FAF should have a stress test

[Badsearcher]

By stress test, what I mean is, before a game officially starts, especially a 4v4 game, there needs to be an option that the host can somehow do a stress test (such as loading up a map with lots of units on it) to see how everyone's computers and connections handle it and if there are any people who are prone to lag horribly or time out.

The problem right now is the lack of information for a discerning host.

Ping doesn't tell you all that much because there's no indication that a connection won't start to lag out when it's actually transmitting and receiving a lot of data.

Sometimes more importantly, the host has NO WAY of knowing what kind of computers people have.

I swear, every time I ask what kind of computers people have, you'd think everyone on Earth owns an i7 with 16 gigs of ram. A host needs to be able to verify.

If we are going to make FAF better, then one way to do it is to be able to give discerning hosts the tools to filter out that one guy (who seems to be in every game always) who times out 7 minutes into a 4v4 game.

[Badsearcher]

Also, food for thought, but I think a stress test would be helpful for us to start seeing more games with maps larger than 20X20.

The reason being that a lot of people feel afraid to push that limit because they have no way of verifying that there isn't a lagger amongst the player pool. I for one would like to, every once in a while (because I assume that they could take hours), play an 81 by 81 map.

[-_V_-]

OR you can go and play AIs.
Your computer will be your sole limitation.

Have fun!

[discoverer2k4]

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already discussed...

[Badsearcher]

Alright, I looked it up but I guess I didn't use the right terms, thanks.

[Pathogenic]

Alright, I looked it up but I guess I didn't use the right terms, thanks.

It must be because you are a bad searcher...