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[Yahallo]

First off, to everyone who is saying that the statics and FC's that are kicking people are horrible people, do realize you can't use always use a normal behavioral standard for these things. Sometimes it really is just business if a group wants to be a certain level of competitiveness. Anyone who wants to play on that competitive level should understand this and accept if this happens to them. If they are unable to play on that same competitive level then they will have to find a group on a lower competitive level where their ping doesn't matter as much. When these things happen, there are no spiteful or hard feelings, it is just business.

I don't play at that level but I have met who do, and they are always professional about those situations. The person being kicked may even stay friends with the rest of the group and may still party with them in less stressful content or share information at later dates.

tl;dr Just because a static kicked someone for high ping doesn't mean they are horrible people. There's a different behavioral standard.

As for ways of reducing ping, VPN's to optimize your connection. I did a pathping in the cmd and noticed that my connection was getting routed all over the US (it even went back and forth between two states repeatedly for some reason). My ping before the move was 70-80 ms and now it is 110-130. With a VPN, I can get it to 80-100 ms (I route my connection to a node in San Jose from which it then goes straight to the game servers if my VPN's data is correct).

As for my personal recommendation for a VPN, I use Mudfish since the price is rather cheap. It is pay per traffic with 70 mb costing a penny. I played for roughly 12 hours today and my balance went down by only 4 cents. So assuming if I were to play for 12 hours a day for a whole month (30 days), I would only be paying $1.20 a month. Compare this to my previous VPN, Wtfast, which charged me $5 a month regardless of how much I used it, Mudfish is a better value. They also give you your first penny free to test it out before you commit. Just make sure you aren't patching the game with the VPN turned on.

Oh, and I believe Mudfish is a South Korean company if that matters to anyone.