Not too many notes I want to be writing right now...

Begin RANT 002: Continental Connection

Eh. Shorter then the last rant... Oh well.

Sooo... Last file I told about my history and all... Now for something actually pertaining to jMS...

Right, we Amerika-jin are IP Banned on jMS. How do we fix it? We use laggy programs that clog up the connection so much and makes your character look like it's in the matrix! It's fun! Seriously/end sarcasm

I know I'm totally going to get one of those "play in your own version" things in my reviews but whatever. I honestly could care less. I've already played that version and I didn't and still don't like it. It's as simple as that. However, I'm playing a game I lag with a framerate that's slower then a denden and I can't do anything about it! Yeah. Sounds wonderful, huh?

Not to mention, if your "cruddy, laggy" program goes down, you automatically disconnect from the game. Usually this happens at the time I call "JP High Tide" where a ton of Japanese people start playing MapleStory. This doesn't really bode well for me as the majority of the time, I party quest at night at that time (it's really easy to get a party and PQ with no tracks or strings!). This forces me to give up party quest which is what I practically revolve my gameplay time too. Nope, not good at all.

I was never really much of a grinder and we just got enough PQs to last you through till level 110... I think... I'm really only a master at PQs that are 70 and below.

The... uhh... "worser" part about cruddy, laggy programs is that your friends lag as well. Now I don't know about you but that's a bad thing - especially if your machine is a pile of crud that can't function above a capacity o' half a stick of 256 MB RAM. Yes. I have friends that have that bad of a machine. That is completely true and guys, if you are reading this, no offense. And send me your darn machines so I can upgrade them!

I grazed the tip of matrix lag right? Wait.. Lemme scroll up... Yep. I did. Matrix lag is EVIL! Once those darn monsters stop moving you don't know where you're aiming at. Is it air? Or is it the actual hitbox of the monster graphic causing the damage you hoped for? Nope. No idea. I probably wasted about 2000+ bow arrows and 400+ crossbow arrows finding out on Kaede. Keyaki was a ton nicer since I was a warrior and I usually just wasted about 8/9 of my MP trying to see if my Power Strike connected. Nooottt exactly the best thing for my wallet. [Even though I had about 15m worth of stuff by the time I was level 48; it's nice when you have 500 Unagi and 475 Blue Potions in your disposal

Oh, and monsters can hit you while you can't hit them - as demonstrated by my good buddy, Toffee! I seriously can't remember how many times you died because of the matrix, man. I only got about 43 screenies of you floating when you were logging in...

Kidding...! That'd kill my already-almost-full hard drive.

So half the time I just stand around in the training area killing a few things, then kicking back, chatting and waiting for the monsters to die. The lag really makes you stand out... And since that rumor of Kaede people being hostile is possibly true, I really can't train anywhere near Henseys, specifically, Henseys Hunting Ground. That's like a ticket to "defame-age". Unfortunately, I'm a crossbowmen in that overly-populated server and I HAVE to go there sooner or later.

Really... You can't even connect to Kaede when it's JP High Tide. Practically all 18 channels of that place is filled. It seriously might beat Scania... Of all servers, It actually could beat Scania!

I demand that you buy better servers Nexon!

Back to the dying monsters though before I go off on an essay about how much I hate Nexon.

5 minutes later I get a pile of EXP, the monsters die, there's a layer of drops and loot on the ground and the monsters immediately respawn to kill you once you're done picking that stuff up. That's the matrix for you! All because of a laggy program that forces you to "share" your 100 mbps of jMS time with about 50 people you know and probably 50+ other people you don't know.

Now when you're trying to regain your map you get the legendary Toffee Portal Lag! You go into a portal, the screen goes black and it doesn't turn on till an eternity later! You finally get to your map... Look! There's a nice I/L mage killing the bacon you were making with a LEVEL 5 THUNDERBOLT! Joy!

However, your screen locks up. Oh no! It's frozen! Nope... Your stupid 3rd party internet connection program died on you. Oh well. 30 seconds to reconnect -- What? You can't get into that overly filled server? Too bad.

Yep. That's basically how life goes in jMS Kaede. Any other server is a totally different story.

Go through all that again but omit the "overly filled server" part, replace to "connect to find everyone had DCed and is getting the idiotic GameGuard error that tells you about the end of the world... Or that you disconnected and GameGuard is glitched so you can't login till you restart your computer a bazillion times."

That's the circle of life, people!

- Makino Yukai/Tamodachi Cookie

P.S. Look up the Japanese word for "snail"

end (the short) Rant: 002