Its funny when people ask the host (me) to kick me from my own games because I owned them in a previous game. Then I get a friend to pretend he is host and watch the lol. Well I used to a long time ago atleast.
Anyway, ping does cause lag. If the ping of a player is above 250 the game will perodically lag due to it having to stop to keep in sync. Some apps can fix this by upping the overall ping to that of the slowest player but that ups response times.
However, banlist's ping sucks. It uses join ping or battlenet ping, which is way off actual ping. In games where banlist says I have 400+ ping, host bots say I only have 105 and thats because I am playing across the world. However I occasionally am kicked by them for high ping, due to joining lag (rejoining fixes this). Honestly people with insane ping should not be playing as it is obvious their connection does not permit them as I am on a crap internet service and get 100 ms ping with people across a whole ocean. The mind starts to boggle in fact how it is possiable to get above a 250 ms delay with any gamming configuration or connection medium. People on satalite and some wirless configurations should not game, the latency is just beyond reasonable (500 ms) and can result in you being unable to micro properly (units standing there and dieing before even trying to move).
However, people often mistake latency for "lag". Latency is delay and nowdays is seldom a problem, and will atmost result in perodic stopping and starting or excessive response times to orders (depening on if its host or player sourced). However what they call "lag" is caused by some player's connection being below the required capacity to play properly (if they are DLing something or during peek times on poor services) and results in the game pausing every so often and a waiting for player box appearing.
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