There is a .000001% chance that anybody will give a crap about this, but i might as well post it. If it’s ignored, there’s more evidence for Russian partiality.
Not many of you will understand this, but let me paint a picture.
There are sectors that are about to go down in dreads, so you wait for the time that you can declare. You constantly refresh the map for a minute, only for the sector to be full of attacks while it still says you can’t declare. What? Why? How? How are all these Russian corporations able to send attacks before they’re available to me? I’ll tell you how, the central server is in a horrible location. I cannot declare an attack due to horrible latency on the main server, thus i cannot get a sector. It takes up to 6 seconds for me to load one of the leaderboards while other people tell me theirs is instant. 4 seconds difference is plenty of time for 8 attacks to be sent while i’m still waiting, frustrated that it’s not letting me declare. It won’t let me declare up to 30 seconds after the time i’m supposed to be able to, then all of a sudden it’s full.
Please move your master server to a central location, not somewhere in Siberia. It’s not a political prisoner, it’s a server.
Thanks!
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This happens for a lot of people, even in europe. so i guess everyone should just post their logs in this thread and devs please move this to bug report. My hunch is it’s servers.
How do you know it is not your system that is to slow to load SQ map as fast as it is for others?
because my system is good, 32 gigs of ram, quad core oced cpu… my ping on the rus servers is .23 of a second. that doesn’t make sense for it to be a 30 second wait.
I wouldn’t go into any guessing about the reasons but this problem sure exists.
Once my corp tried to announce attacks in 2 sectors just to give ourselves a little time do decide which one to choose and which one to recall. So one VP was trying with one sector and another VP with the second sector. Of course we could not announce attacks in either sector. And what a ‘surprise’, both of them were occupied by the same corps except one corp at each sector. We did the refreshing and all we could but there was no use.
I wouldn’t go into any guessing about the reasons but this problem sure exists.
Once my corp tried to announce attacks in 2 sectors just to give us a little time do decide which one to choose and which one to recall. So one VP was trying with one sector and another VP with the second sector. Of course we could not announce attacks in either sector. And what a ‘surprise’, both of them were occupied by the same corps except one corp at each sector. We did the refreshing and all we could but there was no use.
True, valid point. But this problem exists for a lot of people, apparently not russians. I have edited the main post.
Make sure all your teammates set region to USA. There is high probability ending on us server, that every ru player love.
This comment has nothing to do with the disussion.
As for the OP, although I get 1 second and not 6 seconds for loading the leaderboards etc, I have several times faced the problem of not being able to launch an attack and still seeing it fill up with 8 other (usually Russian) corps.
because my system is good, 32 gigs of ram, quad core oced cpu… my ping on the rus servers is .23 of a second. that doesn’t make sense for it to be a 30 second wait.
and then you have an old, slow, fragmented hdd drive
and then you have an old, slow, fragmented hdd drive
How do you know it is not your system that is to slow to load SQ map as fast as it is for others?
This has nothing to do with it.
This problem that ArcTic speaks of is a real problem. Players closest to the server will always have first dibs on launching an attack, and it isn’t by a matter of milliseconds, sometimes it is a matter of 1 or 2 seconds. Therefore, players farther away from the server will have little chance to launch an attack. JC and Phoenix discovered this, as they were trying to launch and the ability to launch came up for Phoenix before it came up for JC. This was due to the fact that Phoenix is farther East than JC, so it opened up first for her. You can ask them more about it.
This problem is just another way for Russian bias to happen.
Imo, there is one good way to solve this problem without changing the entire dreadnought system: Allow infinite corps to announce attacks on a sector. All the attackers will be put in a list in a random order, and the first 8 corps to ready up a wing will be picked to participate in battle for that sector. If more than 8 ready up wings, the first 8 in order on the list will be picked.
I never said it didn’t, I simply narrow down the root cause. Whenever you call tech support, what is the 1st thing they ask you to do? - Turn it off turn it on, no matter what the issue is - ever though why they do that?
The best way to find what is the root cause of a problem is to find what does not cause the problem.
and when will you guys start advertising? I’m telling you, you could really go far if you did. 