Thread: .3 Second Positional Update Delay (Requesting Dev Response)

Totally support this.
My location has high latency.
This issue does not affect only aoe but all attacks that involved position.
My characters got out of attacks' range every time but still got hit by the attacks.
In my screen, it showed my character already got out of the red area or attacks' area but still got hit, very frustrating.
Please fix this SE.

Originally Posted by Garnatian

I don't get it, there's nothing they can do. Why does this thread exist?

Actually there is. They can increase the time it takes for these abilities to fire off. Which will make everyone with good latency yell "ZOMG EASY MODE, I QUIT".

I do have to say that my latency varies with dungeon instances. Sometimes nothing, sometimes manageable, and sometimes impossible amounts of latency. So it also seems like they could possibly improve their DF system to have less latency.

If everyone was a good guy though, they could simply let the client return data if you were outside or not. But hackers would set that to always outside and just stand still.

They rarely respond to anything remotely important so gl with getting anything out of SE with this. I hope you do because this deserves to be adressed, I just have little hope.

One solution they could try is to time positional aoes the boss throws so they go off like 0.01 seconds after the last positional update. Kind of like how they modify all dot ticks into a single 3 second server countdown.

If player position updates are out of synch, making that solution unfeasible, then any player who was in the aoe at the start of the cast should be given an extra position update request right as it goes off.

If that doesn't work, make all AOE indicators .29 seconds worth of strafing running bigger. Then at least it'll feel hard instead of unfair.

they're probably so pinned down dealing with the ridiculous amount of RMT and hackers that they don't have resources to work on anything else.

It is a weird issue though and largely unique to just this game, Do think it really is that .3s polling that is the real issue though
did a test of about 100 "wait for weight of the earth to spawn under me and run out" with some friends and the amount that hit us was around 20-30% for all 7 people which syncs up pretty well with that .3s polling

/bump
re-sub cancelled, out 'til it gets fixed.

The more I think about it the more it feels like they can't do anything about the delay. If they could fix it, then surely they would have said something by now. However, if they can't fix it then it would be stupid to go out and admit it, from a business perspective, because it would cost them thousands of subs. If they stay quiet then a lot of people will probably keep subbing in hope that it will get solved sooner or later. By the time people figure out that nothing will change, they have already invested so much time into their accounts that some of them will probably keep playing anyway because they don't want to throw it all away. So my guess is that SE is just waiting it out and praying that enough people will stay with the game. I can't think of any other logical reason to ignore these threads for two months.

Personally, I don't want to pay a company that treats their customers like this. If nothing has been announced befor my game time expires in two weeks, then I will be cancelling my subscription.

Agreed, posted for thread popularity.