>>590619The ping has proven to really not matter much. It's like, on the surface seems like a valid worry like "oh damn that could be a problem couldn't it" but, on looking at if it actually matters for any Holos? Nope. I mean, shouldn't it be a thing for Kiara and Mori already right now, since they're over in Japan? Has it ever really been an impediment, or even noticed at all by them generally? No. Not at all.
Haachama built up some of the most complicated structures on the server all with ping from Australia. You could see it presenting itself sometimes, when there was lag/jittery skipping riding on railways and such. But it hasn't stopped her one bit from making full use of the server. Same can be said for IDs; Moona's entire Holo career was catapulted from the JP server and she's playing from Indonesia.
EN's little fucking $8 a month Realm really just won't ever match up to JP server. This is not to denigrate the work they've put in on the EN server, they've done a lot for being just 5 people (of which only some of them really play). However, their numbers just cannot compare to the dozens on the JP server, even with an EN 2 they will still be years behind as JP expands. The question of "but JP solved everything for resources" is basically irrelevant as many major things are now farmed on EN now anyway. Do the ENs have to be in self-imposed exile for the rest of time? Or can they re-approach the game to be more of a meta-interaction thing with Holo, like how it really generally is for JP/ID? If there is consideration to restart the JP server they absolutely ought to try to get EN to join in this time as well. It was painful seeing EN literally forgotten for the Undokai event; I doubt they would have been if they were already used to playing on the JP server.
