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Have been playing with a friends copy (offline) for a few weeks and decided to buy the game. I love DG however it seems that I won't be able to play this online as every game I join I get kicked due to high pings (500 or so).
Is there anyone else from SA who bought the game (perhaps a group of people) who play on a semi-regular basis?
I have seen several others posting the same question. Search for south africa and you can pm or email them and set up some games. Good luck.
Thanks I did a search for South Africa first with no luck already but will try again.
I did some searching for you as well and can't come up with anyone who's posted recently or that has an active MP account. I'm willing to at least try a game with you and see if we end up in lag city or not. Hope some South African's reply here for you though!
I get less than 350 with guys from Holland... and im in hawaii... so i dont see why you cant find any games with less than 350. And i have seen some Brazillian players me thinks.
dunno how much this helps , but heres what google says:
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=site%3Apantheon.demigodthegame.com+intext%3A"(ZA)"
Hey, thanks man, when are you available for a game? The time difference may be a problem (as we are +2 GMT) though but just let me know 
Oh, tried out a few games last night and one of them was ok, the other two were pretty slow (thanks guys for those of you who stuck around and beared the lagginess). I find that the Pantheon games are very much a hit and miss with regards to this.
Yes but we have notoriously bad broadband. Even though I have a 4mbit ADSL connection online play to overseas servers is generally always pretty crap. My downlink speed is 4096 kbps and the uplink speed is 512 kbps which is supposedly more than good enough. The traffic just needs to travel so far (and through such a small 'internets pipe') that the latency is bad. Could also be the ISP I'm with however changing that is not really an option...
Iv'e nfi how the connections would route to Australia, but pm me sometime that your on and keen for a game and we'll try it out.
If it works, then you will have a greater player base as there are many aussies playing DG, and we are all used to having to deal with high pings.
Under 350 and i'd say your golden mate.
Thx, I have found a few decent games but it's pretty much a 'connect and hope for the best' at this point 
Check out the following forum for SA players:
http://forums.tidemedia.co.za/nag/showthread.php?t=11615
http://mygaming.co.za/forum/showthread.php?t=1312&highlight=demigod
I ran the ping tests & just about the only people we'll be able to connect to (without making it a turn based game that is 
) are in the EU.
Pings become ridiculous when I try the states & Oz...
I think the biggest problem we have now is that most of the other South African players have given up on ever playing online 
Gameranger is an option, and also thrying to build a comunity of contacts in SA is the only way to enjoy the game, latency has been coming down with Seacom and if on unshapped ADSL I do get below 250ms pings to EU so most allow me to play then.
I'm looking into getting a shaped account just for Demigod as I have heard it reduces latency by about 100ms which is huge. Thanks for the forum link Nictron, I'll check it out
Ran into 2 fellow South Africans last night (forget their names now) we should definately try and organise some local players.
There is a tournament for SA players on Oct 2-4. Might want to look at that page to find more SA players:
http://forums.demigodthegame.com/363356
http://forums.tidemedia.co.za/nag/showthread.php?t=11615
KRayner give me a date & time & I'll do my best to get past the wife & kids... 
Not my tournament, just happened to see it posted and thought you guys would apreciate me posting it here too.
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1533142/pigeon-protocol-offers-faster-delivery
interesting article on south africa internet.
Considering Demigod already lags easily.
1 dont try more than 2v2
2 consider hiring pigeon to deliver the packets faster, may reduce lag
Had a good laugh at this one...
Actually I think snail-mail is faster...
HAHA, yeah that would be pretty funny if it weren't half true I'm going to try FNB's connect service. Basically it's pay as you go ADSL (just the account, not the line etc.) and you start off by bying R69 for 1Gb of unshaped bandwidth which apparently allows for a average 100ms advantage over a shaped IS/SAIX account.The best thing about it though is that the bandwidth lasts up to 12 months and seeing as I'd only use it for Demigod (which only uses 7mb for a 40 minute game, yeah we tested it :-p) 1Gb will last a looong time
Will try it out and let you know if it's worth it.
PTP (Pigeon Transfer Protocol) is actually laggier, it just has a stupidly high burst transfer rate.
it has been proven that using both home-ing PTP and high octane bird feed considerabally reduces lag on PTP
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