Maniaplanet Forum

Is it me, my connection or just simply the game? No, i am not just imagining it, i play everyday on a friends server and yes he does have excellent connection but not so much for me.. I am on a provider called hughesnet by satellite, the speeds are pretty good (1.5mb/s DL - 245kb/s UL) and for my ping, its hard to say, when the network is idle its around 600 and when someone such as me starts gaming on it (just 1 game) the ping will rise up to or even go over 1700ms- 2000ms yes my time does get ignored an incredible amount but that's not my issue.. i think.

My issue is with the times and why ain't i getting the same time as the person in first? I run the map fullspeed, no bumping into walls or crashing of any kind just fullspeed all the way through it. I begin to wonder every single time when i make a time (don't crash, no accident's, no bumping into walls) and like i said, i did the map fullspeed and then someone gets their time.. Their time is 10 seconds better than mine, how is this possible? That's not all, since he made a time.. I can finally go through the map (don't crash, no accident's, no bumping into walls) one more time and my time gets close to his, but if i restart and try again (don't crash, no accident's, no bumping into walls) my time shows its completely impossible.. So is the game rigged or is it something else?

I also made a couple video's that you should look into, tell me what's wrong.. I see about 3 things wrong with them.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jmrlzwy07w7p ... -33-25.mp4
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jmrlzwy07w7p ... -44-41.mp4

They are two totally different matches, both ran fullspeed.

I got it.. I know now why it seems like the game is rigged but it is'nt, i think.

You know when you come flying off a hill side and your car lands in a certain spott on a block or in between two or more blocks? well it matters and it will count against your time if you dont hit the right spott, this is why my friends car was so fast, faster than mine, its because his car was turning, skidding and all that at "the right times of the race" so for that he gets the best time of all... Take a look back at the PF (press forward) maps for an example. You hit the same exact spott everyone else hits or starts/ends the skidding/sliding (aka drifting)

About a week ago I was racing a map and achieved a very strange time, I bumped/slammed into a wall with the side of my car and improved by 5 seconds better than everyone else.