Originally posted by Puke
Shane,
Your bravado is getting real old. I've never jumped in on this topic but now it's time. Yes, there was lag. It not only affected you, but did you ever figure it affected me as well? Still, all I ever see lag do is make other aircraft warp. With your slow connect, can you imagine what it might have been for me trying to tangle with you? I've never seen lag affect my lift and stall me into the ground though. That's not lag induced. Quite funny you jump on that as your excuse so fast that it almost looks like a macro. But even if it were lag induced, are your garbonzo beans so small that you feel you must explain away a loss in the fear someone may think poorly of you?
And yes, that's my 51B...full flaps out. I saved that film because I found them interesting fights. In all my time here, I've never flown an LA7, be it online or offline. Not once. Not sure why you bring up me being in an LA7 in that shot. Make no mistake, this isn't anything about bravado on my part though. No where do I say I'm the better pilot and I don't blame anything other than being outflown when having lost to you...not to the alignment of the stars or the cat giving me dirty looks which distracted me or a squeeky joystick or lag or even a child grabbing my arm for attention which has happened and might have that day, but you'd never know. Point being, you always have an excuse to degrees more than anyone else in here. Think about that. That's all the point people typically make about you. Just give a "good job" every once in a while even if you feel the other guy got lucky. It'll put hairs on your chest.
Anyway, now I feel dirty. I shouldn't have ever gotten involved in this one.
pay attention while i type reaaaaallll slow for you - try and find someone who can dispute what i'm about to squeakslap you with.
p2 333 getting between 10-35fps depending hits massive server lag, fps drops to 3 or worst case 0. at 0 to 3 fps my screen is not getting updated until that lag passes. (note: i had cable, still do - the lag effect was entirely beating down my slow *system* not connect. the fact that you presumed i had a slow connect shows me just how little you understand about how things work.)
during that 0-3fps, my screen is not getting updated and if i were low on the deck i could easily run right into the ground and then presto auger when the lag passed, because while i was at 0-3fps (slide slow to pure screen freeze) i could not make timely input to avoid the ground that i couldn't even tell was filling up my screen.
are you still with me? the lag effected my fps/ability to input moreso than the connection per se, altho' they're both related.
ask skuzzy if you doubt that a server lag like that would have created a tremendous hit on my fps. the fact that it didn't affect you to the extent it did me, only indicates you had/have a system that was decently able to deal with this issue. what was/is your system specs back when this occurred?
yeah, it affected just about everyone to an extent, some moreso than others (like me). my vid card/cpu combo gagged trying to keep up with what was occurring. did your fps at that time drop down to 0-3fps? or were you perhaps ok at 20+ fps? and only suffering text lag, but not input lag?
now do you see how that lag affected my vid card which affected my ability to pull out of what was a terminal angle? it didn't "stall" me out, i just didn't have the feedback necessary to be able to avoid the ground - all i could have done (and might have) would have been to pull the stick back all the way and hope i pull out before hitting the ground (which could also have lead to a stall).
let me sum this up real slow again, server lag plus low-end system = massive fps hit, dropping fps to 0-3fps which, as you might not be aware, is a slideshow (3fps) or a screen that is simply not being updated (0fps).... yet the server is still "tracking" my plane, which in the absence of any input led to an auger when the system finally updated on my end. how can i avoid that which i can't see coming?
and look what i said in that picture you so nicely linked. "lol, damn server lag." and i can imagine later in that film (post a screenie will ya) i might have mentioned how that server burp induced a very low fps leading to the auger which you got a proxy kill on.
i'll admit to misreading when you said "decided to take the la7 low and slow." at first glance it seemed to me that you took an la7 up yourself, but my bad... irrelevant to the main issue anyway.
interesting how people always attribute as a "whine/excuse" something that simply occurred that contributed to the incident.
think what you want, i know what happened. simple fact, if that mass-troop induced server lag had not occurred, who knows how that encounter migt have turned out.
with my system i have now, that event probably would have only dropped me to 30-40fps, perhaps with some text lag/ damage lag thrown in. there's a world of difference between even 15fps and 0-3fps.
hope this clue didn't hurt you too much.
