Can Australia have its server back

[CoKane Dealer]

It would be nice to exclude a certain east asian region and only have AUS/NZ players, even with wait times.

[Eftwyrd]

as a nz player i wouldnt even care, i play with squadmates from the US and have long since got used to it, warthunders netcode mean a 200-300 ping is perfectly playable

[KnightoftheAbyss]

Australia never had a server. It is currently in Japan. It used to be in Singapore. This issue has been canvassed before. But there simply isn't the player numbers in Australia to warrant its own server. I am in Australia and play on both the US and SA servers. Australia has a huge 'pipe' to the US thanks to Pine Gap, North West Cape, 5 Eyes and the US Marines in Darwin.

[DarksydePhil]

Racism pure and simple

[KnightoftheAbyss]

How is it racism? I suggest you look at a dictionary.

[Eftwyrd]

Originally posted by KnightoftheAbyss:

How is it racism? I suggest you look at a dictionary.

think hes refering to this bit:

Originally posted by CoKane Dealer:

It would be nice to exclude a certain east asian region

which without any context as to why they dont want to play with asians specifically as opposed to US, EU etc could be taken that way

[DarksydePhil]

Originally posted by Eftwyrd:

Originally posted by KnightoftheAbyss:

How is it racism? I suggest you look at a dictionary.

think hes refering to this bit:

Originally posted by CoKane Dealer:

It would be nice to exclude a certain east asian region

which without any context as to why they dont want to play with asians could be taken that way

more gaslighting from gaijin

australians have faced internet discrimination for decades and is always marginalized. how many as*an servers are there? LOTS. how many australian servers? ZERO. smh

[Eftwyrd]

Originally posted by Grant Macdonald:

Originally posted by Eftwyrd:

think hes refering to this bit:which without any context as to why they dont want to play with asians could be taken that way

more gaslighting from gaijin

australians have faced internet discrimination for decades and is always marginalized. how many as*an servers are there? LOTS. how many australian servers? ZERO. smh

when Australia's population starts to rival the US, EU and Asia then you get to make that argument, not before.

[KnightoftheAbyss]

There are 4 game servers. One in the US, one in the EU, one in RU and the one in Japan.
There never have been any Australian servers ever for the game.

[Col. Kurtz]

Originally posted by KnightoftheAbyss:

Australia never had a server. It is currently in Japan. It used to be in Singapore. This issue has been canvassed before. But there simply isn't the player numbers in Australia to warrant its own server. I am in Australia and play on both the US and SA servers. Australia has a huge 'pipe' to the US thanks to Pine Gap, North West Cape, 5 Eyes and the US Marines in Darwin.

Tell me you have no clue what you're talking about without telling me you have no clue what you're talking about.

[uɐɐılʎʇs]

Originally posted by KnightoftheAbyss:

Australia never had a server. It is currently in Japan. It used to be in Singapore. This issue has been canvassed before. But there simply isn't the player numbers in Australia to warrant its own server. I am in Australia and play on both the US and SA servers. Australia has a huge 'pipe' to the US thanks to Pine Gap, North West Cape, 5 Eyes and the US Marines in Darwin.

Singapore server used to be good. SA ping is alright but so many days where you just get game after game of half the team not being able to spawn for the first few minutes. Multiple people in the chat asking if its just them, random numbers of each team able to spawn and cap before others can even select a vehicle.
Often go through weeks of just preferring a more reliable but higher ping US server than sit spectating players till i can finally spawn in at times, although after a 30 secs or so you realise the issue and just take the crew lock.

[Kogoro]

As an Australian the SA server has better ping but the populations were usually low and queue times high that's how it use to be anyway didn't they close the Chinese client that would of boosted the numbers, but i have long since gotten use to playing with 280 ping on the US server, most of the time it's fine but there are times where i shoot a tank and then die causing my shell to be deleted because as far as the server is concerned i didn't fine my gun yet even though on my side i did, that has caused many deaths of over the years that should of been kills or trade kills.

[CoKane Dealer]

Originally posted by Kogoro:

As an Australian the SA server has better ping but the populations were usually low and queue times high that's how it use to be anyway didn't they close the Chinese client that would of boosted the numbers, but i have long since gotten use to playing with 280 ping on the US server, most of the time it's fine but there are times where i shoot a tank and then die causing my shell to be deleted because as far as the server is concerned i didn't fine my gun yet even though on my side i did, that has caused many deaths of over the years that should of been kills or trade kills.

Had that a few times yesterday. If I get a ping of 150ms it's generally alright, but when it's north of 200ms I tend to play very defensively.

[Futuristic Hexagon]

Just adding my two cents, RIP to anyone who plays in South America, Middle East or Africa then.

I know the game has a sizable and active Brazilian population, and I'm sure there are folks in at least South Africa who play too, and can imagine their ping times being comparable to Australia...

I imagine Australia to be in a unique position. From what I recall from reading game legal blogs early in my college years (mid to late 2000s). They had some pretty harsh laws for game devs there over the years. I could imagine with some attitudes loosening up there maybe it might become justifiable for more games to set up a server there.

[KnightoftheAbyss]

It has nothing to do with Laws. It is simply not economic for the number of players to have an Australian server. It has been looked at several times by Gaijin.

And Col Kurtz I am fully aware of what has been going on. I have been Tech Mod with the game for 10 years and I live in Australia. It is you who apparently is 'clueless'. :) I also work in the IT industry in Australia(and even get to guest lecture at Uni's on the subject!) How about you? :D

[beserkearthworks]

Still be nice to have a Aussie server