Originally by: Sawyer LaFleur

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I understand that there will be technological glitches in ambitious expansion of unparalleled numbers of players interacting at once with complex algorithms being processed for each

... but, the way the system fails is absolutely appalling to me.

Its that people can be shot at while their clients are unresponsiveà

ItÆs that sovereignty structures can still be damaged while large numbers of people in a system have the systems unresponsive.

Any approach to fixing lag really needs to implement some sort of feedback loop with clients openà to know how the lag is effecting clients open (there must be a way to freeze play temporarily in a node to query clients in a node minimally functioning mode and give a warning timer of when play will resumeàor options for mass retreatsàduring periods where there are logged on but un-responsive clientsà )

Basically if one side canÆt play no-one should play in that system.

It could mean that game mechanics need to be altered in some rough way to prevent a planed blob and crash being a military strategy, and IÆd leave that to other more experienced players to work out detailsà. Certainly there still need to be dynamics for less skilled, shorter term players from overcoming play differentials with numbers too though, especially on a defensive level.

à but as it is the priorities arenÆt set rightà to just work on lag incrementally and allow the status quo to continue doesnÆt bump the issue to the top burner.

In the meantime, many players like myself will really be stand-offish about getting involved in a game where months of in game effort will be lost based upon technological glitches.

YouÆll limit the game base to subscribers who are ok with thatà and those people donÆt care and will be the ones sticking around giving you feedback,

and youÆll lose hundreds of thousands more potential long term subscribers like myself , perhaps a broader audience of people less committed to the rules of mmorgs and more accustomed to rules of fair play in sport, adults who donÆt want their recreational activities wrapped up in that sort of bs. ( I donÆt know a single person in RL who plays mmorgs, and as a real estate broker, father , soccer coach etc, I defitely interact with hundres of peole .. some probably do but I donÆt know it though)

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