ping restrictions

IMO, ping restriction can be a little loose. You need not to restrict to a certain number, that will make the server empty at some moment -- this is not acceptable for both players and z8.

When most of player are 200 pings, they normally can bear each other because you can not complain their ping is %1 higher than you. And if there is someone played in a unusual time slot that makes his ping unique among the players, they should be either kicked (when it is uniquely huge), or they have to be tolerant.

A simple idea is average and standard deviation in statistics. After calculating deviation (d) and average (p) of pings of all the players, a player whose ping is larger than the maximum of p + a * d and a threshold should be automatically kicked. Parameter a is adjustable. It is to avoid kicking on ping pike, and avoid gradually kick all player except one even every one has 10-50 ping. so that 4000+ ping player (I saw on last night) will be removed from a group of 50 -200 ping players.

I agree that high ping player will ruin the game experience. But normally they will feel more painful than low pinger and finally left the game before someone kick them. In the 300 ping range (I once play CS in Asia Server), it takes like for ever to bring up the scope of sniper rifle.
But are you really sure someone move to other games would move back when they know that there is no more 100+ pingers? You probably know how many FPS game are there in the market right now, plus the free and free to play ones. Unfortunately, crossfire is not top notched in either graphic or game feature. Z8 want to survive, they have to make it more popular. And they can not expect NA players to stick to their game.
And it is quite ok for me to let players from other time zone to use the NA server after 12:00pm CST, because you might not be in game in the following 18 hours.
BRs are not mosquitos. There might be higher appearance of hacker, hackusation, due to the high player population. And I can not conclude there is no hacker or hackustation among NA players.
My algorithm proposed will ensure a general filter to make the game playable all the time. Between 7-9 cst, most 10-100 pinger will be online, a 300 pinger will not fit into a room with 15 sub 100 pingers and would get kicked. It there are no enough low ping players, higher ping player can fill and it is still acceptable -- or you have no one to play with, when most of NA player goes to bed, players from all over the world can compete with the same ping level -- even though it might be 1000 pingers' game, you would not bother at all.

I get ur point but maybe its not the best way to suggest something, what are u a *** member? For me this will be the best solutions, if u like them back me up

1-Since u have so much servers that are 90% of time empty like charlie and echo they should make 3 sub-server......A- for 1-100 pins B-100-200 pins C-200 to ?. People with lets say 150 pin are blocked from server A and C.

2-If they put a south east server (florida) it will fix pins for many countrys, south americans with the exeption of Brazilians dont really lagg so bad these are theyr normal pins

Colombia=100-150
Venezuela=100-120
Peru=115-130
Ecuador=100-120
Mexico=70-100
Argentina=190-210

Im from Venezuela and many of my clan members are form the countries I just named,
my normal pin is 107-113 so if we had this south east server im sure ill have like 70-80 pin, and the rest of south americans will also have like 40 less pins.

Brs im not sure since they have bad internet connections

300 pingers are easy to kill.

GoPatriots wrote: »

thats a horrible idea, most of the people playing have 150+ so there would be a few rooms without lag

That's why the option is there, it is not just available to laggers that want to create a 400 pinged room, but it is also there so you can set up a max 100 pinged room or whatever if you want.

A soution that works for everyone is not a "horrible" idea but a reasonable solution with no draw backs, that allows everyone to still play.

And you say most people have lag, well what would happen when they can no longer play with strict ping restrictions in place? You just lost most people, who you gonna play with on empty servers?

ffs you low pingers wouldn't be complaining if you tried having 300 ping.

when my ping goes up to the 300-500 range due to some moron streaming movies online, it's so difficult to play. its a good thing that moron moved out of the house. my ping i play with is 78. qwest downgraded or something cause i use to get 66 and when i play at school, i get 33.
I dont know about you guys but I dislike laggers yet I love them. LOL