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group waypoint arrow recommended fix is missing the point
ArcAngel3
Member Posts: 2,931
Apparently at the summits recently people were told that a "soft log" corrects the group waypoint arrow problem--the one where the distances and directions are all wrong.
There are many times when a soft-log isn't a helpful option. When I last played I did a pvp event as a medic. Well getting to team mates to rez them was important, and you can't do a soft log in the middle of a pvp event. Well you can, but then you and your team just lose. FYI that's not very entertaining.
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Yet another pathetic suggestion from a group of developers who whine about everything they're asked to do, to include showing up for work, as "too harrrrd!"
CH, Jedi, Commando, Smuggler, BH, Scout, Doctor, Chef, BE...yeah, lots of SWG time invested.
Once a denizen of Ahazi
The devs don't know the difference between a work-around and an actual fix. Anyone really surprised? This will put a real fix on the backburner indefinitely.
To be honest, there is so much trash code there in the client and server from the YEARS of incompetence and 180 degree direction changing that I'm surprised that the thing even loads.
Never expect the Devs to choose an efficient way to do anything. For example, they are still using UDP packets (which aren't error correcting) instead of TCP, which is one of the reasons why commands fail all the time.
You have got to be kidding me.
UDP is stone knives and bearskins compared to TCP which was the standard BEFORE THEY STARTED DEVELOPING THIS GAME!
CH, Jedi, Commando, Smuggler, BH, Scout, Doctor, Chef, BE...yeah, lots of SWG time invested.
Once a denizen of Ahazi
You have got to be kidding me.
UDP is stone knives and bearskins compared to TCP which was the standard BEFORE THEY STARTED DEVELOPING THIS GAME!
/dons network engineer's hat
Yep, if you packet sniff the client chain, it's almost all UDP traffic. Over 90%. There are ways to give UDP some error correction but it almost always ends up being less efficient than just using TCP.
I wasn't aware that anyone still used UDP...
If that's true what could possibly be the motivation in it?
Tecmo Bowl.
I recall hearing a song and dance from one of the designers that UDP was chosen to keep lag times down especially during combat- that it was inherently "faster" than TCP in the context of their application.
SWG Team Mtg.
I recall hearing a song and dance from one of the designers that UDP was chosen to keep lag times down especially during combat- that it was inherently "faster" than TCP in the context of their application.
Oh, this is rich.
To keep the lag time down? Yet they INSIST on trying to run this thing real time/twitch when the entire reason for a turn based approach is to deal with latency issues (which is net traffic) as opposed to lag (which is a data processing issue)?
Cripes, the choke point isn't the damn net...it's their kludge-infested code!
CH, Jedi, Commando, Smuggler, BH, Scout, Doctor, Chef, BE...yeah, lots of SWG time invested.
Once a denizen of Ahazi
I could see UDP as being viable, and yes it will reduce lag because UDP packets are smaller than TCP, IF you plan the stream right...
Such as a hard one second cap on actions, like pre NGE...
The NGE allows 4-5 attacks a second, thus violating that.
This is fundamentally why the NGE combat system is fatally flawed.