ZehDon

Reply to Why are so many people getting banned? in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="taintofven" reply="1" id="2218727"]we are arguing the morality, for lack of a better word atm, of the situation. that's the whole point. everyone knows this is stardock's forum and that they published demigod. we don't like what they did regardless of this fact. it should have already been implied that we know this is stardock's gig, because we're posting ON ITS FORUMS and arguing on behalf of someone they banned. the effort on the part of warskull's

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[quote who="taintofven" reply="9" id="2218571"]No one is arguing legal rights or whatever. People are arguing that what was done was wrong. They are two different things. also, we've had enough of people coming in this thread and stating the painfully obvious without reading at least a couple pages of the thread. everything your longwinded crap post pointed out has been said ad naseum and really isn't relevant to begin with.[/quote] I wasn't arguing Legal rig

Reply to To all the ignorant Americans. in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="BillyMays" reply="2" id="2217445"]If you have over 200 ping I'm kicking you. Letting one person play with slightly higher ping isn't nice enough to give everyone a half/whole second delay. Many people use ISPs that throttle their connection as well, or maybe they are just on a bad wireless connection, and that ping goes from 200 to 500 in a matter of seconds. If you think 350ping and 0 ping have the same performance...seriously, go back to Networking 1

Reply to Just ONE person cant connect to me every game. in Demigod Technical Support Demigod Forums

[quote who="Boxleitner" reply="18" id="2217747"]ZehDon: That's alot of information... but there is no solution for now? Limiting your upload didn't help you, if I understand correctly. Ping gets too high, right?[/quote] That is correct, limiting my upload actually increased my ping but stablises the connection time - a weird side effect I don't fully understand. However, it is my understanding that the my recent update - which is live, juding from what I'm reading on the for

Reply to Why are so many people getting banned? in Demigod Demigod Forums

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Stardock a Private Company and able to operate in any way it so choses? Unlike EA Games or Activision Blizzard, where they are held accountable to their Share Holders, Stardock is able to conduct itself without the focus on the almighty dollar at every waking moment. With this in mind, these bannings are understandable as in the real world crap like this simply wouldn't be tolerated - not to mention most the people wou

Reply to Demigod Proxy Servers & Responses in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

[quote who="MrBoingy" reply="8" id="2217225"]... I DO find the journals interesting but in reality, I just want a working product. Taking our money and telling us on a daily basis for 5 weeks that they're trying to fix it and still be in posession of a defective product is pretty much the same as having no feedback and having a defective product.... [/quote] I understand your frustration - believe me - I too am stuck in the 5% not able to play their game. It's annoying as a

Reply to Connection Issue - Need advice on possible solution in Demigod Technical Support Demigod Forums

Thanks man, I'll look into it tomorrow - though reading that Wiki page, seems like it's certainly a step in the right direction. I cannot wait to have all this sorted out!

Reply to THE HALL OF SHAME in Demigod Demigod Forums

Sorry Shock, had to do it.

Reply to Demigod Proxy Servers & Responses in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

[quote who="Vladesch" reply="23" id="2216863"]GPG did dungeon siege, which allowed several players to connect up for a dungeon bash. I never had any connection problems with that.[/quote] That's probably due to it being connected through the Zone, Microsoft's Match Making service.

Reply to The dumbest thing in this community is the concept of ragequitting in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="Vesuvius" reply="1" id="2216729"]It's not that I don't get you think there's an implicit agreement or as vengeance calls it, a commitment. I understand perfectly well what you are arguing, I just don't agree with it. I do not recognize the validity of implicit agreements. The term is very nearly an oxymoron. The concept of an agreement hinges on the terms being explicitly laid out and understood. You can't really agree to something when you don't know

Reply to Demigod Proxy Servers & Responses in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

[quote who="Dead Ghost" reply="20" id="2216755"]And btw, i'm still wondering why CoH, SC or DoW2, all p2p games, didn't have this major problems...[/quote] The games you've listed don't use the exact system Demigod uses - for example SC (Starcraft) uses Battle.net and I believe DoW2 uses Relics own networking system. I can't comment on CoH's as I've never played that game. All of those games' developers have had previous experience with multiplayer - this is GPG's and Stardock's

Reply to You're Banned!: The Forum Game in Everything Else Demigod Forums

Banned for self banning. We don't appreciate users taking the law into their own hands [e digicons]:thumbsdown:[/e]

Additional 'Persistence' Idea in Demigod Ideas Demigod Forums

I know a lot of players, myself included, like the idea of some kind of persistence in Demigod. Currently, apart from the rather flakey Favour system, the only persistence we have are our Stats and Username, which are fine, however only one of those is viewable in-game. I was wondering if having an Icon/Medal next to a player's name - such as a Star or some such - that represents a players total Games won might be an added level of persistence, albeit a small one. This would be simill

Reply to Just ONE person cant connect to me every game. in Demigod Technical Support Demigod Forums

I believe I have a simillar issue, and have made a post about it here . I've detailed what I've discovered and what I've done to try and solve it. I hope some of it helps.

Reply to Connection Issue - Need advice on possible solution in Demigod Technical Support Demigod Forums

[quote who="Aprogas" reply="17" id="2215411"]Limiting your upload speed from a program itself might reduce the amount of ACK sent, but limiting the total upload speed of your connection only makes the ACK problem worse. A better solution would be to give the ACKs priority so that if the upload is clogged, the ACKs are sent first and the remaining available speed is used for other stuff; however only few routers support this and it requires technical knowledge to setup. Neither of these things

Reply to Demigod Proxy Servers & Responses in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

The only issue here is also the reason why other companies don't make these kinds of entries; no one can see delays coming. No matter how good you plan ahead there is always one little thing that props up that can put you behind. Like baby turtles. Companies such as Blizzard or EA Games only make Offical Statements rather than informal journal entries, and they make sure that when they make those Offical Statements that they can meet any dates they've listed. It's why they take 6 months

Reply to Demigod: Tuesday, May 19th in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

I completely missed the Fallout 3 bobble head in the pic of Jeff first time around.

Reply to Demigod: Tuesday, May 19th in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

[quote who="RamzaBehoulve" reply="25" id="2215374"]So just because Blizzard is that much better, they can't be used as comparison? Kind of a flawed logic if you ask me. Demigod is in direct competition with Blizzard and its upcoming Stracraft 2. GPG and Stardock were lucky Blizzard only announced Beta for SC2 instead of a release date, otherwise we all know what would have happened. If you want to make a RTS or a MMORPG, you go in direct competition with Blizzard and that's whom you

Reply to Connection Issue - Need advice on possible solution in Demigod Technical Support Demigod Forums

Hmm, I agree. I can only hope GPG are working on a solution in the actual net-code for Demigod, rather than the behind the scenes stuff Stardock have been doing, as it seems this will be the only chance for a full-proof solution.

Reply to Connection Issue - Need advice on possible solution in Demigod Technical Support Demigod Forums

Interesting information guys, thank you very much - I think may have figured out another part of this puzzle. Once in a game with Demigod, I don't have any real problems remaining connected - at least no more than anyone else. This is because, as Aprogas pointed out, it swaps over to UDP once the game is launched. However while in the lobby - and still using TCP - I would still be receiving the 'handshake' messages, no? This would explain why connecting to other players is a problem <

Reply to Problem with my Netgear WGR614 v6 Router and connecting in Demigod Technical Support Demigod Forums

I believe I have identified this problem, or one like it, here . I might be wrong, however the fact that it comes down to one other player - which I'm guessing is the last person who joins the game or is the last person the game attempts to connect to - resembles my problem.

Reply to The dumbest thing in this community is the concept of ragequitting in Demigod Demigod Forums

Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.

Reply to Lets talk about Accountability in Demigod Demigod Forums

I think some of the major causes of this type of in-game quitting as now is simply re-rolling the dice. I played 3v3 Fortress on Cat 3 times in a row in Skirmish. Considering it takes around 20-30 minutes for me to get a game, I was very tempted to quit when it came up for the third time because I was sick and tired of it. I didn't, however. Another reason is because frankly some players don't like to lose. Ever. They quit the moment something doesn't go their

Reply to Am I ready for Multiplayer? in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote quoting="post"]So can I play online without being yelled at every five seconds or should i play singleplayer some more? Also strategywise I normaly play Unclean Beast, since his abilities match up with my favorites in games, namely good speed, good dps, good dot, and overall great hit and run potential with the ability to also focus on heath and mana regen to make myself almost invincible if the situation calls for it. So I normally go mainly for spit and inner beast w

Reply to Connection Issue - Need advice on possible solution in Demigod Technical Support Demigod Forums

[quote who="Grieve" reply="7" id="2214160"]Hmm, I just checked out that test your broadband site, and apparently my 'Upstream Queue' is 1478ms. "Your upstream queue is so large that the packets can get delayed for more than a second. This can be a problem for real-time traffic such as VoIP or online games!" I'm not 100% sure on what this means, or any idea on how to fix it. Other than what you've posted that is ? [/quote] I'll do my best to explain. This is my und