I don't want to say "ping kickers are kind of a bad idea", but ping kickers are kind of a bad idea. I don't know many people who enjoy playing with ping over 150, usually they filter themselves out - no need for administration to come in and smack people down automatically.
It is a problem that should be addressed though. On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 4:53 AM, Peter Reinhold <peter_va...@reinhold.dk>wrote: > I just did a restart of one of my TF2s, and it filled up almost > immidiately after coming up, which of course is great. > > But, I noticed something a little odd, and hung around for few minutes to > allow people to spawn in completely, and then I took a look at their pings. > > If I remove the few odd ones out, I am still left with an average ping of > over 250ms, and only three below 100, none below 50, which would make me > believe that these players are from all over europe, if not even farther > away. > > Since we are running a 125ms high ping kicker, most players was kicked > shortly thereafter, this of course deducts lot of QP points from the > server, but in all honesty, being matched to a server where you have ping > 250 does not seem like a very good match at all, there must be servers that > are closer to you than ours. > > I hope that this is something that could be looked into, as this surely > seems like a serious kink in the system. > > > /Peter > > ______________________________**_________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.**com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/**hlds_linux<https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux> > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
