Quote Originally Posted by cloverkitty View Post
I am starting to think that there needs to be a lesson built into the SE website so people can realize what affect this ping has and how FOS you are when it comes to saying you are severely handicapped.

3. The high latency numbers you see are mostly your crap ISP not the connection to Japan.
If you are pinging 300 MS then you have a local problem that a new server south of Los Angeles (where the FFXI server is) won't fix.
First off, I'm in the UK, in Europe. That means I'm not pinging 300MS with a problem on my end, it's actual data travel time across the Atlantic, through America, and to Japan, or whichever way it goes.

Secondly, that means that cracks/mobs/weaponskills happen THREE FULL SECONDS before it even registers on my computer screen. When Ifrit summons the infernal nails you can watch the time count on the instance timer three seconds after he does the hand movement/chatlog updates before they appear visually, and you can target them about a second after that. If its not a handicap that a plume/crack has been under my feet for three seconds already before I even see it then I don't know what is. If you were driving a car in real life and couldn't see what would happen three seconds in front of you, you'd crash.

Thirdly my 'crappy' connection, suits me fine for every other video game I play, streaming videos, downloads etc. It's a real surprise that everyone in the EU has the same ISP problems relating to this game. Thanks for staying classy though.