Titan Extreme is NOT Fun

[Gardes]

So devs try to optimize their mmos so more people can play their game with less than strong computers but people need amazing internet speeds to play the game too?

Kinda amazing if you ask me.

[Fenwick]

So devs try to optimize their mmos so more people can play their game with less than strong computers but people need amazing internet speeds to play the game too?

Kinda amazing if you ask me.

It's possible to have a decent computer with a strong internet connection, considering the internet isn't exactly built into the computer itself.

[Tupsi]

So devs try to optimize their mmos so more people can play their game with less than strong computers but people need amazing internet speeds to play the game too?

Kinda amazing if you ask me.

I have far from Amazing internet speed and I can dodge stuff fine..lol The only time I ever have issues is random graphical lag due to an incompatible driver version (beta updates are never a good idea.)

[Xenobius]

I have far from Amazing internet speed and I can dodge stuff fine..lol The only time I ever have issues is random graphical lag due to an incompatible driver version (beta updates are never a good idea.)

Sheesh, for the umpteenth time, you don't need "amazing connection SPEED" to dodge stuff.
You need to be lucky enough for your ISP to route your signal through a minimal number of hops with as little lag between as possible.
It's not something you can "fix" or buy a better version of - even if you keep bugging your ISPs support service. You can *TRY* to use a known workaround and buy a VPN (or switch ISPs altogether), but it only gets you so far, because SE uses such godawful network coding, that lag is not compensated for, it's amplified. Some US and Canada residents have it better, some have it worse - everything is decided by the route your packets take.

P.S. For people in Europe - fix or no fix - positional lag is still a big issue and it won't be even close to getting solved until SE actually coughs up the money and rents some datacenters in EU, you know, like every other half-decent MMO publisher does if they target EU playerbase.

[Valcro]

So devs try to optimize their mmos so more people can play their game with less than strong computers but people need amazing internet speeds to play the game too?

Kinda amazing if you ask me.

I use a At&t "high speed" internet that maxes out at 2.80 mb and averages 1.50, which is so far behind the average internet speeds of the world that it's sad and pathetic but that's rural business for you. The speed doesn't matter so much as the health of the connection, with health being your latency or sometimes called ping although ping really means the testing of latency. I have on average best ping times of 18-25 ms. When it falls to 500+ ms I start to take huge blows to my ability to play online games, download videos, and whatnot.

My connection has become increasingly bad over the past two years because of over subbed Co boxes and an all around general lack of care by AT&T to provide the service they sell. As a result too many people are fighting over the same bandwidth with the system never being upgraded despite the billions of dollars these companies have at their disposal. If you don't live in the city or very near it, chances are extremely high you are being rammed from behind by whoever offers you internet, if at all, with bills so high and laughable compared to city folk that pay for 20 times the bandwidth for 3 times less the price.

I heavily suspect this is the problem for many players here that do not have the unfortunate situation of living across the sea from their server which negatively impacts their ability to dodge AoEs in a low latency required MMO. The UK region and such are light years ahead of America for internet but distance still rules supreme for ping times. Many people fail to understand that their 20 mb good internet means jack if too many people are subbed to the same bandwidth causing a decrease in latency speeds which will affect your online performance. It's like a traffic jam. It slows everyone down when too many cars are out and about and the roads are just not large enough to accommodate everyone. The result is a traffic jam and you moving at a snail's pace. It's not a problem at SE or their servers. It's our internet. It is on SE's head to realize this though, and to adjust their game accordingly.