[Data Center USA] Ping increased. Report your changes here.

[xJimmehx]

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If the ping is higher, does this mean easier aoe dodging and less lag for things like cleric stance? What do you think we would experience differently?

[xJimmehx]

And what do you think happens during massive packet loss......

I didnt study networking in college. o.o I dont know the difference between higher ping and more packet loss.

If i had to guess, ping is the time it takes to get data, pl means not getting it at all?

[Zojha]

I didnt study networking in college. o.o I dont know the difference between higher ping and more packet loss.

From the layman:

Ping is the speed at which an information travels back and forth - the higher it is, the longer it takes for the information to reach the servers and get back at you. So things like AoE dodging becomes harder.

Packet loss is when information is lost on the way. For example, you press a button, but nothing happens, because the information that you pressed the button got lost on the way to the server and thus didn't register.

[Lokryn]

I didnt study networking in college. o.o I dont know the difference between higher ping and more packet loss.

Apologies thought you were being sarcastic. Ping is the time it takes for you to send and receive a small packet of data to the server/host, packet loss is how much of that data never actually makes it. So the system has to resend it again.

Higher ping does hurt but with an increase of 50 ms, its splittin hairs over having to resend 30%+ of what your trying to send in the first place.

[Belhi]

If your in America you will be able to play fine with the ping. I play on a server literally a 1/3rd of the world a way and I manage fine. I am extremely lucky to get under 200 ping. I have my doubts that JP or EU will be much better ping wise.

[Anzaman]

They offered EU users free transfers when they moved the EU data center, it would be stupid not to offer the same for NA users.

Here's the text about free transfer

Because the Chaos data center is being relocated, certain players may find they are no longer playing on a desirable World. In order to address this issue, players will be allowed to transfer from Worlds within the Chaos data center to Worlds within the Elemental, Gaia, Mana, Aether, or Primal data centers free of charge for one week.

*The free World transfer service will not apply to characters moved from the Elemental, Gaia, Mana, Aether, or Primal data centers to the Chaos data center.

http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...8c71cb4be72616

I can imagine some players having somewhat ping increase, so it'd be nice if they'd open up free transfers.

[Lokryn]

If your in America you will be able to play fine with the ping. I play on a server literally a 1/3rd of the world a way and I manage fine. I am extremely lucky to get under 200 ping. I have my doubts that JP or EU will be much better ping wise.

Pretty much, the game has a built in lag anyways so most, wont even notice it. Movement maybe a tiny bit but I doubt it's going to break the game.

[Sida]

Ping is Spell Speed and packet loss is (not enough) Accuracy. ^^ Doesn't matter how fast it is if it keeps missing

[Mature]

It seems that this might be happening in regards of free transfers as they opened Odin / Shiva and Cerberus (them 3 had been "full" for weeks)

- European data center
　○ Cerberus
　○ Lich
　○ Moogle
　○ Odin
　○ Phoenix
　○ Ragnarok
　○ Shiva
　○ Zodiark

[xJimmehx]

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No worries.

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Thanks all for the responses. I probably wouldnt play this game anymore if the dodging got harder.. lol I had a lot of issues in the past with things like titan before i had a decent isp, im not doing that again..xD
Ive personally never seen any actions fail though. not even cleric stance.. I just have occasional trouble dodging some of the faster aoes. I hope this fixes that..