collisions bug exploit??

[hitech]

More packets would change nothing related to the discrepancies in distance you see do to lag.

It would make nada,0, null, difference.

If you wish to know why, look up my patent on a method of doing the smoothing.

HiTech

[dedalos]

Where do I find it?

I think I understand what you are trying to say.  The discrepancy is due to smoothing and not due to the lag?  Meaning the choices would be to update positions more often with no smoothing, and that would lead to mini warps (as slap was saying) or use smoothing and I would not be able to see a difference from the way things are now due to the algorithm.

So, 250ms is like the optimum delay in order to have effective smoothing and planes not jumping around but also reducing bandwidth and CPU cycles spend on packet translation etc.

How far am I?

[hubsonfire]

I think the idea here is that a "vet" is more likely to get in to a close quarters fight and that increases the chance of a collision.   A new player will probably collide because the re-entry speed locked up his controls.

I always thought those were meteors, but now it makes sense.

Here ya go Ded- when all else fails, Google his name. 

http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6042477/fulltext.html

[hitech]

Where do I find it?

I think I understand what you are trying to say.  The discrepancy is due to smoothing and not due to the lag?  Meaning the choices would be to update positions more often with no smoothing, and that would lead to mini warps (as slap was saying) or use smoothing and I would not be able to see a difference from the way things are now due to the algorithm.

So, 250ms is like the optimum delay in order to have effective smoothing and planes not jumping around but also reducing bandwidth and CPU cycles spend on packet translation etc.

How far am I?

You were speaking about collisions. When you are seeing warps you are talking in the range of multiple seconds of no packets not MS.

HiTech

[dedalos]

You were speaking about collisions. When you are seeing warps you are talking in the range of multiple seconds of no packets not MS.

HiTech

Not really, I am more interested in not getting shot from impossible angles than the collisions.  On the collisions I just figured that if planes in the two FEs were closer to the real position it would increase the chance of both seeing a collision at the same time.

I am just curious why a faster rate would not help me with the getting shot from impossible angles problem.  If the update interval makes no difference, then why not update every 2 seconds?  To me that means that there is some algorithm optimized or tightly coupled to that time interval.  In any case, it would be nice if that could improve.  If not, thats fine also.  I'd be curious to know why but if the answer is this is proprietary info so be it.

The "I know something you don't" answers don't help though.   

[RTHolmes]

If the update interval makes no difference, then why not update every 2 seconds?  To me that means that there is some algorithm optimized or tightly coupled to that time interval.

good question