It depends on your ISP for their latency limits, I used to work for Comcast for 5 years and I host various dedicated gaming servers from home and I can tell you with certainty that if pings got over 150ms on the Comcast side to your modem (which is usually a ping from the local/regional office to your modem) you could request a tech (which they cant refuse) as they can adjust settings at the poll or node to drop those times (to a point) as its usually a filter gone/going bad. It also depends on your line quality (I've seen some bad ones that they couldn't do anything about even replacing the entire line up to the node), other times it's a modem problem (the scientific atlanta 2100/webstar and Terayon modems were notorious). It could be buffer bloat as others suggested above but I would give the ISP a call and request a tech out first and do the easy fix before messing with your own hardware, especially if that same hardware never had any issues with other ISPs.
-----Server Side----
* HLSW support (game server management tool), existing rcon/web based console sucks
* Forked servers (multi core CPU support would rock here)
* improved CPU use (I have had single instance of doom3 server use 40% cpu, vs 5% for left 4 dead 2 in dedicated server mode for both)
----Client/Game side----
* multi gpu support if better graphics / higher resolutions were used
* game graphics are a bit dark
* ability to use custom sound track in game instead of using some sort of media player in the background (windows mp, amarok, last.fm, etc)
* EAX support for win vista/7 (so you dont have to use Alchemy)
64-bit support for both client/server would be cool for upwards compatibility and ipv6 for the same reason.
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seems like a ripoff of Robot Combat League that was on Sci-fi -1-2 years back
One of the few times I approve of what anonymous is doing.
Say goodbye to certain channels on other networks in a few years...
It depends on your ISP for their latency limits, I used to work for Comcast for 5 years and I host various dedicated gaming servers from home and I can tell you with certainty that if pings got over 150ms on the Comcast side to your modem (which is usually a ping from the local/regional office to your modem) you could request a tech (which they cant refuse) as they can adjust settings at the poll or node to drop those times (to a point) as its usually a filter gone/going bad. It also depends on your line quality (I've seen some bad ones that they couldn't do anything about even replacing the entire line up to the node), other times it's a modem problem (the scientific atlanta 2100/webstar and Terayon modems were notorious). It could be buffer bloat as others suggested above but I would give the ISP a call and request a tech out first and do the easy fix before messing with your own hardware, especially if that same hardware never had any issues with other ISPs.
-----Server Side----
* HLSW support (game server management tool), existing rcon/web based console sucks
* Forked servers (multi core CPU support would rock here)
* improved CPU use (I have had single instance of doom3 server use 40% cpu, vs 5% for left 4 dead 2 in dedicated server mode for both)
----Client/Game side----
* multi gpu support if better graphics / higher resolutions were used
* game graphics are a bit dark
* ability to use custom sound track in game instead of using some sort of media player in the background (windows mp, amarok, last.fm, etc)
* EAX support for win vista/7 (so you dont have to use Alchemy)
64-bit support for both client/server would be cool for upwards compatibility and ipv6 for the same reason.