Deathbyape

Dec 5 2005, 12:10 AM | Post #1

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With the outrageous position of the new servers in Miami, I've decided to try and start a movement to get some servers in the MidWest United States where millions of Runescape players live with the closest server being 500+ miles away.


As you can see in the graphic, there is an huge gap in the MidWest. I've located a few large cities in this area as possible server locations. Be sure to note that the population listed is only that city and people living around it, it does not take into account people who live a couple hundred miles away.

What you can do is message Jagex and explain to them how they need to put up a server in one of the listed cities. We can make this happen if we get enough people to message them. However, when you message them, don't tell them to put a server in your small city. If they get a bunch of messages telling them to put a server in a bunch of different small cities, they won't do anything. We need to use a large city and have lots of people telling them to put one there. So just pick a city that is located on the map that is close to you.

If you can think of a large city somewhere in the MidWest, post it and I'll consider putting it on the map.

The only way we can get a new server up is by telling them to do it, and I do believe that if we get enough people they will listen to us. Even if you don't live in the midwest it would be awesome if you could just help out us Midwesterners. I am posting this in several forums so hopefully there will be a big turnout.

Thanks,
Deathbyape

This post has been edited by Deathbyape: Dec 5 2005, 12:13 AM

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Twilight Ray

Dec 5 2005, 12:15 AM | Post #2

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Makoto'll be happy. Anyways, I do think a Denver server would serve good purpose. Or if there was a big city in uh...Bloody hell, the state above Colorado, I forgot what it was. Wyoming I think. Anyways, that'd be ideal.

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Makoto

Dec 5 2005, 12:36 AM | Post #3

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It's WYOMING, and the city is Cheyenne. But I've not heard tale of any major internet company in Wyoming since...forever. <- Correct me if I'm wrong, please.

Yes, a RuneScape server in the state that I'm in would make my day. But I don't know if it would happen anytime soon.

I never realised how far away the servers actually were from me. Food for thought

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firenimmo

Dec 5 2005, 01:30 AM | Post #4

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Consider large COUNTRIES that don't have any servers, shouldn't they get servers before your country gets more to add to its 50+?

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Geo1988

Dec 5 2005, 01:59 AM | Post #5

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Hmm, interesting indeed

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Deathbyape

Dec 5 2005, 03:28 AM | Post #6

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QUOTE(firenimmo @ Dec 4 2005, 07:30 PM) [snapback]32136[/snapback]

Consider large COUNTRIES that don't have any servers, shouldn't they get servers before your country gets more to add to its 50+?

Nobody said they couldn't try to get a server there, I'm just doing this to get one here. Other places in the world might not necessarily have large populations of people that play Runescape. I know for a fact that lots of people do in the midwest. There are 10+ people in my little school that I know play, and I know there's more in my city. When I went to my cabin 300 miles away I overheard some kids talking about it in the mall. In Runescape I've seen a lot of people having convos with other people that say they live in this region. Plus, they have tried servers in Singapore, Malaysia and Australia, but the ended up taking them down because they were too slow/constantly crashed. In a poll they had back in 2003, 85% of the people in the poll said that the Australia server worked either about the same or worse. Of course anybody in the world could have voted, but they said in the poll that they would separate the results by country after the poll, and since they took the Australia server out, I'd guess that most of the people who voted actually did live in Australia. So even if they could put them in other countries, I don't know how well the servers would actually be. Then there is cost. Seems like I remember them saying that the one in Singapore cost about 5X more than ones in the United States.

^^I figured somebody would ask something like that sooner or later so I kinda had that all ready to say. lol


Edit:Just found this from the www.runescape.com news:

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25 August 2003 - Singapore server relocated
Following a lot of negative feedback regarding the Singapore server we've decided to relocate it. It seems that it just doesn't provide a better connection to most people in that part of the world, despite being physically nearer.
Our poll showed that even amongst people living in Australia and Singapore, a mammoth 63% found it WORSE than our other servers, and only 16% found it significantly better. This is very disappointing and clearly doesn't justify keeping the server there. Especially given how much hosting costs are in that part of the world (10 times the price, of what we pay in san-franciso!)

Therefore our Singapore server is being taken offline today, and we are shipping it to Toronto - Canada, to see if it can be of more value to our users there.

This post has been edited by Deathbyape: Dec 5 2005, 03:44 AM

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8o8thekiller

Dec 5 2005, 04:40 AM | Post #7

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i think u should add a couple of cities to the right of seattle.. theres a huge gap there

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firenimmo

Dec 5 2005, 05:15 PM | Post #8

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Thousands of users from Scandinavia and countries such as Estonia play Runescape, and there are no servers in that region of the world, or any other part of Europe, and those areas generally have comparable hosting costs to the United Kingdom, so cost isn't an issue. (Just to answer a couple of your good points)

Something else I'm wondering (bearing in mind I don't play the game regularly any more): what in the game requires a server to be as close as possible? I never experienced much performance difference on British, Canadian or American servers (RS2) and didn't notice anything that relied heavily on server location such as 'catching' did in RS1.

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BluEz

Dec 5 2005, 06:31 PM | Post #9

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Yea I didnt have hardly any lag at all with my awesome 30kbps and the server is still a good distance away from me. A lot of the time I played on the Europeon servers too.

This post has been edited by BluEz: Dec 5 2005, 06:32 PM

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NickBmxGuy

Dec 5 2005, 11:02 PM | Post #10

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<3 Jagex for making a Seattle server. Im 45 minutes away from Seattle.

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Laugher

Dec 6 2005, 12:14 AM | Post #11

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YES get a minnesota server!!!

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Atomic Boss

Dec 6 2005, 12:50 AM | Post #12

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Minneapolis would be great for back home, but at UW-Platteville, Chicago seems a bit closer...im content with the speeds of server and connection. All though it would be nice to have servers everywhere.

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echo8989

Dec 6 2005, 02:14 AM | Post #13

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get one in Los Angelos

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gnomer15

Dec 6 2005, 02:53 AM | Post #14

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May I point out something a few have already said. I live in Ohio, the connection difference between the server I connect to (UK) and Chicago PHYSICALLY couple thousand miles. I see no connection difference between the 2. Physical distance isn't always the best way to go. Connection speed, quality and reliablity are the best ways. I am a information systems major, so you could say I know a little bit about this. Where you will see the biggest difference with physical location is with those users that still use low-band connections. I have a 6Mbps down line coming into my house. Way to solve it? Everyone get broadband.

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Makoto

Dec 6 2005, 02:53 AM | Post #15

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QUOTE(firenimmo @ Dec 5 2005, 10:15 AM) [snapback]32248[/snapback]

Thousands of users from Scandinavia and countries such as Estonia play Runescape, and there are no servers in that region of the world, or any other part of Europe, and those areas generally have comparable hosting costs to the United Kingdom, so cost isn't an issue. (Just to answer a couple of your good points)

Something else I'm wondering (bearing in mind I don't play the game regularly any more): what in the game requires a server to be as close as possible? I never experienced much performance difference on British, Canadian or American servers (RS2) and didn't notice anything that relied heavily on server location such as 'catching' did in RS1.

Firenimmo makes a relatively valid point here, I notice little to no lag on the Florida servers so that's not much of an issue.

However, it is nice to have a cozy little server close to home.

One more thing: A possible reason that other European nations don't have a server would be too high of a cost per month for bandwith, or it would be in a terrible location.

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