Riot Engineering: LoL vs. the Real-time Internet PT. II

Riot·2/18/2016, 2:00:48 AM·3 votes·38,437 views

Back in November,we took some time over on the tech blog to outline the challenges we face in running a game that demands real-time action and response times on top of an internet that wasn’t exactly constructed with that type of stuff in mind. In this second post, tech director Peyton Maynard-Koran walks through the basics of the best solution we could find: Building our own internet.

It’s not as crazy as it sounds. Check out the details here: Fixing the Internet for Real-Time Applications: Part II

168 Comments

Clôude2/18/2016, 5:09:41 PM104 votes

Can you imagine that eventually there could be a generation of people who can't fathom the concept of lag?

MICROSOFT STORE2/18/2016, 4:50:43 PM56 votes

Rip Hide and Seek Players 2016

Selphos002/18/2016, 8:23:04 PM25 votes

Riot is literally changing the way the internet works and all you guys can talk about is your godforsaken Dominion mode?

Give me a break. item 3070 item 3073

Tithemi2/18/2016, 5:05:07 PM21 votes

If they take away Dominion (In this case they are) Shouldnt they at least give us some other Game Mode permanently ? That does not involve the classic 5v5 map and can be used to have fun as Dom was supposed to do. Who else agrees ? Like this friends! summoner 4 Time is of the essence

Huge Titties2/18/2016, 5:03:16 PM19 votes

I understand almost no one plays Dominion. But it should still be allowed on custom games. Some of us still like to play hide and seek.

Cheesck2/18/2016, 4:09:24 PM17 votes

Bring Dominion back

US Senator2/18/2016, 5:10:56 PM10 votes

Very cool set of articles guys. Thanks for sharing your vision!

Stellar Phoenix2/18/2016, 8:16:27 PM7 votes

Holy crap! Turrets are taking over the US! Call the f*cking army!

Thionine2/18/2016, 6:33:43 PM5 votes

"How does my internet not work. My location is great" Nami

Thorusoma2/18/2016, 7:41:30 PM5 votes

What about Taric rework and visual update though. Yall said it would be this year D:

1c3dr4g0n2/18/2016, 7:10:53 PM4 votes

how bout y'all just add another server for NA? China has 7 or so alone, EU has 6-7, South Korea has like 3, but NA only has the one, and they moved it from Seattle to the middle of the continent. if there was a second server in Seattle to go with the one in the middle then there could be more people playing and having fun.