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[Venicilia]

Any idea why the matchmaker often creates games on the Oceanic server even when no one in the match is from the region?

It's kind of ridiculous when there is not a single person under 200 ping in the match, the game seems to have a hard time with projectile weapon hitreg at this ping for instance. I'm not saying there shouldn't be OC servers, I don't mind getting into the occasional game where there is at least 1 person from the region as it's at least more playable for them, but more often than not the matchmaker decides to make an OC game without OC players.

I am aware that there is an option to turn off certain servers for the matchmaker, but queue times are already long enough as is.

[MyriadDigits]

if you're only matching in OC with people who have OC ticked because "queue times are long enough as it is" maybe you should consider not ticking that box

[John Bronco]

Ping alone is not enough to conclude there are no OCE players in the match.

[jjm1]

So you dont like it, are aware you can turn it off... but don't want to...

Yes, you are in quite the predicament here.

[My Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ]

People tend to just leave all regions on presuming they'll never get an Oceanic match.

[Saved By The Bell]

We need this server, just for case.

[Aidan Crenshaw]

___, on 06 July 2021 - 07:46 AM, said:

I agree that the oceanic server should be shut down asap. it would be much better to get rid of oceanic and add US east and US west for lower ping for all AMERICAN players....

Dude, at least hint that you are writing sarcasm.

[Daneel Hazen]

___, on 06 July 2021 - 07:46 AM, said:

I agree that the oceanic server should be shut down asap. it would be much better to get rid of oceanic and add US east and US west for lower ping for all AMERICAN players....

Just you wait till Justcallmeash sees this thread. The batchalls...

[FinnMcKool]

may be i have very good internet, but since the rewind I never see the problems with Oceanic, but others say they do???

I have rubber banding and slowdowns in the North American servers though, it makes me think there are problems i either dont understand or don't know about

PS
pls don't hate me or post about how stupid I am, pls forgive me if I didn't agree with something you said, I am just a stupid fool everyone knows this.

thank you

[Anjian]

___, on 06 July 2021 - 07:46 AM, said:

I agree that the oceanic server should be shut down asap. it would be much better to get rid of oceanic and add US east and US west for lower ping for all AMERICAN players....

If you have no plans to seriously market the game for players in the SEA region, and I would assume that the server is located in Singapore, you might as well do exactly that.

[Thorqemada]

Probably bcs the ping does not necessary be a proof of regional or global location - could simply be a high ping Oceanic Players kicked it off or maybe the match was started to kick off but then the oceanic players retired from it and was replaced if that is possible...

Edited by Thorqemada, 07 July 2021 - 04:29 AM.

[Ekson Valdez]

Anjian, on 07 July 2021 - 04:08 AM, said:

If you have no plans to seriously market the game for players in the SEA region, and I would assume that the server is located in Singapore, you might as well do exactly that.

Server Location should be Perth. https://mwomercs.com...-perth-edition/

[PocketYoda]

Venicilia, on 05 July 2021 - 08:23 PM, said:

Any idea why the matchmaker often creates games on the Oceanic server even when no one in the match is from the region?

It's kind of ridiculous when there is not a single person under 200 ping in the match, the game seems to have a hard time with projectile weapon hitreg at this ping for instance. I'm not saying there shouldn't be OC servers, I don't mind getting into the occasional game where there is at least 1 person from the region as it's at least more playable for them, but more often than not the matchmaker decides to make an OC game without OC players.

I am aware that there is an option to turn off certain servers for the matchmaker, but queue times are already long enough as is.

I see lots of Aussies in the OCE servers What time AUS time was that match? Bare in mind if East coast has network issues with WA pings can be the same as NA servers for Aussies.. I can easily get 150-200ms to WA from QLD when it has issues.

Why they added the servers to WA i'll never understand most Aussies are east coast and most americans and EU avoid the OCE servers anyway.

Also you do realize Aussies get those ping times to the USA every single online game ever made and up to 400 to EU..

Edited by MechaGnome, 07 July 2021 - 10:18 PM.

[Rosarius]

Australian player here. The Perth server **SHOULD** be shut down. It is horribly under utilised because the majority of players don't get good connection to it and / or are too afraid if latency number gets too high



In my opinion (and without doing any kind of cost / benefit analysis) the three server options should be West Coast NA (good for NA, acceptable for SEA and EU), Central EU (good for EU, acceptable for NA), and finally somewhere like South Korea or Singapore (good for SEA, acceptable for NA)



In the meantime, if you don't like dropping on Oceanic just uncheck the Oceanic server tick box and move on

[Rosarius]

___, on 08 July 2021 - 02:11 PM, said:

I agree! Shut down that damn OCE server nao!!! Only one thing I disagree with, I believe that the EU server should also be removed. There is really no point for it and any EU players can just play on the NA server if they really want to play so badly.

EU is utilised enough to warrant its existence. It can stay

[justcallme A S H]

Venicilia, on 05 July 2021 - 08:23 PM, said:

the game seems to have a hard time with projectile weapon hitreg at this ping for instance.

I have never noticed this as some major issue and I play with 230-250ms on average.

John Bronco, on 05 July 2021 - 09:37 PM, said:

Ping alone is not enough to conclude there are no OCE players in the match.

Yep, people in Asia (depending on where) connecting to the server located in Australia, have pretty high pings.




End of the day don't like the OC server - untick it. Or just play with higher ping. MWO handles high ping extremely well compared to most other games.

[Tywren]

As someone who plays in the wee hours of the morning (anywhere between 0100 and 0300) on the US server I can relate. Nothing like unleashing a fusillade of autocannon rounds only to get no hit recognition, as your target rubberbands back to where they were 3 seconds prior with their 300 - 500 (or in one truly horrendous case +1000!) ping. Honestly I wish PGI would just region lock the servers; I'd rather wait longer for a good match, than play a bad one with some Aussie connecting to the game from Outer Kookamaroo with 2 tin cans and a string!

[justcallme A S H]

I'd love to see a recording of this 3 second backwards rubberbanding with these aleged 300-500ms pings.


I don't believe it exists and such claims are just grossly overstated, as usual.

[Thorqemada]

These Pings were quite common on the old OC server location...a range of pings from ~300 to ~700 with two or three ~100 pingers from the region mixed into the lagfest - as long you got below 300 it was playable above 300 it sucked.

[Anjian]

___, on 08 July 2021 - 02:11 PM, said:

I agree! Shut down that damn OCE server nao!!! Only one thing I disagree with, I believe that the EU server should also be removed. There is really no point for it and any EU players can just play on the NA server if they really want to play so badly.

I remember playing in the EU server at over 300ms and surprisingly my experience was ok. This might be due that for me at least, the EU server either has lower packet loss or it has more internal reserve processing power.

Still I was pretty okay when there is only one MWO server and that was in Toronto. Since there is only one server, no problem with the player queues and you can get into matches quickly.