Spring RTS Engine

Yeah I guess you're right... I might grab a laptop or something...

Satellite is faster, you want to get lots of downloads, bingo, but to explain the latency it's like this.


Dial-Up: ooooooooooooooooooooooo

Bits of information^^^^^

Less data transferred, but low loss.


Satellite: X____X______X_____X_____X

Jiggablobs of info ^ ^ >^<loss

empty signal where spring needs to update faster than you can.

Burst transmission is not the reason for its latency. It's the fact that there are more places that packets have to go in a round trip.

computer > satellite > gateway > internets > gateway > satellite > computer, as opposed to
computer > gateway > internets > gateway > computer