It´s time to forget about online?

[thirstyfish]

Right, other games I play tend to have North American servers and EU servers. Eve Online, on the other hand has one big server. I dont know how any of that stuff works.

Well, ED doesn't really have game servers. There are servers to manage things like the BGS, but instancing and whatnot is handled by a P2P connection.

 

[V'larr]

VPN's - while handy - don't solve the basic problem of physical distance, increase the problem of logical distance, add their own latency, and some ISP's routinely run VPN traffic through the slowest and longest backends they can find - or make it disappear entirely.

There's still fairly high ping, sure, but he can wing up and instance with other people almost perfectly fine using said VPN to make it look like he's from another country, whereas without it, there's no chance. It's definitely something up with Australia's system.

 

[TwistedHelix]

telling them it's their faulft for not reconfiguring their router, or silly things like that.

Configure a router ... now who would want to do that ! What a silly idea. And all those folks who invented NAT, they're very silly. And firewalls ... damn silly if you ask me. :O

I mean its not like any other games at all have trouble with routers ...

https://support.ubi.com/en-Us/Faqs/000024695/Connectivity-Troubleshooting-PC-R6S

https://support.ubi.com/en-GB/faqs/000025479/How-to-set-up-port-forwarding

https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/faq/opening-tcp-or-udp-ports-for-connection-issues/

https://help.ea.com/uk/help/faq/connection-troubleshooting-basic/

Conclusion: Two of the largest game publishers in the world have dedicated support pages about connectivity issues
QED: Other games DO suffer from connectivity problems

Regards instancing issues ... if you watch that video with Drav, you will see how the cloud services deal with load by spooling up new server instances. I hypothesize that the problem with instancing could be down to this. Dont like cloud services ? Unfortunately its both today and the future, and not just for gaming. I mean look what happened recently when Amazon had an outage ...

https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/28/a...eaking-things-for-a-lot-of-websites-and-apps/

People didnt like cars when they were first invented ... they used to think that going faster than walking pace would cause your brain to impact against the back of your skull. Now look at us today. The future marches on, regardless of teething problems.

 

[Kosmetas]

No don't use Online anymore... AOL was popular back in the 90s. Not sure many use Online companies like that any longer.