Explosions and ping over limit

[stupor-mundi]

I wonder if something can be done (server side? or in game config?) with regards to the effect of explosions on ping.

For quite a while, I hadn't understood the connection there, and when I saw player x has ping over limit , and then saw them kicked off the server, I wodered what sort of crappy internet connection those poor players must have.

Until I flew an attack mission, blew up some stationary aircraft on an airfield, and was kicked off with ping over limit. I realised that the explosion rendering, or maybe the collision calculations, but certainly in some way the explosions, were degrading my ping latency.

Today I went on a few tank missions on Action Dogfight and Tanks, and repeatedly some AC fired a combination of machinegun and small bombs or maybe rockets at me, which had no real chance of hurting my tank, but the explosions all around me got me kicked from the server with bad ping.

This happened repeatedly, so that I began to suspect the pilot had realised he could get me kicked this way.

So I'm wondering, can anything be done about this. If I have a choice, I would prioritise not getting thrown off the server, over beatifully rendered explosions.

 

[stupor-mundi]

This just happened to me again. Hadn't happened in a while, but I'd been upping my graphics settings a bit, to a nice compromise between gorgeousness and FPS.

I think there is a connection between the graphics fine-ness, and this. I was attacking the enemy base in my T34, had it pretty much cleaned of nasty paks and howitzers, and this lame-lord plane came and shot at me with its puny cannon (prob 20mm), which could do me no harm, but, because those tiny explosions were in my field of vision, got me 'ping over limit' and disco'd from the server.

Needless to point out how exploitable this is. Anemic planes that can't kill tanks, can get them thrown off the server. While tanking is currently a minority concern, and nobody really cares, I strongly suggest this should be addressed before tank crew comes out.