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[Sid Vishus]

I want to no when we are going to get servers in the uk as this 4 fps game play is a joke

[GazT4R]

Erm 4 FPS games aren't down to server location. They're down to memory leaks which have been much improved with the last patch.
UK ping is about 110-120 Ping which I have no problem and with since the netcode improvements again on the last patch it has got better.

The disadvantage is minor over US player but you have a minor advantage over more easterly players. Firing being server based.

[Inertiaman]

The misleading 4fps issue aside - I'd still kill for euro servers. My ping ranges anywhere from 150-250 on either of two connections (VM100/Eclipse FTTC60) and results in some very erratic behaviour. It's a fair struggle between the latency and the ECM crudness to find a weapon build that doesn't irritate frequently.

Who votes "no" to a poll like this btw....you're either euro and want them or you're not and it makes no difference to you. What a douche.

[Kaeseblock]

We are getting our EU Servers this year (PGI annouced that some time ago).

However, afaik there is still no exact date for them going online.

[zmeul]

Kaeseblock, on 11 February 2013 - 02:17 AM, said:

We are getting our EU Servers this year

this year just began, there are still 10 and 1/2 more months
a bit of a more precise date would be welcomed

[Inertiaman]

Kaeseblock, on 11 February 2013 - 02:17 AM, said:

We are getting our EU Servers this year (PGI annouced that some time ago).

However, afaik there is still no exact date for them going online.

They didn't. They said they were looking at it. Which historically in terms of announcements means they've done precisely nothing but saw people moaning on the forums about it

[assiprinz]

+1

One does not simply power on a rack in the EU.

I understand that this is still beta, and I also understand that setting up EU servers itself isn't that big a thing. All the maintenance, people who want to transfer their accounts to EU etc. might be too big of a hit on the dev manpower at this time.

But I would sell my mother-in-law for EU servers, as I am normally used to get pings around 15-30 here in Germany, even when playing on UK servers, now I have 120-180. (Cable 150K).

My guess: We will see EU servers soon enough, as soon as the game is in a near-final state.

Edited by assiprinz, 11 February 2013 - 02:47 AM.

[Inertiaman]

I just saw the comm chair post about the EU servers. Good news in a sense but I cannot understand why they're splitting the playerbase and would love some more info. Ultimately all the matchmaker is doing is spawning server instances elsewhere so why not unify the playerbase and just allow people to queue for instances in specific regions?

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Nash - You mentioned that EU servers may be introduced at 2013. My question is: Will your pilot name be available on both servers (North America and Europe) or only on one of them? (I ask because otherwise it could happen that 2 different people are taking the same pilot name one at North America and the other at Europe
A: Each region is has its own database and unique user names. Regions do not play with or against each other.

Heroes of Newerth as a very close example (it's MOBA but based on a single instance server FPS engine)



One community, large playerbase, seperate eventual gameservers (by choice) Doesn't seem too hard to achieve but if I'm missing something then glad to be corrected!

[Norman Knight]

Why in hell shall we want a server in UK !?
Better location would be Poland, Czech Republic or something more in the middle of Europe.

[Inertiaman]

Geography doesn't dictate quality of peering and running costs. If you want to get specific about it, then Estonia is probably the best shout in terms of bang for buck.

[sycocys]

I'd like to see the game much closer to launch before they start stretching servers allotments around the world.

[Inertiaman]

Why?

[sycocys]

Because it will allow them to put their focus and current funding into one server to get a game that's actually ready for global/localized expansion. I understand why you guys want it, the game just isn't at a stage that it make sense to do it.

[Inertiaman]

I would have thought there is significantly more than one server providing the current setup but that aside, regional servers don't necessarily imply 100% repetition on development do they? You're building the platform once then porting changes to each region. This would be even less hassle if it were just the game instances that were region specific and the lobby/forum/payment/matchmaking infrastructure remained centralised. All we're after is a choice of region in matchmaking. It doesn't take much work to then issue the REST or whatever they do to spawn the things crysis3.exe -switch -etc -blah -players 8 -whatever -frozenshitty to a server in a different location.

Further - you then save a whole load of red herring feedback around lag/latency/accuracy/etc etc that/'s currently indicative of a mixed region pool.

There's possibly some legal/payment faff to nail but then so what. It's all in a good cause.

[Inertiaman]

And my goodness - I've lost count of the number of times people have told me "the people developing the lasers aren't the same people that work on the menus" and all that blah blah so I'm highly tempted to suggest the same in this instance.

Fortunately though I'm not a clueless **** like those people and realise that the reality is a complex and reciprocal process in which nearly all aspects of the development and business teams would collaborate to design and implement such a setup.

[focuspark]

No because I want all you limeys fighting along side me

Inertiaman, on 11 February 2013 - 03:45 AM, said:

Geography doesn't dictate quality of peering and running costs. If you want to get specific about it, then Estonia is probably the best shout in terms of bang for buck.

Geography has a lot to do with it, but not the physical geography by the netograpgy or the geography of the network... make Germany a perfect EU location.

[Inertiaman]

If geography had a damn thing to do with network capability then Gibraltar would just be a rock.

Colo and hosting costs in Germany are far higher than elsewhere in EU. Labour and skills are more expensive, transit isn't markedly comparative either despite scale and and the average performance of the euro under Germany's RPI and against both the USD and CAD add another layer of pain throughout. Basically you're entirely missing my point then making it again incorrectly because you are without any idea what you're talking about. Stop it.

I'm up for the one big fight thing though. Would be a shame if mwo cannot achieve what so many match games have in that sense.

[Adridos]

Germany would be a better place.

We asked for European servers and UK is kind of an island almost in the middle of nowhere, so to speak.
Especially when we're talking about the radius of the distance that fits much better for something in the center of the Europe, than on the corner, wasting a lot of the potential on... water.

Edited by Adridos, 12 February 2013 - 04:44 AM.

[Firewuff]

Get in line... Australia I live with constant 300+ ping (some times up to 900) and can still play fine and get a resonable kill ratio. mind you I still want to slap those guys in the US who ***** about 50ms

[Boitameuh]

Adridos, on 12 February 2013 - 04:44 AM, said:

Germany would be a better place.

We asked for European servers and UK is kind of an island almost in the middle of nowhere, so to speak.
Especially when we're talking about the radius of the distance that fits much better for something in the center of the Europe, than on the corner, wasting a lot of the potential on... water.

Agreed, but let's split in half... France server !