Are the regional planets actually in the region they used to be?

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Hey,

It’s possible I’m completely misremembering things, but I’m pretty sure i used to get 10 - 35 ping to EU planets. I’m now getting 90 ping to EU servers (with 1gbit internet) which would indicate the EU servers are either not in the EU anymore or not centrally in the EU anymore.

Normally, on other games, i get 90 ping to US east servers.

For reference, I’m in The Netherlands, Amsterdam

Is this something that can be looked at?

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You and I discussed this some, but the servers are definitely in EU at least the few I spot checked.

I am sure @jon-eric can chime in to confirm that.

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Yep. I’ve done a ping outside the game to the aws server the planet SAYS it’s on, and i ping 11ms to it.

In-game it reports 90ms though.

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So an outside ping is probably not routed through the servers the same as in game.

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It might be a problem with the client and/or installation rather than the server distance then? Something funky in the code, or an issue on the server-side of things that has grown worse with time?

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The servers are still in the same region, in eu-central-1, which is in Frankfurt.

I think what you might be seeing is that the worlds only reply to pings on the next world update, which happens less frequently now. I’m going to investigate if there’s a way to get them to respond quicker.

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In that case, and i might be off the mark here, wouldn’t it just make more sense to get the client to ping the actual server instead of the world?

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