LOADSTONE UPDATE

[Vydos]

Hmm... North America/Europe. Is the server in America or Europe then?
I wonder if there will be a difference in latency for Oceanics between the JP or NA servers...

I honestly hope they keep that a secret. Last thing I want is people moving to servers depending on where the physical server is actually located at. I'm considering this as an attempt on S-E part to avoid splitting up the western community. Although I'm going to miss the japanese if they all leave the current non-JP servers.

[prymortal]

It shouldn't have made a difference, because all the old servers were in Japan.

We will want to test the pings of various locations during beta phase three.

yeah JP servers i already know how great they are.... Ifrit for example Hey look a crack, run a mile away, im dead........
But in all seriousness you'd be suprised what difference in speed there from general server tests. N/A is by far the fastest to connect with. EU isn't worth my time & jp is bearly average for connect speeds.
i'll cheak speeds & pings in phase 3 tho to be 100% sure.

[Gentaro]

I don't want everyone segregated D: I wanna play with people from all walks of life around the world like in 11! True adventuring comes from mingling with different people not all the same.

Me too :/ I really dont know where to go

[ArkhamNative]

Hmm... North America/Europe. Is the server in America or Europe then?
I wonder if there will be a difference in latency for Oceanics between the JP or NA servers...

My guess is that "NA/EU" is translation of "overseas" from the Japanese perspective. Servers designated "(EU)" or "LEGACY/EU" are physically located in Europe.... is my guess.

Edit: I'm still not sure, but it seems more likely NA and EU are in one data center. And the "(EU)" is a recommendation so EU prime times will be busier on those servers.

Not sure what place Australia should choose. East coast (Aus) currently has about the same pings to the US & Tokyo. West coast (Aus) has a nicer ping to Tokyo than the US.

[Catapult]

My guess is that "NA/EU" is translation of "overseas" from the Japanese perspective. Servers designated "(EU)" or "LEGACY/EU" are physically located in Europe.... is my guess.

Not sure what place Australia should choose. East coast (Aus) currently has about the same pings to the US & Tokyo. West coast (Aus) has a nicer ping to Tokyo than the US.

Tokyo is a rather congested city when it comes to internet traffic, so LA may still get better responses.

There is another catch... if our connections are being routed via London by virtue of Australia being part of the European service territory, it means using a European server could actually be quicker. >_>

[ArkhamNative]

Tokyo is a rather congested city when it comes to internet traffic, so LA may still get better responses.
There is another catch... if our connections are being routed via London by virtue of Australia being part of the European service territory, it means using a European server could actually be quicker. >_>

I wouldn't suggest using ping time samples (round-trip Internet latency) as the only criterion, and certainly not just one-time samples, but fwiw here's times within the past hour (times in milliseconds):

To Perth from:
　Santa Clara, USA: 254
　New York, USA: 278
　London, UK: 344
　Tokyo, Japan: 127

To Sydney from:
　Santa Clara, USA: 222
　New York, USA: 247
　London, UK: 316
　Tokyo, Japan: 241

To Auckland from:
　Santa Clara, USA: 168
　New York, USA: 197
　London, UK: 276
　Tokyo, Japan: 227

To Singapore:
　n/a

To Kuala Lumpur from:
　Santa Clara, USA.: 237
　New York, USA.: 249
　London, UK: 259
　Tokyo, Japan: 103

[Rockababy]

SO MUCH INFO. This is a good thing though I've never been more excited with news from SE this year.

[Dhalmel]

Hmm... North America/Europe. Is the server in America or Europe then?
I wonder if there will be a difference in latency for Oceanics between the JP or NA servers...

Japanese servers would do better simply because it's physically closer. You would also have less server routes to go through.

The server names with the (EU) tag next to them are the ones located in Europe.
It's weird how they group them together like that.

[reefo]

The server locations don't matter for lag, they are for peak time play and language. The reason the servers are listed as EU/NA is because they are for mostly English speaking players in our peak time zones noon-midnite. It doesn't matter which one is where because your extra 100ms ping isn't going to effect you in the slightest.

Just pick a server that has players playing the same time as you and speaking the same language. It just sort of makes sense to design the game that way and with the duty finder you will still probably come across JP players all the time from the JP servers and EU players from the EU servers and NA players from the NA servers.. Unless they are segregating them too? Possibly.

I play on a private server for wow that was based only a few hour from my house in NA and I had 30-40ms ping and they moved to Netherlands EU and now I have 140 ping. It literally makes no difference in ping if the game is designed correctly this time and it should be. The old game was so 'laggy' because of poor data structure and infrastructure, not because it was based out of Japan.

[Yrusama]

On a side note, I would gladly make characters on a Fernehalwes server. The All-Reading Eye of in-game lore deserves a nice allusion.