

This is a vicious circle too as those who do experience horrific pings on a server due to PAC will _accuse the Server itself for being the cause of "lag"_ when in actual fact it's not the server's fault at all but _the forced downloads of other player's PACs. Their ping can skyrocket up to 999+ ping, meaning they are unable to play on a server whatsoever.

This wouldn't be an issue if everyone had fast Internet, however we sadly do not live in such a world.ĭue to people's misuse of PAC in such a fashion, those with slow Internet are unable to enjoy themselves as their bandwidth gets saturated with Web Content downloads from PAC. This Image should give you a good overview as to why we need such Control:Ī lot of people these days are putting far too much Web Content (WebAudio, ogg, obj, custom textures etc.) in their PACs, mostly by treating PAC as a music library and having all other clients download their content.
