Maximum playable ping

Adept · Post by **Adept** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:08 am

What is the realistic maximum ping where playing is still worthwhile? I'm thinking 300 - 350. Above that things are mostly just frustrating for everybody.

How many people still play with connections that were bad in 2000? I know Aussies have bad ping on GPZ, but that's just one of the three servers, and probably isn't much fun for them either.

TurkeyXIII · Post by **TurkeyXIII** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:13 am

350-400 is irritating but still playable.

Adaven · Post by **Adaven** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 5:50 pm

Depends what you are doing. You could just probe with even higher ping as long as you weren't losing many packets.

fuzzylunkin1 · Post by **fuzzylunkin1** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 7:09 pm

At times "999ms" was playable to scout/probe and other times I couldn't dock for 10 minutes. Literally.

I'd say 800ms is really the true cutoff and at that point people get pissed at you and even accuse you of hacking.

Psychosis · Post by **Psychosis** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 6:55 am

anything under 110 means i can still whore as long as i have no packet loss

anything between 110 and 160 is questionable int whoring, but usually switch to scouts and support

anything 160+ is commanding or L4D

anything 80+ with packet loss means no ints, no nanning, i switch to commanding and probing

Broodwich · Post by **Broodwich** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:22 am

any packetloss is unplayable. Anything over 250 ping i wont bother with. Before solap started sucking i was getting like 120 ping and it was fine, although slightly less good than planet where i get about 80-90

Psychosis · Post by **Psychosis** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:53 am

packetloss is death, end of story, ping varies by your tolerance, packet loss is death

Mordechaj · Post by **Mordechaj** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:37 am

ping can skyrocket, but packet loss makes me unable to even probe properly (or dock, or enter alephs, or ...)

notjarvis · Post by **notjarvis** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:43 am

Psychosis wrote:QUOTE (Psychosis @ Oct 28 2009, 06:55 AM) anything under 110 means i can still whore as long as i have no packet loss

anything between 110 and 160 is questionable int whoring, but usually switch to scouts and support

anything 160+ is commanding or L4D

Wow, the different attitudes to ping are fascinating. Us euros have 120 ping at minimum on US servers (I used to get 180->200 on Planet).

From my point of view above 150 and better is an excellent ping.....

Up to 250 is playable.
As others said - packet loss is a show stopper....

Adam4 · Post by **Adam4** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:41 am

Yup, 200ms is definately playable. Ints are effective up to 160-170ms, anything over that (or packet loss) and it's support ships all the way.