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So seeing as how my ping is literally 10 times worse on harbringer, has anyone found an effective tunneling service for swtor? tried a few but they had no effect or made it worse...
That's been my experience as well. My ping is not quite ten times worse, but the proxy/tunnelling services that I've tried have done nothing to improve it.
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Thanks KippleMaster, I just tested West vs. East from where I am in Sydney and the West Coast servers give me an extra bar improvement in latency.
It's the same for me up in Newcastle. All our overseas traffic goes through Sydney anyway.
But I find the ping on Harbinger fluctuates quite a bit, between 180-350 last time I checked, while Jedi Covenant is very stable sitting around 330-350.
Myself and another member of our guild will be trying out a proxy service to see if it can help stabilise and lower the ping to Harbinger.
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Is there a general consensus as to where most APAC are planning to move to?
From this thread I would say most are going to Harbinger; at least most guilds are anyway.
I'll be moving my main to Harbinger with the rest of Corvus. As for my alts, I haven't really decided. I find the East Coast servers to be more stable, in ping at least, than Harbinger.
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I'll see my latency drop as I'm in the U.S., but I enjoyed the culture on Dalborra more than any American server. I've found people to be generally nicer and hate to see that go.
Not sure Gorthau will be making the transfer.
I quoted you on the other thread and agree with you wholeheartedly. The online culture of any game is much more friendly with less trash-talking over here in the APAC region.
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Well, I suppose my latency will drop as I play from the U.S., but I chose an Aussie/Kiwi server for a very simple reason: I don't like playing with other Americans much. Too high a proportion of jerks, trash-talkers and geeks who take themselves waaaaay to seriously. Bioware is confiscating a cultural difference I valued, and I'm not sure I'll keep my subscription after this.
This is my biggest problem too. I live in Australia but Americans are my kin. By blood no less.
In fact I loved the almost complete absence of trash-talk on Dalborra, Republic side at least, which is one of the reasons I stuck with this game.
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it wasnt about ping or playstyle it was about low population
Actually it was explicitly stated that play style was a factor in EA/Bioware's decision. Specifically maintaining the separation. A separation that would have been lost in an APAC merge.
It seems like a few others agree with me that Dalborra's population was fine. A few people were taking a break before the expansion hit. This led to a slight drop off in numbers over the past month. We had a great community going and now it's going to be swallowed up.
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Hey everyone,
To clarify a bit more about this decision. We did previously ask what folks on the forums would like to do as an APAC solution and some, but not all, offered up the solution of merging all APAC into one. The other option on the table was to merge APAC into the NA servers. When we discussed the options internally we looked to address everyone’s primary issues with APAC, low populations were creating a less than optimal game experience.
We went and looked at what current server populations looked like across all of APAC and to put it simply, even merging all of APAC together into one server would not solve the population problems. Even with that solution you would still see long queue times for things like Warzones and Group Finder. It was because of this that we decided that moving APAC into the NA servers was the best option.
One thing to note is that there is no catchall solution here. If we move APAC to NA some folks will see increased latency, but they will have healthy server populations and can remain on their chosen server types. If we merge everyone into one APAC server, latency will remain in place but the current population issues will exist and players will lose their preferred server type. Leaving things as they are leaves all of the current issues in place without a solution at all. This is one of the reasons getting the plan out to you folks took so long, we had to think long and hard about all of the implications of our decision.
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Strange. No one in my guild had any complaints about Warzone queue times on Dalborra.
You do realise that a lot of us will lose character names. My sister is on Harbringer right now trying all her toon names and most of them are taken.
Consolidated Post: APAC/Oceanic Server Concerns
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My guess on the NBN would be no. Once your traffic gets to the submarine cables that connect Australia to the world, the NBN will have no effect whatsoever.