I think he meant "Not-plagued-by-what-most-certainly-isn't-lag-at-all-no-sir-this-thing-has-a-virtual-server-based-on-some-farts-made-by-a-site-that-doesn't-even-ship-albums-or-heck-anything-to-places-like-Pakistan-so-it's-not-lag-at-all-no-sir"

me bitter much? not at all.

Shoaboxe yoi maike moi laf.

http://img01.lachschon.de/images/113364_my_hat_is_2_sharks.jpg

Now back to the topic, please. This is a legitimate question. Right now, there is no possible way to significantly reduce the lag client-side. That is, if other online games work fine. If there is (unlikely), please post them. I guess thousands of non-American players would appreciate them.

This is probably the greatest issue 3 rings is struggling with. The lag issue is apparent throughout the whole game and not just blast network. I really hope they got this on top priorety. I don't just mean server lag, but also fps lag. (those twin runs are unnescesarely laggy)

*Yeah, I play it every day. Works just fine.

Stop making whinelag threads. There are enough of them. The answer is 'go fix your router'.

And before I am told (again) that my opinion isn't valid because I don't know anything about how internet works, remember that I had the same problem and I fixed it.
Y'hear that? YOUR END. Just imagine for a moment that that could possibly be where the problem lies.

And before I am told 'no its not my prblm my computer is the best and i play games like tf2 and superbreakout just fine on my network'...
Well, my response to that is to shake my head in disgust and walk away.*

That might have worked for YOU, but for 95% of people, there's absolutely nothing they can do to fix the horrific lag issues caused by the garbage servers that the game uses.

"Fix your router" is a pathetic excuse. While there might be a couple of people here and there who have badly set up system, the cause of lag for everyone else is the servers that Spiral Knights uses. Simple as that.

Hopefully, as the game expands, and OOO makes more money, they'll eventually upgrade to something that's not crap.
You know, Steam offers servers. And they're kickass.

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2008/02/01/SEA_...

1. see the difference between the UK and the rest of Europe? (see option 2 if u're not satisfied and and/or ignorant and/or your name's casey)
2. and what bunnyhair wrote is true aswell.

online games especially are affected by the distance between client and server so anyone claiming he doesn't have a high ping/latency/lag from europe->usa using a normal isp (i dunno about some special army/university satellite lines or whatever) is either lying or he/she/it doesn't know better.

stop trying to deny physics, it gets tiresome.

THE PING IS TOO DAMN HIGH.

ITT Casey needs to have his brain removed and hooked up to a computer in Bangladesh, from where it will remote-control a robotic body with realistic pain sensors (calibrated to "Morphine withdrawal") and midget proportions and an armor made of raw beef steaks. This robot body will be placed on an island that contains a heavily populated lunatic asylum, a large and thick jungle full of the most rabid and ferocious bears, komodo dragons, and chimpanzees and an active volcano.

It will have at least one or two base stations for building backups and repair and for managing the connection between his body and the computer in Bangladesh. The people managing the stations will be selected from employees of Pakistan's power supply and ISP companies and inhabitants of various trailer parks in the United States and the stations will have motivational posters made by the propaganda department of North Korea.

His robot body will be armed with a nerf gun and the most ridiculous adult toy rubber and plastic can ever combine themselves into, and he will not be allowed to return to his normal body until he kills 2144 people/animals and collects 123445 cherries.

@casey
Do you really think just replacing your router will improve your ping from 300+ to below 100? Most people can't do this because they live pretty far away, like Pakistan, Taiwan, The Maladives, etc... not just Europe (Yeah, Spiral Knights is pretty damn popular).

And if so, do you think all of us have the money to do that kind of crap?

So far, my opinion is this: the Blast Network is not very fun, with or without lag. It just ruins my day even more when I get in and lag to death, so I just avoid it most of the time.

Save it, people like Casey don't think of anyone but themselves.

caseyweederm is an idiot. He/she obviously has no clue what lag is. I was born and raised in Cali so during those days gaming was great. I'm in Asia now and the lag is terrible to the US. Why do you think WOW has set up Oceanic/Asian servers? Why not just base all those servers in the good old USA? Maybe Blizzard should have told this side of the world that there is no lag and we just need to buy a new router. I'm not saying OOO has the same resources as Blizzard but setting up just one server would help a lot. Lag is a real issue for those far from the servers. I am ready to throw down some money if OOO ever sets up a server on this side of the world. Honestly, as a free game I can't complain that much. I know lag is an issue and I try to play as well as I can with it. That means I don't really play the PVP due to my character warping around. The regular game can be playable at times but I really have to compensate and adjust my gameplay if I don't want to die a hundred times. If OOO wants my money though, they're going to have to do something that makes me want to give it to them. Until then, I'll just play the game for free.

On a side note. For those of you who are old enough to remember Quake, most people played on modems. Pings were usually over 300. That's what people get now being across the sea from the US. ID released Quakeworld with the latency prediction and it made playing Quake on a modem very enjoyable. That was over ten years ago. OOO must be able to do something similar over ten years later.

Also rather than a bunch of bars, why not show the actual ping on the top right of the screen? I have never passed 1 red bar. In fact, I didn't even know that box showed your lag (because it never changed at all until) I read it in some post. I joined during the Steam launch and the game was very playable (maybe because I was tier 1) and I could actually use my dual monitor setup to read info and play at the same time. After a week or so, the lag was horrible and I actually had to turn off my 2nd monitor and reduced the graphics to try to reduce lag after reading posts suggesting that. Trust me, my computer is very capable of running the game at higher detail and resolutions but now I run it lower in hopes that I am helping to reduce lag. Weird that everything is the same but after a week or two, the lag became horrible. I even play at times when most people would be at work in the US. Nothing has really helped. As you can see, I've been on the net for quite some time and I do know a thing or two about computers. Please don't tell me that there's no lag. I understand that I am far from the servers and therefore will have lag, but I'm just asking for OOO to set up a server over on this side of the world and even Europe to help those folks out as well. Someone should start a thread asking "Who would pay real money if OOO set up a server or two near their geographic location. I know I would. I've actually never bought a game off of Steam or paid money in a free to play game, but I recently threw $10 onto my Steam account as a test to see if my international paypal account worked on Steam. That was in anticipation of adding more money to buy one of the energy bundles from Spiral Knights. Yes, that's how much I actually like the game.

Sorry for the long post, it's been a long day over in Asia and I'm starting a 3 day weekend. Good luck everyone!

If you want to add me, my IGN is Gluey. I apologize if I lag and die on you.