IS THIS A JOKE?! NOTHING was done to fix the netcode.

[Yukiko]

I have read the previous 10 pages, but it seems that nobody here played the game with 2 computers on the same room

I play With my Wife, she has her computer next to mine
We live in Montreal, we have 15-25 ms ping to servers. Its REALLY low
We have a cable internet connexion (videotron), wich uses Fiber optics to the building.
I have a good router and at home everything is cabled in ethernet (NOT Wireless).

Despite this a simple test can show the amount of server lag :

- connect the 2 accounts
- bring the 2 ccomputer screens next to each other
- move a character
- estimate the time it takes for the caracter to move on the other screen

results : between 1 and 2 seconds

I may take a video of this
Another exemple : when we ride on chocobo, on my screen I can see her chocobo right next to mine, but on her screen i am WELL behind her


Of course, it's not a problem... until you do PVP, or you are serious about dungeons.... which we are not for now.

We play MMO for years and it's the first time I see this issue.
Not remeber having this problem in Everquest, WoW, Rift, Darkfall, Fallen Earth, SWTOR, or Neverwinter


But it's still a great game, and i am happy to play it !

First guess:
One Server handling one player after another, if both Computer have same distance to server and starting to run at same time, the server still have to handle one after the other! So the one who had the luck to be "noticed" faster starts faster too on the screen... The same Computer is not always faster, so that means the difference you actually see can double in worst case!

[Xenobius]

First guess:
One Server handling one player after another, if both Computer have same distance to server and starting to run at same time, the server still have to handle one after the other! So the one who had the luck to be "noticed" faster starts faster too on the screen... The same Computer is not always faster, so that means the difference you actually see can double in worst case!

This one's rather easy, actually.
One of the first algorithms game developers came up with to tackle lag and desync was based on calculated "prediction".
The fact that you can see different player positions on different screens simply means that SE never bothered to implement it, and made a mess of the whole sync.

On a side note, this also means that Chocobo Racing (if ever implemented) will be downright horrid - every other racer will have crossed the finish line at a different time, resulting in endless "I won, but server announced another as a winner" threads.