Setting my location, Best Results

[DumaRocks]

I am asking this question more for my own general knowledge. I realize there are so many variables that can affect the experience in game but this is mainly to satisfy my own curiosity and how this whole dedicated server deal works. For the sake of argument lets just say everyones equipment is equal and we are just comparing distances from the location and how that affects the connection. I believe I know the best answer and it is sort of common sense but want to hear it from others to confirm this.



The little yellow house is my basic location, right around Chicago area as shown in Map #1. This is where I typically set my home at. Based off this location the most common area I connect to is Iowa shown in the images above. My understanding is the closer you are to the servers the more likely your connection and/or ping will be better. If this is true that means other players closer to that server will have better connections and ideally make the experience in game better for everyone. 

If my understanding is true. Would it be better if I set my home location right on that server since 9 out of 10 times that is where I connect to anyway. Wouldn't that bring more players closer to Iowa servers vs to my actual home. Example, a player from Nebraska would potentially have a better connection to the Iowa server vs someone from Tennessee. If that was true and I expected to be connected to Iowa server, wouldn't it make sense in theory that is where I should set my radius. This might even allow me to tighten down my radius when enough players are online. This especially would be important at times I have to broaden my radius.

Just curious on thoughts if it is worth it to set this there.



 

[ColonicBoom]

If both servers are in your geo filter radius then you will be able to connect to either of them, I assume it will just throw you onto the first available lobby slot - who knows how this game's matchmaking actually works (or doesn't).

Where you put your actual location won't make any difference unless one of those servers then falls outside of the geo filter range.

But then it won't make any difference to the which other players are able to connect to that dedi anyway.

 

You possibly wouldn't be better off limiting your radius to eliminate one because if that server bank suffered an epic failure then rather than automatically falling back on the other you will simply go P2P.

 

But of course you can try it and see if it makes any difference, I would say that you should try it, I definitely would (and I'd try it often because the servers seems to bounce around day by day).

Perhaps that other server will play better for you, hopefully you find the best one and then you can just camp the server and pop heads.

 

If you're camping a server make sure you set ping assist to zero or you may just get the other one anyway (and remember the anti-cheat causes a delay before the changes take effect).

 

Alas, there's only one X1 server bank for Europe and all of the third world internet connects to it - I long for the kind of dedi choice you have.

 

Let us know your findings

[DumaRocks]

Sorry about your limitations on servers, lagging servers irritate me to no end so I feel for you on that.

Actually, I usually end up on one server location, which is the same on both of those examples, so don't really need to camp it. What I have noticed though if I increase or decrease my radius it seems to affect the location of players allowed in my lobbies. What I have to do in cases where it can't find a game is to increase the radius and than it can find games. Unless I am misunderstanding how it works it seems to limit what players can join the lobby I am in. Perhaps that is because my area is more congested, not really sure.

For the most part, the server I connect to doesn't seem to be the problem, it seems to be the players that join my lobby and their connections. Reason I wanted to throw my location on top of that server is to allow the netduma to pull the players from a closer location to the server I connect. Again, unless I am misunderstanding how this works but that is what my belief was in regards to who can join the lobbies I am in.

The A and B icons I put in there, ignore those, I was attempting to use those to explain my question but using the states made more sense after uploading it.

I hope my explanation was clear, thanks of your reply.

 

I will test both locations and compare, thanks again.

[ColonicBoom]

It's not so bad, the Azure servers are pretty good most of the time, I'm not very far away from the server bank too but there are a lot of other players deeper into Europe (and much further afield) that also connect to it which is when it starts to suck.

 

The geo filter only affects who can be the host though (it keeps the host within the circle - unless ping assist is on and allows them to be outside the circle.

It doesn't affect who else can join the lobby at all. If you're playing BO3 and you see the 'blocked' symbol then this is only blocking that player from being the host, not blocking them from being in the lobby.

 

You might well find that a different server plays better because of the people who connect to it though.

For example, if you were in Florida connecting to a Florida server then you would likely get a whole bunch of people from South America.

Whereas if you connected to a more central server in the US, although your ping would be slightly higher (increased distance from Florida), you would get less people from South America. (I'm assuming having South American players is less of an ideal than all US players for the best connections but I don't know how good the internet is in South America).

[iAmMoDBoX]

Unless you are the host (which in black ops 3 you are not) you can not control where other people connect to.

[Netduma Fraser]

Hey so it doesn't really matter in your scenario where you put your home location if you're connecting to that server. You won't really be able to control who else connects to it as you're not the host.