Quote Originally Posted by Sparky View Post
Well there is the problem I would imagine. Not really the game's fault that you're stuck with a patchy internet service.
When the game has their hand out for money from people from the southern hemishpere, and have no servers anywhere near them, then yes, it's the game's fault. Latency is dictated by distance from server. (lag/rubber-banding, etc is typically due to packet loss and distance has little affect)

No-one is expecting a full rewrite so checks are made client-side - but there has to be other options they should consider, like adjusting the cast times presented to the client taking pings into consideration. Or just add the extra .5 second people need in those situations and be done with it.