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My overall daily experience with Demigod

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My overall daily experience with Demigod

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Well it starts of good. I really look forward to play the game so i start it up to join a multiplayer game. In this case i join a game with a host that lives in New jersey and i live in NYC. The ping starts off fine

Then some more people show up and my ping shoots up.

and whats the result??? you guessed it..IM KICKED

nowwwww whats going on here?..duh i know its with my connection but come on i mean this guy his hosting from NJ..i have no problem downloading torrents etc and have a decent internet connection..no programs running that would drag my network..ports are forwarded and im using /serveronlyproxy .. there has to be an explanation for this..im using verizon online dsl..even a 56k modem would not be this terrible..

this is my connection speed etc. No reason it should be this outrageous with the ping now...

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Reply #26 from Demigod Forums Top

Quoting TheCoroner, reply 8

Quoting transitive, reply 6that really is a horrendously bad upload speed. its hard to get a reasonable game going with less than about 0.5 Mbps upload. 

so your saying the only people that can play this game are people with GREAT internet connections? Why should this game be one of the only online multiplayer games that require this. Honestly more than half of the people that play online dont really have that great connections including competative gamers. This shuns away more than half of the community. Therefore if the optimization does not get fixed soon enough this game will be on life support.
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Lol you are the guy that wasted my time....  We were in a game all people complaining that your ping spiked in lobby, we didnt kick you because YOU SAID IT WAS A LOBBY BUG and everything will be fine ingame. I never will believe random people again or support them to stay in lobby.

Your upload speed is just too slow for this game in 3v3, I dont even think 2v2 will work.

And yes this is a problem, because currently only a minority of all gamers can play a 5v5 in this game and that is a joke.

Reply #27 from Demigod Forums Top

Quoting Istari, reply 18

so your saying the only people that can play this game are people with GREAT internet connections?
Broadband is generally considered to be 256 kilobit or better.

256kilobit in 2009 is not "great".  It's the minimum.

The person making this post has 130 kilobits but wants to connect to 6 people online.

Someone could argue that the game shouldn't "need" 160 kilobits to have a 6 person game but they could also argue that the game shouldn't "need" a 3D accelerator either or "need" 512MB of memory to play.  

Like Makerz correctly points out, RTS aren't like World of Warcraft or a first person shooter where you connect to some server and your computer is basically a dumb terminal. RTS's are more interactive because they games are synced.

RTSs aren't transient where people come and go during a particular game. They are playing together as a specific group in a syncornized game. 
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I have people with 210kbit upload and they cant play a 3v3 without spiking.

You have to know that most connections start ping spiking at 80% of their total capacity, depends on provider and hardware you have.

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Reply #28 from Demigod Forums Top

get real. it was a random bad moment in my connection. you should have kicked me, thats true, but i wasn't bullshitting you. its very common for ping to spike for a few seconds while a proxy connection is formed. its when it doesnt come back down that its bad. my connection was acting up that night, no big deal. 

 

i'm on broadband cable, its an average broadband connect. yeah, just average, but its good enough. its also about 13 times faster than the OP of this thread so i'm not running into the type of issues he is.

 

i played 6 games tonight each of them was 4v4 or 5v5 and had no problems. 

 

2.10 Mbps seems to be just fine as long as everyone in the game has a similar or better connection.