I just want to say that there is very little that server admins can do to improve the performance of their zservs.&nbsp; TT has no resource problems (core2duo dedicated server, 4GB of RAM, etc.), our zservs actually don&#039;t even touch the disk, so there&#039;s no chance of slow I/O lagging the server.&nbsp; Our server has several tier-1 internet bandwidth providers.&nbsp; I&#039;m extremely confident in the fact that any packet loss or latency problems that occur are due either to networking problems between our host and a user&#039;s computer, or ZDaemon&#039;s impressively shitty netcode.&nbsp; The fact is that zserv requires very little resources - CPU, RAM, bandwidth or otherwise, and it uses UDP which actually is completely untunable and guarantees packetloss.<br /><br />All that aside, I feel that the same is true for other dedicated servers like RN, not having thoroughly tested VPS&#039;s I&#039;m not qualified to say, but I think AlexMax or Jenova have more experience there and could say for sure - I haven&#039;t heard any more complaints about those servers than is normal.&nbsp; However I do acknowledge that these issues exist, I experience them myself on RN and I don&#039;t blame RN at all - I&#039;m sure it&#039;s ZD&#039;s braindead prediction.<br /><br />But the IDL has to handle this in some way, and above all else the solution has to be fair.&nbsp; Given that it&#039;s impossible to completely even out server advantage, it&#039;s not possible for us to provide a completely fair solution... at least not without the possibility of IDL games that last hours because a team can&#039;t win a game on the other team&#039;s server.&nbsp; This is an unfortunate, but unfixable limitation of this stupid port that we play.<br /><br />As a result, we chose to be consistent.&nbsp; The current rule allows teams to be sure that they can play on TT, this way they can practtice appropriately.&nbsp; If both teams agree that they&#039;d rather play on a different&nbsp; official IDL server then we didn&#039;t see any reason why we shouldn&#039;t allow that.<br /><br />I know that a lot of players are wondering why TT is the default, and I&#039;ll tell you!&nbsp; It&#039;s because Chicago is the most even for the most players.&nbsp; Yeah it&#039;s bad for a few and great for a few.&nbsp; Compared with the east coast, which is completely fucking terrible for many and great for a few, it is much more fair.&nbsp; If, for whatever reason, the community decides there&#039;s some conspiracy involving TT, I don&#039;t think the board would have any problem appointing a different Chicago server as the default, as long as it was of sufficient quality.<br />