PvP is completely Fux0red.

[TheMonolith]

We know that the PvP system has never really worked right, but the last few days I have found it impossible.

At least 50% of the time, my opponent times-out in the first turn.
When that doesn't happen, I end up waiting nearly the full minute for each opponent turn. I know some people are slow, but come on...
When I do get a competent opponent who doesn't bail out,  a good portion of the time they will time-out on a subsequent turn.

In short - out of probably 20 PvP games I have attempted in the last 3 days, maybe 5 of them made it to the end without the AI taking over.

I have this problem in IE and Opera.  I can't even get Elements to load past the splash screen in Chrome.

Now, if PvP is just crappy and we're expected to swallow that, fine. It is, after all, a free game.

[darkfrogger]

Suck it up an move on, mate.

[Tea is good]

Lol anyone on this forum will probably reply with a post relating to

DESYNC: when the games aren't exactly on time with each other, the opponent might have a slow computer/internet connection. If so, they could be playing 5 second turns and it would seem to you that they are taking forever, never message them saying hurry up.

Desync is just one of those things that you are going to have to deal with, it has been one of those ongoing projects to fix, but it doesn't really have a clear root.

[Kamietsu]

Also, use firefox. Opera is just sad, Chrome is a newer version of opera's old sadness. IE has too many bugs still. And besides, maybe it's not your opponents connection, maybe you just have a slow connection.

[TheMonolith]

I am aware of the de-sync problem.  This does have very similar symptoms.

But the problem has become 500% worse in the last few days.  I have had successful PvP games before with the same browser, computer, and connection, so I don't think that's it.