CSB High Ping Kicker

Kicks players whose rolling average ping stays over the limit, with a connect grace period and flag immunity.

CSB High Ping Kicker samples get_user_ping() every few seconds, keeps the last five samples per player in a ring buffer and compares the average against csb_ping_max. A player only gets kicked after csb_ping_strikes consecutive bad averages — a single lag spike, a map download or a garbage-collect stutter will never kick anyone, which is the failure mode of most naive ping kickers.

Inspired by High Ping Kicker by Nomexous. Independent GPL re-implementation.

Features

• Rolling 5-sample average instead of a single reading.
• Consecutive-strike requirement before any action is taken.
• Warns the player in chat before each strike, so they know why they are about to be dropped.
• Connect grace period (csb_ping_grace, default 60s) — a client still loading always reports a garbage ping.
• csb_ping_minplayers so the limit is only enforced when the server is actually busy.
• Flag immunity (csb_ping_immunity, default a).
• say /ping for players, amx_pinglist for admins (current ping, average, loss and strikes per player).

Installation

1. Compile and copy csb_high_ping_kicker.amxx into addons/amxmodx/plugins/.
2. Add it to plugins.ini.
3. Set csb_ping_max in amxx.cfg and change the map.

Notes

Use no modules and no forwards — the whole plugin is a set_task loop, so its cost is a handful of native calls every csb_ping_interval seconds regardless of player count. Set csb_ping_max generously (150–200) unless your player base is entirely local; on a public server a hard 100ms limit will empty your slots.

1. Put csb_high_ping_kicker.amxx in addons/amxmodx/plugins/
2. Add it to plugins.ini
3. Set csb_ping_max in amxx.cfg
4. Change map
No extra modules needed. csb_ping_interval is read once at map start.

1.0.0 - Initial release.