Game Design Galleon's Graveyard Parkour With Lag Has Weird Issue

This is the most feedbacky post ever, but you asked. I don't have screenshots. I am kicking myself.

The parkour with the platforms that move (that is done with command blocks, right?) has an issue I discovered this morning.

When there is some lag, the platforms start to double up, as they don't disappear fast enough when the next one appears. I think that is what it is. So far so typical of lag. But! This morning the issue was that the three block by three block platforms split into smaller ones. I don't know what reason, but I had a situation where there was water, then two horizontal rows of blocks, then a block of water, then another two (i think). then water. It was as if the ghost platform that hadn't disappeared yet was canceling out the one row of the platform that was supposed to be there that overlapped. Now, the problem is that that was not static, it moved as it was supposed to. But so did the gap that wasn't supposed to be there. Which meant you were on a two block platform, then it moved forward, and you moved correctly to keep up, but sometimes the blocks beneath you didn't move. Instead there was a three block platform behind you, and a two block in front, and nothing underneath.

I am not talking about the correct next platform, but the doubled by lag ones. It was impossible to know where the gaps would be. I tried to do it by ignoring the platforms and doing it by timing, but the blocks don't move at the right speed of course, because of lag. It made the parkour completely impossible.

Of course this is only during lag, and probably only during some range of lag. But it was unplayable and you might want to keep it in mind when designing in the future.

Also, I think there may be something wrong with the first skull cave part of Beneath the Depths, as I haven't been able to find the map. I posted about it, but no one seems to know. (Or they don't know what my problem is, you never know)

 

Thank you for your feedback, we do have plans to change this up and make it into a better puzzle for everyone.