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RIot should implement location based matchmaking, or at the very least split up east and west

GatlingNuke··3 votes·439 views

I know i'm a bit late to the topic but I wanted the situation to cool off before I write this. Myself and some of my friends have quit league/playing a lot less due to the server move, most of us had their ping increased by 40+ I know that to some people this is perfectly fine, but some other people like myself have high standards for ping. I think the US and Canada is just too big of an area to have all game processes in one location. A better solution would be to have multiple game servers across the US. for example having servers in Chicago, Denver, San Francisco, Seattle, and Orlando (this is just a rough example) this way everyone should be getting sub 40 ping if they have an optimal internet setup. I know that a counter argument would be if people in a party are in different spots in the country, But I think a good solution to this would let the party select which server they want to put the game on, so that people who are ok with having more ping can "take the blow" for people with lower ping tolerance. I know that riot has the money to implement this and I think they really should. I don't think there is really much reason to go against this because people who have greatly benefited from the server move will benefit further. I don't want to come off as a "salty west coaster" but I really do think this is a great idea.

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ThePartyLeader1 votes

My guess is by the time riot could even get a second server up to par they probably can start reducing ping meaningfully. Would rather like to see riot work with Google or somebody on rolling out fiber fast lanes or something.

My main concern with this overall would be separating the pro players from the east coast players. Would basically force everyone that wants to be someone to play on the west coast server due to that being were the best players are. Second would be if pro players can play with west coast ping and be challenger rated I just don't understand why other people can't?

GatlingNuke1 votes

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My guess is by the time riot could even get a second server up to par they probably can start reducing ping meaningfully. Would rather like to see riot work with Google or somebody on rolling out fiber fast lanes or something.

My main concern with this overall would be separating the pro players from the east coast players. Would basically force everyone that wants to be someone to play on the west coast server due to that being were the best players are. Second would be if pro players can play with west coast ping and be challenger rated I just don't understand why other people can't?

Well light travels at about 180 miles per millisecond and the length of the US is about 2800 miles. and If the server is in the middle of the US, that would mean that people would be about 1400 miles from the server at the most. If everyone had a straight internet cable from their house to the server their ping should be about 25. But Internet is more complicated than that. I guess in reality If everything was hyper optimized everyone's ping could be sub 50 on one server. I guess I agree with you If they could get that going.

ThePartyLeader1 votes

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Well light travels at about 180 miles per millisecond and the length of the US is about 2800 miles. and If the server is in the middle of the US, that would mean that people would be about 1400 miles from the server at the most. If everyone had a straight internet cable from their house to the server their ping should be about 25. But Internet is more complicated than that. I guess in reality If everything was hyper optimized everyone's ping could be sub 50 on one server. I guess I agree with you If they could get that going.

Wow an adult response.... I did not see that coming.

GatlingNuke1 votes

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Wow an adult response.... I did not see that coming.

I am always open to counter arguments :P I am only one person, It usually takes multiple people to come up with the best solution.

DrNova1 votes

Pro players make money playing, and(or) have great isp's. A lot of average folks have what they can afford or whatever their parents have. Just a facet to consider.

Also with a higher player base on the east coast, I don't think they should have trouble getting some people up to par.

That and I wager a lot of pros either moved out west to GET the better ping at the time, considering they probably have the means to do so.

ThePartyLeader1 votes

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Pro players make money playing, and(or) have great isp's. A lot of average folks have what they can afford or whatever their parents have. Just a facet to consider.

Also with a higher player base on the east coast, I don't think they should have trouble getting some people up to par.

That and I wager a lot of pros either moved out west to GET the better ping at the time, considering they probably have the means to do so.

I believe tsm was new York until they were forced to move for lcs. I could be wrong.

Apologies if this sounds insensitive but it's not riots job to make up for your bad internet. It sucks but that's life and realistically terrible internet will most likely result in the game being unplayable ( high fluctuation in ping)rather than constant high ping.

Last I am not saying east couldn't make essentially a wild card server it probably could but any player worth there salt would want to play on west. For example if the US could play on the Korean server with the same ping they have now on NA. Don't think for a second they pro players wouldn't play on the Korean server with the better players.

DrNova1 votes

The problem is, from experience and word of mouth, is having no trouble with other games while League having issues.

Most if the time my LoL runs fine, but it has its moments where it drops repeatedly into near crippling lag.

What strikes me most is how a plethora of other online games I play, a few that my comp strains a little on, have less if any problem compared to lol.

Battlefield 3 would probably be my prime example, as there is more going on then in a game of lol I'd figure, and bullet lag would be more severe there then just dealing with lol lag.

This game just has issues sometimes maintaining its own connection or dealing with/recovering from a normal blip in connection.

I don't feel like internet is solely to blame when people have standard good enough internet.

GatlingNuke1 votes

We need quantum entanglement internet.

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