Guild Wars 2

I find it kinda annoying as i play allmost allways at night and it sometimes take hours before the tournament pops. If we could play with NA(im on EU) there would allways be players playing:) If anyone know why they made it this way please share cus i dont see the logic in that desicion

Lag would make it very frustrating to play, since this game requires good reaction time to avoid death.

I’m an euro playing on american server and lag is not a problem at all. And you definitely don’t need a good reaction time in this game…
GW1 required good ping but this game just doesn’t.

I really hope they’ll merge NA and EU together, so the whole world can get along and play the video game together!

Rezz.8019:

so the whole world can get along and play the video game together!

When has this ever happened? lol

I think in their quest to make this a “fun and friendly environment for everyone!” that perhaps they’ve looked at the dichotomy between EU and NA (and even AUS, OC players) and how it always seems to devolve into this nationalistic pride goonfest of trolling and countertrolling.

Just a thought though.

its definately because of latency, im from uk playing on eu server, last week ive been getting mad lag, i did a trace root, found out that instead of going london-france-germany. my connection was going london-dallas-washington-paris-germany…. epic ping fail been playing with 150-200 ping instead of 40 or so. let me tell u the lag makes it unplayable, almost all melee atk will just miss as they are out of range server side. it makes any stun break and “oh kitten” reactions pointless and you also elastic band all over the place after any sort of teleport and the engineer “small and invulnerable” elixer also causes you to repeatedly elastic band back to the original spot. lag is actually horrific in this game if you get it :P

I thought all the servers were physically located in the US?

The latency issue probably comes into play but it was really nice with GW1 to be able to move to populated US districts while EU was sleeping for the most part.

And although it’s true there are sometimes some stupid nationality conflicts, to be honest you don’t need EU vs US for that, just put some europeans together and it happens.

Gintoki.6405:

its definately because of latency, im from uk playing on eu server, last week ive been getting mad lag, i did a trace root, found out that instead of going london-france-germany. my connection was going london-dallas-washington-paris-germany…. epic ping fail been playing with 150-200 ping instead of 40 or so. let me tell u the lag makes it unplayable, almost all melee atk will just miss as they are out of range server side. it makes any stun break and “oh kitten” reactions pointless and you also elastic band all over the place after any sort of teleport and the engineer “small and invulnerable” elixer also causes you to repeatedly elastic band back to the original spot. lag is actually horrific in this game if you get it :P

Playing from Southern Africa 40 ping is a pipedream, anyone outside of continental US and EU plays at an average of 175-200 on a good day and upwards of 350 on a bad day.

It’s that EU > US bounce that severely ruins everything for me.

Hmm, maybe in a few more years once the internet speeds overall start to rise, and most importantly, ping. Would be awesome to just have everyone playing together, plus it would help with night owls who end up on empty servers.

As for the nationalism thing, well a good start would be to understand that Europe is a continent and not a country. Compare Scotland to Turkey, both in Europe, and couldn’t be more different.

Gintoki.6405:

its definately because of latency, im from uk playing on eu server, last week ive been getting mad lag, i did a trace root, found out that instead of going london-france-germany. my connection was going london-dallas-washington-paris-germany…. epic ping fail been playing with 150-200 ping instead of 40 or so. let me tell u the lag makes it unplayable, almost all melee atk will just miss as they are out of range server side. it makes any stun break and “oh kitten” reactions pointless and you also elastic band all over the place after any sort of teleport and the engineer “small and invulnerable” elixer also causes you to repeatedly elastic band back to the original spot. lag is actually horrific in this game if you get it :P

HAHAHA. You poor thing! I wish I had 150-200.

GG average 300-500.

God I remember people crying in gw1 making excuses for playing bad cos they were ‘lagging’ with 100 ping instead of their usual 30-50 AHAHA. I could only dream for a ping of 100.

Hmm i guess it all makes sense :/ i just hoped it was an option but with the lag issues i guess not. Anyway thx for ur input guys guess ill just have to play normal hours like everyone else then duuh-.-

also to anyone saying “in the future you will have better ping”. its simply not true. ping and bandwidth are totally different although ping can be improved by taking a direct route, information can only travel at the speed of light. seems fast but it does amount to some milliseconds across the planet

dirty maths!

speed of light

299 792 458 m / s

diameter of earth!

12 756 200 meters

furthest possible distance from 2 places on earth

diameter x pi / 2 = 20037392.1064774 meters

minimum possible ping with direct connection =

0.06683754568127727883000979297485 ms

so yeah 66m/s is the lowest theoretical ping a direct route between opposite ends of the planet. in reality this is a best possible case scenario.

p.s the only way to get a higher ping than this would be via quantum entanglement which is likely to be the next generation of quantum internet, this is still bound by the speed of light however, the lack of need for physical cable means the signal can be bounced via satalite

i hope you have enjoyed this presentation about the speed of light :P