The one game I played with you, you were the one that lagged out!!!Although I was the one hosting, we were allied, and clearly superior. I actually liked you enough that I stayed allied with your AI all the way... But more seriously, yes, it's a problem. It's actually the reason I spent 3 hours configuring my router so I can host, which is now something I do almost exclusively when I play. I'm too tired of having to circumvent an hostile host for a long as possible in order to avoid him leaving the rest of his hanging. When I'm the host, I can at least ensure that this doesn't happen. I don't understand why more players don't take honor in surrendering whenever they're beat, afterall, the way the stats work in Sins currently, the only player that knows whether or not they're valid is yourself. It's actually reached the point where I, in diplomacy games, ally up to share the win with player's who stick it out until the end and doesn't just leave to keep a ludicrously clean record. Especially if I've turned against a former ally.
Yeah, this was one of the few minidump issues I had. Completely random too, obviously not intended. We were winning at the time IIRC.
That's another problem with the online is the dang minidumps. I have the latest drivers and everything, but I've still crashed a few times, and some of the crashes were highly suspicious.
Anyway, Ironclad needs to find a way to fix this stuff. Obviously Blizzard and other companies found a way, so mimic them. There are probably thousands of Sins players who aren't participating right now because of these issues, and that is unacceptable to me.
You shouldn't be at the mercy of any player during a game, especially the host!
I have pretty much stopped playing online entirely on Sins now, after yet another annoyingly lame disconnect.
And unlike a lot of people, my forum name and online name are the same, and will stay that way. I don't care if I get 50 registered losses on my account, I'm not gonna change my name. But for now, I'm taking a break.
I guess I'll give it time and see what happens in the future.
Later, and thanks for the interest.