If I had to guess, this is due to the new FLHook plugin stuff being put out. A lot of the plugins got shut down when it was being updated and need to be edited or completely redone to make them work.
Knowing your ping isn't that big of a deal. A lot of us played when that wasn't even a command you could do.
they're not broken, we merged the plugin responsible for /ping and /pingtarget into another plugin (the one that will be responsible for web services). We're just fixing a few bugs and the commands will be back.
yeah i know that but i dont feel that i should go to my desktop and open cmd when the function was there and fact that there is other ingame functions dont work either..
Some days ago this /ping and /pingtarget not working... not sure but around 3 or 4 days, i readed in game a "CONSOLE: the command /ping and /Pingtarget will not work for some minutes" or something like that... but those are being really long minutes hahahahahaha.
The fact, yes, you can use CMD in windows and check the ping with the server but... the USEFUL thing is /Pingtarget, to know if the target vessel is lagging or not. Shooting to a lagger you should change your aiming a bit, so I think its important. Some players would think, the target vessel is "Cheating" or something, due no effect under fire, but its just lag. (Its a really common feel)
Anyway... we must be patient, changing thing, fixing, editing the server stuff is not an easy task, and if you try to do it fast... probably you will hit something and turn it worst, so... I suggest just patient. Personally I prefer to wait a bit more and have the things perfectly fixed, otherway would takes more time to fix the mistakes you did attempting to fix another thing...