I have noticed over the last few weeks that the stability and performance of the game has reduced noticeably, with regular rubber banding, frozen screens and disconnects. I have noticed this happening to the pirates I play with as well, and my in game friends have reported similar issues.

Currently the performance of the game has reduced to a level where I no longer have any desire to play it, and have moved onto MMOs that should be far more demanding on my bandwidth and system, but run much more smoothly.

Whatever you have changed in recent weeks, please change it back.

Lots of dropped connections, no matter where I'm logged in (we've been traveling; I've tried to call up my pirates in hotels and on my in-laws' wifi). It has been twitchy and somewhat irritating to cope with.

One-Eyed Jack on Jul 17, 2017 wrote:

Sorry to hear about the stability and performance issues. We'll investigate a few things here on our end.

One question . . . If you play Wizard101 as well, are you also experiencing these issues when you play Wizard101, or only when you play Pirate101?

I've noticed some issues with W101 mostly some lag; but its not as bad as P101.

Being on the other side of the world I play the game at a time when there are less players on and I haven't experienced these issues even with a poor computer and internet.

Maybe Kingsisle currently can't handle an influx of players? I believe that the problem would be related to the amount of players on at one given time.

One-Eyed Jack on Jul 17, 2017 wrote:

Sorry to hear about the stability and performance issues. We'll investigate a few things here on our end.

One question . . . If you play Wizard101 as well, are you also experiencing these issues when you play Wizard101, or only when you play Pirate101?

What I get in Wizard is an inability to target a spell every few rounds. It only lasts that round, but it's annoying, since opponents get a free attack in. It happened to me this morning, in fact.

Fiorenza Rosanante... on Jul 24, 2017 wrote:

What I get in Wizard is an inability to target a spell every few rounds. It only lasts that round, but it's annoying, since opponents get a free attack in. It happened to me this morning, in fact.

This is a known bug and they are working on a fix for it, possibly this week. It is triggered when there is a fight in a circle nearby to your fight. For some reason, one circle ending the card selection phase of the fight is affecting it in other battle circles. Only spells that must pick a target seem to be involved. Target everyone spells, like Frost Giant, Unicorn, and Bladestorm, or ones that can only be cast on oneself, like the "self heal only" Fairy or Moon school transform spells, and Star spells, like Fortify, seem to work fine even when the bug happens. So a quieter realm or using non targeting spells ought to help until they solve the bug.

Krigleblort on Jul 26, 2017 wrote:

All fine and dandy but problems with wizard should - in my personal opinion be discussed on the wizard forum NOT on the pirate forum.

There has been no indication that any Fix for the pirate problem is being done.

Most of us were responding to OEJ's question about whether we'd been seeing the same issues on Wizard as on Pirate. Calamity was very kindly explaining what caused the issue I'd mentioned.

Does anyone else get that funky lock-up on the cutscene when you're switching pirates? Doesn't always happen but it does occasionally, more often to Indigo than to me, even though we're using essentially identical computers.

when me a friend were farming friar sand, I lagged so much in the corrupted shrine, I thought I would get pulled. it was on the way to the temple that the lag had happened.