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Instead of expecting the devs to fulfil an idea that (since everything posted thus far has been exaggerated) 99.99999% of the Warband Community disapproves of... and wasting their useful time with this petty argument.... PLEEP, why don´t you just friggin´ enter a server where you don´t have very low ping and have a tremendous amount of available reaction time compared to a lot of other people... and just enter a server where you get higher ping.
It will without a doubt make your experience faster (and sometimes a bit freaky) as you will have less reaction time.
A faster speed imposed on everyone would decrease the amount of players in every server, and the community is already pretty small as it is.
I´ll use myself as an example. If the servers I play on were to change to a higher speed, melee for me would become nearly impossible. I´m struggling like a mother ****** as it is. So if it were to become ¨unplayable¨ for me, I´d have no reason to even continue playing. And I am not the only one with this problem, so all those servers would be losing a number of potential players.
So as to your argument of it separating good players from great players and similar things like that... it would also be decreasing the player pool, including some of those ¨greats¨.
*If you did not understand a single thing I said, just ask Marnid for a translation, trust me, he can make anything I say make sense, he is a warband scientist after all*
EDIT: If you are wondering why my apostrophes and quotation marks are weird, It's because I typed it out with a Mexican keyboard, and apparently... it has different characters.