It is a very unpopular opinion but i believe that all players in lol should have low ping and have at least 1 server on the continent where they play. I know there are many players who do not want more servers and do not want more players to play with ping around 80 instead of 200. With over 6000 hours of playing with a minimum of 210 ping and it being officially 10 years, i believe riot should put a server on the continent of africa.
I Like Teemo2 voteson the pbe i get 60-70 ping, in NA the server i live almost directly in the centre of the "best ping" zone... 120 ping on a bad day, 80 or so on a good one makes no sence
ModWulf Helhammer1 votesAre you in California or Chicago?
PBE servers are located near Riot HQ in Santa Monica, but the NA servers are located in Chicago
I Like Teemo1 votesi live basically across the lake from chicago but on the canada side
Glory972 votesRiot did announce, that they are working on opening a server in africa.
TentenUmbra1 votesI'm sorry i must have missed this. Last time i heard they indirectly said "fuck you" to us in 2015. Are they actually ganna set up a server after 10 years. Do not get me wrong i would be thrilled for actual good ping but riot does not have the best track record when it comes to listening to their players. if they actually bring out a server on africa i might start giving them money again.
Speeedy1 votestheoretically all players should have low ping but its not possible with distance to the servers. In NYC I get 25-30 ping to the live servers and PBE 100-110. When I play with my friend from Boston he gets 40-50 ping to live and 120-140 on PBE.
That is the exact reason they moved the servers to a more central location to give most of the player base a decent ping where Pros are like 60-70 ping now. Its really rare to hear of someone now with over 100 ping on the NA server. The old server location it would be at least 2-4 people every game with 100+ ping in NA and it was complete BS for them to have the servers there and not a more central location.
thefatlazycat1 votesfor the last two weeks I've been averaging 180 ping on the NA servers, riot has fixed nothing
usul12021 votesThe more servers they put out, the more they split up the player base. So you'd have lower ping, but also a lot less people on the server, meaning matchmaking is much harder/slower/worse. There's always a tradeoff.
TentenUmbra1 votesWell dota has a wait time of around 5 - 10 min and has a server in RSA. Lol has a wait time of 40 sec and the closest server is half way across the world. I still play dota not because i think it is funner than lol but because it is the only moba that put a server on the continent. My point is, a few extra minutes of wait time means absolutely nothing if it means i can have ping lower than 200.