Can anyone suggest anything to help me with this? I'm terribly getting owned inside the Clockwork because I get delays on the enemy attacks. And sometimes, I lag too much. I'm on the Philippines, which I guess is part of south east asia.
Any help would be appreciated to at least bring the signal bars up to 2 or 3 bars. :/
But if OOO puts up servers here in SEA, that would mean I won't be able to play with my friends anymore who are from the US.. Or maybe even worse, I'd have to create a new character again.. :/ I hope that's not the case.
No, if OOO added servers it would reduce lag for EVERYONE and we'd all still get to play together.
You don't know how much that made my day / night. :) But the question now is "when?"...
I'm guessing not for a long while. The game has been publicly released for four months now.
Eight months, my friend. The game was released in March. As for Steam, that's another story, but that isn't the official release.
Servers will pop up when they have the funds for it. Whilst I myself am craving for EU server and the like, I'm not anticipating the arrival of one for a good while. It all depends on how successful they are with the game; how many players it accumulates and how much money they receive. Hosting servers doesn't sound cheap, and I'm fairly sure that's how it works in reality as well.
The end note is; have patience. We cannot tell until it happens, or when we get word from the developers.
"Servers will pop up when they have the funds for it"
that's probably the reason why OOO lets us pay real $$$ for CE. They need the money to 1) Fund their company so they don't go bankrupt and to buy new stuffz. 2) Build new servers so there will be less lag. 3) Pay taxes so they don't go bankrupt and all their games (including Sk) disappear. 4) Get rich so they can... get rich. 5) Let us get CE for real $$$.
Win-win situation for everyone here.
so, yeah.
back to the origional topic.
yeah, don't think there's anyway for your connection to get better unless new servers are built or u have some kind of high tech long range satelite dish thing that lets u get connection to servers far away better. But, I've been experiencing rising lag in the past few days, and I live really near, give or take a few couple miles (maybe more) of a server place in CA. I don't really know what to make of it.
If I relay my internet connection to a friend living in the US, would that be any better?
Make sure you are facing network lag (data arrive thru internet late) instead of client lag (your computer is struggling to render stuff onscreen).
I'm in Hong Kong and I have a near constant single red dot too... once in a while I'd get two yellow bars. But 99% of the time I don't have any problem playing, and only get some problematic lag in FSC these days.
Make sure you are facing network lag (data arrive thru internet late) instead of client lag (your computer is struggling to render stuff onscreen).
I'm in Hong Kong and I have a near constant single red dot too... once in a while I'd get two yellow bars. But 99% of the time I don't have any problem playing, and only get some problematic lag in FSC these days.
I guess part of the lag was also client side but that point aside, the monsters attacks still seem to be delayed or advanced, whicehver applies. For example, a monster might fire at me and I clearly was able to dodge the shot but I still get hit meaning it could be that on the server, I was already shot at and it only got reflected on the client at a later time.
The Spiral Knights dev team is basically 8 people, but that isn't the main point i'm going to be making.
Main point I will be making is, is that SK is run on the Amazon Cloud. Depending on where Amazon has it's servers, you could (in theory) have instances for each region.
So.
Does the Amazon Cloud stretch outside of the US of A?
If no, well...
If yes, then OOO can get off their backsides and try to negotiate something.
@Avixi Amazon's cloud is global. When you sign up with them you can choose which locations to host your services in.
The trouble, however, comes in which servers to send which players to. Ideally you'd like to send players to the closest server, but if you jump into a random party or join some friends who happen to be on the other side of the world, which server should they be on? Which server should Lockdown matches be hosted on? There's certainly not enough LD matches going on at any one time to geographically partition them.
Spreading the servers around could result in a very uneven experience for all players, rather than a decent experience for most players (north america), a sub par/passable experience for some (europe), and a bad experience for a small few (everywhere else).
I personally think that improving the netcode for SK would go a long way towards reducing the effects of lag. That said, small hitboxes and fast pace movement will always make things tricky. I personally don't see why SK shouldn't be reasonably smooth with 150ms lag, and at least decently playable with 250, and so long as Amazon's servers aren't unusually slow that should cover most of the civilized world.
I just started playing a few days ago but i keep having the same problem with lag ive played games where i used satellite internet for it and it lags just like that even tho im using Fast internet from my college campus this is the only game ive had lag like this on here and im wondering why got any ideas?*i have also tried multiple places on my campus none seems to be related to the speed*
Wait a minute.....theres such thing as more than one bar?
AAAANNNND you just necro'd a 1 year old thread. Congratulations, would you like some cake?
GOOOOOSHHHHH
College campus is obviously sure of having people sharing the connection and they might be using it to download stuffs.
Pointless necro is pointless.
/e dualcasts searing fireballs at necromancer's face.
#1 Hey, have you tried to face your comp to the west and getting your Comp. to the west?
Cause, I'm also from Philippines and I've tried doing this plan. |3
'ONE THING', it has worked but some times i kept having trouble where is the west (=D)
Then I remembered west was always the left of where you are playing ,i think.
I knew the answer was WEST because the form of this game is at America and we Filipino players are having trouble at this problem, i tried researching
(well if you may think that i am) and tried this.
NOTE:
Please use the map of the world and face north(china/Japan/ Luzon/ Visayas(FACE VISAYAS when you are from Mindanao), then find west.
Cautions(not ordinary cautions):
This plan may or may not work sometimes, please do the necessary thing to do, PANIC.
#2
Have you ever tried REFRESHING the Computer before you play?
Cause, I'm also from Philippines and I've tried doing this plan. |3
'ONE THING', it has worked but I have a hard time waiting for the refresh icon so i used F5 instead.(=D)
NOTE:
Please be patient for anything, before you play be sure you plugged the internet/WiFi and refresh/F5.
Sencerely,
DIVINE-RAILGUN, a friendly knight
Sadly, nothing can be done unless OOO puts up servers in the SEA region.
I also play with only one red bar. It isn't that bad once you get the hang of it. Yes, it does take practice, but it's all worth it. I play fine even with the latency or lag :)