Trapped by LagFollow

I am in Japan so I don't usually play during peak U.S. hours. The game runs just fine rather I'm in a city or not... until around 5pm Tokyo time then progrssively gets worst til the point where... there is no point. I was doing the teir'dal citizen quest along with some others. I was in the sprawl coming back from the Ruins and was literally imprisoned because the the game would come to a stop and in 30 or so seconds the revive option would pop up. Tried again and the game "paused" in the exact same spot... and I died. I had to get other players to escort me... Then I try to make my way through the Thieve's Way to report to all the quest NPC's. Walking through a passage way and a guy is getting beat by 6 darkblades and I start to back up.. only I didn't move. I sat there for like 40 sec trying to move backwards to no avail. Then after a nice slideshow consisting of 4 slides over the course of 40 secs they killed me. Died a second time because they didn't appear in front of me til it was too late. And trying to run is pointless as I just run into walls. I finally had to take off my armor because I would lose it all. I gave up and decide to just camp in Big Bend. So I exit the sewer and the load time took 5 minutes(!!!) and... and... it gave up!! I then heard the character select music and another 2 minutes for that to load up. Another minute for the game to simply exit to desktop.

Is there an option to get ride of all player characters. I don't need to see everyone else. I have come to the conclusion that it is the players that are making the game laggy, not the game itself per say because around 5 pm the only time it lags is when another player or players run by. Then it gets worse and worse as more ppl start coming online. If not, do you think SOE would consider that? Is it even possible. How about instanced zones without 50 snakes and rats bunched together within a 3 foot radius. I'm getting more memory, but that's isn't the point. I currently have P4 2.4Ghz, 512RAM, and 128MB Radeon 9700. I wonder if 1gig can help.

Thank you SOE for putting the comps in the year 599 A.E.(after everquest) ahead of the present day ones. I just needed to get that off my chest.

TOTALLY right, I have the same problem playing from Dublin.
I am on 512k broadband with 1gig ram and geforce fx but I cant play evenings US time, it is just too slow and I get kicked out to login screen eeverytime I zone...
it has to change !!!!

Have you tried dumbing down your display options? There are a lot of things you can adjust in game to improve performance. First off, I'm hearing a lot of people suggest that we should defrag our systems after installing the game to improve our FPS.

Here is a really good post on how to adjust your settings, and what each adjustment effects. If you make some of these adjustments you should see a significant improvement.

And yes, a gig of video ram helps but it's not essential.

Totally agree, I tried everything even thought it was my conenction but magically Neocron SWG and Eve work perfectly on m comp even with more than one account logged at the same time.
Now the question is if it will get better or not?
I couldnt play during the weekend as it was just too bad and today I cant even connect to my server LOL