Lindonius, on 01 September 2014 - 03:39 PM, said:
Apart from opening a dedicated Asia/Pacific server of course.
They could do that, but i would think it's unlikely, they would have to then open up Euro ones because euro's would whine, and this is all additional cost (something they seem to be trying to reduce?)
Of course you then have the question is the asian region populated enough to sustain it's own servers, or would they need to change their entire network to use a preferred server system? But that obviously does not guarantee you to play on asia based servers.
It's a tough one.
Mokey Mot, on 01 September 2014 - 07:09 PM, said:
Believe me, if you played on the connections we're getting, you would realise it can't just be accepted.
Please understand, (as I have said previously) that whilst I understand that routing is not PGIs fault, it is their problem. Reality is that ISPs are not going to change routing, so a few customers can play a game; and (most) people are not going to go through all the ISPs available, just to find a good hop to MWO servers. So if we simply face the facts, that: , then Austrilasian customers will just leave MWO.
I don't doubt what your saying, im just making sense of the tracerts people have provided, and i would bet it's also the reason you have similar problems in other online games, because the traffic is routed inefficiently perhaps that is another angle to tackle the ISP's at (being more than just this one small game they probably never heard of).
Amardez, on 01 September 2014 - 11:33 PM, said:
Already spoken to my ISP and routing beyond the USA boarder is beyond their control as both OZ and NZ are too small as much as i find this a little hard to believe, and just get bulk contracts from larger groups who rout as they see fit to and i quote "try to avoid bottle necks".
While they can apply pressure It is totally beyond their direct control so their response was go talk to the company that makes the game you play, and i have a sneaking susspission that it will be the same for most if not all of NZ's player base, though i can't speak for OZ.
Once we're passed the ISP stage my knowledge is sketchy at best, but as i understand it, all ISP's the world over use Tier 1 ISP's, these are really big companies who shuttle traffic across the world, your individual ISP's would be paying them? and thus would have to talk to them about the routing.
But i wouldnt expect to get a decent answer from a call handler/ tier 1 tech paul/pete/john with a foreign accent when you ask them a question that is not on their script of please reboot your modem.
I guess all you guys can do is wait for PGI to respond, i don't forsee a good answer though (and i hope im wrong).
The servers havent been stable in a long time, and the move produced more hiccups in hit detection, but bad routing is the chief cause of your high pings.
Edited by DV McKenna, 02 September 2014 - 01:46 AM.
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). They are not to discredit PGI, or destroy MWO. I am pushing this point to emphasis, and make clear to PGI that this issue can not simply be dismissed; but must be fixed to ensure this game can succeed. As proven by the tags on my profile, I have sunk a lot of money into this game, and I want nothing more than to see MWO to thrive, and reach ultimate glory on the F2P podium.
