A few notes on TWL games

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Plus... with the new lag limits for twl, it makes it even more stupid. You're basically destroying any chance for 56k'ers to compete in your league, nice job. :up:

Almost any game you play nowadays online usually requires you to have a high-speed connection.


As far as the 60 second lagout, I think thats a bit too long.

[Awesome]

put another TWL poll up

Option 1: 15 seconds subs
Option 2: 30 seconds subs
Option 3: 60 seconds subs

personally i vote option 1

[im drukn]

Almost any game you play nowadays online usually requires you to have a high-speed connection.

This game is 8 years old, it didn't come out this year. The original reqs were like 14.4/28.8 -nt-

[Dynasty]

The 60 second lagout rule is fine, the lowered lag limits are even better! I have never, and I mean NEVER lagged out of a match before (unless it's server probs where 90% of the arena get's specced), even with the high spikes I can stay in just fine.

The implement of the 60 second lagout rule is to deter this new fad thats been going on the last few months. Just hit ESC then S while your being chased by 3 people, voila, it's like a free Warp, in javs it's even better, you won't even get penalized for speccing then getting back in the game from the spawn area (unlike warpping)

We implemented the Anti-Warp to deter the "cheap" warping tactics that made the uber 1600res'ers unstoppable. (back in the day when I was stuck on 800x )
Now they found a way around it, and we're out to stop that too, use skill, newbs.
60 seconds is fine, if your lagging then you shouldn't be allowed to play in the first place. Your captain should just put someone else in, or risk playing you and have you lag out like 3 times which is almost 1/4 of a round... which is crucial considering that TWL is only 1 round.

I agree that TWLB should have the 60 second lagout lowered, I see no valid reason for anyone to spec themselves to escape death or anything stupid like that. There is bound to be lag with so many things happening in such a small area. I'm thinking 15seconds for lagout in TWLB would be fair.

[Sleepy Weasel]

I agree 15 seconds in twlb is fair. No one is specing themselves on purpose in twlb games, and if you play a laggy shark to get an advantage and he lags out for 15 seconds that's enough damage to counter any real gains since 15 seconds lagout for a shark is almost always a free cram break or terr kill for the other team.

[Sarien]

This game is 8 years old, it didn't come out this year. The original reqs were like 14.4/28.8 -nt-

Faster isn't always better. All 56k means with ping time is that though you might have a faster one usually, but if your connection starts bouncing around in speeds like mad, it'd be worse than if you were using a 14.4 modem with a constant ping the whole time. It isn't just the higher the number the worse, it's also a ping flopping around like it just ate drano.

[Thors]

!score

!score should be a yes without a doubt.

[Zerzera]

Or Sika for that matter.

Where is Boki???

[Thors]

Where is Boki???

I am Boki undercover

[Galleleo]

K twl ops.. seriously FUCK YOU.. This 60 secs. waiting time is way to fucking long for twlb.. You lose games with it.. and after 6 msgs you reached spam limit and you have to wait another 1 min before you can get in.. its bs.. total bs.. I had 1 spike, 1 lousy spike, no lag, just a spike, and I was out for 2 min.. change it.

[Sleepy Weasel]

pallies had 7 lagouts vs diso from 5 different players, including 2 double lagouts , and most of these guys have never lagged out of a game before ever. That's 7 mins of the game playing shorthanded, not to mention the lagouts occurred while we had base and causing us to lose it and have to retake it which takes even more time. And the bot died so we couldn't even sub for like 3 minutes (which should be instantaneous replacement in base games if it's not since people don't sub in base games to replace players about to die). Fix this before the real thing. That game was 100% decided on lagouts. Despite my shitty playing we were up a fairly large amount until the server started dying on us and we couldn't play 8 the entire second half

In fact now that I think of it everyone but me,ryang,and mythrandir lagged out. 1 minute lagouts are ridiculous.

(diso also had 1 lagout, moot).

[K2Grey]

I say we get a second round of preseason since the problems probably won't be fixed or found out by round 1 anyway.

[Sleepy Weasel]

I believe the problem is pretty obvious. Turn lagouts back to 15 seconds. That takes what like 20 seconds to change in the code? Hell send me the code and I'll fix it.

Although there are probably a lot of other problems that need fixed... this is just the one I care about.

[Fit of Rage]

I left THE PUSHER a message about fixing this for base, but he hasn't been on to get it. Pure Luck said it will definatly be lowered, but he did not mention by how much.

[Stabwound]

Agreed that the lagouts are absolute bullshit. You cannot make basing Time Race and then add a 60 second lagout rule and 30 second sub. Make it instant sub and 15 second lagout, like in TWBD.