Is there a way to measure ping with JASS?

[Su7VdeR]

What I essentially am trying to do is repeatedly ping all players during the map to figure out who has a fast connection and who has a slow connection. Is there any way to accomplish this with JASS?

 

[Kaijyuu]

The game does its very best to maintain the same gamestate between connected players, and this includes JASS variables. As such, it's very difficult to get things into the JASS context without a desync. There's probably a way to accomplish it through GetLocalPlayer and the memhack tools, but it'd be a lot of work and very prone to errors.

Any particular reason you'd want this in the first place? The regular game has decent tools for dropping lagging players, and bots have lots of additional tools for measuring ping, messing with latency, and dropping players.

 

[TriggerHappy]

You should be able to measure latency with the gamecache natives, SyncStoredInteger and GetStoredInteger.

The only trick is syncing results with all the clients. One way is with unit selections, you can see how I do it with Sync.

 

[Su7VdeR]

The game does its very best to maintain the same gamestate between connected players, and this includes JASS variables. As such, it's very difficult to get things into the JASS context without a desync. There's probably a way to accomplish it through GetLocalPlayer and the memhack tools, but it'd be a lot of work and very prone to errors.

Any particular reason you'd want this in the first place? The regular game has decent tools for dropping lagging players, and bots have lots of additional tools for measuring ping, messing with latency, and dropping players.

Not a really good reason. To win at this goofy map I'm currently trying to put together you need to get the most points. There's all kinds of nonsensical ways to get points, one of which I was thinking would be to get points for low ping and lose points for high ping. Looks like measuring latency is something too complicated for just a crappy joke.