[quote author=Hatred link=topic=552.msg5702#msg5702 date=1324223254]<br />it&#039;s mostly because he&#039;s still on this side of the world.<br />[/quote]<br /><br />I rly appreciate the compliment, but I would hazard a guess at my connection quality being equal to most europeans due to the absurd routing I&#039;m subject to where midwest usa is concerned. I don&#039;t think just me being on the same continent puts me over euros, because I&#039;ve seen them with better latency and packet rates occasionally.<br /><br />I kinda feel with how many people have bad connections to TT, and with how many euros play against... mexicans, southerners and west coasters (Although these two groups I think are about equal), Montreal proved to be really liked in live priv testing. The only dodgy connection (had something ridiculous like 160ms) I saw and remember is from soulsucka who lives in Brazil and even then he claimed it felt better than TT did. Go figure.<br /><br />Server selection should, in essence, be about real world results and god damn my soul for using this word: parity. This, as opposed to geographic equality, because it&#039;s pretty clear in the dodgy world of routing and competitive gaming that just because it&#039;s in the midwest united states doesn&#039;t mean it&#039;s the best solution for the player base. I remember the many complaints about Doomed Earth&#039;s location because it wasn&#039;t in many people&#039;s backyard except the southerners and the mexicans. But the connection quality was still decent for everyone, despite the increase in latency for most players. Montreal is similar in this regard, in that it can favor players in the northeast, but it seems to be a decent compromise for europeans as well. Even players as far away as fuckin&#039; South America have told me they felt better on Montreal instead of Chicago. Placebo effect? I don&#039;t think so, if the vast majority of players who gave it a shot said it.