can we hope for better netcode? peer2peer sucks!

[DocLooshkin]

[...] a router can maintain hundreds of simultaneous connections [...]

To be clear, modern, adequately-built, non-malfunctioning routers can maintain hundreds of connections. You'd be surprised how many people access the internet on ancient, barely-working, lowest-possible-quality routers that their ISPs supplied years ago. Most of them don't realise there's an issue, because no-one's ever told them anything about it. They only know that the ISP said it was worth x amount of money, so it must still be good.

 

[zzzornbringer]

If you have massive lag in crowded instances, it is not p2p that sucks but that refurbished router your cheap ISP sent you.

you don't understand the concept of peer2peer. if you have a good connection and good hardware, another player with bad hardware and bad connection affects you negatively. this is what peer2peer is all about. you are directly connected to all the other clients and you notice if other players have bad connections. if there's a server in between, there are ways to compensate lag.

 

[hawkenfox]

Currently I do not experience any issue. I am located in asia Singapore, using an optic fibre connection.

OP should rig a poll on the issue user face and see if the problem is global or really local.