Ifrits greatest weapon: Animation Lag

[Alegis]

Technical knowledge is one of the things i got enough of thank you. Why would i lie? Just so idiots would say stuff like this? the animation lag comes because it takes more of your computer than it got. The latency will almost never come in instances. Or do you lag in toto-rak to maybe?

U tell me u have enough technical knowledge (whatever u mean with "enough") and at the same time u arent even able to see the difference between lag, caused by a weak PC and the lag seen in the video?

He could play with a Supercomputer, it wont change anything if the lag is caused by server/latency.

[Sigmakan]

Best demonstration of how terrible the 'client/server latency' is when someone in your party dies to an Ifrit attack and then a second later their corpse slides 10ft across the ground into a safe spot.

A lot of this might not even be latency, it could very well be how the game/client/server handle characters position. This gives me hope that it may be possible to resolve this issue.

[Forerunner]

Good lord no.

Your idea just cut ties with friends all over the world. You just broke up linkshells that have been established since FFXI release, and you just stopped pretty much the whole of europe from having any chance of playing (being as there are like 9 of us ingame).

Please return to WoW, all your posts so far seem to want this game to be it.

I'm one of those 9! Eagerly awaiting a solution for this.

[Brillen]

anyone else just really hate the concept of dodge mechanic fights in MMOs? I like them in my devil may cry's but not here...oh well I'll try the fight out eventually so I can get a pair of those ugly ass claws

I think dodge mechanics are great. Keeps you on your toes rather than just spamming abilities while watching netflix.

[Jennestia]

Give us regional servers please, this issue will never be solved if someone is playing on a JP server.

Im sure people will whine up that they like to player on a international server but the problems are fairly clear, yes I know Japanese players suffer similar problems but they are just making a situation 10 times worse for overseas players.

This has ZERO to do with server placement. FFXI and FMO had zero problems with server latency between the regions (it's almost a nil difference in response times whether you played in Japan or the west.)

[Renshi]

I probably could have been more concise. The lag has nothing to do with his computer or his connection speed.

You're talkin' about stuttering and sh*t rite?
'cause as I can say, Lag is related to client-server communication =)

[Jinko]

This has ZERO to do with server placement. FFXI and FMO had zero problems with server latency between the regions (it's almost a nil difference in response times whether you played in Japan or the west.)

FF11 can have horrendous latency issue, ask anyone camping an HNM how the Japanese normally get the claim first.

Very few of FF11's fights had you running around dodging charge attacks and pits of fire either, the only thing I can compare this to is like Fighting a boss in WoW with animation lock and 1000+ ms latency.

Fact remains electricy and sataletite communication can only travel so fast, the further from one location to the other the more latency, its not rocket science.

I did also mention in another post though that SE are optimsing the servers, enough with the whiteknight shit though its tiring.

[Jennestia]

FF11 can have horrendous latency issue, ask anyone camping an HNM how the Japanese normally always got the claim first.

I currently play from Japan -- I don't see this at all. Even back when the majority of the western world was still on dial-up there were equal claims, people were just slow and liked to use any excuse possible as to why they lost claim, even in the NA linkshell I was in 2 people had different stories:

Linkshellmate 1: "It spawned claim D:"
Linkshellmate 2: "Nope, it was up for at least 2 seconds."

Both from Texas. In all the time I've camped HNMs before they were popable, I've seen more people from the west claim than I did the Japanese in total, even before botting became "commonplace"

It's not the server placement, it's poorly optimized servers because it's painfully clear which game has the better response times between the two.

[PrettyPrincess]

I dont know why people keep bring up "REGIONAL SERVERS PL0X" It's never going to happen, it's an international MMO and SE themselves have already said they are not going to do it. The servers will be optimized, just chill.

[Raikki]

I dont know why people keep bring up "REGIONAL SERVERS PL0X" It's never going to happen, it's an international MMO and SE themselves have already said they are not going to do it. The servers will be optimized, just chill.

I think the problem is that we've been mostly left with nothing to do but blindly hope that it's being worked on. We get very little in the way of assurance from them that it'll get better, and it's not like they can hold up a picture to show us their progress (if any). All you have to do is have someone set you to follow and run somewhere and see how far they lag behind you to know that it's taking a pretty long time for movements to register on the server.