High Sim Speed, Low Frame Rate Online, Any Ideas?

500 ping is above the 350 net lag treshold so that would lag your game.

Also, if two people have a lousy connection between them, then that lags the whole game, right? So even if your pings looks fine, the ping between some others might be to blame.

If you serve, lower the sim speed (assuming I understand things correctly). Demigod isn`t really apt for twitch gaming anyway.

The 500ms player was laging and creating a small slideshow, killing your FPS.

you can not play dg with anyone above 350 and that 350 better be a strong 350. This is what i do when i host anyone over 250 i kick. anyone thats over 200 on proxy i kick.

I have recently encountered this kind of problem myself.

2vs2 Pantheon game on cateract; I'm based in the UK,  I had an average of 230 ping to both opponents (wouldn't tell me where they were from) and my team mate was from Germany - average of 90 ping.  3 of us had sim speed between 7-10 but one of my opponents had sim speed 4-5 pretty much from the very begining, I thought he might be the problem but his team mate said sim speed 4 should still be able to handle at least 2X default game speed.  HOWEVER, the game was running at maybe 10fps at best, possibly lower at times.  Turned into a complete slideshow and was impossible to play.

I would disagree, a lot of abilities and items have very quick cast times eg. 1sec -1.5sec, you need split-second reactions to interupt them but with such a huge delay on inputs it becomes extremely difficult and based more on luck than skill.

Hi, Porkus.  I'm one of your opponents that had sim speed 4-5 pretty much from the very beginning.  Although you never asked during the match (you make it sound like you did), I'll have you know that I am from the US.  I believe, however, that you are exaggerating how bad the lag situation was.  While it is true that the match wasn't running at a frame rate that we all would have preferred due to the cross-continental connection, I think that your claim that it was "impossible to play" was only an excuse to abandon your ally and quit the match when you began to perceive yourself on the losing end of it.  I bet that if you were comfortably winning, you would've been very much inclined to stay.  Another possibility is that you just decided to quit when my ally and I, both Oaks, really began to outmatch you, an Unclean Beast, in head-on combat, knowing how you feel about Generals versus Assassins from the other thread.

Also, I hope that you don't always blame your own mistakes or slowness with using abilities that end up getting you killed on lag.  I consider myself to be a pretty good Oak player, but even I can admit to occassionally winding up dead because I fumbled with popping the Shield or Cloak of Night.

And one more thing.  In your hurry to quit the match, you missed my response to your statement about your supposed framerate troubles:

Your mom is running at 10 fps

1.  I did ask where you guys were from, I believe your response was someting along the lines of "your moms vagina".  Indeed this seemed to be the hilarious and witty responce to anything I said in open chat.

2. I did not abandon my ally, I said that I found the lag intollerable and he agreed at which point I told him I was going to find another game, to which he responded "OK".  If he took issue with my leaving I can only assume there was some kind of language barrier but he seemed to understand my english perfectly fine.

3.  Attempting to time abilities  against 2 oaks using pentintence is pretty difficult at the best of times, with mistakes easily costing the game.  With the game stuttering from time to time, it made predicting when using certain items was safe pretty much impossible.

4.  Enjoy your broken class.

Well there's your problem.

Fair enough, then, if you left with your ally's consent, although I will continue to suspect that you departed more for reasons besides lag troubles.  I must correct you, however, that even though a variation of "your mom" is my common response to many statements, "vagina" is not of my usual vocabulary.

And I very much will enjoy my broken class, thank you.