My Popular game has terrible ping, but theres a twist

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#1

In my roblox game inspired by “Mall Drifters”, where you drift around but in the backrooms has tooken off and already managed around 100 active players.

You drift around to get points, but this is where the issue begins, No. 1 only some servers will have around 700ms, then the occasional servers will have 30ms, this affects my points system as it doesnt give the player points efficiently and breaks alot of server sided game mechanics.

Heres where it gets even weirder, my friend who is from the USA, and me who is from the UK both joined the same server, i had around 500-700ms, however he had 70ms, this also goes the other way round in other servers?

I really need to fix this issue as my game is getting popular and i dont want to set the wrong expectations to new players on the game, an i want to frequently update the game without knowing this problem can pretty much break the updates due to the bad network.

I have already tried to solve the issue many times by removing alot of remote events that arent necesary, especially one that was fired in a runservice loop, however that made absolutely no difference.

game link: Backrooms Drift [RACING 🚗] - Roblox

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#2

Cool game.

Sometimes roblox gives bad and slow servers when the game is new and unpopular, happened to me aswell for a game where good ping and the server being responsive was important.

Just gotta make the game stable enough so even if you have huge ping everything works correctly even if delayed, sometimes it still breaks not for the ping but because of the server just being trash.

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#3

I had a game that I put a lot of effort on and I started getting ping lag. So I just stopped because it was actually the server lagging not the ping. I was using too much events and while true do and a lot of remote events and I didn’t feel like optimizing. Maybe that might ring a bell??

#4

Also I found your game. Really amazing! How does the car work? I want to make one myself!