Franchise Mode Animal Market - Regional Differences?

[SirTophamHatt]

Hi all

It's been suggested the animal market in Franchise mode is restricted somehow depending on what region Steam detects you're in.

Can anyone tell me more information about this and how each "region" is decided?

 

[TheGaijin87]

if its true then probably via your internet ip. they can see your country with it. if u wanne change it you have to use a vpn

 

[SleepyEngi]

Hi all

It's been suggested the animal market in Franchise mode is restricted somehow depending on what region Steam detects you're in.

Can anyone tell me more information about this and how each "region" is decided?

And what are these restrictions? I'm sure I've been able to trade with players from other countries.

 

[SirTophamHatt]

I don't know, it was a question rather than not.

 

[Vigilante]

You're not that wrong. It seems that some users are always merged into nodes. So that the server load is distributed. Every now and then you will be switched to another node, if many users of the one node go offline for example etc. The system works quite well. From my position, I have a lot of American players in the early evening and a lot of Chinese players in the morning. But in between there are times when things aren't going so well.