Organised 8 vs 8 play? Welcome to the SCC.
Kasharic
Hull, England Join Date: 2013-03-27 Member: 184473Members, Forum Admins, NS2 Playtester, NS2 Map Tester, NS2 Community Developer
Hull, England Join Date: 2013-03-27 Member: 184473Members, Forum Admins, NS2 Playtester, NS2 Map Tester, NS2 Community Developer
Hey folks,
The SCC (Spark Crafter Collective) is starting up organised 8 vs 8 play on Monday nights starting at 20:00 CEST beginning this Monday (the 23rd). Some of you may already know us for our custom map nights on Sundays and our mod games on Fridays.
All players are welcome, but we do ask that you have a microphone and use it. Skill level is irrelevant but an ability to listen and respond to calls is needed, all games will be moderated by server admins to try to keep everything fun, fair, balanced and non-toxic to the best of the admins abilities.
You are free to join us on discord here - https://discord.gg/Mf4QTnY
We will likely use the above to communicate with all people present, but in-game comms will also be used for in-game calls etc.
The SCC (Spark Crafter Collective) is starting up organised 8 vs 8 play on Monday nights starting at 20:00 CEST beginning this Monday (the 23rd). Some of you may already know us for our custom map nights on Sundays and our mod games on Fridays.
All players are welcome, but we do ask that you have a microphone and use it. Skill level is irrelevant but an ability to listen and respond to calls is needed, all games will be moderated by server admins to try to keep everything fun, fair, balanced and non-toxic to the best of the admins abilities.
You are free to join us on discord here - https://discord.gg/Mf4QTnY
We will likely use the above to communicate with all people present, but in-game comms will also be used for in-game calls etc.
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Aw dang, my ping to EU is too high for me to put up with /cry
Hopefully it takes off and becomes popular enough for you guys to open a US server also.
You need the "advantage", don't you?
Actually it's the exact opposite.. I don't want to play with an advantage... and I feel like I'm cheating when my ping is over 200ms...
What's with the unnecessary hostility?
What? You claim that
a) High ping is an advantage
b) You are not a good player
Hence, it balances out doesn't it? Suits you perfectly.
Also, I highly doubt that US to EU servers give you 200+ ping. Have you even tried joining any or do you just cherry pick the highest ping instead of the average to make a point?
Hopefully it stays seeded until around 6pm pst.
Where is that? And you do know that the ping displayed on server browser is higher than in game ping right?
Yeah, so extreme west to extreme east (Russia) and you barely hit 200. My point proven, thanks.
Bad routing sucks, but somehow I don't think that's the case for Mofo.
Define "bad routing".
We were about 8-9 guys I think that were somewhat communicating that were on discord, on the server 2-3 individuals that were not on discord that used the mic in game and the rest were silent.
Hoping that we get enough to have 16+ guys who would join on discord we might have a server where most guys on the server are willing to communicate.
Apart from 1 guy that got either kicked or banned (don't remember which it was) cause he didn't behave appropriately it was a pretty nice.
As I was the one with very bad routing, I will explain. I had at least a ping of 145 to anywhere east of the rockies because it had so many hops. My internet would travel through 45-60 hops before getting to the server. It was often better getting to europe. At my current location I now have <20 hops to just about any server in the US. I just tested. I just tested a tracert to Wooza's server and it was 30 hops from here.
I'm at 20 ~ 25 hop max to any destination in the world. Even to some "restrictive countries".
For you 45-60hops, is more likely a problem than "bad routing". I mean it's usually automatic whatever the protocol. Even using satellite link may be better. I doubt that nobody saw that as it is always tied to costs for an ISP.
Maybe some cable is cut somewhere and the packets are taking another route which is longer (in term of hops). The thing is if it last long... Maybe somebody didn't see the alarm. Or forgot to set up the alarm...
Taking a bad "route" might be cheaper for a company because other owners of certain cables want more money (including the fact that other cables broke down)
60 hops tells me it's not about money but competence.
No ISP (or transcontinental operator) wants more hops as it means more router/DWDM hardware and DataCenters/sea pod.... which cost a lot more money than bandwidth. Like huge piles of money : infrastructure, insurance, cooling systems, local regulations, Energy, deployment, sea deployment and international laws and so on... Welcome mr headache.
The longer the reach (the cable) the better for any player in the business.
An old study but i bet it still accurate for today.