EU players on NA mega server

pcaldredbann

I have a question, and a slight issue. I hate to be a copy/paster here but on ESO ROAD AHEAD post it was stated that:

Our testing has now confirmed that millions of players from Europe (and beyond) can play on our North American server and experience ESO as it was designed—without latency or lag problems.

But how is that possible? Seriously, is it actually possible? I'm here whining because I do experience noticeable lag, I do get 2 minute load screens, I get (albeit very infrequently) 2 minute server rollbacks where I just lose progress altogether (not much though).

I've just found the IP I'm connecting to from my client and did a simple tracert to it, and I exceeded the max of 30 hops. How is it remotely possible that users in EU, who are geographically farther away from the server than users in NA, will have the same experience?? As I see it, if I'm being relayed through 30+ nodes then I'm going to experience much more latency than users going through 5. Isn't that basic networking?

I'm not trying to be a know-it-all smarty pants here, I just don't see how that statement holds any... well, fact. Is there an actual date for the EU data centre being brought online?

All that said, I have a mostly good experience despite being on a NA server and the game is great!

Hodorius

Both servers are in Dallas so there is no real EU server.

The date of migration is "soon" and until then we have massive lags.
Ping is above 200 what is not acceptable for me.
On middle-european servers I have a ping between 12-15.

It happened a few times that I was standing outside that red area and still getting hit, blocking attacks can be an PITA and do not switch weapons infight unless you like risk... that takes sometimes 1-2 seconds.

In an ego shooter you would be automaticly kicked for a ping that high.
I am still hoping they will change that better "sooner" then later.

Nikki_Mond

Playing on EU server and I have massive lags in PvP. If im PvEing it, then it's acceptable most of the time.

AlexDougherty

pcaldredbann wrote: »

I have a question, and a slight issue. I hate to be a copy/paster here but on ESO ROAD AHEAD post it was stated that:

Our testing has now confirmed that millions of players from Europe (and beyond) can play on our North American server and experience ESO as it was designed—without latency or lag problems.

But how is that possible?

Both Servers are in America, until they physically move the EU server to Europe play on either will give you the same latency/lag. At the moment it's really just NA Server1 and NA Server2.