What ship to choose?

[Knavenformed]

So I'm a new player and honestly the ship selection makes no sense.
I think they are servers, but is "Getting Started" a full time server that's flooded with offline people?
What kind of nationalities are at different ships?
What's the best ship for internet connection?

I'm a north-european player and would like to play with EUW/UK players the most.

[Chairman Kaga]

I think Ship 2 is where most people play.

[Knavenformed]

Originally posted by Chairman Kaga:

I think Ship 2 is where most people play.

But what nationalities are they? If it's mostly USA/♥♥♥ I would have horrible connections/language barriers.

[No' Name]

Choose the one without Bots that spam their websites all day everyday. That's the best ship.

[Noob Van Noob]

Originally posted by Humor:

Choose the one without Bots that spam their websites all day everyday. That's the best ship.

don't think that ship exists unfortunately

[Noob Van Noob]

pretty sure every ship has a mix of all nationalities, though you'd probably have the most luck with ship 2 since it's the most populated. more players = more options to choose from when it comes to alliances and what not.

[WalksWithWolves]

I think all the servers are in the same geographic location, so one isn't going to have a better connection to you than any other. They're all NA, and they all have players of other nationalities/regions.

Ship2 and ship1 both have large populations, 4 is probably the lowest pop.

[TQuinTV]

I like Thorn, ship 3, because its less crowded.

[ZEARTH]

JOIN SHIP 2 SO I CAN INVITE YOU TO MY GUILD SO THE GM WON'T BEAT ME AGAIN.

[Slayer Slayerson]

Any plans for at least 1 real eu server? I dont want to put money into a 150+ ping game.
Edit: or time for that matter.

[Kriya Takagi]

always ship 2

[Nope]

Originally posted by Slayer Slayerson:

Any plans for at least 1 real eu server? I dont want to put money into a 150+ ping game.
Edit: or time for that matter.

First, it took them 8 year to have a proper western release and that was thank to Microsoft to some degree
Second they are focusing on New Genesis at the moment, that even lowering the chance to have an actual EU server at the moment

[いか]

HAHAHAHAHAH Any plans.. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Dude. You got two options and that's it.

JP which let's face it. You aren't doing that.. You are worried about 150 ping in a 12 man map....Yeah

Or this.


Literally no one cares about the EU market as of now for games. They got loot boxes to sell.

Also European servers would just mean GER and RU and you ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ know it lol

[Slayer Slayerson]

So which classes are better for high ping? I would assume some kind of projectile or aoe based user.

[Crescens]

Originally posted by Slayer Slayerson:

So which classes are better for high ping? I would assume some kind of projectile or aoe based user.

You have to remember that the high ping doesn't matter. As someone who played the Japanese version for ages with ~700ms ping time, you don't notice it. Unless there is a disconnect or short interruption and you see that enemies don't die for a few seconds.
You see, the game is smart in regards to this. Enemies are controlled locally, and any damage that you do is then transmitted back to the server. This means if you dodge all attacks locally, you won't take damage. If you provide enough damage to kill the enemy then it will die.

[ダニエル]

I picked ship 4 purely on the ground of that's where the getting started thing put me and now I don't want to spread multiple characters around if I make another one.