Does it really matter whether another snipe was manual or automated? No one, other than the sniper, knows. So, why distract the issue, or is that the intent? The issue is that the snipe was placed early. 22 seconds allows another sniper (even region2 as slow as he is) enough time to react. The fact that there is enough time for a retaliatory snipe opens up the speculation that it WAS a retaliatory snipe. And, that speculation is justified, and trying to discount that speculation with additional speculation, such as, “it was probably a snipe placed by an automated system”, is unproductive.
Let me try to give an analogy: Suppose an airplane crashed due to a mistake of the airlines and all aboard died. Now, lets further suppose that the airline justified this carnage by saying that everyone aboard would have died eventually. Hopefully, I didn’t aim too “high” on that one.
A ways back, AS decided that it was better to have a snipe placed too early than too late, thus they dropped 1 and 2 second snipes and added more padding to the lead-time padding, which was a good decision, overall. There use to be a LOT of posts about “snipe too late”, and since the added padding one rarely sees that. These days it’s “snipe too early”.
Now, AS is aware of this, and have posted on this forum that they are about to release an enhancement that will eliminate, or reduce, snipe-too-earlies. Life is good.
What will be really good is to no longer see someone posts, “it was probably a snipe placed by an automated system”, as if they’ve recently upgraded their tea leaves.
Isn't this thread long overdue for closure?