Phoenix session now

[Made2Fade]

i'll setup a room now guys. i have a 20mb cable connection so it might be a little better.

i'll call it rcheliaddicts3

dude i have 20mb also, it doesnt matter its just not happening... they have no excuse for this other than they have a bloody crap server operating this thing. I think that coupled with a a few bugs and we are getting nowhere fast.
Cheers
Lee

[Tim Procter]

Bloody quick reply there from Phoenix guy's.

Same answer as before though unfortunately.

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[FONT='Arial Black','sans-serif']Hi Tim[/FONT]
[FONT='Arial Black','sans-serif']We are sorry that you are having problems connecting to online sessions.[/FONT]
[FONT='Arial Black','sans-serif']Connection problems as you suggest in your email are nearly always router related.[/FONT]
[FONT='Arial Black','sans-serif']On your router, have your forwarded UDP ports 9000-9005 to your computer’s internal IP address?[/FONT]
[FONT='Arial Black','sans-serif']Also, we are currently spending a great deal of effort on reworking and improving the multiplayer/online aspects of Phoenix, and this will be included in the next update.[/FONT]
[FONT='Arial Black','sans-serif']Best Regards[/FONT]
[FONT='Arial Black','sans-serif']Phoenix Support[/FONT]

[Made2Fade]

"Also, we are currently spending a great deal of effort on reworking and improving the multiplayer/online aspects of Phoenix, and this will be included in the next update"

That says it all for me... if there wasnt something wrong then why would they need to improve anything... bah humbug!!!
So whats their excuse when you have opened those ports?
Cheers
Lee

[raptorheli2]

lee, i wasn't dissin anyone or their connection. right now 3 people are in my room and it's fine. my point was maybe it was bobs connection making it this bad.

cheers

[heliTV]

Me too - tried an online session and couldn't get in.... How about all of us the registered users on the forum get a petition together... I'd be happy to organise it.... Something like:-

Following a series of less than complimentary posts on the RC Heli Addicts forum, we believe that the developers and management of Phoenix should be made aware of the clear problems with the multiplayer facility in the current release. These are an important part of the program and clearly do not work as advertised.

Whilst Phoenix is considered by most on the forum to be the best simulator for RC helicopters, this problem and the apparent lack of response from the development team is certainly encouraging many to look elsewhere.

We would be grateful if you would inform us of the proposed action to rectify the problems together with a timescale for a fix.

I'll e-mail this to Phoenix early next week. If you want to have your name included, PM your real name to me... maybe a collective response from the forum may have more influence?

Any suggested improvements gratefully received!!

All the best

Graham

[Tim Procter]

They are already reading this post Graham.

I sent the link to this thread.

Keep complaining, Its the only way.

[raptorheli2]

guys, i don't want to be pessimistic but imo it's not fixable or it would have been fixed a long time ago. there is something vastly wrong/missing/coded incorrectly causing this lag/connection problems. it is the same with sharpening up the cyclics, it's not going to happen so i feel it's one of those things now and need to live with it. the software is at its limit without being re-written completely imo.

i have never seen a "game" so laggy in my life as this sim usually is. even if there is only a couple of people on it lags if someone else crashes. can you imagine if every time someone was killed on call of duty online the other 9 people lagged...........exactly.........very annoying.

cheers

[Tim Procter]

it's not going to happen so i feel it's one of those things now and need to live with it.

Paul.

With all due respect as far as I'm concerned if we have to "live with it" the sessions just might as well be erased from the software.

Its not working for me and its not working for dozens more.

Sad but true.

Phoenix, Either fix it or erase it from your product. Period.

[Made2Fade]

lee, i wasn't dissin anyone or their connection. right now 3 people are in my room and it's fine. my point was maybe it was bobs connection making it this bad.

cheers

I didnt say you were mate lol, i was merely stating this is definately an issue no matter what connection you have.
Cheers
Lee

[raptorheli2]

guys, i 100% agree but you can only **** into the wind for so long.

perhaps there is a v3 in the background and will cure all our ills.

in mean time i'll continue to use phoenix offline and realflight online for the most part.

cheers

[Made2Fade]

If it continues for much longer ill be chucking phoenix out the window and moving over to realflight for definate. Thats how pee'd off i am. Such a shame as its by far the best simulator but over 50% of that for me is because it has multiplayer. To be honest any simulator that hasnt got multiplayer these days is totally lacking. When i purchase a game for my xbox 360 i look at the back of the box, if it aint got some sort of multiplayer aspect then i dont usually buy it. At the end of the day these things arnt cheap (even though Phoenix is far cheaper than the others) and then to get something that ill performs. I mean if they had of charged the same as other sims but promised seemless multiplayer (like realflight) then i would have been happy to pay the extra. But to be honest they have had that many updates for it now that this should have been sorted a long time ago. How can they call something an update that doesnt work properly??? More like a downdate.
Cheers
Lee

[Tim Procter]

Well said Lee.

[Made2Fade]

Well lets just hope they are reading this Tim... as you can tell its bugging me.... this is like every night now that you cant get in a session though. If i wanted to fly on my own id have kept my copy of reflex and never bothered getting phoenix. Its a let down because to be honest it was a bloody fantastic sim before this version 2 update. Right Rant definately over now... i promise lol.
Cheers
Lee

[tourerjim]

I think we're all p***ed of with Phoenix online session so perhaps we should all at the same time contact Phoenix to complain, each time tonight i try to log into a session it throws me out F ing thing.

[heliTV]

Just e-mailed Phoenix - with some questions - let's see what response I get...