Not sure if it's system lag or network lag, but when I first log on if my toon is deployed on island it  can take up to ten minutes for the client to load the island. I have three active accounts, but this is regardless of whether I have one, two or three clients running. If my toon is in station it can take between 5-10 minutes, on average, for my character to undock. After I click the undock button I have a black screen which, if I click on it, goes to a white screen which displays NOT RESPONDING in the title bar. The worst I have experienced was an approximately 15 minute lag between hitting undock and the client updating. Note, when the client updates with my character outside terminal, the undock and molecular instability timers are still running, so it's not as if they've undocked and I've just had a black screen.

I'm running Vista 32bit on an Intel dual core E4600 2.4G system with 3g RAM and a Radeon HD 5570 with all settings on all three clients as low as they go. I have two monitors and play with two clients in full screen windows and one floating window.  The problems occur when I have one client open and logged in, as well as when I have all three client windows open.

That guide is fairly awesome.

Will recommend it to our new starts.

I agree with with Jelan here - anyone with half a brain would have seen that firstly probes, then walls were overpowered to begin with. Both were launched with no real limits, and even in a sandbox game there must be limits to what players are allowed to do, otherwise players will eventually break the game.

Arga: you've argued incessantly for walls to remain as originally launched. Would you still be for them if a corp with the numbers, the NIC and the willpower filled every possible landspace with wall, five deep around your beta outpost? That's an extreme, I know, but it was also a possibility. Unlimited walls led to unlimited wall spam, and there has never been a bright side to that. Those of you who wasted time and NIC on placing the walls as you did, well, I've no sympathy. You should have seen the nerfs coming the way the rest of us did, and planned accordingly.

Walls as they are now, and as they will be after the patch, are not useless, but at last they will be limited. There's still plenty of space within that belt to design chokes and mazes to slow down intruders - all it takes is imagination.  It may take some effort and planning, but that's as it should be. In any sandbox game - be it Perp or EVE - nothing worth doing should be easy. Everything should be a struggle, because it's the struggles that you win that you'll tell other people about, and it's those stories that attract others to the game, and this game is badly in need of a population explosion right now.

On that note: for all those moaning about their precious walls, just think how many more you would have to replace if this game had a few hundred more active PvPers, looking to get to your SAPs.

I have the same issue although, oddly, it's more prevelant on one of my clients than it is on the other.

Tele jumps or undocking take longer than usual, and the client will crash on one out of every three jump/dock attempts.

So you're advocating a tactic that is, when all is said and done, an exploit? Right.

This isn't a good thing - this is a game that needs PvP to stimulate the economy and keep miners and builders in business. Otherwise, who are you mining and building for? Ratters shouldn't be losing bots against NPCs, unless they're new and/or stupid, and less PvP means less bots and modules being bought, slowly stalling the economy and driving players away.

As I've said above, I'm all for walls in some form, but uncontrolled wallspam and methods of removal that are uneconomical compared to the cost of building are not a good combination.

That's handy if there's a rat spawn behind the wall. Unfortunately, not every wall comes with it's own rat spawn.

Take the walls surrounding, say, Brightstone, with their maze-gate. Not a rat in sight. We had to use bombs on the wall - must have done, oooh a million NICs worth of damage? Shame it cost us 5 mil. Not exactly going to hurt ToG in the wallet.

Just wondering how you manage this when walls are non-targetable?