EU server

[Alexander Zacharias]

Hello LOTRO team, are you thinking in the near or far future to have a server in EU as well?
The lag for us is really bad is unplayable at higher difficulty where you need to be on point with the skills? is a pitty because I really enjoy the story lines and the game play to some level.

[Khanatos]

There are no EU servers?? I thought there were in the past? If that's the case, it's hardly playable.

[Elitewrecker PT]

There were in the past. Then Turbine took over the distribution part of Codemasters and all worlds were then physically hosted in the US.
The current world tags are leftovers from that era and serve mostly as an indicator of what the most active time in that world probably is, and more technically as compatibility indicators (you can't transfer characters between US and EU worlds)

[Harvain]

They have no plans right now to move the EU LOTRO Servers back to being hosted in Europe.

Maybe in 2025 or later but doubtful.

64-bit Servers will eventually in the future be rolled out to all Servers. This will "help" but it's to be seen how much the Main & Older Servers will be impacted.

[rive1573]

So EU servers are still hosted from USA? meaning there would be no lag advantage to picking EU mordor over the USA legendary server?

[Lvl99Chocobo]

EU Mordor is the one exception to the rule and is actually hosted in Europe (Amsterdam if I'm not mistaken). Makes a huge difference for most EU players.

The server has some issues and a few crashes so far, but gameplay is overall much better.

[Harvain]

Publicado originalmente por rive1573:

So EU servers are still hosted from USA? meaning there would be no lag advantage to picking EU mordor over the USA legendary server?

The Legendary Server Mordor is a first where it has 64-bit for it's Server Software.

It is the first LOTRO Server hosted in Europe in over 13 Years.

A key thing helping the "Lag" on Mordor & Angmar are things they've done "behind the scenes" plus a lower amount of Character Data.

It's to be seen if 64-bit Servers, etc. will have the same impact for the Main Servers.

Publicado originalmente por Lvl99Chocobo:

EU Mordor is the one exception to the rule and is actually hosted in Europe (Amsterdam if I'm not mistaken). Makes a huge difference for most EU players.

The server has some issues and a few crashes so far, but gameplay is overall much better.

Latency/Ping is a tricky thing, it's really not what affects LOTRO.

I play on the USA-based LOTRO Servers and usually have a 40 to 47 ms Latency/Ping yet experience things just as anyone else does even the "Higher Pings".

This is due to the Game & it's Performance. It's where Angmar & Mordor are being called "Lag-free" as people aren't experiencing what they get on the Main Servers.

Angmar for example, the USA-based one, runs the same as Mordor. I've played on Mordor with a 127 ms Latency and if I didn't realize I was playing on the "Hosted in Europe" Legendary Server I'd swear it was Angmar.