Zelious wrote:Putred wrote:There is no real skilled PvP for an elitist player with perma 0.5 sec delay in every action.
If everyone endures the same small server side lag due to population then who cares? Everyone is on equal footing, a fair fight
Derp.
Just because everyone's lag increases equally, does not mean they are left on equal footing.
Let me give an extreme example or two different warriors attacking a priest.
Because of where they live:
Warrior A's actions take 0.5s to reach the server.
Warrior B's actions take 1.0s to reach the server.
With 0.1s server lag, both Warriors can interrupt a 1.5s cast-time heal from the priest.
However, with 0.5s server lag, only Warrior A can interrupt the priest's heal.
Simply put, server lag does not leave everyone on equal footing.
Even in cases with equal latency, it lowers the skill ceiling and outplay potential, while increasing randomness.
