Red Chain and dysyncing

[battlepanda50 9]

Hi all,

so in a month of playing I have found a single server that does not give me that 10sec dysync chain every 10-15mins or so.

upon checking everyone for their ping it seems to be server wide so I'm pretty sure it's nothing to do with my end

afraid to say I killed some poor chump during it in the supermarket in polana, shot him 15 times in the head, server resynced and he fell over dead,

I admit it's a bitch move but what else can you do.

So is this a general problem with arma 2 servers that we just have to deal with? are the servers naff/not set up right?

just what exactly is the cause of a 10sec dysync for everybody on the server every few mins?

p.s sorry if that was you in the corner of the supermarket with a silenced mp5, I didn't feel good about it.

p.p.s not hating on the people who run these things for us, it just blows that the game keeps freaking out.

[UbiquitousGayGuy 1]

It's a server<> hive issue

[azunai 32]

spawning weapons, helicopters, teleporting around cause desyncs or at least thats what i experienced

and ofc the fact that there are 999999 servers totaly wrong configured or underpowerd specs / slots and what not

which is in addition more stress to the hive and therefore a global issue ...

[battlepanda50 9]

yeah that's what I guessed, hopefully in time it will sort its self out

[[email protected] 37]

It has nothing to do with you and for the most part it has nothing to do with the server. What is happening most of the time is the server is waiting for the HIVE cluster to respond. It's not going to directly affect you so long as the pending writes actually happen. If, for example, you loot NVGs and before the server is able to send this information to the HIVE a meteor wipes it out, well the next server you login to isn't going to be showing you with NVGs anymore.

[battlepanda50 9]

What if anything do you guys do about this, a 10sec desync of the whole server every few mins seems a bit much.

It's enough time to die about 20 times before you even know what's going on.

Sure it's going to happen from time to time even on the best servers but what do you guys deem acceptable as I might

be being too picky in my search for a server that keeps a connection (most of the time), every 10mins/15mins?

I'd be happy with once an hour.