NA Server Distro improvement

6939937 · June 24, 2016, 6:40pm

Dear Star Conflict Masters of the Universe.

This is my suggestion please spend some time reviewing it.

First off, If I provided too much knowledge about your infrastructure please know that I apologize and was not my intention. (Don’t ban me bro) The only info that I will provide will be public knowledge. You have made incredible changes with squads, que times, game length and it has me so happy this is my attempt to help increase the NA player base.

Since open-space has been propagated to NA servers, I have noticed a drastic decrease in solo and squad PVP games in NA servers. Infact, I have preformed a grep though my SC logs and its close to 1 in 30 games I will get a NA server. I have made the assumption for this was because of a number of factors one of which is you removed your Houston server along with the massive compute required for NA openspace and NA PVE. As such this change currently effects the NA pvp servers.

In 2014 - 2015 you had:

Your Current List of Servers 2016 :

Currently, for your hosting it appears you use softlayer. I have asked before what your compute requirements were and if your server was virtual or physical. You did not respond so I will make a number of assumptions. So lets do a basic compairison requirement for hosting in the US is 4 cores and 8gb of ram with a 100gb hd we can clearly see your price per month is $146.29. ( I m sure yours is much larger but I need to make a ** comparison ** somewhere. ) That does not include bandwidth: For Softlayer I think bandwidth is capped and subject to pricing.

The basic compairison cost associated to NA Servers Currently:

If you were to think of switching to new providers specifically in Canada you could see a major reduction in rack and compute montly cost requirements as the same equipment can be rented at 49.99 Canadian. I think you are using docker which is built in. I assume standing up new nodes would be pretty simple based on your design and basically you could have close to 6 servers for the same price. Not to mention this is in Canadian dollars which is .77 of an american dollar. Which makes the 49.99 per month become 38.64 if you were compairing US to CAD currency. Meaning for the same price you could have close to 8 NA nodes at the same cost. Please note depending on your current compute requirement the price per month should scale close the the same.

Switching proivders would be a very large cost reduction that you can port into NA advertisements or in general NA server addtions.

Hope it was at least worth your read.

Thanks
AdamWest (Don’t ban me bro) ![:002j:](<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/002j.png “:002j:”)

4572228 · June 24, 2016, 7:15pm

I didn’t understand the finer points of this but I got that Adam wants moar US or CAN servers! And that I can get behind - I’m so tired of having only EU and RU ping when my entire wing sets to USA region preference.

YOU HAVE MY AXE.

8842968 · June 24, 2016, 7:20pm

AND MY GOOSE! … Oh wait I’m EU. But whatever, more US population in-game can only be a good thing!

3229917 · June 24, 2016, 7:29pm

Why have a US server at all when you can’t games on it, either get rid of US server to save money or respect our server preference set in option. If we don’t game on US server we can manually change it to all region. Right now changing server preference on US will only delay my games and still have games on RU and EU server.

8842968 · June 24, 2016, 7:38pm

8 minutes ago, Milfeulle said:

Why have a US server at all when you can’t games on it, either get rid of US server to save money or respect our server preference set in option. If we don’t game on US server we can manually change it to all region. Right now changing server preference on US will only delay my games and still have games on RU and EU server.

Probably because otherwise people b1tch about getting long queue times when they have it set to US server.

3229917 · June 24, 2016, 7:41pm

2 minutes ago, millanbel said:

Probably because otherwise people b1tch about getting long queue times when they have it set to US server.

Already long queue now for US server and almost never ended up playing on US server ![:(](<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/003j.png “:(”)

6939937 · June 24, 2016, 7:48pm

18 minutes ago, Milfeulle said:

Why have a US server at all when you can’t games on it, either get rid of US server to save money or respect our server preference set in option. If we don’t game on US server we can manually change it to all region. Right now changing server preference on US will only delay my games and still have games on RU and EU server.

I forgot to mention this. The preference on US drastically delays que times.

31123431 · June 24, 2016, 9:42pm

had one and only game few days ago where all other playrs were usa but we got EU, so game ignores giving usa server now. maybe bug but definitely code issue asuming server still exists

server preference is waste of time unless you choose russia)

5207021 · June 25, 2016, 1:38pm

18 hours ago, millanbel said:

more US population in-game can only be a good thing!

More victims? I just can approve.

Tho implementation of new servers is not as easy, but considering what happened with squads etc and MM lately, maybe they were holding back, maybe they have even more trump cards!

13083642 · June 25, 2016, 9:36pm

On 6/24/2016 at 3:29 PM, Milfeulle said:

Why have a US server at all when you can’t games on it, either get rid of US server to save money or respect our server preference set in option. If we don’t game on US server we can manually change it to all region. Right now changing server preference on US will only delay my games and still have games on RU and EU server.

because even under conditions where you would get a USA server, you get EU or rus one…you know this. More/better USA servers would drastically increase the amount of times players get USA server.

4572228 · June 25, 2016, 10:46pm

Bumping this thread with pic related:

Someone explain this.

5207021 · June 26, 2016, 12:21pm

13 hours ago, Mecronmancer said:

Someone explain this.

Russian bots.

39939376 · June 27, 2016, 10:12am

We’re now gathering information about NA player base to work further under it’s development. Situation with NA server may change soon)

6939937 · June 27, 2016, 2:19pm

3 hours ago, CinnamonFake said:

We’re now gathering information about NA player base to work further under it’s development. Situation with NA server may change soon)

Wow, talk about a good responce !!! I see a major shift in the direct in game responce to english community.