Rule 6 Query

[Jimothy]

Coming back yet again (can't stay away) I decided to re-read the rules to check any changes, and one struck my eye as peculiar:

Following actions are considered cheating on server:

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Disabling vSync to gain a framerate of 160 or higher.

Now, I don't actually think my old machine could actually achieve this, but I'm curious on the reasoning behind it. Can anyone enlighten me?

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I was formerly know as Spiritar.

It's been a while.

[Echo 7-7]

While it has no visible effect on the client's gameplay, other players who witness players with framerate >160 observe an effect called "jittering", where the observed ship jumps around the screen. This is a particular problem with PvP combat as it grants the player an unfair advantage.

From a technical perspective, this is because the jittering player's client recalculates the ship's position for every frame, and this positional data is sent to the server. The server then sends that to other clients which can't "fit" all of that data into the same number of frames, leading to the jumping / jittering effect.

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[Jimothy]

Aha, that 'splains it then. Thanks

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I was formerly know as Spiritar.

It's been a while.