Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-30355627-20161030163643/@comment-26636534-20161229141217

Thekillman wrote: Because he can transfer more power. I mean, the inverse square law is a thing that exists, it makes sense that the closer you are to an emitter the stronger the signal. That's got nothing to do with lag, since Nagato's consciousness is in fact present in the Paths (else, things like the Paths talking to each other and things like the Yamanaka comparison are pointless).

If lag was a thing for Nagato, it would've been a much much bigger thing for puppeteers, and that problem was never ever brought up there. Latency or 'lag' refers to the time it takes to transfer chakra waves to and from the SPoP in this case. That time increases proportional to the distance in question. Therefore, paths further away == greater latency. Nagato uses the paths as remote bodies that receive inputs, sight, sound etc. and then relay that back to his real body via chakra waves.

The paths are not talking to each other, they have shared senses. All the information the paths are acquiring a being transmitted to Nagato. Nagato himself is controlling the paths.

'Lag', wouldn't be an issue for puppeteers as the distance between the puppet and puppeteer would be negligible. Also due to the fact that puppets are connected with 'wired' chakra threads, therefore effectively no latency.