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12 years ago
I read the thread translation for chinese gamers... no problem I really like it when community grows. But what is with lag? I think there is now way to afford a new server to take out the lag for gamers not in central europe?
I see it works for americans quite good (okay ping 200 ms but there is no lag in general)
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12 years ago
Its not fps game. Even 1 s is still perfectly playable. Reminds me quake3 on dial-up with 250 ms ;)
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12 years ago
I dont mean fps actually I mean the lag like springie says: giving all units to xy due to afk or lag...
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12 years ago
>I dont mean fps actually I mean the lag like springie says: giving all units to xy due to afk or lag...

You clearly don't know how this function works. It gives units in two cases:

A)Person has gone AFK
B)Person has lagged beyond 25 seconds.

For case B: there are three things that can cause this.

1)They are experiencing genuine network lag
2)Their CPU is not fast enough to keep up with game, causing them to fall behind in simulation.
3)They have crashed and are in the process of rebooting.

For situation 1: moving the server closer is not going to fix the overall bandwidth issue. The game uses a TINY amount of bandwidth,

For situation 2: they could be plugged directly into the host and would still see lag because their CPU can't keep up. Nothing can fix this except if they upgrade their computer, turn down settings, or play smaller games.

For situation 3: no way around this in current engine. Maybe someone clever will design key frames (what allow you to skip to different parts in a movie), but currently this has no solution.

The Chinese players I've seen so far have never had more than 1 second of lag or so. Not great, but definitely playable.

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12 years ago
roger, if you get given a unit, you self-D it next time, ok?
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12 years ago
Antelope I would say case 1. And this wouldnt be much better when played in LAN?

I really cant believe computers today are this slow to lag within first minutes.

ty for your answer Anteep
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12 years ago
don't mention it
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