aaaaaaaargh! i had no phone (again) for the past few days because the line was down. first, cie decided to remove the telephone polls (see previous update) which isn't a big problem, but that left the wires going along the tracks. this left our phone line at the mercy of about 15 tiny kids who live in a terrace next to the house. when they got bored of train-dodging and throwing gas bottles at trains, they thought it would be funny to put our phone line on the tracks to see what would happen when a train ran over it....

its back now anyway, and i'm looking forward to see whether or not they'll laugh when i tell them that i'll kick the shit out of them if they make me miss a bw league match. speaking of bwdml, week 1 was great - immeasurably better than the wpdml. fh's division (3b) is very competitive, with nearly all the clans being similar ability. the best thing about the league imo, is the challenge posed by the foreign clans who do not play on uk servers or in other uk leagues. in our division, there is a portuguese clan, a belgian clan, an irish clan (us), a few uk clans, and a hungarian clan. you would think a clan from somewhere like hungary couldn't compete in a uk league, but they showed in week 1 that this is not a case. i would love to see a demo of that game, because this hungarian clan, z3 beat a uk clan (i think they're uk... potzw) by 121-37... on dm7 - one of the most ping reliant maps in the game. as mp said on the news page, bigfoot's predictions have already begun to crumble.... this is because he gave too much importance to wpdml results, and based his predictions mainly around these, from what i can see.

there is a few things i want to know... why are our pings so bad in leagues now? i get a ping of 55 solid on bw clanarena server with ocean usually (sometimes its about 80), even when the server is loaded with slpb fag9ts. i'm not complaining about ping... i just want to find out if it is possible to fix it. do other isdn players (uk players?) suffer from 120+ pings in fights on wpdml and bw league servers? i still think wpdml servers are just gay.. but i would not expect that from barrysworld. so what could it be caused by... isp? isp doesn't matter, because there have been times when fh would all be on different isp's, but our pings would be sky high together - once dest and lorcan overflowed from the server at the exact same time, no way thats isp (lorc on modem, dest on isdn: diff isp's). so i was thinking its caused by broadband settings - maxpackets 100, rate 10000? what does barrysworld cap the rates at... assuming its 8000, is that high enough to flood our isdn and give us all pings of 140 in fights? why does this only happen in some matches, and are there any settings we can use so that we don't feel the effects as much? mindphuck/jedi - have hat and bio been experiencing the same thing? i know acid are. if it is the case that the cable fag9ts high settings are lagging us out and that there is nothing we can do to counter this, then we should at least let the people running the leagues know about it... nobody is complaining!!