Better bandwidth is needed and anyone with a poor connection .ie. <350 ping should have a warning to relog or buy a DECENT modem
hell i ended up buying ADSL PURELY for the better connection to AH yet we have to suffer these people who have terrible connections causing untold frustration for those of us trying to shoot the basts' down!
. 56k is capable of decent speeds as even my old 56k had well below 300 ping. ADSL is @130 even from the UK.
you got cheap 56k? BAN EM I SAY or force them to buy a new modem, the latest ones have much improved speed and they are not expensive.
I am also of the opinion that 500+ is just too many unless its in an organised event like a scenario.
think about it if there were 2 arenas each with 300 players as the limit you would soon fill both and if each have their own route/pipeline (whatever they call it) it should take us back to the old days of DECENT gameplay , not this crappy warp fest we see when numbers exceed 400.
somewhere along the way HTC has dropped its standards from what us (beta days) players came to expect from them.Its not our fault we expect it because to be honest thats exactly what atracted me to AH in the first place.
It had the best connections id seen and had a hard learning curve which challenged us.Id tried WB and others and turned them off after a few minutes seeing warping everywhere.
Now AH seems to be fading a bit.Heading toward the normal run of the mill game servers (unacceptable in my opinion
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Ill wait a while longer but surely by now if you offer to pay for a better service from whoever supplies you they provide it because it makes a profit?? I cant see how its taken so long to get a T1 (or whatever) line installed. what is the delay?
