| Metric | Details |
|---|
| Location | Latvia |
| ISP / VPN | PingZapper Premium, Singapore 1 |
| Average Ping | 196 on average, but it's unstable, 194-208, sometimes spikes up to 250 |
| Verdict | Close SG |
Now, I will explain why I vote for closing it.
Potting is a major issue for me. I get around 4,5 pots per second and it simply does not feel good to play with. I can adapt to many things, remake macros, adjust playstyle, get used to delays, but pot responsiveness is one of those things that directly affects whether fights feel playable or not. Right now, too many deaths feel like they happen because of latency limitations rather than actual mistakes, and that kills a lot of the enjoyment for me personally.
Another issue is activity. Yes, visually the server looks full. Stadium has players standing around, characters online, people moving occasionally, but actual PvP activity feels much lower than before, at least during the times I play. Canada server meanwhile feels almost completely dead now.
Of course, this is partly based on my own playtime and not a full 24/7 analysis of activity, so I understand others may see it differently depending on time zone. Still, from my perspective, it feels more like the community got split rather than expanded.
The biggest issue for me though is balance between regions.
Nothing will ever be perfectly fair when players from all over the world play together, and I understand that. SEA players finally having good ping is completely understandable and honestly deserved. The problem is that SG does not just shift the advantage, it creates a much bigger gap overall between regions.
On Canada, the difference between an EU player and a PH player was usually around maybe up to 100ms. Not ideal, but manageable. On SG, the difference can reach 150-200ms between players, and that is the difference itself, not just the ping number alone.
That is where the gameplay starts feeling less competitive and more connection dependent.
So my vote is not against SEA players having a good experience. It is more about whether splitting the already limited active PvP population and creating such a large regional gap is healthy long term for the server overall.
In my opinion, Canada was not perfect, but it was the more balanced compromise between regions.
Another thing worth mentioning is that splitting communities only really works when the overall population is large enough to support it.
Right now, this place is not operating at a scale where multiple regional PvP servers can both stay consistently active long term. Instead of creating two healthy active environments, it feels like activity just became fragmented between them.
A server looking populated and a server actually being active are two very different things. What matters more for PvP is how easy it is to find fights, reactions, rivalries, guild competition and spontaneous activity throughout the day.
I also think consistency matters more than peak comfort for one region. A slightly worse but more balanced experience for everybody is healthier long term than one region having an excellent experience while another becomes borderline unplayable competitively.
At the end of the day, people can tolerate higher ping much easier than they can tolerate feeling that fights themselves are inconsistent or decided too heavily by connection differences.
, all I can do is cry.
