Acceptable Ping rates?

[Skoshi Tiger]

....Which is why my standard gunnery technique involves either finding a plane on the ground or pointing my plane in the general direction of the opponent and emptying my guns

Cheers and thanks for the insight.

It may even explain last night where a non-existant airplane was shooting me! Need to check that track while I remember!

[Bobb4]

Coming from darkest africa, pings are a huge issue. As Freddie stated we will be getting Seacom soon which should up the ping to Europe and the US.
Back to your question, what is a playable ping.
Between 250 and 450 are easily playable as long as your connection is stable.
Ping spikes are a major issue though.
I play ADW with a ping of between 290 and 390 quiet easily.

The guy with a better ping has an advantage but it is the price you pay.
As long as you are not warping it should be no problem to other players. Ping spikes enhance warping allowing your plane to shoot from one point to another and will irritate the crap out of other players.
Place you could look to play is in Asia... Your pings should be bloody good there?

As for the invisible plane, well my guess is you were on a modded server and you did not have the skins of the plane your enemy was using.
Hope that helps

[Thunderbolt56]

Originally Posted by Bobb4

Back to your question, what is a playable ping.
Between 250 and 450 are easily playable as long as your connection is stable.
Ping spikes are a major issue though.

Stability is ALWAYS better than a lower number. The problem with most high pings is exactly as explained earlier in the thread and that is the number of servers or hops. Like a chain, your internet connection to a particular server is reliant upon the stability (and oftentimes traffic) passing through all of the links.

Sadly, there is usually little you can do to improve it. Even if you had a wide open pipe, one of the many links you have to pass through may hiccup. You, therefore, would have a better ping, but still have potential stability issues.

[steppie]

what can i say is that i have telsra cable and i love it, it fast and i have no problem.

[Skoshi Tiger]

My ping is fairly stable and I don't experience warping to any great degree ( only when opponents disapear from my gun sights in a blink of an eye! ) So I guess I shouldn't complain. I can't remember the last time I was kicked of a server for high ping rate.

Curse those invisible skins! Where do I get me one!

Cheers All.

[robtek]

There is no invisible skin.
It might have been a modded Server and you didnt had the plane in the right version installed. i.e. Bf109 E1 or E3 or Fw190 A3 or Spitfire MkI or Hurricane MkIID or SeaHurricane or, or, or.......

[K_Freddie]

There was/is a damage skin that makes 'holes' appear in the plane structure. If you modded this skin (mask) and made the plane one 'big hole', it would effectively be invisible.
If you don't have the right skin the server usually uses the default skin... usually