aussie ninja's

[Enkidoh]

"Nunchuks? Those aren't even Australian!"

I'm sorry, I couldn't resist that seeing the thread title.

Seriously though, I can probably safely say that realistically, SE will never add Australian-specific servers - the fact there isn't even European-specific servers (a far larger player population region which the Australian version is actually lumped with), shows this only too well. In the grand scheme of things, Australia/New Zealand/Oceania is literally just a drop in the ocean (no pun intended) as far as player population is concerned to warrant the excessive financial investment on SE's part to set up an Australian-based server group, with little return on such an investment to them. That's just being realistic.

The NIN Mudra lag can be an issue, but I find I often have more of a problem just screwing up the combination by accidentally hitting some other skill or ability simply because I'm uncoordinated. As others have said, if you don't hurriedly input the combo then there is less chance of lag spikes screwing it up. Once again, learning to pace yourself in the game makes things so much easier, as a lot of the game's issues originate in players rushing things.

And for the record, I'm Australian too (born and lived in Perth all my life).

[Stumpedify]

Seriously though, I can probably safely say that realistically, SE will never add Australian-specific servers - the fact there isn't even European-specific servers (a far larger player population region which the Australian version is actually lumped with), shows this only too well. In the grand scheme of things, Australia/New Zealand/Oceania is literally just a drop in the ocean (no pun intended) as far as player population is concerned to warrant the excessive financial investment on SE's part to set up an Australian-based server group, with little return on such an investment to them. That's just being realistic.

There might not be European servers now, but there will be. They already have plans to move the EU servers to a datacentre over there around the time of the expansion. It's been confirmed.

So the precedent has been set, which leads oceanic players to ask, why can't we have servers too? Tonberry alone has a large population of oceanic players, add that to the oceanic crowd spread over all the servers and, while it may not be as many as EU has, there might just be more out there than you think.

But yeah, no major title MMO has ever had an Australia based server, so I don't see SE doing it either, but wouldn't it be game changing if they did? There are other issues as well, like Duty Finder. The oceanic community would only require a single server, so how does DF work then... They certainly couldn't match people up with the NA servers or even the JP ones, the server delay would be so screwy. From the dev teams perspective, that's probably even more of a reason not to do it than the financial cost is.

In the end, the closest we are going to get to it is Tonberry server. Although you'll have to get used to running with Japanese speaking people in DF.