Quote Originally Posted by Shaone View Post
...I think there are probably bigger prizes available for anyone who can prove it's possible to exceed light speed. Of course there is latency, it's the fundamental part of communications.

But I think there is some truth to the fact that the problems are between users and SE, and not directly on the server. I had massive lag, big spikes, rubberbanding everywhere, Titan was guaranteed death... and my ISP has been doing their best but so far no fix. So in the mean time, I'm using a proxy and apart from a few random 90k in instances (which doesn't seem to be related to the proxy, in game chat still works whilst disconnecting), I haven't had any of the problems I had before.
I believe the bet is to prove that latency in this game is equivalent to other games.

You don't have to exceed light speed. You just have to compensate for human reaction time and work around conventional methods of packet sending. There's also methods that do checks later and roll back if necessary and in a non-intrusive way. In this game, the lag is in your face in a way that affects game-play mechanics.

No one in Starcraft, League of Legends, WoW, Terra, etc complain that there's systemic, built in lag, for everyone. No one in those games complain that responsiveness is a real problem. In SC - no one blames your lack of micro on lag. In Terra, when you get out of the AOE, you know you're out of the AOE. Imagine trying to do Alistar headbutt pulverize combo in this game.

I have no problem dodging anything. But I acknowledge that I can be out of the circle for .5 seconds and still get hit. I can dodge in this game because the requirements are lenient.

Think of it this way:

It's like asking to turn in a homework assignment when it hasn't been assigned.

Yes - you can deal with it. You can learn about the disposition of the teacher and just do everything in the textbook.

Yes - you can dodge it. You can make friends with the teacher and not turn it in. You can ask one of your overachieving friends and copy off of them.

But is it fair?

What if you just transferred to the class? What if you have to work part time to support your family, and just simply don't have the time to do everything in the textbook? What if, in the future, the teacher decides to put something in there that is totally unexpected?

SE currently thinks it's fair.

It's something I would like to be fixed. Or at least acknowledged.