TWD Lag Checking

[Spider]

Everyone is probably aware the bots in TWD do a lag check whenever someone gets a kill. If a players lag is too high the bot specs the player. I submit to my fellow staffers and TW enthusiasts that the requirements are too strict and people who really should not be specced often are. I think we should lower the requirements or possibly even do away with the system completely. If this has been written about before I appologize.

Anyone else have any thoughts? I think the other lag counter measures we have in TWD are sufficient. Mods can always check potential lag cheaters. We have to as it is anyway. I don't think this form of lag checking has proven itself to be effective or as useful as we would have liked. It was a great idea but it seems to do little good. I hope we can consider this a trial run and examine its impact on the game as such. Since we just reset the TWD scores now would be as good a time as any to make a change. The sooner the better. Lets not keep it this way for a whole season.

[Audit]

I say keep the ping and ploss checks, do away with the ludicrous SPIKE MED, PLOSS SLOW, etc...shit that specs people with perfectly fine lag for no apparent reason.

[Barton]

Greetings,

staff should do something about the Slow Ploss and maybe add a this new factor to the lag cheaking "weapon lag".

[Jason]

okay, so i hate to be an ass here, but not only did i create a thread on this very same topic weeks and weeks ago, but warthog has submitted a proposal through the TWPS system that has already passed preliminary review and is being considered by members of upper staff.

wake up...

[Adman]

HOW DARE YOU TALK TO SPIIDER LIKE THAT JASON. I WILL MOW YOU DOWN BOY.

hahaha jokes, but spidey should read other forums too

[Kuukunen]

okay, so i hate to be an ass here, but not only did i create a thread on this very same topic weeks and weeks ago, but warthog has submitted a proposal through the TWPS system that has already passed preliminary review and is being considered by members of upper staff.

wake up...

Yea... But having this conversation might give a bit more confidence to upper staff how big the problem is.

[Jason]

so have this conversation in either my other thread or the TWPS thread then?

anyway, i suppose i shouldn't be hard on spider. it's the lack of communication amongst staff members that's at fault here.

[Morroco]

Greetings,

staff should do something about the Slow Ploss and maybe add a this new factor to the lag cheaking "weapon lag".

Weapon lag? wow now you are making it sounds like it's going to check a weapon cheat, or duds... What the do you mean

[Nethila]

Weapon lag? wow now you are making it sounds like it's going to check a weapon cheat, or duds... What the do you mean

there is such thing called s2c weapon ploss..

[Kuukunen]

Yea, that was my thought too, but afaik, there isn't weapon ping.

[duel pasta]

THANK GOD they are gonna change that.. I lag out EVERY time I kill someone and it's starting to annoy me. Can't play one match without getting specced with like no lag

[Spider]

Last sentence of the first paragraph of my post reads as follows "If this has been written about before I appologize."

I felt that this disclaimer would be sufficient. I don't plan on adopting a policy of reading every thread that was posted within the last 3 weeks before I say something. I hope this makes sense to everyone.

I'm glad to hear that Warthog already submitted something. I'll talk to him about signing it if its not too late.

Lastly I don't know if we can consider this redundancy a failure in staff communication. All staff need to know when a rule is changed. Whether or not Warthog has a problem with a policy that exists is not something I need to know. If he succeeded in changing a policy then I would need to be informed. Hopefully in that case I would be.

Life goes on, hopefully without the annoying lag checking.

[Merkaba]

Yeah, I agree now is the time to make the change with twd just being reset. Good point Spider.

Also they should change that lagout %# scream sound when someone lags out, scares the sh!t out of me while I'm dding and I lose concentration for a moment.

[Hero*]

Yeah its extremely stupid, someone with 240ms can stay in..but if i lag 'spike' from 60 to 140 im specced. yayyyy

[Izor]

i always, ALWAYS get specced for 'spike med' and its always between 50.03 and 52.50. i dont know how the bot it THAT accurate but when it says '50.03 limit: 50' i just laugh and shake my head. Oh and my record for slow C2S is 53.3, though I dont know how I can stay in long enough with that much lag to even be checked.