So, keeping this simple, since I'm considerably pissed off right now because of it...

 

Myself and two friends (one just starting dungeoneering on the account she was on) were trioing the first few levels, to get her prestige up, continue like normal, etc. Our friend leaves, so we decide to duo and continue.

 

The moment we try starting a new dungeon, we get an xp loss (one person -75% xp, two people -11% xp). Obviously, since there's only two of us, we're getting screwed out of xp regardless of what we do.

 

After fiddling with the options, we can't get it to not eat our xp, so we suck it up and take the -11%.

 

We start, and she immediately lags and whitescreens. She never lagged at all on the same floors in trio, now on duo, she lags out. She's also on broadband, I'm on dialup.

 

 

I'm stumped as to why we're getting the xp loss - my friend is only level 8, so maybe that's it? It's never, ever done this before, and I've helped her on different low level accounts before, though.

 

Any suggestions? Quite frankly, I'm severely pissed off at this. She's always lagged here and there on duos, but this xp loss makes no sense, unless Jagex did something.

 

 

Apologies for the anger, I really can't help myself right now.

Umm... Leave the dungeon and reform the party. Then, set the floors to be made for 2 people.

 

It sounds like your friend left, but you decided to continue on your way without reforming the party which might have something to do with it. If this is the case and you get a mime room, you won't be able to finish the dungeon anyway.

 

And, lag isn't something related to Runescape most of the time. Although I have recently been getting random white screens for no reason that I can tell. As long as she comes back online, she should log back into the dungeon, or at least be able to rejoin it from the exit lobby.

maybe if you started trio, then one person left while you didn't leave and start anew. Just a thought, probably wrong.

Nope, our friend left during the time she was resetting her prestige, so we were starting again from the lobby.

 

The lag has been present for months now, and it only happens while we duo - nothing else lags at all for her, just dungeoneering.

 

Thanks for the replies, though. Maybe we can figure out what the issue is. I sure as hell don't have any more ideas, lol.

I believe if the combat levels of the team are too far apart, you get some sort of xp loss.

Zaaps, that makes perfect sense, considering the amount of teams that have leecher skillers on them to reduce the combat levels of the creatures in each dungeon, but it wasn't there before... ah well. I'm not terribly concerned about my own xp, just hers for the moment, because if she has to deal with this xp loss for her, I doubt she'll want to keep at it. I don't blame her, either.

 

The lag still doesn't make any sense, though. It seems to be focused solely on her duoing, and trioing gives no lag at all. We'll have to try it again to see if it really is just duoing, but... ugh, it's bloody annoying, yeah? I just want her to be able to enjoy dungeoning as much as she can, but it's gonna be kinda hard if she lags out during every duo >.<

 

Again, thanks for the reply.

 

 

EDIT: Would just like to mention (since I didn't realize before) that this was the first floor we did at all on complexity 6. I'm unsure if (or why, for that matter) that would affect lag, but there it is. Any bit of info may be crucial to finding out if there's a way to avoid this lag.

Edited January 17, 201115 yr by LinkOlaran