Australian Server

Really need an Australian server or something to cut down on our latency... died so many times from being hit with nothing shown on my screen. Just poof, half my life gone, and then a second later I'm dead. I can't even dodge half the attacks thrown at my way because there's so much delay. 250ms on US, 290+ to singapore. Lost many levels of experience just randomly dieing to nothing or seeing them attack after I'm already dead. Great game, just infuriating.

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dangerdong wrote:

Really need an Australian server or something to cut down on our latency... died so many times from being hit with nothing shown on my screen. Just poof, half my life gone, and then a second later I'm dead. I can't even dodge half the attacks thrown at my way because there's so much delay. 250ms on US, 290+ to singapore. Lost many levels of experience just randomly dieing to nothing or seeing them attack after I'm already dead. Great game, just infuriating.

The singapore cable was fixed about a week ago, so your ping should be a lot better than that. If it's higher than the US ping, it means it's still re-routing through the US, back to singapore, and then reaching you for some reason.

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Seems ironic that a NZ game does not have at least an Australasian server. Damn our silly draconian and archaic internet laws...

I hope this game does well enough they can justify one soon.

you mean damn our super high labour and rental costs compared to other countries. Since GGG are based (more or less?) in NZ im sure they would love nothing more than a local gateway etc so they could play lag free as well!

anyways connection is still crap via singapore so that'd indicate that although they may have physically fixed the cable, not all ISPs etc are using it to route traffic though.

is there no hope for us ANZ?

:(

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MegaTurtleRex wrote:

is there no hope for us ANZ?

:(

I hear that the AU/NZ IT industry's motto is:
"Abandon all hope ye who enter here"...

... Seriously. In NZ our govt is spending billions on a fibre network to improve speeds.

... While ignoring the fact that we only have ONE international cable that ALL traffic gets routed through.

It seems like ping has settled around 50-60ms for Perth to Signapore - any reports on how the other cities are doing?

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Zenemis wrote:

It seems like ping has settled around 50-60ms for Perth to Signapore - any reports on how the other cities are doing?

sydney singapore server is 170-230

sydney to us server is around 230-300

From South Africa only Europe gateway is semi-playable.
It claims about 200 ms ping when my internet is running well but I get huge constant lag spikes.
It lags more then other games, not sure why, maybe server location in Europe.

Singapore and America both have constant latency over 500 ms...

For us here in Africa there is no solution, don't blame GGG for that though because I personally wouldn't bother with a server here. Not worth dealing with the useless companies and huge data and IP costs...