As all experienced players know, the pet lag is a huge problem for anyone that is meso farming. With the nerf of Blackgate farming maps, reboot players have turned to alternative spots like ghost ship and MP3. These meso farming maps have a huge problem that persists to the vast majority, if not all players; pet lag. Picking up items causes screens to freeze for seconds at a time, which can frustrate and annoy players while reducing meso rates.
Nexon customer service has been asked about this problem and has continued to respond that this is a client-side and individual issue that is not because of the game. A quick google search will reveal that there is simply too many players suffering from this for this to be a reasonable assumption.
https://www.google.ca/search?q=Reboot+Pet+lag&oq=Reboot+Pet+lag&aqs=chrome..69i57.1328j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
There is a simple solution to fixing pet lag. Pet lag occurs as there are simply too many meso bags and etc items to pick up at a time. For example in ghost ship, mobs can drop two meso bags instead of one, and nearly always drops etc items. After a minute and a half of kishin-aided killing, there could be well over a thousand items to pick up. So, we have to simply reduce the amount of meso bags and etc items.
1) Monsters in GS, MP3 and other farming maps that nexon might know of (which they surely know since they can monitor map usage, and set the meso and spawn rates) monsters should no longer drop 2, or 3 meso bags. Instead, they should drop only one meso bag. The amount of mesos in said bag should be averaged out (i.e instead of a 50% chance of dropping two bags of 6,000 mesos instead of just one, you could make it one bag of 9,000 mesos permanently)
2) Remove the needlessly cluttering etc items. We already have hundreds of etc items in game that serve no use other than to be novelties and decorations, ghost ship being one of them. I understand some items are needed for questlines (i,e the GSE badge) then that questline should be tweaked to not include those items. The priority is to remove this issue that affects the vast majority of meso farmers.
3) If possible, optimize the code in picking up items. There have been unconfirmed, but frequent rumors going around that Nexon's pick-up code is "unoptimized spaghetti" if this is true, an optimization to this crucial game mechanic should be a priority. Indeed, this rumor does seem to make sense when you realize that even people with very powerful rigs suffer the same amount as those with office PC's.
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The most common lag occurs when picking up mesos, and multikill monsters during a counting quest (eg. kill 333 of certain mob, or when counting xp during arcane stone).
So i reckon the lag is caused by 'counting beyond 1'. Adding 6 to mob kill counter, adding 8721 to 23173722 mesos etc. while etc item of adding 1 to a stack will not cause lag.
In other words it's purely spaghetti code... only capable of adding 1.
That said:
ETC items can be ignored with the Pet Ignore skill.
Loot lag is related to active quests, and Nexon needs to fix it for all servers and all maps, not just Reboot's favorite meso-farming maps.
(Proof is that when you have a glitch where your quest list is empty, you suffer no loot lag whatsoever)
I honestly don't know why they haven't done this already. We've been complaining about loot lag (again, in all maps and all servers) for years now.