Well, Today I decided "why not get my rank up?" I was boored, not much to do, and armory didn't have many on.

 

So i look for some ranked server. Probaly all I see for the players thing is:

 

32/32

32/32

64/64

64/64

64/64

32/32

...

63/64

 

So i Quickly join the unfull one, and of course "This server is full. I even found a server with 9/54, and when I told saggi the IP it was full!

 

So Finaly i got into a server. Got ready to play, and oh my god do those damn servers lag! Infact, 90% of the ranked servers had a ping of 200+, and even one that had a ping of 100 was unplayable.

 

now granted, I did find *1* server that worked, and worked smoothly, but it was a little 16 player deal.

 

 

Also, it isn't my pc. The Armory runs great on my machine, with little or no lag unless i'm in hectic firefights.

 

What i'm saying is, Common EA! you make us play on "your" servers to get up our rank, and then you make your servers nearly unplayable? Common...

 

They shot theirselves in the foot with this Ranked server crap. I like the idea of ranks, but if we have to play on their servers (which is near impossible) , whats the point?

Well, Today I decided "why not get my rank up?" I was boored, not much to do, and armory didn't have many on.

 

So i look for some ranked server. Probaly all I see for the players thing is:

 

32/32

 

32/32

 

64/64

 

64/64

 

64/64

 

32/32

 

...

 

63/64

 

So i Quickly join the unfull one, and of course "This server is full. I even found a server with 9/54, and when I told saggi the IP it was full!

 

So Finaly i got into a server. Got ready to play, and oh my god do those damn servers lag! Infact, 90% of the ranked servers had a ping of 200+, and even one that had a ping of 100 was unplayable.

 

now granted, I did find *1* server that worked, and worked smoothly, but it was a little 16 player deal.

 

Also, it isn't my pc. The Armory runs great on my machine, with little or no lag unless i'm in hectic firefights.

 

What i'm saying is, Common EA! you make us play on "your" servers to get up our rank, and then you make your servers nearly unplayable? Common...

 

They shot theirselves in the foot with this Ranked server crap. I like the idea of ranks, but if we have to play on their servers (which is near impossible) , whats the point?

I've heard this in another thread about ranked servers:

 

16 player = 56k

 

32 player = cable

 

64 player = t1/lan

 

And it's probably true, I've tried a 64player ranked server and it was really laggy. then i jumped into a 32player and it wasnt all that bad. I have cable.

Yeah, I'm not joining the 64 ones anymore except for TAC. But trying to get into some of the others are next to impossible...

HARDWARE

Minimum system - Join servers that have up to 16 players

 

Recommended systems - Join servers that have up to 32 players

 

High end systems - Join servers that have up to 64 players

 

BANDWIDTH

ISDN users - Join games with a maximum of 16 players.

 

ADSL/Cable users - Join games with a maximum of 32 players.

 

T1/LAN users - Join games with a maximum of 64 players.

Yeah I know.

 

its not as much as the lag, The 16 and 32 player servers are fine, but its the fact i can never get into one, because they are alwas full! Its very anoying

i'm having the same problems, i can only join 16 and 32 player servers but they are all full.

Give it time guys!! It's a brand new game! Neither EA nor any other company for that matter could possibly implement a fix for every problem that rears its ugly head instantaneously.

 

It' just like when valve launched STEAM, about 99.9% of everyone on STEAM hated it, but I'll have to say that now, for me anyways, it works almost flawlessly, I've purchased 3 games through there system, and it was flawless. My start times are 5 times faster than when it launched.

 

So give it a little time, and I promise the bugs will get worked out.

It sure was nice of EA to make enough servers for about 1/20th of the community that plays BF2.

It sure was nice of EA to make enough servers for about 1/20th of the community that plays BF2.

Wasn't it?

 

Its not the bugs or anything that anoy me. its the simple fact that there are no where near enough servers to possibly hold all the players that play BF2.

This morning I spent 40 minutes attempting to connect to a ranked server (since playing on unranked servers is completely pointless). I just want to be able to load up BF2 and play on an EA East Coast server with a decent ping. Please!

I like the unranked servers. I got the demo 'crack' that gave you all the weapons in single-player, and they all blew. The only one worthy of mention was the G36C, because it didn't have much recoil. All the rest of the guns don't put you above anyone else.

Here is one more thing to throw out at ya. I was reading some of the BF2 forums, and someone pointed out the fact that the "ranked" servers (rented by clans) are running private. So a clan goes in their "private" server and helps each other out by racking up points. The system is flawed bigtime.

 

EA had laggy servers with Vietnam, and now they provide you with laggy servers for BF2. If you want a smooth server, and good teamplay, please feel free to join us at the Amroy's "Unranked, low-life, skanky server" . Simply type the keyword "armory" and you will see it. We will be lowering the player count to around 40-players (or so) to make it more accomodating to all.

I <3 heart Gator for working hard to get us a nice server to play on with 50-70ish pings Gator fan club T-shirts for sale!!!!!!! Yay...

I really want to play on the Armory, and I sometimes due, but the allure of ranks is getting to me.

Must get more medals!

We will be lowering the player count to around 40-players (or so) to make it more accomodating to all.

Gator, I think maybe you should lower the map-type to 32 and keep it around 50 players. I joining servers, and I had the most fun on a 32-map with around 50 people. It's more action packed, and geared to teamplay.

That sounds like fun but it makes me lag when huge firefights are going on so in a small map im going to be lag all over the place O,o.

EA sacrificing the integrity and overall availability to content paid for so they can make some extra cash. Wonderful.

EA sacrificing the integrity and overall availability to content paid for so they can make some extra cash. Wonderful.

who woulda guessed?

 

-G

Yup, there sure are problems. But it's still the best game in its genre ever created.

 

Be sure to stop by the BF2 Tracker. If you played AA, this is just like AAtracker (created by same group). It tracks stats across all servers whether they are "ranked" or not, based on querying each server's gamespy port. Not perfect, but it worked pretty well with AA.

Ah great, not another tracker, if you screw up once or when you let ur little brother play once it takes months to get a good score again :s nevertheless, i'm registering

I don't have any issues with the servers, other than trying to get in one. Their full pretty much all the time. School needs to kick back in so the kiddies go back

 

There are some bad servers out there, the Art of War Central servers I try to avoid, they lag for me. Other than that, 32 up to 64 player servers work fine.