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[Shougun]

Three days ago I was at 90ms. Today? 288...

I'm in Puerto Rico.

Also a PS4 player, so VPNs go right out the window.

Ouch >.>, but I do want to add because I saw it before - you should be able to use a VPN with your PS4, with a bit of leg work: https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme..._a_vpn_on_ps4/

[Ama_Hamada]

I get how the internet works but what do you mean by "Routing around it won't be perfect on day 1" .. why not? I do not see why it would suddenly take different paths.

Past that I am not really complaining about the ping directly (in case people jump on my back for this question, since no one pointed it out to me) it was more with the programmed delays in the game that been around since forever and been driving me nuts this whole time, (and the increased ping does make it worse, and thought it was there just because servers where slow/out of date) something I do hope changes for SB.

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[Shougun]

A drunk spider who ran out of silk and is now using dried grass in the middle of a Nevada summer .. At least that's what it feels like depending on where I am in the US and which provider I'm using lol. Comcast at my home is pretty good, but hilariously expensive.

Definitely should give it time to settle.. That doesn't mean it'll be perfect but it may get better, depending on where you're located. (I think some of the Eu that went from 100 to 350 may need to consider the EU servers more seriously now, which is a bummer but at least there are incentivized free transfers).

[Kuroyasha]

I thought it was impossible too but when I managed to snag some 90ths and a 99th on savage with 250+ ping a while back I stopped using high ping as an excuse for mediocre performance.

Please people, do not brag about the one time u got orange percentile under echo in Creator with the rest of your non-echo percentiles in blue like we can't look up the percentiles in a new tab. Then the nerve to talk about mediocre performance. Stop. This argument actually hurts you more than helps.

For those that actually can get high orange percentiles, without echo, consistently (and/or those that go for speedkills and/or world prog), they will notice the effect of going from 50 to 100 or any more dramatic increase that takes them from low to over 100 ms. They will notice the slower activation of GCDs, the lack of double weave without clipping at all, the clipping in a Rapid Fire, the slowdown of activation of oGCDs, and the exacerbated effect of clipping when including Fey Wind in a rotation. They will notice the effect that slowdown has on fitting or not fitting in a gcd with 1 second left on an atk buff (whether personal buff or raid buff). They will notice on SMN (if they're doing an optimal opener and following rotation/priority system/whatever you wanna call it) the delay in double and even triple weave(in the case of a couple openers).

Some choosing to deal with high ping and being quiet about it doesn't mean those who now experience must do the same. It's a legit complaint when your ping doubles triples quadruples etc and you are unhappy with the direct effects it has on your performance. I know aiming to be highly skilled is frowned upon for some reason here but there are many dedicated people who want to push the envelope in the game in battle. And now the decision to move from one coast to the other instead of a central location has a significant effect on many of those who want to push.

If you play casually, or play just to clear and chill, or farm and not care about optimal perf, or speedkill, or world prog, then naturally the change won't really make a difference to you. Dungeons are what they are at this point and can be cleared easily with whatever ping. Normal mode raid the same. Maybe the new primals will be challenging but I remain cautious, as the response to challenging primals has always been make the next one easier.

But for those that want to push, it's a big deal.

[starLivitation]

I get how the internet works but what do you mean by "Routing around it won't be perfect on day 1" .. why not? I do not see why it would suddenly take different paths.

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cause u know not all the routers are the same, the ISP can upgrade certain routers or hubs where the trafic is not being handled properly , or just route it in another path. this is an on going issue with ISP , and they must monitor their traffic, and upgrade bandwidth or add different routs, etc. all this takes time, and planning and it doesn't happen instantly.

[AxlStream]

cause u know not all the routers are the same, the ISP can upgrade certain routers or hubs where the trafic is not being handled properly , or just route it in another path. this is an on going issue with ISP , and they must monitor their traffic, and upgrade bandwidth or add different routs, etc. all this takes time, and planning and it doesn't happen instantly.

You do know that the only thing that can get better are just some possible new routes right? And even then the chance would be slim since I assume all ISPs would of had all their DNS tables sorted by now or else the data center transfer would of just not happened. I'm not saying it'll never get better, just that if something does get better it won't be SE leaning on the service providers, especially in the US.

[Chiramu]

Positivity thread hype!

Lets keep this thread positive guys.

[Chiramu]

South American FFXIV players, you are in the same boat as us Aussies and SEA players. We are still playing without complaint because we know there is nothing to be done about it. I am happy I can play the game, do dungeons and not be hit by everyone AOE due to lag at least XD.

It costs a lot of money to run a server, they can't start one in South America AND South East Asia.

At least we can play an English client of FFXIV, Dragon Quest X is still Japanese only T_T.

[Blueyes]

May I ask what method people are using for checking their ping when playing from a PS4? I am helping someone and I hoped that running Resource Monitor from a PC would detect the PS4's connection to FFXIV, but that apparently didn't work.