Renn so wait, KoG produces efficient™ yet not maintainable code, therefore fixing it is not a solution? Sheesh, I wonder what other features this code possesses. Also nice way of dodging the bullet. "Let's address the underlying issue." – "No, you can't, we must ban them!" If someone suggests to ban all Mexicans and my attitude towards that is "can we please not?", we won't reach any agreement by banning half the Mexicans or peacefully™ banning them.
Also, just to make it clear, I never claimed lag not to be a result of physics or material conditions. However, even after pointing out the arrows of causality, you went on to make the claim, that lag suddenly springs into existence when you get matched against people from LatAm, in the German thread. I think you should ask yourself how those views fit together.
Now, I am going to make an unpopular opinion, a really bold claim. I expect misunderstanding and ridicule and the moderators are going to hate me for doing that. Some may find this trivial, some hard to understand, some correct, some wrong. Here it goes: People from the LatAm community do not cause lag.
Nexxon If the LatAm community makes a suggestion, in which they demand a non-lagging spanish client from Gameforge, you can support their suggestions. But even if you are fluent in Spanish, something tells me that that's not what you're ranting about.
As far as your three point rating scheme is concerned, why did you choose those three and not any other consideration, that one would make? I can tell you the one thought I have before running any game and that is: Do I expect to have fun playing it? I think many of you do the same, whatever factors you include in your critical assessment beyond that is deeply personal. Also, you will disturb players and not just through lag.
Your assessment of my elitist argument comes from no background. Never did I claim the servers to be weak, that's literally not the point. The servers can be as strong as they want and the people as close to it as possible, their experience if something sometime just takes a little bit longer than they want to will be one filled with rage. This is especially true if the player perceives a game to be lost due to that one lag spike, even if the game itself was fine by most others. My point is that elitists have always claimed certain people to be too laggy for "their" game and wanted to remove them for being "disturbing" and you can look back in the history of many online games to see "ban laggers" suggestions along with different and highly subjective standards™ for good ping.
The argument however, that you or others who make it deserve this game or any other more than someone with a slightly (or even strongly) weaker connection is ridiculous. It is not even grounded in anecdotal evidence, it's just calling for supremacy.