Hey Val, as long as you squad up with your DMG buddies, you should be fine on the EU servers... if that's any better... who knows.

"Devs, I'm leaving your game! No you can't have my ISK. I'm coming back tomorrow"

Can someone explain to me how exactly choosing to play on a server with high ping improves your gameplay? Does this work for EVERYONE, or is it like, a select 1% of people who make it work to their advantage, but which the forums seem to suggest includes every single person in the game who isn't playing on the server closest to home?

I know I would run straight back to Oceanic servers if they re-opened with people to fight against, and currently feel like my enemies see me around corners; without scans I am at a severe disadvantage because if it comes down to reflexes and visual notification, I'm hundreds of milliseconds behind.

Ah, this again just worded differently.

"Tell the Asians to play on their own servers!"

"Damn Spanish folks need to play on their Latin america servers!"

Days later, still dying to lag.

"Devs, I'm leaving your game! No you can't have my ISK. I'm coming back tomorrow"

Bros...

The context of my post is that no matter what, you will still have lag.

The only thing this feature achieves is to allow players to deliberately select a "bad ping" server to obtain some advantages in-game.

I honestly see no other benefits to it, so please educate me if you have another opinion.

I don't wholly disagree with the idea, it might help the lag (a bit.) But there are people who get to know others around the world, or people who move to another country and still like to connect with people in another country.

So basically an other reason would be for people like that, to still play together.

Another reason would be the small amount of people you'd be playing against on a regular basis... I mean, it's already pretty bad, every match has several of the same players in it, day in and day out.

Also, I doubt it's the only reason of lag, because you can play against the same bunch of people in a pub match, then you go PC with/against them and it all goes to ****... Something horribly wrong with PC.

Not at all.
It's just a matter of getting players with similar ping to automatically be matched together, regardless if they live in US, EU or Asia.

There's some nice and useful features you'd be losing here, like troubleshooting issues. Also, sometimes players might want to switch based on the time they're playing and which battle server is more populous at that time of day.