If Cyrodiil lag was instantly fixed if we were all stick figures, would you still play?

ItsGlaive

No, I need my vanity

uberkull wrote: »

Xabien wrote: »

Cyrodiil problems will be fixed when ZOS finally bites the bullet and invest in the hardware neccessary to operate a zone of its size.

All of this tweaking spells and removing deer destracts from the real issue, which is that the hardware cannot process everything going on in the zone at once, and that the fix for that of course is better hardware.

If a player's PC can't render everything at max settings, they don't tell the developer to trim back on the graphics and eye candy. That's the approach that Cyrodiil fixes are currently taking.

Not according to ZOS...

This is not a situation where we can just add more hardware. Player population in a given area hurts the performance and the more people that are in one area, the more performance is going to be hurt.

Link

So improving the hardware won't improve performance?Won't allow for more resources to those highly congested areas?

Unless something in the engine is seriously gimped, I honestly can't see how that would be the case.

Asmodean

I think people here are confusing latency, with frame rate?. Models don't cause 'lag'. Client<->Server interaction does.

Every time any of those grouped up players do anything that is referenced server-side, it's creating crazy amounts of I/O. Maybe their current servers can't handle the load. Or, they overestimated the player scale in Cyrodiil, and how they could handle it.

If you completely disabled all player geometry, it would have 0 impact on server-based latency. Because the models are running on the client machines, not the servers.

ps: this idea in itself is pretty ridiculous. It's like saying "would you listen to music through a potato, if you could fit 100x the amount of music on your phone"

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Edit: This is also reminding me of the "lighting patch". where ZOS introduced nice interior lighting updates, and everyone went full on FUD mode, blaming this change on exterior world pvp performance problems, which has zero connection lol.

Gidorick

No, I need my vanity

Biased poll is biased.

NewBlacksmurf

No, I need my vanity

Asmodean wrote: »

I think people here are confusing latency, with frame rate?. Models don't cause 'lag'. Client<->Server interaction does.

Every time any of those grouped up players do anything that is referenced server-side, it's creating crazy amounts of I/O. Maybe their current servers can't handle the load. Or, they overestimated the player scale in Cyrodiil, and how they could handle it.

If you completely disabled all player geometry, it would have 0 impact on server-based latency. Because the models are running on the client machines, not the servers.

ps: this idea in itself is pretty ridiculous. It's like saying "would you listen to music through a potato, if you could fit 100x the amount of music on your phone"

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Edit: This is also reminding me of the "lighting patch". where ZOS introduced nice interior lighting updates, and everyone when full on FUD mode, blaming this change on exterior world pvp performance problems, which has zero connection lol.

We get what you're saying but literally we have proof that the character models do impact it.
Compare some things ZOS says they are trying to reduce lag and what was done on consoles where lag is extremely minimal.

Mojmir

then it would be UO circa 1999

reften

No, I need my vanity

ahhh no. Anybody that says yes would change their mind in like 2 minutes

TheDracojan

Yes, gameplay over looks

Ultimate stick fighting movie incoming!

Lysette

The reason for the lag is not character models, because this stuff is performed client-side. It would help nothing at all.

Uberkull

Lysette wrote: »

The reason for the lag is not character models, because this stuff is performed client-side. It would help nothing at all.

You obviously haven't seen how console handles Cyrodiil and the black silhouette character models. Read up on it.

Xexpo

loaded poll is loaded