The Joy and Jubilation at having High Ping

[Black Waltz]

I'm screwed. Have 56k Modem out in the middle of Rural Scotland and the best Ping I can muster is 400 and odd. Ok. Under half a second, but I was wondering a few things:

Will it affect any games other then Turnless?

Is there anything I can do with my ping?

If a group of people with large pings played would it ballance out into a normal game?

Can I have a top of the range PC with cable delivered to my house tomorrow free of charge?

Thankies for reading and answering.

 

[rsirangelo]

LOL

I witnessed his attempt to play, and I had the same problem, so we decided to play together... and, of course, it didn't work.

I live in Brazil and so far I haven't found any brazilian to play multiplayer, but I'll wait...

maybe I'll copy the CD and play vs. myself on my other computer

 

[Marsupial]

Well lets try also in a rural area..(Northwest USA) e-mail is
wombat@keypeninsuala.com
yahoo messenegr marsupial98349

 

[black_adder2]

You guys might try PBEM.. I am going to try this week, I have broadband but still it can be very laggy.

 

[Sultan Bhargash]

There is no chance for you with high ping, but don't worry, at present very few people are actively enjoying low ping games either. A patch may fix things. You should definitely consider PBEM, I would be happy to get one rolling with any of you, porque minha irmao brasiliero?

 

[Sultan Bhargash]

@Marsupial- welcome to CFC! Happy to have caught your first post!

 

[Ani]

At the moment i play with a friend with a ISDN modem (Maybe 2x speed of the 56k) and his ping varies from 70 to160. So a modem should nto be the problem if your opponents is close.

I and my friend bouth got the same provider and the game runs smothly. (some lag the second period we played but not mutch)

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Question / solution.
It should be possible to play the first 50 turns as a laggy game then save it at change it to a PBEM game. Would increase the speed of the PBEM games.

 

[Hobbes]

Internet speed is no problem, it's loading Civ on my UNIX workstation.