Step aside, elemental. There is a new data center in town for FFXIV players in the Oceanic region.
For a long time, there have been a large number of gamers in parts of the world that did not have close data centers, meaning they played on distant servers with relatively high ping, usually in JP or NA. While playable, this doesn’t always make for a great user experience. Hopefully the new Materia data center will be a better fit for most of them.
To see which data center will give you the strongest connection, you can check the ping of each data center. Here is a quick guide on how to do it.
Step 1 – Find the IP
The current IP of the data center is as follows:
North America
Ethernet: 204.2.229.9
Source: 204.2.229.10
Crystal: 204.2.229.11
Europe
Chaos: 195.82.50.9
Light: 195.82.50.10
Japan
Gaea: 124,150,157,157
Mana: 124,150,157,156
Item: 124.150.157.158
Oceania
Materials: 153.254.80.103
If this changes in the future, you can use the ARRstatus website to check the IPs of any data centers you are interested in. It looks like this:
The IP of each data center appears on the bottom left of your panel.
Step 2 – Open Command Prompt
Go to the Start menu and search for the Command Prompt app. Just type “cmd” to have it appear instantly.
Alternatively, you can open the run window (shortcut is Windows key + R) and run the application from there by typing “cmd”.
Step 3 – Ping the IP addresses
For example, to ping the Materia data center, you would type: ping 153.254.80.103
After a few seconds, it will display something like this:
You can see your minimum, maximum and average ping.
For reference, in Final Fantasy XIV, I got around 50ms of playback time on the EU server. My connection to NA is 150-200ms and I can still play but the double weaving causes me to delay the next GCD. Higher than that and I’ll start getting hit by the AoE gauge, I for one look like I’m moving but the game says I’m getting hit. As you can see from my pings to the OC data center, if it’s longer than 300 ms, I probably won’t have a good time there.
I hope this information helps you in some way! Let me know in the comments if you have any other experience or information to add about playing games with high ping.
Categories: Gaming
Source: HIS Education