Originally Posted by Was_Ash_Emerald
Being in Austin, my ping is about the same to each coast, but I prefer the East Coast servers for all games for the following reasons:
Note: He is talking about more then one game NOT just PS1.
1. 75% of the US/Canada population lives in the East and Central time zones. While servers are often full in the early months of any popular game, over time they dwindle and if the game becomes lower populated overall, the "lead" East Coast servers will become significantly more populated than the "lead" West Coast servers almost all the time.
Note: Fact Larger Populations a re distrubuted on the East Coast and NOT the west Coast NOT even counting Canada, central and south America.
United States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...lation_density
Global:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_density
2. Euros. European players who like to play overnight will often make an alt character on East Coast USA servers in order to be in bigger battles. Ping penalties aren't that severe from West and Central Europe.
NOTE: I played with a lot of Euros, and even Aussies, who have stated that their pings were better on the USA East Coast Server then on the Euro Server.
3. Latin American players. A trend that's somewhat recent, but there are a lot of gamers these days from Brazil especially. Internet routing comes up through Miami, and thus favors EC servers.
PS1 - I don't recall seeing to many people speaking spanish on. But in other games they are heavily populated during their prime times.
4. Maturity. I don't what it is, but East Coast players are somewhat less juvenile that West Coast players. I don't know why that is, but I've observed this trend in numerous games going back to Ultima Online. |
Number 4 is easy, but there are two versions.
1st Everyone knows that you have to be crazy to live in a land that will fall off into the sea in some future earthquake. Ya kinda have to like being shook around alot to live there and definately need to learn how to swim.
2nd. Every ones knows that the west coast has a large populated state called California - see link above.
The Largest entitlement state in the USA is California with the highest
deficit - $23.3 millions projected 2012 shortfall.
People who think they are entitled to everything always act imature, unreasonable, and juvenile. There fore less mature.
Kinda like when a little kid does not get his way or what he wants when at the store. The tantrum - yes that it the tantrum.
Kinda like the VS and the NC are in Planetside. They don't like the TR way so they rebel. Like children they must be punished. Bad little NC bad little VS.
Nope that don't work guess we are gonna have to kill them in PS2.
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2012-05-06, 04:18 PM
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