How to make game more fair?

[bmat]

Hello!

Is there any solution how to fix the players' lags? On my server there are many players from South America and they lag. I watched their FPSs but they were normal. Their pings are about 300ms, it's not many I guess. What's the reason in this case? Low speed of internet connection? The solution is really needed.

[diegofkda]

Well, about the ping, if you crash a player on a vehicle, you will see that he will move in 600 m.s. (if you've 300 ping and he 300).

Well, if you are hosting a server with your local server, the problem is, you've a bad internet connection. I have 3 MB and I can host my local server correctly (max 10 players, after that the server starts to lag).

[Oz.]

Assuming no one is using a dial-up modem or something, distance is the main cause of lag. I have a pretty decent connection but I get 350-400ms lag on DKR because the server is 17,000km away from me (Australia>Netherlands). So unless you move your server closer to the people, or the people closer to the server, there will always be latency issues.

[bmat]

So there aren't any solutions? Only the distance between player and server makes the affect?

[eAi]

The biggest factor that affects your ping is how far you are from the server. Saturating your bandwidth will also increase latency (e.g. if you're downloading at the same time).

[Suerte]

So there aren't any solutions? Only the distance between player and server makes the affect?

There is a solution. If everyone is getting 300ms ping because of distance from the server, then get a south african server

[Callum]

A server in the Netherlands is usually the best solution, since most MTA players are British, Spanish, and Russian (though some are American).

[ilias the 5]

and moroccain

and why this is still unlock old topic meens locked

[diegofkda]

This isn't those kind of .tk forums... it's simple, if you want to bump the topic for a good reason, do it, if not, a warning is enough good, don't bump an old topic again.