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A command latency over 30ms hurts a lot. And I don't even play competitively. 250ms was not noticed? Absolute nonsense. A quarter of a second is gigantic when it comes to latency.

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But that was a time when sub 100ms latency for networked gaming had never really been experienced. If you never played faster you wouldn't notice it when it's slower, I'd think.

People played lan games all the time with very low latency - I actually had to patch the code specially for the exhibition match at the AOK ReleaseToManufacture party because the Lan they were using had <1 msec latency - we had never had close to that even in our office so my code didn't handle it well and performed poorly on that optimal network.

LAN times were typically 14 to 20 msec ping on our blazing fast 10Mbits office lan at Ensemble Studios.

I specifically said networked....

I guess I could have specified networked over the Internet......

The word "Networked" could mean either a LAN (Local Area Network) or an internet connection.

The word "networked" is instead used to distinguish from "non-networked" gaming, which involves playing on a single PC. This could be either a single-player game like the Starcraft campaign, a turn-based hotseat game like Civilization hotseat, or a simultaneous shared-keyboard game like Achtung, die Kurve!

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