[Feedback] Data Center Travel Changes

[Colt47]

High ping is a problem for jobs like viper and machinist for sure. I can't see someone doing high end content with high ping anyway for very long.

[VoidsentStatus]

High ping is a problem for jobs like viper and machinist for sure. I can't see someone doing high end content with high ping anyway for very long.

I won't speak for PvE, but for ranked PvP it's something we deal with regularly. Ranked matches of Diamond/Crystal rank will die off completely on various data centers for days to weeks, even a month+ sometimes. It used to be Crystal that died early in the earlier seasons, but now Primal is dead for weeks. EU same thing happens on Chaos with ppl getting on alts to help Light pop or having secondary characters to get Plat/Diamond on Chaos popping to get more Diamond/Crystal rank possible. Because of the regularness of the queue dying, most of us have characters on every data region that we pvp on besides Materia. EU will regularly come to NA, sometimes JP, NA will regularly go to EU and JP is like a training ground because you have to be a lot more predictive than reactive which makes you better defensively once you get back on home ping. Most of the Aussies from the Materia pvp community play on JP primarily, but also play on Crystal, and they're the prime example of only playing certain job (WAR) because their ping is too high to play other things.

[Colt47]

I won't speak for PvE, but for ranked PvP it's something we deal with regularly. Ranked matches of Diamond/Crystal rank will die off completely on various data centers for days to weeks, even a month+ sometimes. It used to be Crystal that died early in the earlier seasons, but now Primal is dead for weeks. EU same thing happens on Chaos with ppl getting on alts to help Light pop or having secondary characters to get Plat/Diamond on Chaos popping to get more Diamond/Crystal rank possible. Because of the regularness of the queue dying, most of us have characters on every data region that we pvp on besides Materia. EU will regularly come to NA, sometimes JP, NA will regularly go to EU and JP is like a training ground because you have to be a lot more predictive than reactive which makes you better defensively once you get back on home ping. Most of the Aussies from the Materia pvp community play on JP primarily, but also play on Crystal, and they're the prime example of only playing certain job (WAR) because their ping is too high to play other things.

Attrition is pretty rough with PvP as well since CC matches usually get done in rapid succession, and once someone gets a rank they want the only thing left keeping them in the whole thing is getting rank 25 for the final unlock, assuming they want it and haven't gotten to rank 25 yet. I never went ranked but I had to stagger which seasons I was doing because running CC continuously was more exhausting than sitting in PF for the savage runs.