I've had to deal with this for the past 9 years... Asia in general isn't geared toward western mainstream games. Being in Beijing has put most multiplayer experiences on hold, for one being too laggy to even play and on top of that having slow internet making updates impossible to download.
Should high ping result to Auto kick? It's necessary, yet unfortunate for those who haven't got local severs. How about getting a group of friends together to start the first local server? I know I have and has generally worked out. And you say Singapore, shouldn't the Hong Kong and Mainland China servers be okay? I know I've played on Singapore severs in the past with 60 ping (With ports open mind you)
I think it's perfectly fair, only part that I don't like about it is the servers that auto-kick you for having a high ping. I was in a Bad Company 2 server once and my ping went to about 200 for a couple of seconds and I got kicked. It was just one of those little spikes you get here and there. It can be annoying sometimes.
For most of my past I've played with ping under 100 or so, but since I moved to a new apartment with worse internet, sometimes I can get average ping that goes over 125.
I still think it's fair to kick people who have an average ping over 150 or 175 or so, it's just not very fun to play against laggers, especially with Valve's lag compensation which can give the lagger the advantage. In games like Quake though that use different netcode, the lagger just gets obliterated so it's probably not even worth playing.
Kicking for really high ping like over 300ms is ok. It's not really fun to play against an opponent that warps all over the place and is almost impossible to kill.
Though, sometimes the "high" ping is set at something like 80ms and that's bullshit. And slot reservation is also bullshit.
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;36100431]It doesn't affect the server, but it affects other players. If your ping is so high that you're teleporting across the map because it's taking so long for you to send your coordinates to the server, then it's impossible for other players to have a fair match against you.[/QUOTE]
High ping players will not teleport fpr other players. That's simply not how server/client relation works. The player position is consistent on the server.
I've been to servers where it auto kicks you the instant your ping goes over 200
which sucks if you sometimes get a random lag spike
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