Smol wrote:
Clarky wrote:
Sorry but you cannot compare pings for west and east coast when you’re from the EU, because that’s where it begins to actually matter.
If you had moved the server to NYC for example, I’d most likely be sitting around 70-90ms which is an absolutely fine compromise to take from having 10 ping to the previous host. I am currently at around 140ms so this excuse is not good enough in my eyes.
Don’t set yourselves in stone with this host for the love of god, majority of players are based in the EU and the increase is just simply too significant and actually does effect gameplay.
But us US players have been on 150+ ping for the past couple years
. And THEN they removed our precious S3 forcing us to play on the EU server anyways. (not that the EU players would compromise and come play on the US server ever because losing ping advantage is just too much foh them.)
ZARP has always been based in the EU and the vast majority of its members come from there. I’m not trying to give any implication that NA players should just cope from the high ping because the US server was shut down due to a lack of interest like you mentioned. You’ve also mentioned something pretty big which is how EU players do not want to play on US servers, because we originated from playing EU servers and therefore prefer to keep it that way rather than go with a drastic change of latency. That is why I mentioned a compromise of having the server based in the US still but having it more closer to the Europe for latency sake, because you need to consider those who live more further in the EU than the UK itself which is where the previous host was based. This is just simply too much and not a very good change for concurrent players, however the change is done now and hopefully better plans can be made later on this year to amend this genuine issue.