What do you mean by realms?
Show m any game that can support 300-600 people without lag and I'll drop my comments.
-Twilight Storm
Storm, you dont understand.
1. The extremely low FPS, doesnt have to do anything with lag.
2. The game should run at 200+ FPS with my PC specs, considering its ancient poor graphics, and it goes up to 40, at empty areas (no other players, just monsters). This proves just how insanely unoptimized it is.
3. Realm is: Same server, but different....realm. How can I say it? it doesnt show 300 people all at once, like you said that PW does, instead, you can choose your realm at any time, (even while in game, its changes realms fast), and you go there. The different realms, are basically the same server, same area, but other people. It simply divides people, so that an area doesnt get crowded, thus, not only helping with performance on low spec PCs, but also avoids the "dont steal my cookies" effect (basically when there is 1or2 items required for a quest, and there are 5 people at the same spot, trying to get it all at the same time. I know, these items respawn, but it gets annoying to wait your turn.), these things dont happen when there are different realms on 1 server.
I dont know what lag you were talking about, but in BotI, there were 2 servers for EU people: Atlantis, and Abyss. I didnt play with US people, because I am EU, so I dunno about US, but these 2 "EU" servers, were actually located in US east. I read that in the forums, when the administrator, had first announced the Closed Beta of the game. So in these 2 servers, I had less than 120 ms ping, which is very good for me, considering I live in Greece, kinda far.
In PW, there were many different servers, (more than 6-7, if i remember correctly), I dont know which server was for EU (or if there are actually servers for EU people), I just connected to Lost City, which I knew it was the server you told me to go.
So, in every server, I saw ping latencies, more than 350+ ms. Huge pings for some weird reason, and I KNOW that it wasnt my connection, since I run several pingtest.net, to verify my low pings with most of US locations. Only in PW, for some wierd reason, my ping with all the servers was huge. More specifically, the server with the lowest ping was about 384 ms, and the server with the highest, was 500 ms. Lost City was at about 400, so it was just barely on the edge of it.
Fortunately, I saw no lag whatsoever, only poor graphics, and terrible framerates.
Edit: Oh, and the question you asked about a server that supports more than 300-600 people without lag, do you want me to make a list now, or later?
I dont know what else to say, thats pretty much it, and if you wanna disbelieve me, thats fine. I'm just trying to be real here.
"Can I haz cookies nao?"
