Lag...and the effects thereof

[Unseelie]

Ok....I recently moved into my college dorm, where the connection depends on how many of the people in my hall are online at any given time....so, some days I have a perfect connection, and some days its pathetic.

now...I log on today, to try and defend crete.
I'm fine, up untill I join the fight.
spent the entire fight lagging, and being accused of speed modding....
now, i would assume that speed mod makes a continual speed increase, and would include fluid motion....
neither of which I had.

I was told that lag would make me sit still....which, I have never observed....ever.

I even tried to leave the fight...but, as I did not want to log until they received my message....i seemed to wait too long....


My point is....some people have poor connections.
And unless you are actually familiar with what speed mod is, don't accuse a lagging player of it...makes it so much harder for someone to log and deal with their problem...which, 2 minutes in, I really wanted to do.
But under threats of sanctions....I really didn't want to F1....

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[Monk]

Perhaps we could get a sticky on how to spot speed mod versus lag

[crateria]

I know you had lag..
But you have to know.. (I was in the fight)
That your char was at 1k, 3k, 10k, GONE! I know it was the lag but from that it really looked like you where speed modding!

All accusations at you where false, Good luck;)

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[Unseelie]

thanks...it was a mess....and...it was a mess

but, i've seen speed modders...you can put a cd into them, if you are careful...and there are other, subtle tells...
like, how my engine contrails were wrong...looked like I was engine killing....

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[Equinox]

Its easy to spot if its lag or a speed mod.


Lagg: the person zooms of in 1 direction really fast then they sort of bounce back to there old location (if you get what i mean.) kinda hard to explane/

A speed moder is someone going really fast and moving about at the same time.

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[Victor]

Not always. I once experienced lag so drastic, that my enemy went in one direction until the only distant available was very far... or something like that... this was a duration of about 4 mins... then my character was bounced of the server.

Good thing it was only NPC's...:unsure:

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[Unseelie]

well here's the thing.
if its speed mod, it wont show you a distance after 14k.

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[onca]

Its easy to spot if its lag or a speed mod.
Lagg: the person zooms of in 1 direction really fast then they sort of bounce back to there old location (if you get what i mean.) kinda hard to explane/

A speed moder is someone going really fast and moving about at the same time.

That's right.... when lagging the person's ship just drifts in the direction they were last traveling, even if their ship is not actually pointing that way. And then they suddenly "gazelle" backwards.

[Avalahhax]

Equinox explained well, and lagged people won't have problems to understand.

Thats really what happens,the person goes really fast to a very far direction and suddenly get back to the position he just was.

It is really hard to fight with that, and u may get killed or become unhittable (u wont hit nobody too).