I am ready for this, if the ping is alright. I’m sick of playing at around 160~180 ping all the time… it is somehow playable, but those slight moments where game doesn’t sync… I really hate it.
Besides proving how good we are, I also wish public ranking for K/D, Score/min, accuracy, etc. for each merc or something.
Well, time to march against elite trinket. I’m confident.
[quote=“ThunderPro;162366”]I am ready for this, if the ping is alright. I’m sick of playing at around 160~180 ping all the time… it is somehow playable, but those slight moments where game doesn’t sync… I really hate it.
Besides proving how good we are, I also wish public ranking for K/D, Score/min, accuracy, etc. for each merc or something.
Well, time to march against elite trinket. I’m confident.[/quote]
Our ping will be all right this time, lol.
@CCP115 Europe seems to manage it, all being on the same servers with 5+ common languages, and over 20 in total. Even the US servers have English, Spanish and Portuguese quite regularly. Such is the nature of a multi-lingual world xD I’m sure combining Asia + AU won’t be a terrible decision by any means.
@MarsRover Hoop snakes are worse than drop bears, just so you know 
[quote=“rancid;162282”]Argh please tell me you’re kidding. Where were the servers previously based @RazielWarmonic? I ping worse to Singapore than I do to Europe :neutral: Most of eastern Australia do as well. Even Perth pings 100-120ms to Singapore. There’s been some weird routing problems to Singapore for as long as I can remember even going back to 2011.
I am not looking forward to this :([/quote]
Really? Oh man. I’ll try and pass this information a long. I guess geographically it makes sense, however the routing just might make it bad.
I’m interested in seeing what Asian players ping to Australian servers and vise versa. Thanks for the ping traces everyone! This is super helpful.
I remember that players from Singapore had issues with traffic with the rest of the world, back from my time in APB a good 5 years ago.
Well, I worked with rancid last night and this isn’t an issue with Singapore or not just Singapore. At least not in his case. It was an issue with a hop that was still in NZ that appears to be overworked. And apparently all of their ISP options use the same routing (probably due to a lack of options) when it comes to Singapore.
Now Aussies might have a similar problem but it’s not the exact same problem that NZ players are seeing. They might all being choking their packets through an overworked node as well (on their side and possibly on Singapore’s too).
NZ, we spend $21,000,000 (NZD) on a flag referendum only for the flag to stay the same but we can’t get good routing?
To be fair, it’s not like our gaming population exactly has any influence on John Key the ponytail puller.
To be fair, it’s not like our gaming population exactly has any influence on John Key the ponytail puller.[/quote]
It seems like its with your ISP @rancid , I’m from Singapore and I ping around 180 to Australia servers.
While I do understand your concern to play ranked with a horrible ping, if the servers is to be changed to Aus instead, countries affected would include:
Singapore, China, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam etc.
@RazielWarmonic If the servers were based in AUS instead, all of these countries might face pings around 180-250 which will then again pull down the population of people who’d play ranked due to the unstable ping.
Is there another country that could host the servers that will benefit all these affected countries?
[quote=“jollyRacer;162766”]It seems like its with your ISP @rancid , I’m from Singapore and I ping around 180 to Australia servers.
While I do understand your concern to play ranked with a horrible ping, if the servers is to be changed to Aus instead, countries affected would include:
Singapore, China, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam etc.
@RazielWarmonic If the servers were based in AUS instead, all of these countries might face pings around 180-250 which will then again pull down the population of people who’d play rank due to the unstable ping.
Is there another country that could host the servers that will benefit all these affected countries?
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Well my ping to AUS servers are 150, it’s ok for i guess.
It isn’t my ISP. I’ve been having this problem (as has every other New Zealander for 4+ years) and many eastern Australian players have the exact same problem. I’ve lived in 4 different houses over the last 4 years with 4 different ISP’s including Spark, Vodafone, Slingshot and Orcon and all of them ping 300+ to Singapore.
The routing is different both ways, that is normal. I am aware Singapore ping alright to Australia. The Singapore Quake players were able to play on Australia but the NZ and Australians were not able to play on Singapore. But I’m not asking for the servers to be hosted in Australia, that would be a stupid idea. I’m not sure why you thought I was.
[quote=“rancid;162790”]It isn’t my ISP. I’ve been having this problem (as has every other New Zealander for 4+ years) and many eastern Australian players have the exact same problem. I’ve lived in 4 different houses over the last 4 years with 4 different ISP’s including Spark, Vodafone, Slingshot and Orcon and all of them ping 300+ to Singapore.
The routing is different both ways, that is normal. I am aware Singapore ping alright to Australia. The Singapore Quake players were able to play on Australia but the NZ and Australians were not able to play on Singapore. But I’m not asking for the servers to be hosted in Australia, that would be a stupid idea. I’m not sure why you thought I was.
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Well, considering what we found out, your problem definitely starts in NZ. You went from 23 ping to around 180 ping while still in NZ before the hop left for Singapore. I’d wager all of those ISP’s you’ve had use the exact same backbone for internet travel and route you through the same troubled area with traffic that heads towards Singapore. It’s on the ISP to try and re-route you or whoever owns that part of the network…which can be rough since most ISP’s will tell you “we can’t control that”.
Yeah I know, was just pointing out it isn’t my specific ISP. Felt like he was implying if I changed ISP’s the problem would disappear, but I know that isn’t the case. If that isn’t what he meant though then my apologies.