There has been much discussion on my forum about players connecting and ruining gameplay for the players at CG and MHM. I have done several things on the servers to increase network play but it seems no matter what I do, when certain players connect the gameplay goes to hell. So.....

I have installed the Lag Monitor Mod on CG and MHM. It works like this:

If you connect to CG with a ping higher than 300 or packet loss of more than 5%, you will get warned that you will be booted. Soon after, if your ping or packet loss % hasn't decreased beneath the 2 standards mentioned above, you will get kicked. The end!

MHM works the same way exactly except that it's max ping is set at 250. I think this will properly address the many complaints I've had over the months concerning ping killers showing up and ruining the game for everyone.

I personally haven't seen this mod take action against anyone yet but I don't think it tells the rest of us when it does so please pay attention to it every time a high pinger comes in. Let me know if they get kicked or not. I think it takes a total of about 45 seconds before it takes any final action and kicks a player.

Let me know if there is anything else I need to do. Later!

I'll try this asap but I'm afraid that the lag monitor will kick me each time !!! Hope not...

Looks like I can not meet the standards you have set for ping.
I was booted.

Slowspeed
Deadman

Yea, thats what I figured would happen to us 56K'ers too, which is cool, I go to |<id's anyway


Iron

Perhaps this is not the way to go. Some folks can not help it that they are connected at 56k. Is there nothing else that can be done?

I will loosen the ristrictions a bit and see if that does it. I had already tweaked the server to give 56kers a better ping too. In doing so, most high speed connections got really good too like down in the 70's and stuff. I'll get this worked out. Hey DeadMan, send me an email please. I need your email address.

OK

After several request to remove entirely or relax the settings of LagMonitor, I have done the later. Please continue to give me feedback concerning this mod. Keep in mind that majority take the hit when a player with a bad ping joins. I don't mean the 56kers either. I mean the 56kers that are connecting to the internet at 24.4KBPS and are trying to online game from Russia! I'm not trying to single out anyone but I feel that the needs of the many out-weigh the needs of the few. Extra efforts have been made to ensure that everyone gets the best gameplay that is possible.

hey herms,i am connected at 750kbps in canada,before u set in this new mod no problems appeared,i even noticed often my ping was at 60 or 70 at average,now when i join it show me a ping at 500 to 800 and it kicks me out!i think your new mod is taking to much juice away from the principal meaning of the servers use,for mh or cg's!so if u can u should do away with this mod it should liberate certain conflicts it has created!as for the high pinger lets just boot them when it happens as we play!that's all!!!



p.s.hope you are safe from the tornados!!!!!!!!!




later!

I have a better ping those last times ?... Don't know if there is a link with "lag monitor" but I don't have the great lag I usually had before anymore !!!
I don't know if your ping has been going up because of the monitor ?

I got booted too....I'll be at kids