EVE General Discussion

mmmm i'm not sure...

i think it depends on your internet connection... i mean... look at zarvox... he is AUTZ, isn't he?
and he pvp normally without problems... except some griffin from time to time xD

It's 99 % about Internet connection speed. What's your speed OP ?

Yeah I sometimes get lag. **** happens.

In general it's ok, but it's not CCPs issue.

I just use it to blame all my PvP losses on (Just joking....I'm just **** at PvP)

It's not a server problem either. There are a lot of places the signal can slow down.

From the east coast for example, the shortest path is the trans-pacific cable to the US, across the US and thhen the trans-Atlantic cable to the UK and back again.

Some many exchanges involved in the different paths that it's not CCPs issue. The server can be perfectly fine and it can still take a long time occasionally.

I'm in Canberra. We have the crappiest internet in the country I think. My pings can be >300ms. We deserve it too.

I was gonna type a coherent post but because I already know all the stupid things you are gonna say I'll just say that you can not log in eve no matter where you are on this planet, unless it's YOUR internet connection / PC.

Brainstorm: Your lag got nothing to do with eve online.

Until I upgraded my PC I thought my internet was the cause of me lagging behind lock times on gate camps etc (compared to US & UK players).

Since the upgrade I no longer am last to lock & shoot, so from an anecdotal point of view that may be the cause of your problem.

That said I believe us Aussies players have a small disadvantage in terms of server response time but until someone actually measures that against some acceptable benchmark it remains nothing more than myth & suspicion. If there is a small disadvantage then that is far outweighed by all the advantages us Aussies have both as EvE players & with so many other things.

I don't think you have correctly assessed what happened. When you jump into a WH, you still get a 1 minute 'gate' cloak. If your client didn't load for over a minute, there is something seriously wrong with your internet. A 300 ms ping or even a couple of seconds lag, isn't going to cause that.

Your main antagonist was in an Arty Svipul. Arty Svipuls have a big locking advantage and a large alpha. He would have locked you first and then two shotted you, taking perhaps six seconds to cycle for the second shot, during which time the Sabre locked you and got some damage on. Your fit had virtually no buffer (1 trimark) and was a gift for high alpha damage opponents.

You had no chance of getting your drones deployed before you died, if you locked and fired before trying to drop your drones you might have got one shot off in time, but 1 salvo from 5 x 150mm Railguns would have only tickled him.

Your only real chance would have been to select the wormhole while cloaked, hit approach/jump and fire up your overheated AB. If you were lucky enough to come out really close to the WH, you might have made it back before the Svipul got the second shot off, but to be frank unlikely. You would have had a better chance with a MWD.

Thera is notorious for having it's wormholes camped, what you did was suicide in that fit.

You would need to have obscene ping delays for Aussie to be at an actual disadvantage in a game with a server tick of 1 second.

EVE is not an FPS, so high ping times will not prevent you getting 360 noscope headshots or whatever. The server operates on a 1s clock, so while a high ping time may pish your reactions onto the second second, it is not a major disadvantage.

Long load times will be due to low memory, slow hard drives, and too much other stuff happening on your computer and internet connection.

I have 32Gb RAM and SSD, so all my clients end up loading the destination system before the jump animation is finished. I live in Canberra, in a suburb with the worst Internet in Australia (out of all the places with wired Internet), usually 2Mbps ADSL with around a 250–350ms ping to the servers. I do not PvP much because I suck at organising a garage full of ships ;)

So if I was you I would check your machine's performance: maximum disk I/O, how much RAM you have available (a minimum of 8 GB is where I would start) and graphics detail (turning this down will reduce overall load, regardless of FPS). If you have an anaemic graphics card you will be punishing your system even more: the system requirements are for the bare minimum system to run EVE with potato graphics quality.