Quote Originally Posted by Alcyon_Densetsu View Post
For your convenience, here's a copy/paste material referencing the 5 most-liked questions.
(simply hit "reply with quote" under my post, copy the following, cancel, then paste it in your post)
Done.

I tried to keep my question(s) simple and direct, and hopefully clearly aimed toward the underlying problem instead of specific symptoms. To me, as you said, the basic problem is that WYSI NOT WYG. I understand why (there's too much reliance on the server for checks and calculations the client could perform), but at the end of the day, I don't care why. You simply can not count on what's displayed on your screen to reflect the actual state/order/outcome of events. Clear, decisive input isn't recognized until it's displayed, and even then, that same discrepancy between what you see and what is actually going to happen adds another layer of uncertainty.

It adds up to an incredibly grating, frustrating, unsatisfying experience. We're doing something every 2.5 seconds at the slowest, and every single one of those interactions could end up not behaving the way we expect at any time.