Looks like fleet chat still works.


Look at the bright side 

Happens to me too and when it happens i go play LoL my connection is fine but somethings up..

Thats not lag, the game crashing or you losing connection, the room crashed so the server booted you from a non-existant battle.(If your ship was stopped for example, you could retreat from that, I got lucky one time and was stopped dodging torps, and found Esc worked and retreated

looks like it is more your internet connection is slowing down or just cutting off entirely. I have a really good connection and when I turn it off that happens. when i just crash, it's pretty instantaniously. I love my ISP, but I think you don't