ping?

I have been reading the expansive "lag atm" thread because...im having lag atm

anyway, they reference "ping" and the circle in the lower right hand corner a lot. What does "ping" mean? It seems that the higher it is the worse off you are but i dont really get it.

Im also curious as to the significance of the colored circle/dot w/e.

Bear in mind that im a disgraceful idiot when it comes to most things in/on a computer

thanks

All ping means is the time it takes your computer at home to contact the server that the game is run on and for that server to respond! It's measured in ms (milliseconds), so 1000ms ping equates to 1 second! So, if you have a ping of 1000ms it'll take the game a full second to recognise a keypress/action.

that ping dot is color coded for idiots

green = youre good
yellow = decent
red = get new internet

id have thought that it was easy to figure if you actually spent time looking at it

its more like

red= gg german servers,its all in the servers in germany