West Coast Significantly Effected By Server Distance

[Tupsi]

I live in SF also, I have no issues at all with dodging anything. I have my PC Ethernet'd to my router. . At the beginning of ARR I had problems because I was using WiFi and own a crappy network card but after I switched to Ethernet, boom, golden. Lasers and Plumes can't even touch me. :l

About the same, had a very old PC and wireless couldn't dodge anything and were always hit after I left the hot zone - New PC build, directly wired...boom, issues melted away and the game was suddenly playable again.

[OrionInerghem]

I have an i7 Hexa core, 680 GTX OC with an SSD



That's what my improvement is. I just finished my 9th Relic. My BF in SF reluctantly tried this tunneling service and is blown away as well at how much easier it is to dodge now. There were certain times where I could not dodge piercing laser, I would be outside the AoE and my screen shows me getting hit. Last-night in the coil I could comfortably play coil without having to already be moving to not get hit.

What provider do you guys in SF have?
I already had comcast come boost my signal and it's a steady 55mbs download/12-15 upload, there's nothing else I can do my side to make it faster but use the tunneling service.

[Maplekoya]

I love how Americans are only just having to deal with this while the rest of the world have had issues like this since internet gaming started! Producers would never spend the money to place a server in every country, it's just one of them things that we have to deal with and have been for so many years, and I think it's time America joined us.

Because it's rare for the majority of Americans to play a game outside his or her own country as they usually get their own localized versions (eg:Aion/L2/Tera/Vindictus/Maple etc). This latency lag is sudden news to a lot of new internet users but in fact it has been around since the internet was first invented.

I played Tera EU with 400ms and I watched the forums where they were complaining that if they played on the NA servers, they would get 100ms and it would be the end of the world for them.

[ShadowHunterrX]

Because it's rare for the majority of Americans to play a game outside his or her own country as they usually get their own localized versions (eg:Aion/L2/Tera/Vindictus/Maple etc). This latency lag is sudden news to a lot of new internet users but in fact it has been around since the internet was first invented.

I played Tera EU with 400ms and I watched the forums where they were complaining that if they played on the NA servers, they would get 100ms and it would be the end of the world for them.

Move along people made up story !

There are many EU/AUS players already know since the start of online gaming that we have a high ping. We already used to it we dont complain about it >_>.

[Maplekoya]

Move along people made up story !

There are many EU/AUS players already know since the start of online gaming that we have a high ping. We already used to it we dont complain about it >_>.

Wrong choice of words perhaps, rather than a complaint it was more of a counter argument. The community was comparing and deciding if they should move to NA and there were quite a few that said ping would make the game unplayable with 100+ms and would be better to stick to EU even thou NA has better features.

Back on topic, I was referring mainly to Americans as by looking at some of the threads here on ARR's forums, it looks like quite a number of people have never had latency issues and are extremely shocked about it. It is also possible that to some, this is their first MMO.

[OrionInerghem]

Wrong choice of words perhaps, rather than a complaint it was more of a counter argument. The community was comparing and deciding if they should move to NA and there were quite a few that said ping would make the game unplayable with 100+ms and would be better to stick to EU even thou NA has better features.

Back on topic, I was referring mainly to Americans as by looking at some of the threads here on ARR's forums, it looks like quite a number of people have never had latency issues and are extremely shocked about it. It is also possible that to some, this is their first MMO.

It's more that most of the difficulty of ARR is dodging quickly. In FFXI you could go WC and come back and nobody would know lol...

[Deculture]

Welcome to the life of east coasters on the large majority of online games without dedicated east coast servers (the biggest offender atm being League of Legends, in a genre where ping is a huge deal).

[Allyrion]

It's more that most of the difficulty of ARR is dodging quickly. In FFXI you could go WC and come back and nobody would know lol...

Yea, but they were talking about TERA the "first true action MMO", as they call themselves.
Dodging is much more intense there than here.

[Octoberizm]

I have comcast, but I also don't live in the center of SF (Castro/Mission/Noe), Bayview area. Soooo, Yeah, I don't know.