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Let us not forget RAM in this conversation either. I was playing at home on a DSL connection but with 512MB of RAM and on a Saturday Night it would take me 5-10 minutes and one crash to load into MO usually.

I recently got the laptop I play on at home upgraded to 1.5GB of RAM (convinced the work people I needed it) and now I load into MO and anywhere else in about 5 seconds flat.... and can run thru big cities without lag of any kind. I never was a fan of PvP before (especially when on TS and hearing my group members land, fight, die, clone and leave.... all before I loaded in). Now that I have the new RAM I am PvPing more than I do anything else.

Good times.....

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Nicholastyr wrote:

Before I rant on I'd like to say, I'm one of those unfortunate SWG players, and a Force Wielder, that plays on 56k.

People say, go PvP when you finish your temp. I'm one of those guys who still hunt in groups because I lag out in theed. I can honestly admit I have lost to BHs fair and square but a lot of my deaths were from a PL of 50% or more.

Anyways, with the old FRS the dial-uppers were fooked. (Unless you somehow got the lag down or cooped with it) I mean it's truely (unless after a server crash) impossible to PvP in a big city such as Theed, CNet, Mos Eisley, etc with 56k. You might get lucky and get free of lag but it's rather unlikely. I mean recently I've looked into Wi-Fi which is faster than normal Cable with a good upload speed aswell, doesn'tfear weather either.

I just hope that the new FRS has something more friendly for those who can't PvP. Don't get me wrong, at work (2.5 meg Cable ftw) I PvP my brains out, I love it but at home I just can't get a heal in without getting hit 2/3 more times before it registers...

/endrant

Anyone else out here PvPing on dial-up?

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Well, What's this really got to do with the FRS? Because from what I've seen it's really got to do with the lack of effort the developers have put into streamlining the code to get rid of lag. Everyone seems to say that the CU killed huge PVP battles because everything became too laggy. That's got nothing to do with the FRS. It's got to do more with messy coding that desperately needs to be cleaned up. (and here they go adding more messy coding, IE New Expansion soon. heh.)

That said, You can't really expect to be able to PVP on dial-up. Back when UO was just a year old it was extremely difficult to do. Now, it's Near impossible to do it effectively unless the game is running nearly perfect and the developers have spent a LOT of time on streamlining the code to run faster and be more efficient. (Which they obviously haven't done in a long time.)

Box be damned,56K is only feasible for about25% of the content available in this game, and PVP, and large group outtings are just notamong those things.

Message Edited by Grunzer on 09-27-2005 01:45 PM

Message Edited by Nicholastyr on 09-27-2005 02:05 PM

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Nicholastyr wrote:

Before I rant on I'd like to say, I'm one of those unfortunate SWG players, and a Force Wielder, that plays on 56k.

People say, go PvP when you finish your temp. I'm one of those guys who still hunt in groups because I lag out in theed. I can honestly admit I have lost to BHs fair and square but a lot of my deaths were from a PL of 50% or more.

Anyways, with the old FRS the dial-uppers were fooked. (Unless you somehow got the lag down or cooped with it) I mean it's truely (unless after a server crash) impossible to PvP in a big city such as Theed, CNet, Mos Eisley, etc with 56k. You might get lucky and get free of lag but it's rather unlikely. I mean recently I've looked into Wi-Fi which is faster than normal Cable with a good upload speed aswell, doesn'tfear weather either.

I just hope that the new FRS has something more friendly for those who can't PvP. Don't get me wrong, at work (2.5 meg Cable ftw) I PvP my brains out, I love it but at home I just can't get a heal in without getting hit 2/3 more times before it registers...

/endrant

Anyone else out here PvPing on dial-up?

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I feel your pain, i have been pvping off and on since the game launched on dial up. I have to say if anything it has gotten worse. I usually go to a friends house on the weekends to pvp.

Anywayback on topic, i hope the new FRS has more depth to it then killing regardless of my connection. /shrug

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The_Strider_Family wrote:

Let us not forget RAM in this conversation either. I was playing at home on a DSL connection but with 512MB of RAM and on a Saturday Night it would take me 5-10 minutes and one crash to load into MO usually.

I recently got the laptop I play on at home upgraded to 1.5GB of RAM (convinced the work people I needed it) and now I load into MO and anywhere else in about 5 seconds flat.... and can run thru big cities without lag of any kind. I never was a fan of PvP before (especially when on TS and hearing my group members land, fight, die, clone and leave.... all before I loaded in). Now that I have the new RAM I am PvPing more than I do anything else.

Good times.....

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Nicholastyr wrote:

ROFL @ Vikissi, too bad you're not on Starsider.

Anyways, Jacella, I would definately get Highspeed.... if it came out here. I don't even get DSL for cripes sake. I live in the middle of friggin nowhere... but in a Wifi Hotspot? /eyebrow....

Grunzer, I made this point because they only way you can advance in the FRS (if its anything like the old one) is PvP...

Message Edited by Nicholastyr on 09-27-2005 02:05 PM

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no sig won't let me use html sniff sniff

- I support a rollback and keeping & balancing the old combat system.
...and making SWG a better place to be. Your voice counts!

Death is so sure of winning that it

gives you a whole life as a head start.

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Vikassi wrote:
let me guess, you nubs are asking for nerfs becasue you play with an AOL connection?

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