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I played until slightly after Rift came out. 1.0 lag wasn't unplayable, just irritating. In combat, on my connection (cable modem), I could easily ignore it because combat settled into a repetitive routine. It was more obvious in crafting, because the crafting orb was time sensitive and even White orb -> White orb was pretty distinct, so you easily could run into a situation where you pressed the button, the orb changed, and then your action went off. I could see people saying it is "unplayable" if their ISP did not like constantly connecting to Japan though. What actually WAS horrific and related to connectivity were the patch downloads, as there was very little rhyme or reason to how fast the downloads went.

Edit: That's a good point Bartel. I didn't think about the model displaying issue because old EQ habits kicked in and I tended to avoid crowds except for when retainers were involved. I'd forgotten about the retainer system specifically. It was put together so horribly that putting too many retainers in a retainer ward actually crashed the ward. It took a while before people caught on to that.

Edited, Jul 29th 2013 3:37pm by Ravashack

So you're saying because the game isn't "real time" it has a natural latency anyways which doesn't benefit from a lower ping. I'm more intrigued about what changed between 1.0 and ARR. The data sent from the servers doesn't really use much bandwidth since the client is handling that on their platform. If FFXIV was streaming everything, that would be different.

Pretty much everything, the game was completely rebuilt.

I imagine if it's that big of a deal after launch then they may start an EU data center, I'm sure it's not impossible.

Sorry buddy I have been around for way to long to fall for the beta excuse anymore. Trust me they wouldn't keep a game like that b.c it is "beta"

Awesome, thanks for posting!

I expect that they don't update your position in mid jump, since you can't change direction or speed until you land. As such, it might not be safe to jump out of AoEs. That's how it has been in most MMOs I've played. Faster route from an AoE is to run out without jumping.

I'm curious as to what system you play on, and what video settings you're running. Other people complained of the same problem, and by changing a few of their settings, they realized they did not have a full view of their chat window, leading to the illusion of a laggy chat window.

I was absolutely that Lalafell that looks like he is not in the circle but really was.

Edited, Jul 30th 2013 5:14pm by Gnu

Edited, Jul 30th 2013 5:18pm by Gnu

Yeah, that picture sums up my issues with responsiveness perfectly in phase 3. I noticed that if I continued to move my character even farther from the AoE circle, I wouldn't get hit. If I stayed just outside it, thinking I was safe, chances are I actually wasn't.

I have a feeling this is what will kill me most. Jumping around thinking it will save me when I'm just dooming myself to a quick death.

It's that Dragoon ability, right?