Maximum playable ping

[Gandalf2]

250-300ms I would say. We have some RT's who are often stuck with pings around 400ms or even higher - but they can still probe and/or sit in the enemies' home eyeing stuff.

Anything under 150ms is great!

[Raven_42]

Always happy to see green pings.

[Solamnus]

well anything between 300-500 is perfect for sologalving and super-frustrating for the enemy

also you can probe with any ping

[Bouwman]

Well I'm not saying we should do this but some other space ship games eliminate people from playing on their servers if they lag too badly. The reason is because it's near impossible to kill them... The same can be said about allegiance.

Just throwing that out there... not saying we should do it.

[Adept]

QUOTE (Solamnus @ Nov 17 2009, 03:21 PM) well anything between 300-500 is perfect for sologalving and super-frustrating for the enemy

also you can probe with any ping

This is my point.

I'm sure I'm not the only one frustrated to have 600+ ping people jumping around. I think there should be some sort of minimum required connection level. Fuzz's 1s+ ping was just ridiculous. One could mostly just ignore him, but it was still annoying. It would also sort out those who feel it's ok to have a torrent running in the background and play with a fluctuating ping of ~700.

It will be 2010 soon, so this stuff should surely be getting better.

[Cortex]

QUOTE (Bouwman @ Nov 17 2009, 04:44 PM) Well I'm not saying we should do this but some other space ship games eliminate people from playing on their servers if they lag too badly. The reason is because it's near impossible to kill them... The same can be said about allegiance.

Most of those have enough active players at any time to have multiple running servers, however. I think the community is currently too small to consider that.

PS: We could talk TB into making the ASGS-replacement kick processes like utorrent.exe, azureus.exe, etc.