r/albiononline

I am in a 300+ members guild which currently holds #1 spot in the season ladder, so being able to play at certain peak timers is crucial for us. Every single guild member experienced following problems more than once:

• We get disconnected
• We get blackscreens while zoning
• We see enemies disappearing from the game and still receive damage from them (got clips of this) - no, they didn't use invis.
• Servers are offline outside of regularly scheduled maintenance timers. Last time the reset lasted 5+ hours.
• This morning, server was offline for no reason (few hours before the scheduled reset timer)
• Today, we wanted to kill siphoning mages since there's no walls on the terries after the reset day. Guess what, it will be impossible since the only time some terries are attackable will also be the time when the server is offline.

All of this is not single accident, this doesn't happen "every now and then". This became a regular thing on the EU server and the response from the S.B.I. did not make any of us feel like the issues are about to finish.

I hate to make this argument, but a game which I pay for ever month (to keep up the premium) and I also pay for vanity items every now and then shouldn't have as many problems as it currently has. The game was released ~9 years ago and problems like this should be left in the beta.

If you're employee of the company and all you want to reply is "We hear you, sorry for the inconvenience", please leave it to yourself. It's only more and more frustrating at this point.

Posted 1h 45 mins after reset:

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Last Sunday, the EU server was down from reset until around 16 UTC. Hours of Fame Rush wasted. Annoying, but whatever, shit happens.
Now it’s Sunday again, Fame Rush is still going on, and guess what? Server is down. Again.

But here’s what really pissed me off.

About an hour before today’s reset, I was transporting loot from my hideout back to the city. Had some expensive gear on me and a decent amount of loot. Roughly 30m silver in total.
I zoned out of my hideout and suddenly got a black screen. Nothing. Tried relogging, still black screen. Kept trying for about 20 minutes until I finally managed to get back in.
And there I was. Dead. Everything gone.

Now before someone says “30m is nothing” or “welcome to Albion”, I get it. Some veterans probably make that in a day. But for me, 30m is a decent chunk of my silver.
And honestly, even if I had lost 100k, I’d be just as pissed off about the principle.

I play a full-loot PvP game. I accept the risk of losing my gear to other players. I DON’T accept losing it because the game won’t even let me play.

If someone catches me transporting and kills me, fair play. That’s Albion. But how the hell am I supposed to defend myself when I’m staring at a black screen for 20 minutes?

And what makes this even more frustrating is that I actually spend real money on this game. I pay for Premium, occasionally buy skins, sometimes buy gold. I’m happy to support a game I enjoy.

But what exactly are we paying for when servers keep going down during limited-time events and players can lose hours of progress without even having a chance to fight back?

I’m not expecting servers to have 100% uptime. That’s unrealistic. But I do expect SBI to take some responsibility when things go wrong on their end.

Extend Fame Rush to make up for the downtime. And if players lose gear because of confirmed technical issues, there should at least be a proper way to get those losses reviewed and reimbursed.

Losing 30m because I made a stupid decision? Fine. Losing 30m because I couldn’t get past a loading screen? Not fine.

Am I being unreasonable here? Has anyone else lost expensive gear or loot because of black screens or disconnects lately?
Because I’m genuinely curious how many players have experienced this and just accepted the los

There are often times alt scouts on the gates sitting a zone from portals. Their team is usually inside and once spotting someone go invis and set up for the gank. When will they Crack down on the alts with less than 5k total fame... these people are clearly using their mobile device to gank unfairly.

I am a shitty player I know it very well that I am a bot so if u gonna say anything like that plz move on and don't say anything.

So I use battle Axe merc jacket, fiend cowl

What should I do against gloves......they drop assasin shoes / or long range Q attack that lets them catch me and immediately drops 12 w ability ( cc ) then their big e damage now it's my turn after this but they drop their defenses ( assassin jacket, gig potion, reflect w brecilin cape,) and use their assasin hood.......they repeat this and it's damage is too huge to survive 2 rounds

The EU server was offline for several hours, and when it finally came back online, the performance issues continued. The lag is still extremely severe, making it practically impossible to participate in competitive content under normal conditions.

I am part of a guild ranked among the top 3 on the EU server, and during these issues, we were participating in important content. Due to the extreme lag, we were unable to complete the activity as planned. Approximately 20 players died because of the lag, while another 10 players left midway through the activity because of black screens when zoning into other areas.

This is not just a minor inconvenience. These are players directly affected by technical issues beyond their control, with real consequences for a competitive guild's performance and progression.

When a guild invests time and effort into organizing dozens of players for important content, the expectation is that the server will function at an acceptable level. It makes no sense to spend hours waiting for the servers to come back online, only to find that the game is still barely playable.

The problem is not limited to lag either. Disconnections, black screens when changing zones, and unexpected server outages are becoming increasingly concerning. For players who regularly participate in competitive content, server stability is essential.

We understand that technical issues can occur and that not every problem can be resolved immediately. However, in a game that has been live for approximately nine years, these recurring issues raise serious questions about the server infrastructure and the overall quality of the service being provided.

Many players pay for Premium subscriptions every month and spend additional money on cosmetic items. The bare minimum they should expect is a stable server that allows them to play without losing progress or having entire activities compromised by technical problems.

SBI needs to provide more than generic updates. Players deserve a clear explanation of what is happening, concrete information about the measures being implemented, and assurance that these issues are being treated as a priority.

It is unacceptable for dozens of players to be affected during a single gaming session because of server instability. We should be able to participate in the content we organize for without server performance determining the outcome of the activity.

We need stability, transparency, and lasting solutions, not another maintenance period followed by the same problems.

I hope this time SBI will give us a fame scroll as copensation, considering EU players got screwed over on 2 weekend days during fame rush.

Buenas, gente. Quiero pedir consejos a jugadores con experiencia para ver cómo puedo optimizar mi economía de Albion.

Mi objetivo principal es construir una economía suficientemente sólida como para poder hacer PvP tranquilamente, perder sets cuando sea necesario y no tener que preocuparme demasiado por quedarme sin plata.

Actualmente mi economía se basa principalmente en:

• Recolección
• Refinamiento
• Crafteo
• Algo de PvP
• Ingresos pasivos mediante trabajadores

Personalmente, el crafteo es lo que más me interesa, especialmente fabricar para el Black Market o para los mercados Royal. También estoy dispuesto a seguir recolectando y refinando si eso mejora la rentabilidad del proceso.

Tengo plata y recursos invertidos en mi economía y prefiero reinvertir las ganancias para seguir creciendo en lugar de simplemente acumular plata.

Lo que quiero saber es:

1. ¿En qué se enfocarían ustedes si estuvieran en mi situación?
2. ¿Es mejor especializarse bastante en una línea de crafteo o diversificar?
3. ¿Cómo combinarían recolección → refinamiento → crafteo para maximizar las ganancias?
4. ¿Vale la pena especializarse en craftear para Black Market o es mejor enfocarse en los mercados Royal?
5. ¿Cuánta plata consideran recomendable mantener líquida para PvP y oportunidades de inversión?
6. ¿Vale la pena seguir invirtiendo en trabajadores/isla o sería mejor priorizar capital y especializaciones de crafteo?
7. ¿En qué momento tendría sentido empezar a trabajar con tiers más caros?

Si tienen métodos, fórmulas, hojas de cálculo o consejos para analizar la rentabilidad de un crafteo, también serían bienvenidos.

¡Gracias de antemano!

I'm fairly new to this game ive go the usual routes of gathering and what not but I keep on getting killed by other players very easily idk what I'm doing wrong I don't know if it's my build or if there's an IP difference but yeah atp i keep loosing more silver to repairs and regears

I use a 4.3 equipment mix of battle bracers, assassin's jacket, royal sandals, hunters hood