Best servers for Australians?

Hi everyone,

I have a quick question and I wasn't sure where was the right place to post this so I've posted here... .anyway...

I am wondering what server should an Australian join? I am currently on NA Leviathan but was wondering if there is a specific server for Australians or what the large majority of my fellow Aussies play on?

Thanks in advance.

Tonberry is the unofficial english asia/oceania server, you will find a lot of australians there

It depends on your priorities, really. Like Kaos Keith said, many AUS/OCE/SEA players dogpiled onto Tonberry (JP datacenter). As a result, this is more likely to have an active primetime, but is popular enough that it may be hard to get onto (not sure about that tho).
The main alternative, for people who want an entirely EN player base, is Behemoth over on NA datacenter. Between the two continents ping/latency makes no difference, so your choice is mainly chat language versus world activity.

I think Tonberry is locked. Since the NA servers are located in Cali now, you might want to test a trial character on NA and JP to see which gives you a better connection these days.

As said Tonberry is the unofficial Australian/NZ/Oceanic server, unfortunately, because of that SE has now classed it as a 'congested' server meaning all character transfers and new character creation is locked on it, so sadly that is no longer an option for the foreseeable future I'm afraid.

Time-zone and geography wise for us Aussies another JP server is (on paper at least) the best option for an Australian player, but there is the possible issue of language difficulties, although a lot of JP players can read and write English reasonable enough (I used to play on Ridill, a JP server, and I made a number of JP friends there who wrote and read English very well).

Your best bet really is just find what server is available at this stage and see how suitable it is for you.

Thanks for the help everyone. I suppose my main concern is finding a server which is active at reasonable hours for Australia. Sucks that Tonberry is closed, Guess I might try my luck on a JP server.

Gungnir is same data center as Tonberry there are some Australian over here too and is unlock. if you choose to come to Gungnir I can hook-up with other AUS but you have to hurry it soon it will be lock

Come to Asura, we have a smaller english community than Tonberry but there are 2 decent english FC's that do everything including raids; CALM and DMZ. Join CALM though, our members regularly help out with those who are leveling or need advice.

Since the server moves its gotten better than it was on the NA servers for me , probably most non southern hemisphere people would consider it bad but it is definitely playable. I tried Tonberry for a bit just before Stormblood came out and whilst it was slightly better connection i would much rather play on an English data center than have a slightly lower ms.The only time i really get frustrated or notice it that much is when an enemy casts a really fast attack i see the red on the ground and move out but still take damage ><.

I just did a quick google search and it seems Behemoth on NA and Masamune on JP are considered secondary to Tonberry. since Tonberry is closed they might be getting a boost lately.

Thanks! sounds like Asura, Behemoth or Masamune are the ones I should shoot for. :)

I'll have to remember the FC CALM when I transfer.

I'll try to suss out Masamune.

I can attest that I've seen Aussie FCs on Behemoth when playing on one of my alts. So, I know they exist at least.

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Originally Posted by KaosKeith

Tonberry is the unofficial english asia/oceania server, you will find a lot of australians there

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Or you could just join the Elemental datacentre and be grouped with English players from Tonberry in duties and Party Finder.

Kujata has English players and FCs too. It's on the same data-centre as Tonberry so you have shared Party Finder. Plenty of people coming too, due to Kujata being a designated server.

Aussie that plays on Behemoth here, ping difference between JP and NA is now like 20ms with the new Data Centre (from Melbourne). Just depends if you want to deal with JP only PF groups and a possible language barrier as opposed to majority of the Data Centre speaking English.

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Originally Posted by savageink

I think Tonberry is locked. Since the NA servers are located in Cali now, you might want to test a trial character on NA and JP to see which gives you a better connection these days.

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Had a friend in New Zealand, she tested her ping on Toonberry and on an NA server.
NA server gave her way better ping than toonberry.

Kiwi on behemoth here, we ping lower to NA servers now.

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Originally Posted by Pavise

Aussie that plays on Behemoth here, ping difference between JP and NA is now like 20ms with the new Data Centre (from Melbourne). Just depends if you want to deal with JP only PF groups and a possible language barrier as opposed to majority of the Data Centre speaking English.

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Aussie originally from Tonberry but moved to Behemoth due to the language barrier. The world itself is a lot less active during peak Australian time but the duty finder is basically fine. If you play during Australian mornings its peak time in the US so on weekends you can catch up on a lot of things.

Regarding the duty finder its almost instant queue for tanks, healers around 5 mins or less and DPS 10-20 mins for queues such as levelling.

I have tried to like being on Tonberry but in the end the language barrier was too much and decided to remain on Behemoth. Its good being able to understand what people are saying in party/alliance chat.

Since the US servers moved there is no longer much difference between JP and NA data centres for most Australians. I've always had a spotty connection to the JP servers, regular large lag spikes - but I know others who never had an issue with that. There are a fair number of Australians on a few NA servers Faerie and Siren I know for sure, and there is little to no language barrier.

I know plenty of Australian players who happily use the auto translate function to run content with JP language players but I always found it clumsy at best. Joining English only duty finder content on the JP data centre tends to mean long queues at least during the week - but if most of your gaming is on the weekends then you shouldn't have too many issues.

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Thanks for the help everyone. I suppose my main concern is finding a server which is active at reasonable hours for Australia. Sucks that Tonberry is closed, Guess I might try my luck on a JP server.

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Kujata and Aegis are both high population English speaking servers on the Japanese date centre. Kujata especially, Tonberry is pretty bad anyway.

I you are still on Levi. I would love to find a fc with some Aussies!

I would pick one of the NA servers if you want to play with people who speak English.

Hey guys I've moved countries from Europe to Australia and I have been having a real hard time playing on the EU server so I decided to make the move to Kujata (Tonberry was locked) I am looking for an English speaking FC if there are any on the server that would like to take me on board! Kind regards!

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Originally Posted by Ayata_77

Hey guys I've moved countries from Europe to Australia and I have been having a real hard time playing on the EU server so I decided to make the move to Kujata (Tonberry was locked) I am looking for an English speaking FC if there are any on the server that would like to take me on board! Kind regards!

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EU servers are terrible for Aussies :(

If you have trouble finding an FC on Kujata, there's not much difference between any of the US servers and the Japanese servers now :) It's only EU that causes huge problems for us. There also used to be a quite a few Aussies on Behemoth :)