Hello manoo,
last few days few players warned me that I need to set delay to 117 ms for online tournaments matches, and from everything they said it looks like it is some kind of rule that has to be done.
I don't understand why I should change delay (when hosting) to 117 ms in cases when I have very good connection with my opponents and game reads auto delay as 33 (ping around 50 average). I've also notice that in situations when I change delay to 117 when auto delay suggested by game was lower than 50 or so, movement of my player is different and it is hard for me to move and position for shots.
Only explanation I've got is that I should get used to that conditions and learn how to play always with delay 117 ms. I still can't understand why I should make playing conditions worse in case I have possibility to make connection with someone with low delay and lag.
Can you please explain with some more details what is the influence of higher delay than ping on game play ? I remeber some discussion after one update of TE 2009 when lot of people complained about sliding in movement, and you suggested us to wait for delay to stabilize or to change delay from auto to some value that is most close to half of ping value.
In these situations I am talking about opponents asking me to play with delay that is more than double higher than average ping and playing is such conditions changes game for me so much, my service percentage is worse, and also I am sending much more balls in out, also movement is different especially in changing movement direction.
Can someone of mods also try to explain this and explain is this rule that has to be applied for all tournaments matches in future, host always has to setup delay to 117ms or what ?
Thanks