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maxi605PM
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[Idea] Rule for correct country
Sep 02, 2016 4:46 AM
Joined: Aug 28, 2013
Posts: 119
Hello, my idea is that there should be a rule for the servers to put the right country where it is, becouse this cause confusion for the players, a new player in the game will look for the best ping on the server and the server he will like, but the problem is that here we see servers that have bad ping for us becouse they are from other country but the server is listed on yours

Sorry if my english is bad
chimaera500PM
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Sep 02, 2016 5:28 AM
GAMETRACKER MODERATOR Joined: Jul 14, 2009
Posts: 4303
I am not the one to decide if this would be done, but I will explain the problems;

- There are over 158000 servers registered on Gametracker
- Constantly scanning and (potentially) updating their location flags would be a huge task.
- impossible to do checking manually because of the huge numbers
- the geoIP databases used to determine country are never 100% accurate, thus making any update potentially incorrect.
^(this is possibly the most important point)^
- many server owners rent a server from one country, while living in another, but wish to host a server for use by people in their home country.
- renting servers in countries other than your own may be for financial, performance or reliability and support reasons.


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