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"~misfit~" <misfit61nz@hooya.co.nz> had this idea for a movie:
>I've just given up trying to play tonight. The ping time displayed never
>goes over 4,999 but the actual pimg times are far higher than that. I died
>several times. Nothing moving on the screen for literally 10-20 seconds,
>keep clicking on different monsters and hitting a red pot every few seconds
>and sometimes I survive. Everything on the screen suddenly rushes around
>like ants on crack and I'm either alive or I'm not. Sometimes I get dropped
>to the 'create or join game' screen after the 20-odd seconds are up, go into
>a game and there's my body at my feet.
Yep. That's been how things have been for me on battle.net for 5+ years now.
tcells and EB have had much of the same problems for a similar amount of time,
although in different locations.
>There is a government department called The Commerce Commision who keep
>making threatening noises at Telecom about forcing them to open up the
>"local loop" to competition but they always back down and accept some
>counter-offer by Telecom. There was a big scandal just before Christmas that
>would have gone un-noticed if it wasn't for someone in the wrong job. An
>honest politician, of all things, blew the whistle on Telecom giving Ipod's
>as Christmas presents to all the politicians and beaurocrats who they had
>dealings with. Once it was made public several other politicians made a big
>issue out of returning theirs.
>But, yeah. On a good day my ping-times are in the 400-500 range.
Best I've ever seen is, strangely, 297, and it seems to manage that at least
once per day. Very odd number. Usually by about 6 PM NZ time I usually
find it goes to hell in a handbasket at least one day in three, and ping is in
the range you suggest, usually more like 600-800, but I think that display is
a big fat lie anyway.
I was planning on making a new hardcore character to hook up with Orion the
other week, but managed to lag out halfway through the den of evil. Last
time I started a red titled character, I also lagged out before I'd finished
the first quest. I took it as a sign. ;-)
>If I didn't have good reflexes I wouldn't be able to play a meleer anywhere near OKs. As
>it is, on a good day, one or two of my melee characters can handle OKs in
>the WSK. It's scary though. Sorcs are difficult too. I've been trying to
>tele to Meph and Baal but my ping-times prevent me from being succesful. Is
>it any wonder my MF characters are summoning necros?
These days, I only even bother trying it with a sorceress that has maxed
shield block, but even then, it's worrying how teleporting is often like
trying to walk with your feet superglued to the floor. Sometimes it's fun to
try and do it anyway even when things start getting really bad, really
sticking it to a system that's doing it best to make things impossible for
you.
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