Hey Funcom Quick Question On Latency =)

[barbaricwildcat2]

2) There is way more potential customers in Europe - around 1 bilion

europe itself is a little less than 750 million

tho sofia to iran is closer than east coast to west coast

[barbaricwildcat2]

Well oposite it doesn´t make sense at all:

part of Europe is simply way more richer than US states generaly. Not

that is so true, especially considering that USA had to take some serious debt to get out of their recession, some european countries have little to no debt

[barbaricwildcat2]

I think the real issue here is Funcom not realizing exactly how really good PVPers actually move in combat.

that is an age old issue, FC team simply seems to do more pve than pvp, they heavily rely on player feedback to try and make the right move, and sometimes dont understand the gravity of the feedback given

[barbaricwildcat2]

TBH i dont wanna play wow cos i prefer AOC by a lot, but if theres gonna be constant lag then i will be forced to go back to my old tired MMO or wait for TESO or try GW2 again. Unfortunatly im one of those that are very sensitive to latency.

i hear ya bro, hopefully FC does too

[barbaricwildcat2]

oh gawd do i hope fc does some consultation, thats a big change: from berlin to oslo vs berlin to NC is an insane difference in server distance.

FC has an idea? then they consult to see how it impacts who

where is the questionnaire that asks fury players 'would u go forwards and add a server that seldom pops minis and therefore inscrease by 8x ur latency(if its a fella from berlin)'

[kalston]

Yeah I don't get this. I mean Nusquam is active in this thread (which isn't even an official FC thread...) and said :

So far this thread has been pretty low on actual metrics from concerned people (thanks to those who have provided them and for the people who are threatening to quit if their latency goes above 100ms aren't you interested in helping us test?)

A final call needs to be made on this soon and the apparent disinterest from people means it is likely to go towards moving the servers right now.

But I see no poll, no official thread (where they could for example explain how to test your latency with a command line and by going on Testlive), nothing. But if I read this thread I do see a lot of different posters with numbers and valid concerns etc. And FC and some players keep bringing up the TSW case... but the pvp combat system is not nearly similar or half as demanding as it is in AoC.

[bogus]

You're saying like it could be changed. If no one bother to ask officially it means call was made and there was no chance to change it back. And it had probably nothing with player best interest but it's all about money. I would say renting eu servers is about to expire and they want to utylize servers is us that were rent for tsw but because game isn't popular enough they can be used also for post-merges aoc.

[Radek87]

You're saying like it could be changed. If no one bother to ask officlialy it means call was made and there was no chance to change it back. And it had probably nothing with player best interest but it's all about money. I would say renting eu server is about to expire and they want to utylize servers is us that sere rent for tsw but because game isn't popular enough they can be used also for post-merges aoc.

Yes, sure, ofc, You are right but we will see after 13 May how the game will be broken because of move database, mb some people will be abe to trate buch of items to their alts, crafted weapons etc, also hmmm some more downtime will be there, im sure, im sure...

[barbaricwildcat2]

You're saying like it could be changed. If no one bother to ask officially it means call was made and there was no chance to change it back.

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A+ on FC's part to communicate their plans, and by my understanding, theres no need for players to 'test'

this issue on latency can be mathematically resolved

lets say; kazan russia is 'x' km away from our servers, so controls will take at best 'x' amount of time to register, as a player would u be fine with such a delay?

(few russians have been playing on deathwish, all have reported latency issues)

[kalston]

They could use this as a base: https://wondernetwork.com/pings

So for example it tells you that the best possible latency from Stockholm to New York is 93ms - and that's not a latency players can dream of getting (ie. players will get a minimum of about 100ms with a very good connection and a home in the heart of Stockholm). And Moscow/New York best latency is 125ms. But the thing is people don't all live in a datacenter in a hub city with a fiber optic connection

So this just tells you the best latency you can aim for. No latency below 100 for Finland, for example.