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East Coaster here that is in Ottawa.

Getting a ping of around 107ms so it's nothing crazy for East Coasters to worry about; as some have mentioned, it's mostly based on your IP that'll determine what kind of ping you'll get.

Funny enough, I enjoy seeing my tracert run from Ottawa, Montreal, New York, St-Louis and then Sacremento. That's quite an interesting zigzag...

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Originally Posted by Eli85

The amount of overreaction in this thread... {snip} As for EU players? Stick to the EU data centre. Seriously. Chill out, people.

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Originally Posted by TheCount

Maybe I would have if the servers didn't start out in North America and we only got EU servers much later, when you have housing, a good FC and a bunch of friends. What you expect me to leave that behind? {snip}

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Originally Posted by Fate_Testarossa

Some EU players used to play in 1.0 when there was no EU data center. It's not that easy to just leave a server you made hundreds of friends on. {snip} :/

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Please do not tell people: if this change makes the game unplayable, shut up and choose between "stay with all your friends, but be unable to play" vs "abandon all your friends and social contacts, to transfer so you can at least play through the game". Since a huge draw of MMOs is the human interrelationships, please do not be rudely tone deaf.

Has this actually been 100% confirmed?

Also - how do I ping / do a traceroute to see how bad it'll be for me?

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Originally Posted by Fate_Testarossa

Some EU players used to play in 1.0 when there was no EU data center. It's not that easy to just leave a server you made hundreds of friends on. I'm gonna give it a try anyway, see if it is playable with a 200ish ping. I don't have high hopes though. :/

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I managed to do savage even on 250~ ping. Downside is there's a little bit of GCD clipping when you're double weaving. I can still easily dodge AOEs too.

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Originally Posted by TheCount

Hah, you must be joking

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Where else? Middle of Nevada? Eastern Oregon? Somewhere in Kansas? South Dakota? At least in California it's a quick to get to. It's the darn Silicon Valley for crying out loud.

SE probably put a bid out on where to place the server and California was cheapest. Capitalism at its best.

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Originally Posted by BorisDaBlade

Where else? Middle of Nevada? Eastern Oregon? Somewhere in Kansas? South Dakota? At least in California it's a quick to get to. It's the darn Silicon Valley for crying out loud.

SE probably put a bid out on where to place the server and California was cheapest. Capitalism at its best.

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Yeah gosh such a good choice over like a central location that easily would accomodate everyone in your continent instead of as far possible west, which is probably also much less populated than the east coast i'll remind you. Not like there aren't good central locations with good infrastructure or anything. Nooooo...

I am very happy that they decided to move and, more importantly, upgrade servers but, come on, CA? Why there? Is a great deal of the NA player base located in that area? What possible reason could they possibly have to place it on a corner of North America instead of a more centralized location? Lets just hope the connection of those of us not in the North American land mass does not suffer too much. Getting mixed feelings about all this now. :/

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Originally Posted by ReplicaX

You have high expectations and not a full grasp of what is involved.There are multiple factors involved just from your end, besides SE's datacenter.
- your own hardware
- your ISP
- your route
- packet loss

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Originally Posted by Ama_Hamada

So this is normal for you?


Trying to optimize play highest as possible is not possible with how much the game lags, and I am a bit confused why it exists. So far my idea is that trying to make it playable under 200 ms means give it artificial lag by processing things slowly that does not help. Maybe all we needed was the upgraded servers, I hope that is all it was anyway. We will find out tomorrow I suppose.


https://i.gyazo.com/1bfd479c723fe5a0...e3572a6196.png
https://i.gyazo.com/0d5d850a4ea924dc...1cad6671a3.png
vs


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https://i.gyazo.com/93294582bd1559d8...f5ad3db451.png
what does TTL mean/ do?
Unless they upgraded the servers in the sense I am hoping in, I do not think this is very good...
Also I think I prefer routing though level 3 then comcast....

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Originally Posted by Ama_Hamada

https://i.gyazo.com/9c14cf71dc74c2bb...dc2dd43169.png
https://gyazo.com/9c14cf71dc74c2bbe1f7a8dc2dd43169
(doono how make it bigger on direct link, but it keeps in the 50's and I see lag in the game.)

Its Se server end, game is laggy as hell, it is unplayable in a sense it prevents me from maximizing my DPS. I am being picky but I do not care, a game should not feel laggy at a ms in the 50's , it is from how slow the servers are at processing and "animation locks"

Also for the comment about it being gaming device from upgrading to ps4 from Ps3:
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Loading Times by Scene
Scene #1 2.186 sec
Scene #2 2.982 sec
Scene #3 2.398 sec
Scene #4 3.423 sec
Scene #5 6.244 sec
Scene #6 1.483 sec
Total Loading Time 18.718 sec

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Originally Posted by Ama_Hamada

care to try again?:

https://i.gyazo.com/3d283c826278d55a...6e86731442.png

10/10
It is SE's end, not mine, that is to Quebec Canada while on the game, just now, while posting this.

What did the say the game was supposed to be playable on? 180 ping was it?


I do not call it playable when I can be hit for full damage up to 2 sec after i used Attunement. Something is wrong and the point of this thread is to get it addressed.

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try again without insulting this time? Still think it is something on my end that the game is slow and laggy at 40-50 ms? 699 packets, 0 lost..

Asking not to have a 2 second delay, is not high expectations, they make chain 5+ , 10 seconds to do, when you really only got 7 seconds because of the game lag. You only get 70% of your display time to kill something.. off 40 ms... that is abysmal. It is something on SE's end, and I hope simply having "an upgrade" addresses this.

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Originally Posted by BorisDaBlade

Where else? Middle of Nevada? Eastern Oregon? Somewhere in Kansas? South Dakota? At least in California it's a quick to get to. It's the darn Silicon Valley for crying out loud.

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It seems like you're completely missing the point - anywhere in the middle of the US, or at least not the coast, is a better than this option. Even splitting to both coasts makes more sense than this. Ultimately we'll see how much this affects performance. Undoubtedly however, this makes people less happy, with at best the people who are affected take an apathetic view, which isn't representative of a majority.

I'm on the east coast. I have a wonderful connection at the moment. I don't personally expect to see much if any difference in performance tomorrow. I do worry a bit however about friends I have in the EU. This might be a real problem for some of them and I'd hate to see that happen to them. Worrying about it now isn't going to change the reality in the morning. It's only a few hours away.

On a related note I was playing on the Chocobo server yesterday since it was open (and I was able to create an account there) and there was absolutely no difference that I could see in my game performance. Aren't those servers located in Japan and if so I'm pretty far away from them and it didn't affect me in the least.