Planetside bans dail-up users - Page 2

lapaz · 2004-10-28, 10:18 PM

i play on dial-up and i do fine when they have 3 bfrs at the most and about 6 people then i start to feel the pain of ping

KIAsan · 2004-10-28, 10:59 PM

I play from Japan, ping is a little high, but it's playable. If you don't have broadband yet, check out either Yahoo-Japan or AOL-Japan, they are offering Broadband all over Japan now (and at a really cheap price).

MadMerco · 2004-10-29, 12:12 AM

I think emerald is in VA but that is just a guess

Lartnev · 2004-10-29, 09:34 AM

"Northern East Coast"

Baneblade · 2004-10-29, 12:17 PM

Bofton

Madcow · 2004-10-30, 09:36 PM

Originally Posted by Lonehunter187

No, they never guarenteed such a thing.

You could always play on the Test Server

if you know what your doing you could get some decent upgrades for not a bad price.

Actually, by listing 56k in their minimum requirements they pretty much do. Even at release 56k was nearly impossible to play (I tried) and they did a disservice to the paying customers by pretending the game was playable like that. Why would they do that? I played for a few months on 56k, was able to play enough to know I really enjoyed it and ended up getting cable internet and upgrading my computer. Stupid people like me who were willingly duped, that's why they did that.

Lartnev · 2004-10-31, 07:16 AM

As with all minimum requirements: Don't expect a smooth ride

Pogostickx · 2004-11-02, 08:15 PM

i've just recently gotten cable and it is a huge difference over dialup. but dialup wasn't THAT bad. i mean as long as i stayed away from tower fights and all....

GAH!! whatever you win, dialup is very poor in PS

Lonehunter · 2004-11-03, 04:56 PM

You live in Japan, they're all High tech, they can figure something out.

Kam · 2004-11-03, 07:49 PM

Originally Posted by Majik

I have a similar problem even on cable. Whenever I get around a squad of BFRs my FPS drops below 5, even with my graphics on low/off. One night during mayhem it hit 1.8 FPS and I just logged in frustration.

I bit the bullet last night and ordered an ALIENWARE. Let's see what things look like when I can set my graphics on high in 2 weeks

Plasma Purple w/Astral Blue cooling. Even my computer is a Vanu

What a fool, I have a custom computer that cost far less and is much better. You got screwed.

JetRaiden · 2004-11-03, 08:10 PM

You have to be absolutely fucking retarded to try to play PlanetSide on a 56k.

They say it will RUN on a 56k connection, then never said it would run WELL.