Ping Rates Accurate or Hacked?

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Ping Rates Accurate or Hacked?

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Hello,

Anybody knows why in some servers the pings are totally unreal? Pings of 1, 2 5 or 10 are "normal" values in those servers...

If I run a server to play in a 100 Mbps LAN the lowest pings are 30-40. So... The conclusion is clear... Hacked pings?

All we know that many players look just before playing their pings... If the ping is OK (<140 or < 150) they stay to play. If the ping is high they run away as soon as possible...

Good trick if i can hack the pings, so the player is totally defenceless becouse he has less arguments about supposed lag... :?
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Hack the pings? Is it possible? Is it wise? :?
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I believe the low pings you are seeing are due to some sort of memory overflow in the dedicated server that starts after aproximently 3 months of uptime. Or something like that. The conclusion I have presented is due to me observing that after 2-3 months of uptime on my Tigers Network Armagetron servers, the pings have become unrealistic.
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wow, interesting theory to say the least (tank's).

speaking for myself, i've shown up plenty of times on the goshdarn servers and had pings in the single digits. but i'm not a hacker. go figure.

apropos, iceman mentioned something recently about ADDING to ping, altho the trick didn't seem to work for me...
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yes hacking someones ping is very possible and makes their game a total unstable f*uckup

should i post details hmmmm maybe not
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:o oh... :| shhhhhh... you shouldn't talk so loud.. :roll:
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Post by Faramir »

Tank Program wrote: after 2-3 months of uptime on my Tigers Network Armagetron servers, the pings have become unrealistic.
2-3 months uptime! LOL! :D

I usually restart the armagetron-dedicated process once every two-three days...

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as a temporary fix why not have the server automatic restart each day

thats until you find and fix the dodgy code
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Can't do that, because for some stupid reason for it to log in with Master Server the firewall has to be turned off...
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hmmm
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Post by Marrow »

I had a ping of 29 on tigers network armagoshdarn clone...strange eh?
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It's the uptime I tell you. Too long and the pings get wacked. Would explain it happening on Armagoshdarn a while back...
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Post by iceman »

well if its using these wacked pings in its ping charity calulations then that would explain a lot of the lag problems
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Well i think we know where the priority now lies hey, i'm gonna look at it, even if it's gonna kill me!
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