Too fast for the server?

Googi · #1 10-05-2005, 06:18 AM

So I was in the tradehouse having a normal flame battle based around the guy accusing me of speed hacking, and I ask the guy what his basis is for this accusation. And he says "because you jump around a lot". This displayed a lot of technical ineptness, but that's the kind of stuff you get from a guy who claims they work for Blizzard and says that it's easy to get around a Graal ban because "it only edits your start screen".

But then I ask some other people and it seems that it IS true that it appears to other players that I jump around a lot when moving. I tried getting on v2 and this was still a problem. I should emphasize that I experience little to no lag on my side, especially on v4. At first I thought that this problem was a result of my ISP capping my bandwidth, but then, through a remarkable coincidence, I met someone who not only had the same ISP as me, but had had a perfectly identical bandwidth cap placed upon them by the ISP, yet they didn't have this problem.

Then I started thinking about other players, and realized that I noticed a bit of jumpiness among players who had speeds in the low to mid 5.x range, but it's not as bad as people describe as it is with me (but my speed is 5.900).

So I thought, is it possible that we're moving so fast that the server isn't able to send out our updated locations to players fast enough, making our movement appear jumpy?

I find it unlikely that the problem is clientside (whether it by on my side or the side of the player who is seeing my movement) because (in the case of my side) I don't experience lag problems and (in the case of the the other player's side) it seems I appear jumpy to all players, and nobody has a problem seeing the movements of players with low speeds smoothly.

xAndrewx · #2 10-05-2005, 08:14 AM

Interesting, but I don't think speed should alter anything.
You're not 'lagging', you move too fast, in the blink of an eye, you're on another level.

Jaquet · #3 10-05-2005, 01:27 PM

Yeah, and how do you get from Bomboria to San in less than 8 seconds?

skyler87 · #4 11-09-2005, 01:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Jaquet

Yeah, and how do you get from Bomboria to San in less than 8 seconds?

Strange, I've asked myself that question before. Both my brother and I have tried PKing Googi for no apparent reason, and she will somehow go from Bomboria to Santerran in less then 10 seconds. I always thought it was kind of suspicious, it seems a bit impossible to me.

xAndrewx · #5 10-05-2005, 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Googi

(but my speed is 5.900).

I think, it's possible..

lordbosh · #6 10-05-2005, 05:03 PM

I have noticed you jump around alot too, I just diddnt care enough to complain about it. There are many ways to slow down a very fast person.

Craigus · #7 10-05-2005, 05:20 PM

Yeah, you do jump armound alot its hard to catch you in bomb cause you run on the spot then your gone, I don't think its the servers fault, i move at 5.566 speed and i am sure i never lag neither have i been told i do.

Googi · #8 10-05-2005, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Craigus

Yeah, you do jump armound alot its hard to catch you in bomb cause you run on the spot then your gone, I don't think its the servers fault, i move at 5.566 speed and i am sure i never lag neither have i been told i do.

You jump around a bit but it's only by a few tiles. Not as much as I probably do.

Craigus · #9 10-05-2005, 07:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Googi

You jump around a bit but it's only by a few tiles. Not as much as I probably do.

I think its more likly that you see other people lag because you can't download thier movements quick enough, maybe you have a bad isp or you are a long distance from your nearest exchange.

ViperZakuto · #10 10-05-2005, 07:20 PM

Well How fast is your connection?
if it is at least 300 kb/s then your computer would get to the server faster then somebody on dialup(ranging usually from 5-20). when you have broadband and you move around someone on dial up there is like a 1-5 sec lag(depending on speed) on there computer so he would see you move actually 1-5 seconds later than you do. =D

Googi · #11 10-05-2005, 08:52 PM

Like I said my ISP capped my bandwidth at 50 kb/s several months back. But the problem only applies to people with high speed.

Craigus · #12 10-05-2005, 10:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Googi

Like I said my ISP capped my bandwidth at 50 kb/s several months back. But the problem only applies to people with high speed.

That speed is awful. Thats your problem

Googi · #13 10-05-2005, 10:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Craigus

That speed is awful. Thats your problem

The speed is awful, yes. But I doubt it's what the problem is. Like I said, the jumpiness only applies to fast people.

Zero Hour · #14 10-05-2005, 10:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Googi

The speed is awful, yes. But I doubt it's what the problem is. Like I said, the jumpiness only applies to fast people.

50kb/s? It's very likely you're simply not sending packets frequently enough.

Good lord, that's a slow connection speed.

Craigus · #15 10-05-2005, 10:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Googi

The speed is awful, yes. But I doubt it's what the problem is. Like I said, the jumpiness only applies to fast people.

I've seen faster people then you, you just have trouble downloading fast peoples movements.