Why is there no AU Hard server?

[Bobo]

It's not some simple switched that is flipped. The difference in ping comes from the server being hosted in a different area. Hosting in a different region probably changes pricing as well

Precisely. If you want AU server it must be hosted in Asia-Pacific region to keep the ping reasonably low. So even if there are EU servers that could atm be used for something else it is no solution to simply change a name of one of them to AU instead of EU. It still remains in Germany, so the ping from AU would be over 300...

to put it into perspective http://forum.nordinvasion.com/index.php?...#msg228636

Yup. it simply requires some donations to cover the costs. Those are not significant amounts, like Kip wrote in the abovementioned thread, few bucks per month from like 10 ppl would do.