Ping steadily increasing to client for one map, but not another. Not ded svr; limited to 3 plyrs.

@Jugginator

So, here's an interesting update.  Last night I removed all the engines from the generator banks, and the ammo from all the turrets.

I then shut down the game, and removed the power.dat file.  I restarted the game, and my friend from PA logged on.

The ping was normal (95) and I installed all the engines (30) back into the generator banks.  Without wiring, I decided to be procedural about debugging the cause, so I fired up the generators with no wiring.  Interestingly, the ping did go up to about 300, then fluctuated, and slowly came down to a little over 100.

I wired up 1/3 of the turrets, with the generators off, and the ping was normal; maybe just slightly high.

BUT, as I turned on each generator, the ping went higher and higher.  With the first generator on, it went to around 1,500.  When the second one was turned on, the ping went to around 5,500.  With the third one on, the ping was slowly climbing, and I shut everything off and called it quits when the ping was over 20k, as my friend was lagging so far behind, he couldn't effectively wire anything further.

If you have any ideas for debugging on my end (software tools, logging tools) I'd be willing to do some legwork to help sort it out.  

I could just delete the region and start over, but I suspect it will happen to others, who may be unable, or unwilling to take the time to report it.

As always, thanks for the time to help, I'd imagine you're spread thinly playing whack-a-mole with issues like mine.

 
What in the world lol.

As for debugging... I'd use perfmon to monitor resources, see if your (host) and client's CPU/RAM/Networking (I suspect networking) are being hogged up, one of those will narrow it down a bit.

That is really crazy yet interesting thanks for doing that and reporting. You're definitely right about what-a-mole issues as of recent LOL, have quite a few on my plate, but I think I'll put the base on a world on dedi and see whats up. I'll test my in-house client-server combo then try with another tester.

@Sum Ting Wong Hey you said you were wiring then said your friend was wiring, did the ping get to over 20k after he started wiring things himself?

 
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