Originally Posted by Skitrel
Not true.
Latency in Starcraft causes a delay between your click and the action actually happening in game, as everything is server side. What this means is that any latency at all greatly diminishes your speed, every action you take taking up just 100ms of your time as opposed to 50ms effectively halves your speed, it's MUCH more of a problem in Starcraft where APM (actions per minute) need to be in the hundreds to be competitive, with some of the pros clocking as high as 300 real APM in matches.
Compared to an FPS, 100ms is absolutely nothing in time and doesn't have a cumulative effect throughout the game.
Now, if you had said Brood War, I'd have agreed with you. Brood War compensated for this issue, it has an in built forced latency of 200ms for all players, this puts everyone at an absolute level playing field, eliminating player advantage due to server distance.
Ping is much less of an issue in competitive fps than in competitive rts.
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After some research on Starcraft 2, my findings agreed with you. I have therefore retracted my above "apples N oranges" statement.