should add a ping feature next to the IPs so that
players can judge lag based on opponents Ping

Unfortunately, the chatserver is not able to give us accurate pings.

To get an accurate ping, the clients would need to do ping each other... and even then there is no hint to find out if the host will cause lags due to low performance.

I would rather know which continent my opponents are from

yea tht would work..location.
i playd a dude from the UK and im from New Zealand..ther was hella lag lol

Basically the lag is different depending on how close the person lives to you... if the first 2 numbers of the ip is close to urs then u wont have alot of lag.

the first numbers do say a lot about your whereabouts, but a close IP is not a local near.

E.G.:
Argentinia 190.XXX (+ more)
Brasil 189.XXX or 212.xxx (+ more)
Germany 202.XXX or 77.XXX or 89.XXX (+ more)

From Germany:
I can play with argentinia, distance 12.000 km.
I cannot play with honkong, distance 9.000 km
I can play with india, diastance 8.000 km

If you have a really clean client (= no additional lag caused by your own PC´s performance)
Lag values up to 190 are playable at a good host
Lag values of 30-60 are not playable at a bad host

You see, there are no accurate rules to find out how the lag is unless you tested it.

i'm 222.xxx and im from NZ...i come across a lot of
over sea players and i suffer from major lag [5-15,000 miles
away from some areas] and if u catch me on ull always c me
asking wher pplz from..if i can get an aussie or another kiwi
then im set!
so cn u put sumfin tht tells us wher player are from?
hover mouse over name?