[quote author=Nati46 link=topic=507.msg5125#msg5125 date=1319285244]<br />There are quite a few high pingers who have nice fragging skills, and they can still play well in any pos even with 140+ ping (Some of who are in the league itself....)<br />[/quote]<br /><br />Defending with 100ms+ is taking a huge risk.&nbsp; I ping ~50ms to TT.&nbsp; If you ping 100ms to TT there are about 2 TICs between when my packets reach the server and yours do.&nbsp; In any given situation I have at least 50ms of reaction time more than you.&nbsp; The average human reaction time is ~100ms, so unless your reaction time is half the average (extremely unlikely), you can&#039;t make this up.<br /><br />It doesn&#039;t really become apparent that this is a huge handicap until you try and defend in the IDL, where one missed shot on D likely leads to a flag, and 1 flag is a huge deal.<br /><br />I will also argue that players who can do this (potentpotables, nostar, mortal) are transcendent.&nbsp; They carry teams and clans, and they win games just by showing up.&nbsp; It&#039;s not so much that &quot;playing with ping is easy&quot;, it&#039;s more like, &quot;some players are just so goddamn ridiculous they can still play with 100ms+&quot;.<br /><br />[hr]<br /><br />And finally, a lot of players whine about prejudice and exclusion or whatever.&nbsp; You know what makes people get over their prejudice?&nbsp; You not sucking.&nbsp; No one in the history of IDL has ever said:<br /><br />[quote]<br />Wow, Ladna&#039;s been whining about the unfairness of priv for a long time.&nbsp; He sounds like a good guy, let&#039;s give him a chance.<br />[/quote]<br /><br />No, it&#039;s more like:<br /><br />[quote]<br />Wow, when I played with Ladna he was great.&nbsp; He covered, he dropped back, he weakened runners and the defense, and he is also funny as shit.<br />[/quote]<br /><br />Just something to think about....<br /><br />===<br /><br />EDIT: Within about 10 seconds of posting, Boss Mikehail informed me that the average reaction time is closer to 200ms.&nbsp; So it&#039;s even worse than I originally stated.