Petition for an Australian District

/signed

Would remove a lot of the congestion and reduce lag on other districts.

An intelligent debate if ever there was one.

I agree with Julius from Trex. If you are going to do something about creating something Aussie flavoured, then at least do it right. It is about a million miles to either the USA or Europe and the ping to their servers can be horrid at the best of times.

A simple way around it is to create a SERVER here, or alternately, create a DISTRICT on the Japan/ Korean/ Taiwan servers for us to access. Nothing fancy, just an English speaking district would be fine. That would reduce the length of the hops to the host server, and would assist us in trying to interrupt that 3/4 second cast. (Assuming you can, I can't interrupt a 3 second cast coz I suck, but I digress as some can)

GURFF, awaiting counter battery.

That would be the best way to do it, now I think about it. No need to create new servers and all the crap associated with it, and it's also close to home. Japan/Taiwan would probably be the best choices.

(On a slightly random note - interrupted 5 reversal of fortunes in the last half hour of GW - imagine what I could do with a sweet ping too )

Server: /notsigned as per Jodie O
Togetherness is not achieved by splitting people off. I'd rather the American and European servers merged, but instead I'll spend my Australian hours on the American server, where when I play it's their very late night/morning, rather than the dead middle of the day.

District: /notsigned as per Julius K Foxglove
Though, I have to admit, a cross-server semi-exclusive Australian district (depending on where you're playing from) does have a certain untenable appeal.

Well after reading this whole thread there's a few things I'd like to say.


Firstly, there are ALOT of Americans (and others) posting who have NO IDEA what they are talking about in regards to Australian players. Stop. Please.

Secondly, I'm in Ex Talionis [Law] so I do a fair bit of PvP (NF is hard to resist though heh). When we go on HoH runs, it would be nice for us to win favour for America (I'm on American servers), but for it to show up as Australia. This would be like so:

Ex Talionis [Law] have won favor of the gods for Australia. America need to win 4 more times to take favor from Europe.

(it's ALWAYS Europe) Could be confusing, but it would be nice to get some recognition

Also, I think that personally, an Australian district on Europe servers wouldn't interest me, because I hate the Europe servers (no offense, they just lag me to hell). I swapped to American when I started playing, because 90% of the time, the English speaking districts weren't speaking English. gg.

I also know that there are alot of Aussies on American servers, probably more than those on Europe, for the same reasons, Europe is laggier and American districts will always be in English.

For these reasons I think that there should be an Australian District on either American, or one of the closer ones (good idea Odin), if at all.


In regards to an Australian server, that would be silly because it wouldn't have enough players to warrant swapping to. When I PvE, I normally hench/guildie, so don't need pugs, but it's nice having people in the districts just in case, Australian servers would remove that completely....can you imagine what it'd be like at Ice Tooth Caves, or Fisherman's Haven?

So I suppose my response to this would be that it's a good idea, but maybe not neccesary. It would be nice to win HoH for Australia though...

Just thinking practical and do-able.

For the life of me, I really can't see A-net doing anything about it, no matter how loud the beating of the drums. But I figure if you can stumble upon that one thing that inspires someone to get off their kibosh and do something, then maybe it is worth it.

I think that the most achievable thing is an English district closer to 'home'. You won't get many people to change to Euro/ American servers because it still won't improve ping, even if it says Aussie on it. But dangle the fat carrot that says 'half ping time', 'better ping' etc....and now you got people really starting to think long and hard about using a server (District) that is 10,000km, as opposed to one that is less than 1/3.

People hate high ping. You give someone the choice between a 100 ping and a 400 ping...guess what he is gonna choose. May not mean much to a Wammo doing SF runs, but to a Dom Mesmer or Int Ranger...it is a whole other choice.

It may not be many people to move at the start, but they would come. PvP & GvG first, but over a small period, more would come.

It doesn't even have to say Aussie, just 'English' would work. Anyone could then choose to use it, rather than the just saying Aussies. There are a lot of english speaking people in the Asian/ Oceanic region who could use it.

Odin..

So essentially what you're saying Odin (aka messiah) is that Anet should open up one/some of the Asian servers (Japan/Korea/Tiwan/China) to other countries in the region and create districts based on language much in the same way as they have on the euro servers? Forgive me for joining the dots, but don't you think this is pretty much the same thing as creating an Oceanic server?

I can't see why Anet would do another whole server, but if we have 'English' in Euro districts, why couldn't we have something on the Japan/ Korean/ Taiwan servers that we could access..

/not signed.

We need Aussie based servers. With a ping of 300 you can't play any online game.

*edit: my DSL connection is no longer good enough to play in the American districts. i won't be buying any more GW expansions until there is an Aussie server*

have a cry, i used to play on dial up and it was fine most of the time, and fine all the time for pve.

/signed For either the server or the distric

The way I see it, Aussie seem to have two choices:
1) Play on a server half way across the world. (americain/ european server)
2) Play on a server were they cant understand the majority of people. (korean/ Japanise /thaiwandese server)

/signed

its annoying trying to get people in to a guild or trying to meet new autralians, i am australian myself and is very annoyed

I like the idea of Oceania server, but I don't think there will be enough people - unless there's some GW craze in Fiji or Philippines I don't know about.

Or, have a 'Country' selection for the Guild Leader, so that HoH wins by that guild can be tagged as 'Australia'.

/signed
Don't see that much harm really. The only problem I have with lag is the loading screens, I have to download like, 3mb, before a Wintersday cup starts, and so it always disconnects me, so I can never participate =(

/notsigned
If we're getting a Aussie district, Why not a Scandinavian?.. Jesus...

/signed go aussies you have the support of the irish

and to the godfatherr scandanavia is europe as far as im concerned... and don't use the lords name in vain /scold

"I'm using ressurection signet on Petition for Australian District"
Ok, i tried to contain myself...BUT.....
TTA FOR LIFE YO

also /signed..

/conditionallysigned:

1) That the numbers support the effort. I'd want to know ANet was doing this for the next demographically-alike majority and not just because we have our own continent.
2) That they created the Oceana Server like Julius and others have suggested, and not just an Aussie district on other servers, or just an Aussie Server. It's a great idea to be able to mix and play with nearby and like cultured people; it's a horrible idea that we imply there is an even greater distance between us and our islander neighbours just because they speak another language. Let's be inclusive of our neighbours in our region irregardless of culture, heritage and language. Be the proud multinationals that we claim to being.

Oh, btw: Can the OP put the question direct to ANet through the GW support website, or use some other way of getting a definite yes/no answer? Frankly they can only support the decision with the data that only they have. If this idea can't be done, I'd like to see the figures that show why.

/not signed

The reason spanish french german etc districts exist is because of a communication issue. Aussies can go to english districts on EU servers, or they can be in any american district they want.


EDIT: im not against Oceania/Aussie server... i dont mind that (but doubt i'll pay off to ANet). But district is a no-no.

Choose Europe or the US-Servers, don't feel so special for you are not.

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Originally Posted by Undressed Choose Europe or the US-Servers, don't feel so special for you are not.

lrn2reedimo

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Originally Posted by stiffler Please Read: This is a petition for an Australian District, not an Australian Server!!

As to the heart of the matter...

/notsigned.

A server would make more sense than a District, though it'd have to be a server designated to more than just Australia. There really is no use for an Australian District, unless you Aussies suddenly stopped speaking any language that there is already a District in existence for... Besides, as has been stated previously, if ArenaNet added a District specifically for Australians, then they'd need to add one for Canadians, Brazilians, Cubans, Egyptians, and so forth. A District for one country, a District for all countries.

"Hello, my name is Work, and nobody likes doing any more of me than they have to."

/not signed

They are language-based districts, Australians do not have their own language.

I would sign for a dutch, polish, croatian, russian, swedish district first.

You forgot Slovenia