I get kicked from 70% of games because of Australian flag.

[Robot]

Even though I don't have lag or connection issues.

Can we please have the option to hide your flag? It's ruining the game experience.

[moonbearonmeth]

No

[Robot]

Yes

[tatsu]

If I were an Australian I'd be spending 24h of my day mounting strikes against the government for better internet. but you're not doing that so here you are.

[keyser]

my internet is really good #nocliche

[Robot]

Tell me one thing that the flag tells you that the ping indicator doesn't.

[ZeRenCZ]

Tell me one thing that the flag tells you that the ping indicator doesn't.

in lobby ping indicator is not reliable...

[ax0lotl]

Tell me one thing that the flag tells you that the ping indicator doesn't.

Ping to Australia from Europe always is 400 ms or so, just because of distance. That is not a problem, it has to be < 500 ms which is the synch frequency. Quite some players don't understand that.

But on average there are more connection issues with Australian players, probably related to bad internet. Not all Aussies have bad internet though.

A big part of the games played is 8 to 12 player maps. People wait long for a game to fill. With so many players, very often after a minute of playing, the game has to be rehosted because of some connection issue. Then the filling of the lobby takes time again. People get tired of waiting in stead of playing.

I would say that the instability of game connections in general is the biggest reason why hosts do not want to increase the risk of another failed game by including an Aussie player. Unfair to you, absolutely.

[moonbearonmeth]

While I don't think we should get rid of the flag I think we need to fund a considerable education initiative teaching people the difference between Australia and glorious New Zealand.
While I don't care about jokes calling us Australia, certain retards players genuinely do not know the difference and kick glorious New Zealanders from lobbies based on this misinformation.

Some of the key differences to remember

Australia
-Shit internet
-Their national animal is a rodent which they slaughter en masse with their utes
-Giant spiders
-Everything tries to kill you
-Indigenous people are drugged out of their minds
-Really fucking hot
-Can't play rugby to save their life.

New Zealand
-Great internet
-National animal is a cute as f*** bird
-Basically no spiders
-Everything here evolved to chill out
-Indigenous people are drugged out of their minds
-Really mild weather
-Rugby gods to which no other nation can come close

[Morax]

Or you could just watch Flight of the Chonchord clips, which are New Zealand natives: