[bf1942] Lag

[Jon Wolberg]

I've gotten the same reports on our ranked servers, as well as EA's, and 
another providers.  I can tell you that we have dedicated machines doing 
ranked servers with more than enough idle horsepower, so it's nothing on our 
side.

Jon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patrick Scott" <pscott at extremesims.com>
To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 6:43 PM
Subject: [bf1942] Lag


>I have played on a handful of ranked servers, and it's exactly as I 
>suspected. They are laggy beyond belief, and every player on the  servers 
>was complaining about the same thing. I suspect - and this is  no slam 
>against anyone on this listserv - that those GSPs that could  afford 
>whatever EA demanded are going to oversubscribe their servers.  It's what 
>happens with every game, and this one  is no exception. It  might be noted 
>that the average gamer thinks that the game itself  sucks - a note, EA, 
>that bad player experience reflects on EA, not on  the GSP.
>
> Someone noted that it's the clans that run the best servers, since  it's a 
> labor of love.