Posted on 21 June 2016 - 09:42 PM

dont rely on the speed test servers, I get 70 ping to hawaii and 200 ping to phillipines

Last edited on 22 June 2016 - 12:09 AM by Qntulu

There are a few reasons I believe a JPN/KOR server will benefit more players, and these are facts or things I have seen IN REAL LIFE. Recently, I saw a bunch of kids gathered around a bunch of Minecraft puppets that were on sale. That shows how many Japanese children are into Minecraft. Also, I know over 30 IRL friends who play Minecraft. That is more than half of my friends, and no, I didn't become friends with them over Minecraft; I knew them before Minecraft became extremely popular in Japan. Additionally, the people of Japan (and Korea, from what I have heard from Korean friends, both IRL and online) are generally wealthier than people in the South-East Asia region (most countries in SEA are still developing). Japanese people, especially, use their money on little things such as in-game purchases in mobile games. That means they have a higher chance of donating, and therefore, Badlion would receive more money. Finally, your argument about population of each area is invalid, although I made the same mistake in an earlier post. Most Chinese players, if not all, will not be able to play on foreign servers; there is a thing called the Great Firewall of China or whatever. So, 1.2b vs 150-250m is more like it, and (sorry if I sound racist) when you consider the number of people that can ACTUALLY afford ranks or a decent computer, well… yeah.

EDIT: India's average income is extremely low, and India has around 1.2 billion people. Toolbox, you stated that there are 2.5 billion people in the SEA+China+India region. Well, 1.3 billion can't connect to foreign servers, and a majority of the remaining 1.2 billion can't even afford a proper house. So, your population argument is utterly invalid.

Last edited on 22 June 2016 - 12:15 AM by Qntulu

I tried connecting to Hong Kong servers. I tested three servers from this list, and the three servers were randomly selected. http://minecraft-mp.com/country/hong-kong/
I got 206ms, 189ms, and 195ms. (That means I get better ping to NA East Badlion than Hong Kong.) I'd rather play on NA East than on a Hong Kong-based AS, thank you very much. Also, the servers were nearly empty (0-10 people in them) when I joined, so there shouldn't be lag caused by the amount of players, like Badlion has sometimes.

Posted on 22 June 2016 - 02:29 AM

most of these minecraft 'hk servers' are not even hong kong, they are us based servers who thought ppl would believe they are hosted in hk
try acmehk.net(its really unstable so give ur lowest ping) its a not a server no ban pls

Last edited on 22 June 2016 - 03:48 AM by Shnoopy

"most of these minecraft 'hk servers' are not even hong kong" https://imgur.com/a/deKda the most populated HK server… "try acmehk.net(its really unstable so give ur lowest ping)" https://imgur.com/a/3VSID My friend who has the average internet gets 100ms which means many Japanese players will get 100ms or more. Even with my above average internet I still get 80~100ms. That is not close to 30 nor 40ms at all. So it would be incredibly unfair for the bigger Asian Badlion Population to get the worst ping as stated.

Posted on 22 June 2016 - 03:58 AM

asia's internet is weird af lol

Posted on 22 June 2016 - 04:47 AM

I pinged acmehk.net 10 times. 4 did not come back, and here are the rest of the results.
73ms
1177ms
679ms
86ms
75ms
73ms
So, we can see how my ping averages about 80ms (excluding the outliers). I would not call that good ping…