Synthing - Lack of delay for some

[Mikita]

I have a friend who I play with who happens to live in Japan. We did some latency testing to see if there were any noticeable latency issues between our locations (I live in Australia and have a great Internet connection).

1) Crafting test: we both spammed standard as fast as possible to see whether he could craft faster if we were only spamming enter. He could select his action so much faster than me that the animation wasn't even finished before he had selected the next standard.

2) Selecting a mining node: we both selected the node and ran as far away from it as possible before we were stopped to pull our tools out. I was able to run much farther from the node after selecting it than my Japanese friend was.

When I did the same tests with other NA players, their latency was very similar to what I experience, noticeably slower than the individual living in Japan. These very basic tests suggest that latency differences do exist based on proximity to the server. Over time, this significantly effects crafting and gathering speed and just about every other in game task. People playing outside Japan do have it tougher so here's to hoping the issue is lessened in 2.0. I'm no testing expert so take this for what it's worth.

Okay. I agree that server proximity can make a difference, but it is not the be all/end all thing that some people make it out to be.

I don't know what your computer specs are, but they too make a difference.

For example, every once in a while I will log in with a second account's character that I use for storing seldom used items. For this I use a much less powerful computer, and comparing the 2 running side by side there are severe differences in responsiveness and "lag" even though the computers are in the same room.

Again, I am not saying that network latency does not exist. But to say that someone who is speed crafting is able to do so because they are in Japan is only part of the story. They still need some way of activating those actions very quickly.