Why is there no AU Hard server?

[Bobo]

None says anything wrong about Aussies or anyone else who'd haven't donated yet and yes, AU dotations per capita might be indeed higher than those from EU (I can't tell, pretty sure the Devs team has some knowledge here). Still, they are not enough to upkeep the servers which is sad but it's just how it is.

(...) I most certainly wouldn't promote pumping money in where you're on the losing end of a mod running a donation scheme without prejudice save as to costs. it just doesn't work well for both parties, best they don't do business with each other.

I truely do hope (and believe) it is not the losing end. Having witnessed massive updates recently I'd even say it's quite well developing. Also the forum stats say we're getting new players in the amount that is highest since like one year. The mod is running and it's damn lot of fun to play so why not to consider some small donations on a monthly basis as long as one plays? No need for 200 EUR donations per head, should the players who use AU server donate just as much as they think they comfortably can every month, I think AU could have 3 servers and more players.

[quote author=Bobo link=topic=52160.msg255474#msg255474 date=1453371176]
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...

I'm aware of the situation with the ping, and I'm not suggesting that you simply rename a server. I was thinking dropping some of the servers completely, you still have to pay for the all the empty EU servers right?
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I get the point, I misunderstood yoou before. And yes, the story is EU and NA servers are being rented as a pack, they are not payed separately for every single one. So there's no simple solution to save money on them in order to use them for AU servers. The main trouble is that EU/NA hosting services are much cheaper than in the Asia-Pacific region, at least the one that provide good ping to AU players. I can remember a post with some details stating servers in Japan or Korea could be purchased cheaper but the ping would be over 100, so still not good.