Add /boar ping

[Legomonster33]

Original comment

so that users can tell how long their ping time is to boarbot, I'm in Canada and consistently get awful times at powerups and gift events despite pre-clicking them. knowing my ping would be nice

Description

Players would like to know their response time (ping) with BoarBot. This functionality would be purely informative and would have no impact on Powerup Events and Boar Gifts as players can easily fake having high ping.

This would be done through a new /boar ping command, where players need to click a button as fast as they can after it updates to a clickable state. This value may need to be adjusted as there is an initial delay equal to the time to update discord's API plus the time it takes for the user to render the change when updating clickable state.

Acceptance Criteria

Players are able to get a rough estimate of their ping with BoarBot.

[Double2Proj]

(Note - I'm shaky on this area of BoarBot, some things might not be completely correct but I think it's good)
This unfortunately isn't possible as you're sending info to discord which sends to BoarBot. AKA BoarBot never receives info about your ping. There might be a sort of solution by having you press a single button as fast as possible,. This wouldn't actually give you ping, but the delay to when the bot recognizes a click is probably more important anyway. You can also use the command "ping discord.com" on a command line to see your ping to discord, and check the MC server to see your ping directly to where that server is located, but I don't think either of these will be super accurate.

Gifts actually do try to account for ping. It's a fairly unintuitive system, but in essence you're getting about 1.3s added to your gift time because of it (i think). Timers are also often generally longer than you might expect, I believe due to the time it takes for discord to process the info and then send it over to the bot, but that could be wrong. Your fastest powerup time is also just over 800ms, which for reference places you at the 18th fastest perfect. If you're seeing numbers around 1.2kms or less on powerups, that's not that bad, though I can't check what you've been seeing recently.

[WeslayCodes]

We'll take on this issue. Initial comment has been updated with a description and acceptance criteria. As @Double2Proj said, this value won't be equal to your actual ping because of how bots work. It's not a direct connection to the BoarBot server, instead the flow is more like this:

1. BoarBot sends request to Discord API (~7.5ms, ping of BoarBot to Discord divided by 2)
2. Discord API processes request (~50ms, processing time on Discord's end)
3. User receives new information from Discord API (~100ms, average user ping to Discord)
4. User sees new information, performs interaction, which sends request to Discord API (~250ms, human reaction time)
5. Discord API processes request (~50ms, processing time on Discord's end)
6. BoarBot receives new information from Discord API (~15ms, ping of Discord to BoarBot)

This sums to ~472.5ms for your typical request. Most of time is lost at step 4, which is human reaction time. If this can be minimized through pre-clicking a button, we can get closer to the actual end-to-end response time between the user and BoarBot.