Data Centers? (Yes or No Poll)

[Jynx]

Eh, Hopefully I can find a middle ground with all of my friends and all pick a server that meets us in the middle. It's the only choice we have it seems and then many of my friends will be forced to either.

1. Play on the server his friends are on (But outside his regular playtime) Therefore if he ever plays when we aren't on it might as well be playing on a ghost server.

2. Screw his friends and play on the server that is populated during his primetime.

[Rannie]

i voted no but I'm not entirely against data center's per say. I don't like the fact that they're segregating the players but if it helps with the latency then it is better in the long run. On the down side though is there are quite a lot of ls's now that will have to decide if they're going to remain on servers they're on or go to different ones and see if their members are willing to make that change. It's all really topsy turvy with it and if only it could just be a relay center instead of separate/segregated servers.... *shrugs* so I don't know honestly. Honestly one thing I do know is that no matter what unless you have one damn good connection you'll still experience lag no matter where you are and even with a damn good connection. It's all dependent on what your computer can handle and what connection you have and the hours you play and what not

[Pooky]

Less lag > Playing with people who tell me "JP ONRY SOLLY".

[Griss]

I Do wonder how they will handle the switch over for existing servers.

[Riv]

Pretty sure they already have the ball rolling on this. Seems pointless to vote.

[Surake]

I'm down with playing on a NA located server. Less lag = better response = more fun.

[Meier]

I didn't say IEEE standards aren't worldwide, I simply stated that the performance gains from the IEEE standard revision will largely benefit transfer speeds between systems on a LAN.

I'll put it into perspective. Say we have a fiber optic line straight from Tokyo to Los Angeles. Say we have perfect conditions to run data through it. In this perfect, never-going-happen, situation, it'll take the packet 41ms to travel that distance. Now add in the time it takes the server to process and send out the packet. Then add in all of the different routing that needs to happen before it even leaves Tokyo. Now add in some more routing before it even gets to you from your ISP. Now add in the time it takes to process and render the information on the screen.

All of it adds up and this doesn't even include the callbacks and packet loss that happen. No change in IEEE standard is going to reduce this amount of time significantly.

I don't think you understand how this stuff works.

99% of all intercontinental communications on planet Earth go across these transoceanic cables. These cables aren't IEEE 802.3 compliant, the pipelines handle terabits of data per second. These are the highest quality fiber optic cables we have in the world.

But each hop between nodes, and each meter traveled across these cables takes time my friend. As of right now in the human world, there is no faster way to send data to another continent than through these cables. The IEEE 802.3 standard refers to copper and short range fiber optic cables, which have absolutely zero bearing on international communication lines.
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yeah i get what you guys are saying but what you both fail to realize with recent activity in the oceans, trans-oceanic cable transfer are becoming extinct, company’s worldwide are turning to satellite upload rather than cabling itself.

And i know the ieee standard is for close range land termination rather than over sea, but what you failing to realize networks speeds are growing because of this from say new york to washington dc, they are replace with these standards, and in doing so your pc house say in long island ny goes to hub in manhattan and then is sent to dc then to another pc from there.

[Punainen]

Definitely yes. I don't end up playing with other language players very often anyway, and its easier to play with people whom I can easily communicate with, so no complaints about how it will definitely cause language majorities. And less lag is a GIANT improvement. So 100% yes yes yes.

[Zenaku]

All the players i play even if there from outside of NA know ENG and the few people that i'm friends are in my linkshell so they coming to the same world so i don't see why not.

[Evangelus]

Definitely yes.