Most unfortunate lag moments

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Was EXPing in Quicksand Caves last night as BST (that common 42-45 Beetle/spider camp off East Altepa). After about two hours another BST roams in... with a PL (which is pretty shameful considering he was 52).

Well after a few minutes, he realizes I'm there and apologizes for moving in on my camp and says he'll go find another, which I appreciated. But it looked like he decided to get a little EXP in before he left.

I was fighting an Anitcan PLD a few minutes later and I turned to see him getting wailed on by two spiders, he must've had a charm resisted. His WHM buddy had ported elsewhere, apparently.

I figured if I could ditch my current pet, I stood a chance to save him from his mischarmed pet. I'd just charm the spider he was struggling with and send it after the antican I was fighting. Not the first time I've done that to help somone.

Then, the world stops and I'm the only one that can move. Lag. This is bad since I'm still engaged with the antican and when you d/c in such a situation, you're very likely going to die. I've had that happen before... and its always as BST.

Then the world zips into fast-forward. My beetle is now destroying the ant PLD and I see the other BST just barely got out of his mischarm alive.

After I reset my router, it the lagging stopped, still, I HATE IT when that happens.

[Eohmer]

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Under Observation BCNM40... blah that sucked. I ended up dying.

[Murphie]

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I don't generally lag out at unfortunate moments. If I'm worried that I might, I just lower my settings so as not to have a problem (Dynamis, for instance.)

[Aeolus]

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Isnt lag your connection failing and then recieving everything at once rather than your graphics settings?

[DakAttack]

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There's graphical lag, when the game is loading too much at once, and connection lag, when you're not sending or recieving packets at the appropriate rate. Both can cause slow-downs followed by fast-forwards.

[Cometgreen]

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Wow, nice timing for this thread. About an hour ago, I saw Wyvernpoacher Drachlox pop in Gustav. I was waiting for more members to come in my LS or some high levels to come roaming through the area. Eventually, my connection started lagging, and I had to restart. I figure it's fine, as no one is in Gustav, so I check my email and stuff for a few minutes.

When I log back in, I see a group of four farming White Mage testimonies, and no more Wyvernpoacher. They're Japanese, so I couldn't get too much out of them, but it seems they were only there for testimonies, and just killed the NM because he was in the way.

So, yeah, I'm gonna go kill myself.

[Mog]

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Heh, I got one for ya. Me and my limbus party finally cleared Apollyon NW. Black mage piece drops. I'm the only one who needs it, and my computer literally freezes up. Luckily, I was able to get on in time to lot on it and get it.

edit: You broke the post count limit murphie. The computer still registers you as the keeper of knowledge. I thought the next level would be "God" or something.

[Caspian]

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Lagged out completely (as in dc'd) In one or two assaults and once right as we were starting a promy for a friend. Its usually while I'm crafting or something like that. Though I did lag during a trade to quiver some bolts, trade didnt go through, but it took two stacks of bolts. That made me very happy.

And I think we're gonna change Murphie's tag to say "Post Whore"
J/k Murph

[Murphie]

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I'm not a post whore though. I've always thought that such a silly term. I don't care how many posts I have. :/ I would have liked a new title at 4000 though. Boo to that.

Of course, I still miss being able to change the color and font of our names.

[Caspian]

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I know, but I fell like the only person who's never taken a shot at your posts, I felt lonely.
And, last I heard, Ping is working on all that.

Oh.....lagging.....everytime I lag it pisses me off. I can usually work through it in xp parties, but my effectiveness gets crappy, pulling is something that just isn't gonna happen, and I'm usually yelling at the monitor.

[Mog]

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I kinda miss the gil system. Right before they got rid of it, I was about to change everyone's names to moogle's names with the 1 million gil I had.

[Murphie]

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I did have some bad lag issues a while back, but since I got more RAM, and got a better internet connection, I seriously never have those kind of problems anymore. It's pretty nice, since nothing ruins my mood more than being stymied in my attempts at a leisurely night of gaming.

edit: That would have been funny, Mog.

And Caspian, I understand. It is a bit embarrassing to be the only regular member on the top posters list.

[Aksannyi]

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I miss my name color and the RPG.

I lagged out right after accepting someone's gil for a teleport, then I d/c'ed and couldn't get back on right away. For a while there I was worried that the guy thought I'd done it on purpose but he was pretty understanding.

[Vyuru]

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Hmm, best/worst time I ever lagged...

I was running through Kuftal Tunnel, I started to lag, but no worries, sneak was up, I can still move but I can't see anything around me, but I can still head through Kuftal to Cape Terrigan.

Then things start showing up, and I get a really speeded up sequence of events.

The first awe shit moment came when I saw the message that Guivre was intimidated by me >.>

The second awe shit moment came when the party suddenly appeared in front of my dead corpse ; ;

On the flipside I don't know why I enjoy listening to the screams of others..... While I feel bad for them it was kinda funny watching them try to run, I still don't know why their blm didn't escape them. Their pld could've tossed up invincible and bought time for an escape.

[Effedup]

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I'm setup completely wirelessly, no hard connections because doing so would mean stringing a cable wire across the middle of my living room floor, which would of course cause all my drunken, clumsy ass friends to immediately seek it out in order to trip on it and break their heads open all over the place.

So yeah, been hit with the lag stick more times then I'd like to remember. And always at the most opportune moments; like when I'm trying to voke off of the WHM who decided to tank for a bit, or when that feverishly contested NM finally pops right in front of me, or when it's my turn to close a skillchain.

Methinks it's time to upgrade to 802.11n...