As I understand it (please correct me if I am wrong), but the current ping limit on all servers is 1000, and if you hit 1000 ping then you are banned?

I propose that the ping limit is reduced to a reasonable amount of 300. I am in the UK, with 8mb broadband (not that great considering internet packages these days), and I average a ping of 164. I have seen quite a few people (albeit only really server 10) with HUGE pings (for example one guy today was playing with a ping of 700). It makes it kinda difficult to kill them.

A limit of 300 ping would still let on a lot of the regulars who are futher away from the server, whilst limiting the amount of people that have a ping that makes the game difficult to play.

Also you would obviously have to enforce the "no ping masks" rule, otherwise it would completely defeat the point of having a lowered ping limit.

If there is a reason to why the ping limit is so high, then I haven't been told it yet. This thread is mainly for my own education as to why the limit is so high, but if there is no real reason behind it then I suggest it's lowered down to 300.

Any objections/alternate suggestions/agreements, please post below. I know my ping isn't exactly low, but no one with lower pings seem to have trouble killing me, whereas the ones with 300+ ping seem to get flamed a lot for being laggy.