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llrr: Yes, combined lag is a problem, and yes it is cumulative, not in a serial fashion, but in parallel. The reason why the person with 300+ms bears the focus is that the player with the highest lag is the weakest link; You have to start enforcement somewhere. Usually most players will have in the ...

At the time you want to comment 250ms of lag is huge, please consider that distance travelled by light (and signal) in vacuum is only 7.5 times of Earth's equator, and it is even 1.5 times shorter in optical fibre. What??? Lesser increments must be displayed as fractions: 1.5 times shorter makes no...

Problem? No. Mother necessity is the question. If you look on listserv there are often 300+ servers up. We would be doing well if we had 300 players logged in. Look at how many maps never have a single player in months. In actuality we only need maybe like 20 servers total. I guess it would be nice ...

With all the free hosting provided by existing map hosters like Abominable, Bzexcess, norang and BzTank, do we really need a new hoster?