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Everything you said here is accurate. I won't dispute that. I also do think west lines are unfair, and we should look into trying to fix them. But I don't think the solution is to simply force every west player to play on 100 ping and essentially banish them from the league. A lot of the guys who would make the NHL on equal ping, now have absolutely no shot of making the NHL and will probably go struggle in the AHL... Because LG created this new rule that absolutely screws over relatively large amount of the player base. It's not fair IMO and we need to find another solution.

While having a west line the last 2 seasons I have become friends with a lot of west coast players. Off the top of my head, at least 80%+ of these west coast players are going to retire because of this new rule change. It completely ruined their experience and now they have absolutely no 6s leagues to play in and will have to resort to HUT or Versus.

 

I identify as a woman, born a man but want to play in thr WNBA. Was always my dream. I am built like Lebron James, but obviously don't have the skills.

The WNBA refused to let me in, because it wouldn't be fair.

Most would say it makes sense.

West people would say it doesn't.

 

So your solution to avoid 3% of LG games having 1 side with a 10x ping advantage is to put every single west player, and the majority of central Canadians, on 10x the ping as their opponent in 100% of their games? It just doesn't add up. I am very good at putting my biases aside but this genuinely does not make sense to me.

The argument of all these 3rd line NHLers saying "West guys only make the NHL because they are west, they would be in the CHL if not" doesn't make sense. If these are CHL players it wouldn't be hard to beat them. A 3rd liner should beat a CHLer with a ping disadvantage more than a 3rd liner should beat a legitimate 1st line in the NHL on even ping. It isn't apples to oranges IMO.

 

My suggestion is to leave it as is. West lines aren't a big issue. Like I said before, it's around 3% of games. I don't see why we have to harm around 20% of the LG player base (using your 80% east) just to banish west lines. It's not that big of a problem and this seems like a net loss on LG's side. I just don't understand it.

I also don't understand how that ping works, I agree it sounds wrong, but every west and central Canadian LGer I've talked to says the same thing, I have a hard time believing they are lying.

 

whats the definition of "fine"though? 60? im almost as west as you can be, and i assume i get 70-80 on east servers even if its fine by some persons standards its still way worse off than someone back east. its not a matter of being able to compete against east players, most west players can and have done it because we've been forced to do it. even if im playing on a west server the best ive seen is 20ms, when i hear people in NY playing on under 10 its unbelievable thats even a possibility, especially if since they are on 5, im probably on 70-80

 

Where is the popcorn

 

@oxprahs @TrippyNav @eastons- @P t P 10 @Gamingfreak911 can you guys chime in on the ping you get to east vs central? I believe you're all from Alberta.

Obviously I don't know because I'm in Ottawa with you McDonald but from everything I've heard, central server is worse for these "central" located players.

 

Yeah that is true. The Beta will shed a lot of light on what will happen.

Anyways I know I'm arguing for nothing here because I have absolutely no say in the rule changes lmao, I'm just trying to stand up for what I believe in here. No hard feelings Brodie and obviously do what you have to do. I just feel bad for all the west friends I made the past 2 seasons that are going to retire.

 

NHL 21 is not even out yet! They cant predict how the servers will be affected by the amounts of players! Implementating something that doesn't exist yet is kinda crazy. Ea servers crash everytime the first month of the release! And all focus will be for new gen so don't expect this to work at all.... Ea it's in the game

 

This is false 100% Most West guys would rather play on the QC/Canada east server. I would rather play QC than central

The Current Central Server is worse than the QC Server for most if not all west players. I don't understand why you wanna force west players on a worse server. I say let fate decide the ping and leave it the way it is.

 

And btw do you guys know that all servers point back to the main severs which is in Qc so whatever you thinking to do Qc will always have an advantage!

 

Difference is we have a 5 ping advantage IF we get QC servers. The NHL westies who found the 4/6 Cali West get a 80-90 ping advantage, EVERY game lol.