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There are also poor sports who constantly use altitude to avoid any reasonable attempts to be fought by 98% of players and/or when the game is severely out of balance don't take their plane fairy skills to the other team to attempt to make it an enjoyable play experience for others. Sometimes they rack up killstats while their own team can't even hold a flag and loses the game. They don't say much in chat, but their play style says plenty. Can't leave those folks out either.

Last night I didn't experience the lag problem and the spike that I noticed on those hops went away during my play time. I would agree the spikes I saw are likely not the cause, but they may be another symptom that can get us closer to a resolution. 

Considering the strong comments I received from multiple people that it wasn't the server, Russ' comments, and the fact that the problem is still happening, we still can't rule out anything. Can anyone in SiMPLE verify personally that the host company was contacted and has looked at the host environment? Can anyone wireshark to the server? Those answers would seem to take a lot of the mystery from this situation.

Russ - There has never been a complaint about the average response time at the nodes. So I'm not sure what 30ms responses or your astonishingly fast 4ms round-trip have to do with anything, or why the tone of your comment is even necessary. I'm trying to be helpful (and show gratitude) to SiMPLE. While this is what I do professionally, it doesn't make me a genius at anything. But, it also doesn't require a PHD in physics to simply read what was already posted...

Extended pings on every Comcast node listed from the destination through hop 8 revealed huge inconsistent lag bursts (600+ms in some cases) Those spikes could potentially be a cause for performance issues as they appeared to be more frequent than I'm used to seeing on commercial paths of similar complexity. It would be interesting to get several people with different routes together to run the same extended pings and see the results. Additionally several admin have stated in TS and server chat that the server had all but been eliminated as the source of the problem by the host. I'd just like to see the problem solved for the benefit of the server, and I'm really not interested in a pocket-protector pissing match about it. If you have something better to suggest, please?

Thanks trench. The anomalies I found were not present in the tracert I provided above. That was more just a mapping of how my data travels. When I ran an extended ping to each node, I had a reoccurring and discernable spike from the destination down to node 8 (working backwards.) From 7 to me, it was as "clean as a whistle" using the same standard. If we can at least pinpoint where the spikes are happening or what range, Comcast engineers should be somewhat obligated to investigate with their more thorough tools in their own NOC environment. It would be nice to get a couple folks on TS, and run the extended pings and see who gets what, and where.

-lwmq

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VixRaFfuZg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-rq4EvUx2w

The post says MUCH more about you Dakota than it does me. 

I've never really addressed that old video before because it was a tool for harassment from a feud in 2011. Watch it. It was all filmed on one map. One map, one session. The player recording came to me EVERY time I spawned, using a friend on the other team to locate me. So, I suicided every time he did it. Watch the last moments of the video, ask yourself 'how does this player locate a guy in a portal on a ship?' He would do this to be a pest, stop me from capping, or knife me if I was sniping, etc. This very video is in fact just one of the things that player was banned for on that server.

It's a harassment video, and very fitting that Dakota would be the one re-posting it, because he's clearly a classy guy that wants to help resolve Ramstein's connection problem.

Your presentation of incomplete, out of context, or incorrect information comes as no surprise...

Funny, I thought he's asking if he was banned since he can't connect to the server and he's getting a ban message that says he's banned... My conversations with him days ago is moot. Flick responded immediately and didn't cite anything involving me as the issue. But that didn't slow you down one bit.

Yep, but after later discussing with the admin that were actually present during the issue (unlike yourself) I did not. we've covered this.

FALSE - Did I explain that I was clever? How would you know, you weren't there. To the best of my knowledge I made no such statement.

FALSE  - I did what the admin in TS asked me to do at that time. Again were you in TS for this chat that you seem to know so much about? NO.

FALSE  - And this is, for the third time, where I refer you to your own colleagues. But knowing the facts doesn't help your cause does it?

FALSE - I don't see in this thread where you've told the user ANYTHING useful as it pertains to his ban. You instead attempted to continue to make this about me. You are not helping him, you're helping you.

FALSE - I was there, unfortunately, when this unfolded. I was mentioned in the thread by name. What about you? Oh, you saw an opportunity to continue your vendetta.

No thanks. As if I'm not going to reply to your constant misrepresentation. Don't bet on it.

Whatever Ramstein's problem is, which *IS* the issue, it either doesn't involve me or doesn't any longer per the request of your own colleagues. If you don't know the answer, which you clearly don't, back off and let him get his answer. Leave your agenda for me out of it and I will be gratefully done here.

My being an ass or not has nothing to do with this guy's technical problem or ban. I'm sorry you are both unwilling and incapable of realizing that.

Out of respect for what I was asked to do, I will refer you to your colleagues, once again.

Thank you. I really have no beef with you Dakota, and I think you should re-read that thread you mentioned. Everyone had valid points except the folks that chimed in unnecessarily. It appears I hadn't committed an offense worthy of the response and it was a misunderstanding that was sorted out. (Flick was just on serenading us with 80's pop lyrics the other day and my dogs all perked up and ran into the room.) So when you talk about dividing people (whoever "us" is), stop twisting facts to defend your friend - where it's not necessary or even helpful. Please?!

OK, that was also my understanding coming into this. Thanks. I think this issue is basically resolved. I sure as hell hope so.

If that condition should change, the owner of SiMPLE need only to let me know. I have felt very welcomed here and have been able to enjoy a great experience on the server. I would be willing to contribute if and when it is needed.

To summarize:

- It appears that Dink selectively enforced AFK rules, kicking me and leaving others online that had been AFK (in one case for an entire map.) I generally accept AFK kicks (they make perfect sense, and I try not to AFK excessively.) I found it curious that he only chose to kick me and not other AFK players, an action for which he has provided no reasonable explanation.

- Dink kicked me for a fleeting moment of playfulness while reloading that took mere seconds of time to elapse. In game chat Dink stated that I "wasn't playing" as the reason for the kick when I clearly was playing. I had just killed a person about a minute beforehand, and two others moments before that at the flag. The simple logs will show this account to be accurate. Then when I call out Dink's behavior in the Forums for the bogus kick, THE STORY CHANGES and it was that I was "playing disruptively." He clearly feels as if players should be under the level of scrutiny where firing a few rounds off or something innocuous should be cause for a kick. EXCEPT, it's not ALL players, it's just me. The guy he lurks and shadows in game when he's on server. It's a dubious excuse at best.

- The other commentary about googling myself (which I never do but apparently Dink does?!) and other extraneous junk about happenings on other servers is irrelevant and immaterial to my concern about Dink selectively enforcing rules as a means to target me. They are also irrelevant in explaining why Dink is ghosting me in game without any legitimate cause, and using extremely questionable judgment in kicking me from the game for things that NO OTHER PLAYER on your server would be kicked for.

I don't expect to get any accountability from Dink, as he continues to avoid any reasonable explanation of his actions during these specific events yesterday. Dink is more interested in making attacks against me, like disingenuously alleging that I didn't chat to anyone in TS ever (in the last thread, which turned out to be completely false as several admin & users here know.) Alleging that we "both know the truth." in this thread is another disingenuous allegation to spark the idea that I've somehow made this up. Dink says he "can't be bothered to get into this" with me. That's convenient when there's no reasonable explanation for what he did. Interestingly enough, Dink seems to have plenty of time when he's ghosting me in game waiting for an excuse to kick me, and has to resort to kicking me for briefly shooting a wall.

I'm not sure what you're getting at here? My comment was serious and heartfelt. I took some time to write it meaningfully, because it struck a cord with me as I'm sure it did with a lot of people. I think folks should able to fight and disagree about this silly game on the stupid internet without going that quite that far. I think what gets lost often is that there are real live humans on the ends of each of these keyboards. Maybe It's sappy/geeky of me to interject that but I'm OK with it.