Battleping etc is NOT allowed

[Eirika]

Hello everyone, I thought I should warn everyone...



I was a lot more descriptive (I gave some links to different programs like Battleping, WTFast, etc) in my question.

This is really awful news because I get 300+ ping and I'm starting to have trouble avoiding those red circles. My bf just transferred to a Japanese server to see if it's better there.

[Hanabira]

Its one of those things that are not allowed.. but they'd never be able to enforce. and instead of transferring to a jp server, it would have made more sense to create a character on a jp server.

[Mujen]

SE is so uptight with everything... everything is server-side which is probably why things are so slow in-game. Maybe it's paranoia but idk what.

[jdnyc]

everything is server-side

Actually a lot of stuff is client side and has presented its own issues.

[Tupsi]

SE is so uptight with everything... everything is server-side which is probably why things are so slow in-game. Maybe it's paranoia but idk what.

I'm not sure if you're misinformed or just being sarcastic..lol

[Mujen]

I'm not sure if you're misinformed or just being sarcastic..lol

I must be misinformed, im not a technical person but FFXIV is the only game i've had technical issues with and from what i've read seems to be servers. And yes, SE is uptight about things that many other games don't go crazy about and still work, even F2P games. All the d/cing, latency issues, errors.. are u saying thats all client?

[Sinth]

I must be misinformed, im not a technical person but FFXIV is the only game i've had technical issues with and from what i've read seems to be servers. And yes, SE is uptight about things that many other games don't go crazy about and still work, even F2P games. All the d/cing, latency issues, errors.. are u saying thats all client?

Latency/Connection is not a client operation, but that does not instantly mean the rest of what is going on is server-side. That is like saying, oh you have an apple tree on your farm? Then every tree on your farm must be an apple tree.

A ton of stuff is handled client side, such as combat, skills, positioning, movement, environment, animations, sounds, etc.

[Delsus]

I must be misinformed, im not a technical person but FFXIV is the only game i've had technical issues with and from what i've read seems to be servers. And yes, SE is uptight about things that many other games don't go crazy about and still work, even F2P games. All the d/cing, latency issues, errors.. are u saying thats all client?

Here's the thing SE could have 20 million Gbps throughput and you have the same (yes yes yes I know that doesn't exist before everyone points out the obvious) but if you have some slower links in the path you will have latency issues. The fact we don't know what SE's infrastructure is like we will not know if the latency issues are SE, SE's ISP or a link on the path to SE.

People have said tunneling system do help, therefore the problem can't be on SE's end or on the player's end.

All a tunnel does is send your data to another infrastructure where the path can be more controlled across their links rather than the internet allowing the data to go through the links with the highest bandwidth, however over the internet who knows what metric one router is using.

[jdnyc]

That's a blanket response to a specific question. The reason is a legal one. That can't allow a special accommodation for you for a specific program.

[Alkimi]

That's a blanket response to a specific question. The reason is a legal one. That can't allow a special accommodation for you for a specific program.

Pretty much this. It's no doubt similar to XI and their official stance that using windower was against the ToS, despite the vast majority of PC players using it to make the game somewhat playable.