiting for plarium's Santa Claus with 30k drachma's in his bag for me,i was good boy all year :P

Tonaya 

Tonaya said:

waiting for plarium's Santa Claus with 30k drachma's in his bag for me,i was good boy all year :P

Tonaya 

I have a sneaking suspicion you might be on the naughty list, Tonaya 

Dimitri Molchanov said:

Tonaya said:

waiting for plarium's Santa Claus with 30k drachma's in his bag for me,i was good boy all year :P

Tonaya 

I have a sneaking suspicion you might be on the naughty list, Tonaya 

only if Alyona made that list ,where is she?i really miss her

Tonaya