u/No-Requirement-1516

Every 5-15 seconds or so I keep getting the server connection error and the game is lagging like hell. I live in West Virginia, my friend who lives in Georgia was having more minor issues but no disconnects, and my other friend who lives in California isn't having any issues at all, so I think it's localized. Anyone else having this problem or has encountered it before, and if so is there anything that can be done about it?

edit: my game isn't even doing the constant disconnect/reconnecting anymore, it completely failed to even connect to the server on the title screen.

edit 2: the friend who lives in Georgia also can't connect to the servers at all now.

I've been playing for a few hundred hours now, i'm well aware that the game automatically is *supposed* to replace lower rank soldiers with higher rank ones, I have 2 FOBs and a fully stacked base with 2100 staff members, all S, S+, or S++ rank as their highest skill with the exceptions of Ocelot, Miller, Code Talker, and Ziang Tan. I've been doing the recent FOB event, New World Order, where one of the tasks is to extact 5 of the A+ tier security staff. Weirdly, despite again all of my staff being S-S++ rank, every time I do a run of the event FOB i'm having one of my staff replaced by an A+ combat staff or occasionally an A++ Base Dev Unit staff member since that's the specific FOB platform i've been running for the event. Does anyone know why this is happening? Based on what i've observed regarding how soldier recruitment works this can only be a glitch of some kind.