zoning optimization?

[maskedmelon]

Originally Posted by kaev [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

:shrug:
I started in '99 with a 200MHz Pentium MMX, 128MB of RAM, and a 64MB Voodoo Banshee video card, over 56K dial-up. Zone times were ~ 10 seconds on average. I remember having to wait ~15 seconds after being trained out of Crushbone or I'd zone back before the train reset. Maybe that was a good rig at the time, seemed pretty unimpressive compared to what my friends were playing online FPS games with. I do recall people with non-Voodoo video complaining a lot about performance.

My box in 2000 was a 266mhz with 48mb of RAM and a 16mb Voodoo 3 (I upgraded from some stellar 2mb onboard graphics to make play smoother ^^)

My zone times were 5min+ in Velious and I would often get booted from groups while zoning because they'd thought I went LD even after explaining that I was a SLOW zoner. The best part was, group changes while zoning caused you to become group bugged, requiring you to log, so I spent a couple more mins logging out and 5 more to log back in.

I couldn't take the boats to Kunark either because I wouldn't some in until the boat had already left the zone causing me to immediately return to loading. Was only able to escape the load loop in BB. Great times ^^