Elim arena with >200 ping cap

[Due]

zloy i agree with you

i still suggest max 200 ms, 1.0% C2S, 1.0% S2C

i argee


sometimes i got a 160ms ping & i'm from belgium with an ADSL connection.

[Copy!?!]

I'm for stricter lag limits as long as people from ALL OVER the world can play. Aussies, Africans, Asians, Syberians, South Americans not just Euros and Americans should be able to play from their locations with a no-problem connection. Argument that we shouldn't count with those people because they are close to none in Subspace is unfair in my opinion.
For your information connection speed doesn't affect ping in Continuum as long as the speed is greater than what Continuum needs and thats about 3KB/s both ways. Your connection just has to be stable and has to have a good route to server.

[Kim]

My connection is usually 100, 90, 110, 180 or something...so sometimes it can momentarily go up to the High ping, then i'd be specced already.

[tahkis]

256kbit connections are pretty decent in my oppinion. When I had that my current ping was almost never below 160. Still 10 ms isnt much but it's enough. I agree that you can get lower, I'm using 1mbit connection now and have 140 ms.
Edit: Just noticed in a log that I actually had 150 ms once with 256.

If you got 140ms ping, you should sometime when you are playing, stop the goddamn downloads so people would actually see your bullets.

But I got 1mbit adsl in Finland and my average is 120ms. If I'm not doing anything, my high is like 200ms and low 110ms. Never got it lower than 110ms.

[Izor]

What I'm more interested in is why TournyBot specs me for a 'spike' up to 180 ms whenever I rush someone and I type ?lag and my high is 50. Whats worse is that my opponent (othello) had an average WELL above what I 'spike' to and he stays in the whole time. Bot hating on people with good connections now?

[Copy!?!]

Spiking from 20 to 180 is way more laggy than a constant 200ms latency.

[Edify]

we already have a ?go lag arena and had it for a long time. i don't see why not there should be a nolag arena.

[colony]

Staffers have been making good updates as well as not so good ones. There are some updates that they are just wasting their time on. For example, people thought it would be a good idea for spidduels, that worked for about a day or so.

lol, wasnt that your idea?

[Ewan]

I think a ploss cap is more needed than a ping cap

[1ight]

we already have a ?go lag arena and had it for a long time. i don't see why not there should be a nolag arena.

Did you even read the first post?

[Izor]

Spiking from 20 to 180 is way more laggy than a constant 200ms latency.

True, but it only spikes like that for a split second, it isnt noticable to ?lag or ?ping because it happens so fast then settles right back down.

[Reaver]

This game was originally intended for people with poor connections (28.8k, 56k, etc). However, not only has the internet access availability become greater, but the price for it has come down, thus giving more and more people the opportunity for a faster, better connection. Now keep in mind, that there are still places where fast internet connections just aren't available, and no I'm not talking about an ice hole out in Antartica. We cannot take the lag limits so low that it prohibits people who don't have access to a decent internet connection from playing. At my home, I still don't have access to fast internet, but now that I'm at college, I have no problem getting 10-60ms. Now, just referring to elim... I suggest ?go elim2 or ?go fastelim or whatever, just a new elim arena, almost identical to the original elim arena...but, the lag settings lower, what exactly they would be, could be disputed. People with lower lag can play there, people with higher lag can play in the original elim. Scores would be saved in both, with two different rankings. If your on a fast internet connection and its lagging for some reason you can play in the original elim for the time being. Settings for the new elim and/or old elim can be disputated.

[Ardour]

Its useless. In TWL, you dont have a >200 ping cap so you're going to have to play laggers sometime. 200 ms isnt really an advantage anyway. The only lag I can see as beneficial is ploss where people keep jumping, assuming they have used it for a while and know how to use it.

load of crap. you despised me and my lag any time id enter any arena and youd stalk me around tw cos it pissed you off that much when id beat you. my ping was 300 ms high med and low and 0.1 for both if that. funny thing was even when i upgraded id still get people like you giveing me crap for beating you with my lag of 100ms. laggots are only have the advantage against the not so good players that couldnt fight against it. many a time it was guess work for me with killing people. the game is so much easier without lag and people actually die when hit. atm im at uni but when im at home ive got a good connection cos cable finally arrived so id be in favour to get rid of them laggots and higher the lag limits. but if u live in a crap place that cant get a good connection, then i know youd be voteing against this because all you want to do is play continuum like i did so i wouldnt push a lag spec increase because i know what its like when theres nothing you can do to get a better connection.

[StarKitty]

Ardour..

Try CAPITAL letters
Sentences
Paragraphs
And correct grammar...

It's not nice read one great big blob of text that's put together with the skill of an 8 year old.


Oh and can anyone explain why i'm getting random periods of high packetloss versus low ping??

i'm getting like 3% S2C and 7% C2S sometimes while my ping is 100ms, for some reason this is just random... usually it's fine.. but recently it sucks.