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Add a pingtracker to Spiral knights

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Sun, 02/24/2013 - 09:24
Aus-Lagger's picture
Aus-Lagger

We need a ping tracker for the game. Preferably one that can be also seen by other players.

Reasons for:
- would improve movement and attack predictions in PvE and PvP
- eliminates need for external ping testing
- decrease trash talking in LD ie people aren't likely to trash talk each other if they know they're beating actual laggers

Reasons against:
- people might kick other players in their clockworks parties if they see a terrible connection but any sane person over the ages of 10 years old can tell that latency is of little importance in PvE

Sun, 02/24/2013 - 09:30
#1
Klipik's picture
Klipik

The problem is the "sane people" part.

+1 to only being able to see your own. Numbers > bars

Sun, 02/24/2013 - 10:39
#2
Autofire's picture
Autofire
You are experiencing a PICNIC ERROR!

This is a great idea! However, it should be up to the player weather or not to show their ping. Maybe something in the personal window that shows your knight and equipment. Then you can show what you want to if you are afraid of people going on jerkily about it. However, in LD it should be shown no matter what, the same way how your equipment is always shown.

+1

Sun, 02/24/2013 - 11:07
#3
Aus-Lagger's picture
Aus-Lagger
yeah there should be a toggle

yeah there should be a toggle for PvE situations but it shouldnt really matter because the latency is not that big of deal for PvE. Monster AI is as predictable as a Michael Bay movie.

PvP on the otherhand is a wholly different monster. It will surely reduce the volatility amongst players as the focus shifts to the terrible server connection and there is no doubt that it will weed out many of the fake 'laggers' which there are SEVERAL of. People complain about lag and they dont even realise its their hardware at fault. It will surely keep players honest.

Sun, 02/24/2013 - 16:21
#4
Troupe-Forums's picture
Troupe-Forums

+1

Mon, 02/25/2013 - 10:09
#5
Aus-Lagger's picture
Aus-Lagger
bump needs more

bump

needs more support

seeing as asia pacific gets no love, you could at least do this for us OOO

Wed, 03/06/2013 - 11:18
#6
Drjom's picture
Drjom
+++++1000It should be easy

+++++1000

It should be easy for OOO to implement this in the same way as TF2.

Wed, 03/06/2013 - 20:17
#7
Fourtarkus's picture
Fourtarkus
+1

+1

Thu, 03/07/2013 - 16:53
#8
Severage's picture
Severage

+1

I don't honestly know much about ping trackers, such as how often they take ping samples, or if they average out the ping or give the most recent ping, but I've played games that the ping tracker was poorly built. It would (seemingly) display the averages of ping, so some players who had really unreliable internet would show a low ping, despite having spikes. Either that or it was very insensitive.

This kind of moves away from the "keeping players honest", because someone can honestly see a lag spike and experience turmoil when he calls it out then everyone sees the offender's ping is shown to be low.

Minor issue I know, but it could get elevated pretty quickly in competitive situations.

~Sev

Thu, 03/07/2013 - 20:04
#9
Addisond's picture
Addisond
+1

Would really like some accurate figures.

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 06:12
#10
Drjom's picture
Drjom
^

^

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 18:52
#11
Troupe-Forums's picture
Troupe-Forums

+1

But make it optional in pve, please.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 03:01
#12
Raptorsevens's picture
Raptorsevens
I'm with post #6.

I'm with post #6.

Thu, 04/04/2013 - 00:36
#13
Aus-Lagger's picture
Aus-Lagger
I wouldve traded the entire

I wouldve traded the entire UI update just for this implement.

Thu, 04/04/2013 - 04:54
#14
Troupe-Forums's picture
Troupe-Forums

100% agree

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 13:46
#15
Aus-Lagger's picture
Aus-Lagger
yeah

whatever

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 14:10
#16
Qwote's picture
Qwote
+1

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