Zellgadess: If you want to label me as the Stereotypical American, you can go ahead an do whatever you want.  But the truth is, you don\'t know a thing about me, and are running on your assumptions of how the world operates.  Let me guess, I love George Bush, right?  Let me guess, McDonalds is my favorite restaurant, right?  You have GOT to be kidding me.  Maybe if you stepped back, and actually looked at what you are posting, you will realize YOU are the one being completely close minded.

And if your way of \"getting along\" is disrespecting me and my ethnicity, then saying lets be friends, you have been reading too many of seytra posts.

The thread might annoy you, but that DOES NOT give you the reason to talk down to people, and to act like what they have to say is meaningless.

You look through your posts: they are FULL of put downs and \"disses\", instead of simple answers, like Androgos gave me (did he put me down?  No.  Did he start a fight?  No.  Did he attack my ethnicity?  No).  You would rather verbaly lambast anyone who you dont like, for one reason or another.  You even pointed out, yourself, that you have a problem with Americans.

So, if YOU are going to be so ethnically biased, you should simply not post to people anymore.  Because, wether you realize it or not, you are being VERY ignorant, and have said some pretty messed up things to me.

I\'m not going to keep on rehashing this with you: anyone can read this thread and see that you have an attitude problem.  You need to learn some common, decent ways to communicate with people if you plan on having any success.

Seytra: you want to talk about a \"holier than thou\" attitude?  HOLY MOLY!  You need to take quite a few sedatives.

You, like your european counterparts, like to \"label\" people simply for asking questions, and not reading every single thread on this board before posting.

And it is not \"utter BS\" to say that there should be 2 servers, one english, one foreign.  HALF THE TIME, what is being said in shouts/tells cannot even be read because it is in a different language.  So far: I\'ve seen 3 major languages used regularly: French, German, and Russian.  I hate to tell you: I can\'t speak any of them.  So obviously: I wouldn\'t be able to play/do anything with them anyways, considering we have the biggest barrier of all in our way, Language.


Now, for the definition of racism:

rac?ism
n.
- The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.
- Discrimination or prejudice based on race.

And if you want to argue that words ar used beyond their means: you can do that about almost ANY word.


Maybe you didn\'t read Androgos post to me or not, but he was THE ONLY person who gave me a logical, calm, non-lambasting answer here on the board.  So yes, I do believe I have the right to thank him for being the only level headed person here.  Also, I do know several reason\'s for the current performance issues surrounding PS, thank you very much.

Maybe you should have just answered my question instead of attacking my ethnicity (that is the word you were trying to think of, but couldnt.  HUGE difference from ethinicity and racism).

\"Servers and bandwidth will be donated by sponsors\"
My dear lord, THATS WHAT I HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS WHOLE TIME.  There has GOT to be a company/someone willing to be an American sponser for PS.  If I can run a $70 a month gaming server, while not having to pay ANY money for it since the day I first purchased the server spot due to player donations: I am POSITIVE PS can land a very, very lucrative server.  If you say anything different, you are just being obtuse.

And please, leave my ethnicity out of this.  For once, answer someone question without attacking who they are and their bloodline.  That is, if you care to have a player base, at all.  Because obviously, you have a \"thing\" for American\'s, and it\'s quite revolting.

Go ahead and go find me links to these games which offer only one gaming server to players across the globe.

Funny, EVERY Major MMORPG I know of has atleast 4 servers.

Originally posted by Androgos

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Originally posted by Rip The Jacker
400-500ms ping is FAR from perfect.  Having a U.S. based server is a very smart option, considering PlaneShift advertises directly to the US Market.

In PS, 400-500ms works very good because of how the netbase is constructed.

You also said that there are very cheap options.. very cheap isn\'t a option, if it aint free we can\'t use it. We have a long list of companies offering free hosting of normaly quite good hosting services that costs money (fragnetics is one of them, eWebspace is another). If we want to set up more servers, there are no problems. But ATM we don\'t want to

Thank you for a LOGICAL explanation/post, instead of just a rant like the others here.

And FYI, when I said Cheap, I was speaking money wise, NOT quality.

Zellgadess: it has nothing to do with the US wanting/having \"the free server\".  The thing that you need to seem to \"get over\" is your bad attitude towards Americans.

And I never asked for 5 servers, I asked for a US Based server, and I don\'t think it is too bizarre.

And you don\'t want to break up the Europeans from the US?  Are you serious? Half of the Europeans don\'t even speak English while on PS, so why would we care?

For whatever reason, when I emailed Fragnetics regarding lag on PS, they told me NEVER to expect to get anything better than an average of 350-400ms pings from the current server.

With the massive demand currently being presented to the game, especially now that virtually every system is being welcomed into the PlaneShift world: it seems only logical for another server to emerge.

There are NUMEROUS very cheap hosting options available, and I would be very happy to provide you with some links.  I myself, have a dedicated Neverwinter Nights server being hosted out of the US East Coast, and players from around the world experience little to no lag (200ms or below for ALL players).