European-based SSCV?

[L.C.]

What if.. say.. hypothetically.. I was able to bring about a European SSCV, next to the current North American SSCV?

 

Oh oh oh! And connected to a major backbone.

 

Comments please.

[»Lynx]

In my experience, east coast servers are best. That allows pretty much everybody to have a stable, low ping. I've had a few different servers over EU and London and they've always been pretty poor for players in America (the majority).

[»Purge]

If you have such a demanding traffic and need one, sure. Otherwise, don't waste your money.

[BDwinsAlt]

Just put a server in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. That would solve all our problems.

[L.C.]

If you have such a demanding traffic and need one, sure. Otherwise, don't waste your money.

Ooh, it wouldn't cost me a dime.. except for my own license to TCAdmin. I could likely get the hosting for free.

[Dav]

An EU server would be nice. I always seem to suffer in the UK with poor pings.

 

The real question is how do EU and US players split?

The other issue is that players always mix rather then use a server closest to them, which will likly reduce its demand if US players have issues with ping.

[»Lynx]

When SSCU moved from EU to East Coast it was because only 1/3 of players were EU, with 2/3 USA (PriitK said this). I'd still stand by east coast of USA being the best, that's where I've situated my SS server and it gets on average 90ms pings for myself (and other UK/EU players) which is more than reasonable, with even the west coast only getting only around 50ms... Either way, it's not how low pings are, but how stable they are. If it's a good server, even a ping of 150ms shouldn't hurt too bad as SS will account for the time skew. It's only pings that fluctuate too much that cause a problem.