When i first read this thread I thought BP was refering to me as I used to have a serious warping problem, which did not help me in the slightest I may add, as Bigplay and Lazydog and the rest of the HG's seemed to be able to kill me on a regular basis. Seemed every time I fired the target jumped as I pulled the trigger, just the same as I probably appeared to the con. The problem turned out to be that some wassak cut a couple of submarine cables in the Med which stuffed the internet routes in the middle east for the best part of a year. It wasn't comp related as my laptop was bought specifically for playing AH and at the time was one of the highest specced laptops you could buy. I first played this game while assigned to my companies Houston office (Houston US not Scotland
) and like most of the longtimers in the game I became hooked as bad as a crack head and bought the new laptop purely because of AH, my existing one was fine for work but no good for gaming.
I knew I was frustrating other guys, hell I was frustrating myself but excluding monthly internet connection which in Dubai you pay through the nose for and my AH subscription, I had invested nearly 3 grand in hardware just to play an online game and through no fault of my own was warping faster than the enterprise on smack. So what do I do, do I stop playing altogether, cold turkey and pretend my laptop and flight system aren't laughing behind my back or do I play. Well call me a selfish B'stard I played, I did try to reduce my impact on other people by mostly GVing, I think the HG's will confirm that for most of 2007 I mostly GV'd, a goon was about all I could fly though landing the danged thing was out of the question. When you go from 1000 feet of alt to -1000 instantaneously it tends to to be pretty fatal. 2008 got better as they finally repaired the submarine cables but even then 250 was about the best ping count I got, it used to be 40 when I was in Houston. Hitec advertise this game as playable anywhere
"Fight against hundreds of real players from around the world" we have no control over how our puters link to the servers, the minimum hops mine did in the ME was 10 hops Dubai to Tx, on a bad day was 23, some days was a combination.
It is easy to say people with bad connections shouldn't play but if you have spent a wad of money just to play 1 game on the internet, bearing in mind how many of you have spent money on your puters upgrading them with new video cards, RAM, TrackIR, flight systems, multi screens etc purely for gaming and found that it is not your hardware that is the problem but the internet itself, are you going to say "Sorry chaps my connection is always bad, I'm not going to play any more". Maybe some one more altruistic than myself like Saint Peter might manage to do so but I don't see most guys in a similar situation to mine doing so. I know Lazydog stopped playing till he got a better puter but if he had still had problems afterwards due to his ISP and couldn't change ISP's; there is only one in Dubai, would he still stop playing until he had a choice. If the answer is yes LD then not only are you a better player than me then your a better man.
The summary is I will play as long as I can stand the hassle that warping causes me, or when my squadies tell me to Poff. not anyone else, a partial fix is better than none at all but then again I am a selfish B'stard.
<S> Borsuk
