Quote Originally Posted by M4Fade View Post
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I agree with you on the first part, but half a second is extremely fast. Figure: Your character is updated every ~300 ms. Then factor in the ping (I assume yours is either 90 or 120, so we'll call it 100 to make it nice) going to the server as well as back. You're looking at a 500 ms delay in actions. There's no real way around that, tbh. It's going to at least be delayed by [your ping] x 2 + [server processing], which tends to be about half a second. Playing right next to each other doesn't matter; it still has to go to the datacenter and back for both of you.

The problems with DF lag seem to be because of DF server congestion. I believe this is why SE is focusing so much on it. Your ping to the DF server doesn't matter if the DF server takes 400 ms to process your action due to severe congestion.

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