The save patch poll.

Voted no due to connectivity problems caused by the constant additional saves for every character logged into the server. The cure was worse than the disease.

 

I can't remember the last time I had a serious rollback. Maybe a month ago? But I know to do something to force a save after significant gains. I guess someone is having a bad time with rollbacks? Can I suggest a manual /forcesave command with a 5 minute refresh for these folks? That's enough to preserve gains and the refresh period keeps it from being used to grief server resources.

 

I am running two PC clients, windows 7, hardwired. With the save patch it seemed like I was getting disconnected more often while zoning. After removing the patch the disconnects appeared less frequent. With both patches its rare for me to go LD just hanging out in a zone. I didn't vote though, because I am concerned about influencing results with nothing but estimations. Maybe I will start righting down when/what box/etc I crash or go LD.

 

I have not voted yet either. I am still not sure which way is better.

 

Thought I'd add my two cents here since my experience is opposite that of the other posters. I've had horrible stability since the patch was reverted. I experience persistent yet unpredictable LDs, resulting in boots to the character selection screen. They happen sometimes during fights, sometimes when looting my corpse, and sometimes for no apparent reason at all. It has resulted in losing about 2.5 levels total from rollbacks or LDs during fights, and I've lost hundreds of plat since going LD upon looting my corpse results in all the money I was carrying at the time poofing. This is even while trying to make an effort to regularly /camp to force a save, but even that is not a very practical solution for a pet class. None of this was happening when the save patch was in place. I'm playing on a Mac OSX 10.9, using a wifi connection. Unfortunately I cannot practically use a wired ethernet connection.

 

I mostly agree with Rrio, but my experience is slightly different. I have been having frequent LDs, with or without the save patch implemented. These occur while just hanging out in the zone or while zoning. As the save patch didn't really seem to affect the amount of LDs that I have, I got at least some benefit by not having progress completely wiped out with the LDs. With the patch reverted, I've had a few more instances of LD resulting in a decent amount of xp loss.

 

I'm more on the side with Rrio and Dejection. LD's were no different and I've never lost xp in open alpha yet but with the save patch I didn't have to camp often to fix desyncs.

 

Post patch my clients will randomly LD with no discernable pattern. Sometimes, I can leave the toons logged in for hours and no LD, so it could possibly be something that is happening during gameplay. I did experience more LDs post patch, but had significantly more desync issues in game pre-patch.