Missionary, My Thoughts Options

[Widow Maker]

I think the concept of Missionary is great but if you’re going to run it then mandate it and run it all the time. The way it is currently you are penalizing the honest players who run it and giving the hackers a bigger advantage then what the already had. What I mean by penalizing the honest players is this, when you run Missionary (at least this is my experience) you add a tremendous amount of lag and your frame rates go down the toilet. It plays like you were connected via a dialup modem instead of having a kick ass cable connection.

The bottom line is this, why would one want to degrade his game play so the cheaters keep on cheating and honest people like myself suffer by running Missionary.

The only way to making it an even playing field is to mandate Missionary all the time so everyone will have the same game play (lag) and no one will have the advantage.

I don't mind running Missionary but I would like equal game play.

My Thoughts and they probably stink.....


WM

[Druid]

For the people complaining about the lag being so bad, here are a few tips

Window Services
The default install of 2000 or XP has 40+ services running, most are useless and only take up unneeded memory and cpu time.
I disable the junk and now only have 18 window services running in the background compared to the original 42.
Here is the best site I've found for helping pick which background services to disable.
http://www.blackviper.com/WIN2K/servicecfg.htm

3rd Party Background Programs
Half of the software people install will add programs running in the background.
The process tab on task manager will show you all the process running in the background. If you have problems identify any particular process you can do a search here
http://www.windowsstartup.com/wso/browse.php?l=0

Missionary Priority set to realtime
Someone reported this helped them, I've no idea if it will or not.
If you wat to try here is how

Start Missionary
Open task manager by right clicking on the task bar or Control-Alt-Delete
Pick the process tab
Right click on missionary.exe
Choose Set Priority>>> Realtime

Shut down unneeded process inside of missionary
Before you join the server, go to
Tools/Help>>>Tools>>>Shut Down Processes
Double click any listed processes you don't need running.
You can close anything you want without a lot of worry.
Everything will be back to normal after you restart your computer.

If anyone follows the tips listed above and still finds the lag from missionary to be so bad it stops them from use it.
The next step would be to install VNC and allow me to remotely connect to your computer and check your setup for problems. I will happily take the time to help solve your problems one by one.