players with crap connections

[Anodizer]

Anodizer don't worry about the good captain, he is one of the "I'm right your wrong,I've been playing for 15 years" blowhards on these boards and will argue with you until the end of time.

Yeah, I figured so much when he started to get his feathers all ruffled and proclaiming 15 years experience...  
Fact of the matter is, a slow system will experience network lag as well just for the fact that it's slow...
A processor that is several generations old only has so many things it can do per computational cycle..
Slow clock speed, slow FSB, low cache, and little memory: all this will limit a system severely and network properties will be adversely affected..
This is basic stuff that anyone with 15 years of experience should know..  Obviously, those 15 years contain no formal schooling or training..
  
It's a given..  In a 1v1 situation, perhaps not..  2v1, maybe..  Titanitc Tuesday, for sure...

I call this the Krusty syndrome..  
Infact, I think this blowhard (knows little) buffoon is probably Krusty's long lost twin brother or something..

[CAP1]

then maybe we should argue so we can fit in 


<hijack>  I'll be coming nto MW more often...hope to see ya in there CAP </hijack>

#S#  Banshee7

nah.....can't argue with another 38 driver.......

hope to see ya in there more. i don't get on as often as i'd like, but i fly mw almost exclusivily....and now that some of you guys are comming in there, it's getting to be more fun, and VERY good fights.

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[moot]

Anodizer you have to have a really freakin old box to get hardware lag. Look at the AH hardware requirements. Either an old box o crap or a malware ladden one.

[Anodizer]

That was the complete truth and I don't appreciate being called a liar.  I've still got that machine, it's still hooked up and still has AH installed.  Besides a PIII 600 and a 32 meg MX-440 it was running only 512 K PC100/133 SRAM and Win98.

That machine would normally run the game between 15-25 FPS (sometimes higher... 35 fps) except when there were massive bomber missions.  It would chug down to about 2-3 fps around multiple flights of bombers and about 5 FPS in those low hanging fog banks on SmPizza so those were situations I simply avoided.  Of course, I had to run graphic settings on low and use 512 textures without skins.

If you'd like proof come on over.  Evidently you just don't know how to keep a machine running at it's best.

BTW, Maybe you'd like to duel me while I'm on my old machine just to see how playable it is.  I'll even use my 13 year old MS joystick.

You know, I've never been involved in a game where more people had something to prove using an old system..
It's funny, really....
And, I'm not calling you a liar, I just don't believe you...  
Big difference...

At the end of the day, no amount of tweaking will make any kind of significant improvement short of some crazy overclock..
Running a PIII 600mhz at it's best is all fine, but at the end of the day, it's still a PIII 600mhz.

And believe me, I know how to keep my systems running at peak efficiency and performance..  I'm meticulous when it comes to this sort of thing...

By the way, 15-25 FPS is unplayable (in my book)..  There is no point in playing at all..  Especially a flight sim where smoothness in graphics is everything..

[Anodizer]

Anodizer you have to have a really freakin old box to get hardware lag. Look at the AH hardware requirements. Either an old box o crap or a malware ladden one.

PIII 600MHZ and K6III 500mhz ARE old boxes o'crap...

[moot]

Can you prove he was warping because of it?

[NoBaddy]

''That's unfortunate for him but it would have been nice & reasonable to stop playing under such circumstances until you have your problem resolved instead of just shrugging.''
You make it sound like he( i ) couldnt be bothered , and as for solving my problem what do you propose ? perhaps i should take over omantel and upgrade the service or perhaps i could just quit my job and move to a place with better telecoms !!
 Some people will have no choice as to who the provider they choose is , and if im willing to pay my $15 i will play , if the lagg gets bad i will logg off the game , lagg makes it unplayable from my end also .Unless Hitech tell me to go away because of lagg then  tough .... that might sound harsh but there it is  ,besides there a far worse things in game than a few people with internet problems  .

No one blames anyone for having a crappy provider. Anyone that CHOOSES to play the game with a crappy provider is more to blame than the provider. It might sound harsh, but folks doing this simply suck, because their selfishness makes the game worse for those around them.

[Ack-Ack]

Guido77 is by far the warpyest player Iv ever seen in AH. Not once have I seen him when he isn't warping. From 6k to 200ft he warps just as bad. I seen him many times warp from someones gunsight to their six and shot them. People with these connections should be booted no matter the excuse.

Guido77 also can't hit squat from all of his warping.  Honestly, if Guido77 didn't warp I would be very worried since that would be one of the seven signs of the Apocolypse.


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[ColSuave]

my favorites are the the magic warpers. ya know, hose guys who dont warp unless sombody is behind them. then they warp behind to and shoot you down. *cough*burtrum*cough*

[Larry]

Guido77 also can't hit squat from all of his warping.  Honestly, if Guido77 didn't warp I would be very worried since that would be one of the seven signs of the Apocolypse.


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He once warped right from my gun sight and right on my tail and took off half my wing before warping back in front of me. I was lucky enough to have enough speed to run away and land. Iv also had time where he took out my oil and got hits on me in his warpy madness. When ever I fight him it seems he has no trouble at all getting hits on me but when I someone get on his six he warps all over the place. Only time I can get a hit on him is by spraying or Hoing him.

[thndregg]

If your ping is STEADY, it doesnt matter what it is--I've been doing dialup for 13 years, and know which brand of modem works best, and which phone number works best, am always around 180-200 ping, assuming no browsing windows are open. Alas, Americas Army, (or any 1st person shooter) is out of the question, as they demand heap more bandwidth)

In defense of honest dial-up players, I'm another one that was on dial-up for about 12 years. I always made sure I had a clean system and a steady connection. It was just within the last year that they finally strung DSL out to this part of sugar-beet & onion country. We couldn't afford satellite (and didn't want it for games anyway), so we just bided our time until Malheur Bell finally got off thier collective butt. Bj, I hope it gets better for ya'. 

[kilz]

when i first started this game way back when i had to deal with FPS from 10-5 so i can understand the warping part. however when someone told me about it i relogged and came back in most times didnt do much for me.

now i dont have those problems i just get discoed all the damn time.

[Vulcan]

Simply put, BS... 
Also, if you want to make this a discussion of "experience", I've been working in one aspect of computers or another
well before the word "Pentium" was even envisioned before I finally switched careers a couple years ago..

Dialup + AH is fine.

I have ~ 22 years experience in IT. Starting on CPM through to DOS6.22 through to all these lovely flavours of Windows and a few other OS's through. For the last 10 years I've specialised in networking (and network security), I'm trained and have qualifications from the likes of Cisco, Juniper, 3Com, Secure Computing, Allied Telesis, Allot, Sonicwall and a few others I forget.

Trafficwise AH uses ~20kbps, dialup bandwidth is more than enough to handle it. Dialup latency is sometimes better than some peoples cable and DSL connections. Dialup is a non-contending media as well, so some of the hassled of contending media like cable aren't there.

So as I said, dialup + AH is fine.

[grizz441]

By the way, 15-25 FPS is unplayable (in my book)..  There is no point in playing at all..  Especially a flight sim where smoothness in graphics is everything..

15-25 FPS is beyond unplayable.

[Ack-Ack]

When ever I fight him it seems he has no trouble at all getting hits on me but when I someone get on his six he warps all over the place. Only time I can get a hit on him is by spraying or Hoing him.

It's nothing but lag on his end, he's not doing anything to cause himself to warp.  His problem is that he's got a crappy ISP, unfortunately, there is nothing he can do to remedy the situation other than moving to a location that provides more and better ISP options.


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