Idk where you got that idea, but high ping doesn't favor us in any way, quite the opposite. If the ping surpasses ~150 ms things start to go downhill, cars become very difficult to drive and not crash against pretty much everything, not being able to nade properly without exposing yourself to a shit ton of dmg, being killed behind walls and taking all the dmg in a single burst. And if you think the hitreg is bad with ping is much MUCH worse. I can't even count the amount of times that i don't even get a single hit even with my crosshair fully centered on the enemy.
Me too, it'd be great to play with 40 ping again, and my APB experience would be a lot less frustrating. Maybe if the population grows back up we'll get one soon, since i remember being a decent amount of players in hoplon when i played back in 2014/15