Quitters

[Panzergranate]

Yorkshire is still using damp string for their internet connections, judging by the poor connections folks in the rest of the UK have with the area.

Yorkshire folks are historically to adopt new technology. Luditism was invented there and still practiced by some.

My grandfather was from Yorkshire and never owned a computer, car and stuck with 405 line TV right up until the day they shut down the transmitters back in the late 1970's.

He also managed to never buy a round or drink for anyone in his whole life, a typical trait of all Yorkshiremen.... generosity and spending money are both seen as weaknesses.

So no wonder Yorkshire has such poor internet connections..... everybody there is too tight to fork out enough money to bring it into the 21st century, or at least the 20th century.

Thank God that I live in the fibre opitcally infested South of England and am on Virgin and not BT.

Our local BT phone exchange can only handle 1.5 Mb. with 0.4 Mb. at peak times, despite what folks told they're paying for.

It doesn't matter what speed broadband anyone pays for on BT or any other copper wire phone line service, it will be converted down to the most practical speed that the local phone exchange can cope with..... and that will be very slow, especially in the evenings.

O2 and Virgin are the fastest providers at present, according to Watchdog, with BT ranking at number 17 in the league tables. All the top providers are fibre optic services, whilst BT is copper phone wire only based.

Until the UK government and service providers cough up to install a decent fibre optic based internet system all over the UK, instead of the patchy layout we have at present, we're all going to have to endure poor local connections with other players in the UK.

[Shadowcorp]

Originally Posted by Zatoichi_Sanjuro

It's not the servers. The game is p2p. It's the upspeed of the host. Most people don't have the upstream bandwith to host a full room.

Your right i should have said hosts but sunday in particular is poor for host no matter where they are from and what time they are playing.
For Example Ratman91101 has never really had any probelms hosting full 16 player matches apart from sunday around 5 gmt i guess that puts it 12pm his time and 7pm in russia. He's not in peak internet hours, I was approaching peak times and in russia (where the scorekeeping server is) it was peak internet hours which at a guess was what causes glitch kills. I digress......
My friends from japan also have troubles on sunday dispite their fibre optic connection.
All i know is weekends particulary sunday i'll find something else to play

[winny]

I can vouch for wookie, he's not the 'quit because it's getting tough' kind, at all.

If it's laggy you've got to quit. If it suddenly gets very one sided I'll fly off somewhere or have a go shorthanded. I would never quit a game I was hosting because it's the equivalent of taking your ball home, ie. spoilt brat.

The flip side is that it's really frustrating hosting a game only to see people leave, but I wouldn't message them over it... Life's too short.

It's nowhere near as bad as FIFA.. I 'won' 5 staight games where the other guy quit just before the final whistle.. 5 different people, in a row.... c**ts

[scottyvt4]

Originally Posted by dkwookie

I put BoP on last night and ended up in a CTA hosted by DangerDave. Our side lost the field and a couple of people quit on both teams. I spotted an invite from a good freind and figured I would drop out and join that game instead. I then received a note from Dave saying how myself and other players regularly quit when the going gets tough.

I had a bit of an exchange with him on this saying I dont believe i am a quitter and usually if the field is taken I will stick around for a dogfight. I will quit if the lag is so bad you cant shoot someone though.
He mentioned he was thinking of signing up to the forum to complain about this so I figured I would post it instead.

I told him I am fine with name and shame but I didnt agree with what he was saying. I can name a few players who do quit all the time when the game is up and also some players who keep going under pretty severe beating. Special shout for this to Luftwaffe40 who kept going in a long CTA the other night after all his fighter team mates quit

actually lol'ed when i read that, it was just the other night you were saying some dude was up in arms about you giving him a hard time lol


it takes some going to stay in esp if you're team mates are dropping out! first game i played online in a C/A i took an absolute beating but stuck with it think ratman was the host


only time i quit is as said already, is when its too laggy!!!

Originally Posted by f1rebrand

I've noticed lots of 3 minute (1v1) Strike matches on recently with people trying to unlock the B17. If they don't win, they sulk and quit. If they don't want an opponent to fly a fighter why do they proceed with the game?

ive noticed this too, normally switch to a G6 as the timer gets to zero ........ few kills later "the host has quite the game"