Feature request: change lags handle behaviour

There is !minspeed option, which is default to 0.5 now
It means if someone is lagging it will slow down a game to the speed of the slowest player, until game speed will reach 50% of normal speed(1.0).
I dont think it's right behaviour we would like to see in games.

Suggest to replace it:
If someone is lag, slow down a game to !minspeed, but not more than for N seconds.
After N seconds return game speed to normal and let laggers desync.
It's wrong that player with good and decent PC suffer from guys, that stucked in 90'.

Well known example is [DOOP]fortaleza. He lags in almost all games and maps, except maybe, trololo(not sure though).

Do you want to play your games at 0.5 speed and temper laggers?

This is actually what !votekick is for. Maybe something to cause an automatic votekick after so many lags, but....

lagger reporting for duty!!!!

catualy msot of the time i just resign and leave the game when it starts to get super laggy...

votekick against a badly lagging player usually works. What does not always succeed is votekick of your worst noobmates, because of noobage... and it is a good thing.

Rare is the occasion that I agree with knorke. Silly is the game type that relies more on computing power than game skill.

TheSponge, it happens not only in 10v10 when we are talking about PCs from 90' working on charcoal, well known examples of laggers: [GBC]Fred, @[DOOP]Fortaleza.
They can lag even on icy run in tiny 4v4, and it happens ALWAYS when they are playing.
It simply means that ALL players are playing/spectating battle will suffer from THEIR lags too!

So I REPEAT, it's not only problem of a HUGE game, it's problem of PCs, that stucked in 90' years and are badly outdated.

luckywaldo7 when you go to the shop and buy some game/software, there are always a minimal system requerements and a recommended hardware.

Part of our community does NOT met minimal system requirements, and I fairly believe, current behaviour borns more problems than solves.

You always like to talk about our future - newbs, you never miss a moment to remember me that my rage slow down community grow.

Now imagine, good 6v6 on 16x16 map. Supposed to be a nice and friendly game/competition. But sadly you have [DOOP]Fortaleza/[GBC]Fred, which use PCs from 90' and do NOT respect others, join games, which always causes they and others to lag.

A few newbs came to the game and want to get how is it looks like, they were impressed by the google/friend/whatever.
They respect others and have decent PCs that met minimal requirements.

They like what they see, they are amazed.
But then, suddenly, all slows down to 0.5 speed without any reason, people start crying, spam !votekick, game starts to lag like hell, if things are getting worse they can see some desync messages.

Newbs are dissapointed with raged and unwelcome community and game that lags on a small/average sizes.

They don't give a fuck that this is fault of single/two players.
You will never see them again, they don't want to play chess(which this game become at 0.5 speed)
They came here for the RTS, read: Real Time Strategy, it's not fucking chess, WAKE UP!

So summing up, I'd like to say:
If you have outdated PC, please do NOT join games that are known to cause you and others to lag, until devs will set a proper default !minspeed/implement auto kick. Respect others.
@[DOOP]Fortaleza is an excellent example of disrespect, this guy moreover of his shit PC has some crappy widget that blocks !voteresign command.
So it become worse: he lags and play 10 mins ago game, people are trying to !votekick him without any success, it obliterates team moral in big games, they lose, and finally want to !voteresign, but no @[DOOP]fortaleza has anti-resign widget and all continues again and again.
I presonally tired from all this bullshit.

People can manage to lag in Icy Run 4v4? I don't lag in anything but 10v10 and I cant see many people having a lower spec computer than me and playing ZK. I would support the inclusion of an autokick or autospec for people more than 10 seconds behind though. Generally, apart from computers that still run on coal powered steam engines, I agree with knorke.

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Just set minspeed to 1 by default and let laggers lag out imo. That should only happen if it really gets unplayable by itself to you.

Right now @[DOOP]Fortaleza continue spoil games with lags, the only one reason in most of games that cause game run at 0.5 speed