It’s safe to say that Australian players right now experience horrible ping (200-300ms, i have the best internet i can get in my country) because the closest servers are in Japan. Servers in Australia can also cater to south east asian players too.
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Exactly, I was experiencing the same problem. I did indeed create a thread called packet loss from Australia. However, it might be expensive to get a server going in Australia, otherwise I would love to see that.
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It also largely depends on the player base as well, if there are enough australian, newzeland and adjacent countries, then gajiin might considerer getting a server down under.
Thats fair, hopefully we can gather other players like us to approve for it, maybe a petition or something
That will be great, I am all for it.
Kiwi here. I have about 250 ping on average which is pretty good, however its a pain playing at a slight disadvantage however how small, so if something like a petition happens ping me and I’ll sign 🤣
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How many players are we from this part of the world?
EU player here, it is disadvanatage to play against players with 200+ ping. I am sure you would hate to play against such players, micro lags together with PL lead to very strange a stupid situations. I would like Gaijin to make a server for you in Asia, so all the chines, japans, koreans, and also Aussies play somewhere there.
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my only “concern” would be the player base. I find it almost impossible to get in an SA server from 6am-1pm NZ time. Also I find my ping is ok in SA servers at 150 ping, even US servers are manageable my ping will range from 230-270 depending if I’m in a west or east cost server.
If AUS/NZ servers were added bots would need to in the lobby 90% of the time. Gaijin would also need to lower que times to 1-2 min and improve the AI immensely. trying to find a SA sever from 6am-1pm already takes 10min+ and its only me, a few other people and the rest are bots.
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Do you use SA?
I’m in Thailand and there’s periods where it takes a few minutes to find a game. So I cycle through my nations for the one with most possible battles.
However I normally now get 120ping and matched within 30 seconds. which is great compared to my 230-280 for CIS/NA.
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Yes they do have an Asian server but that is in Japan, distance is way too big for it, if there are enough players in Oceania they can potentially set one up in Australia.
From Christchurch NZ, I get 160 ping on the SA server and I’m a better player than most of the fools on the SA server. It works great. I recommend not joining battles that are already active, that might put you into NA more often.
Yes sir it’s pretty bad at that time, I know from experience. I don’t focus on high tier, ever. With 260 ping I can only play against fools from Rank I to Rank III. I might have to move to Europe or somewhere that’s near other countries. Living in New Zealand is so bad.
There’s no point in spending money on the game unless you play in the evenings. But the SA server is pretty good from early afternoon until late at night, we are able to enjoy the game, at least.
There’s not enough population in Australia or New Zealand to justify a new server. It’d cost thousands of dollars per month, but it wouldn’t make any money for Gaijin. The scale isn’t there. Only in Europe or North America or Asia can they make money. Look at the total north america and european population, and consider that a player in Indonesia can play on the EU server with decent ping. It’s only NZ and Australia that suffer from ping issues outside SA, but players in other countries often have a good connection to 2-3 servers.
I’m in the UK and I play the US server with good ping mostly.
Population of Aus and NZ is only about 30 million combined ,population of Istanbul alone is alone is nearly half that.It’s a real shame because this forum seems to have a good representation from down under which I imagine is in some way relative to the game playing population as a whole, kind of disproportionately high maybe. Real shame something can’t be done.
It’s odd that Gaijin don’t follow population as far as tech trees are concerned.South America,Turkey and India dont have servers of their own do they?
Today has been borderline unplayable on either EU and NA clusters. I hope another purge comes soon and better yet, they get their Asian server so we can finally play in peace.
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South America doesn’t? I did not know that, some parts of India are in close proximity to China, perhaps that might help out. Turkey in particular Istanbul is in Europe so they are kinda close.
First off, 200 ping doesnt cause micro lags, anything over 350 does (in my experience), and secondly, theres already an Asian server, only issue is that its really unstable and it sucks. Also we dont want to be put in with all the Asians all the time (not being racist, again its mostly due to differences in ping)
It only shows NA but I could be wrong.
I find that SA is a good server. I agree that NA should be able to play without all the Asian players, I play exclusively on SA and nobody communicates. I never see radio commands being used, and nobody writes in the chat (not even in foreign languages). These people are just bad players most of the time, whereas NA server people mark targets and warn their team mates.
To me Japan sounds much more closer then Germany, for Australia, or NZ, etc. Even the time zone is better for them. I understand some player with high ping , like Wifi-Soldier is just happy to get into a game, but saying 230 + ping is manageable is ridiculous for me.
Well SA means south east asia, so I believe the server is in Japan could be China. Otherwise, having one in Australia would be great, but again it all depends on the player base. If Oceania has a low player base in comparison to other continents then I guess we wont get one.