Originally posted by tedrbr
To expand on that. The situation is you add lots of squeakers and noobs for the summer.
These squeakers are on 2-week trials over dial-up, or their broadband connection or client side machines are having to deal with not only running the game, but all the junk they have running in the background:
IM programs, spyware, maleware, child monitoring programs, resource heavy anti-spyware/maleware programs, bit torrent, software-based firewalls, file sharing and downloading in background, or simply their connection is experiencing an external attack to try and get into their system.
In some cases the client machine is just very low end. Low end CPU, graphics cards, limited memory, fragmented hard drive, limited cashe. Possibly they are on an overtaxed network, or connecting through a satellite connection (lag).
Final result is that with either connection problems, or client side resource limitations, you get lot's of warping players.
To expand on the expansion....................
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When I said squeaker overload I wasn`t just talking about the game. It`s summer vacation time and the internet load and traffic is increased considerably as a whole. The kids can blame it on lazy , off duty teachers who refuse to apply down at the Tastee Freeze and stay home being annoying to the future world leaders.
(God help us )
Seriously it happens every year about this time as far as I can remember. My knowledge of this is very extensive. I have now learned what the big button on the tower is for. I have, however, seen this expalined a few times by a certain , bearded, extension cord tripper proned, intardnet whiz from Grapvine Texas.
We usualy just told him to tell HT to fix this crap. It had to be coming from there.
