That’s great, I haven’t had a useful ping in 2000 games and I would light 5000 incense candles in the monastery of St. Lazarus for the dev that lets me mute them on my own screen. People that want them can go ahead and deal with the pain of having them on.
The “then report the player” logic falls off because the same applies to people spamming game chat with quran verses and lennies. If one was such a problem there is really no reason to say the other isn’t.
Guess I should clarify: pings are great when used by players that do something like mark an smd with time it was built if you’re going for some nuke game plan or say something in chat like “enemy chicken 40%” and if you dunno where it is they ping it for you. This is stuff that helps in bigger games like if you’re carrying a 1v4 sentons or playing a 20x20 2v2 game and need to coordinate.
However what it really gets used for is 18 pings on 3 strat bombers when your air is already moving to intercept or 28 pings on a 5k enemy ACU when no one has anything to help or do anything to snipe the ACU. Even better if it’s a big teamgame so everyone is aware the enemy ACU is 5k because there is literally nothing happening anywhere else on the map.
Like 98% of FAF can’t ping responsibly so I’m fine with just a blanket ban that I can change myself, but best solution is just allowing you to personally mute dudes on your end.