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How to Block Australia, Brazil, Singapore Servers

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Deleted User 291523
Profile Joined December 2012
112 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-05-24 16:53:04
May 23 2019 17:19 GMT
#1
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atira_sc2
Profile Joined April 2019
10 Posts
May 23 2019 17:24 GMT
#2
WOW this actually works. Thanks!
RedJohnSC2
Profile Joined April 2015
10 Posts
May 23 2019 17:56 GMT
#3
There is a way to do this with Brazil server?
Majick
Profile Joined August 2016
416 Posts
May 23 2019 18:28 GMT
#4
Wow, does it mean you can actually control who are you matched with on ladder by blocking certain IP ranges?

How does it affect the WCS Challenger ladder competition? For example, if somebody blocks Finnish IPs does it mean they cannot be matched with Serral on ladder (if he's playing from home of course)?
Nathanias
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States290 Posts
May 23 2019 18:44 GMT
#5
On May 24 2019 03:28 Majick wrote:
Wow, does it mean you can actually control who are you matched with on ladder by blocking certain IP ranges?

How does it affect the WCS Challenger ladder competition? For example, if somebody blocks Finnish IPs does it mean they cannot be matched with Serral on ladder (if he's playing from home of course)?


EU only has one server, one IP range for gamesites.

Americas has 6 servers. This just limits the servers you can get put on.
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Majick
Profile Joined August 2016
416 Posts
May 23 2019 18:45 GMT
#6
On May 24 2019 03:44 Nathanias wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 24 2019 03:28 Majick wrote:
Wow, does it mean you can actually control who are you matched with on ladder by blocking certain IP ranges?

How does it affect the WCS Challenger ladder competition? For example, if somebody blocks Finnish IPs does it mean they cannot be matched with Serral on ladder (if he's playing from home of course)?


EU only has one server, one IP range for gamesites.

Americas has 6 servers. This just limits the servers you can get put on.


Ah now I get it, thanks for explaining!
ZigguratOfUr
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Iraq16955 Posts
May 23 2019 19:08 GMT
#7
On May 24 2019 03:45 Majick wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 24 2019 03:44 Nathanias wrote:
On May 24 2019 03:28 Majick wrote:
Wow, does it mean you can actually control who are you matched with on ladder by blocking certain IP ranges?

How does it affect the WCS Challenger ladder competition? For example, if somebody blocks Finnish IPs does it mean they cannot be matched with Serral on ladder (if he's playing from home of course)?


EU only has one server, one IP range for gamesites.

Americas has 6 servers. This just limits the servers you can get put on.


Ah now I get it, thanks for explaining!


On NA this can definitely still be (ab)used to avoid some opponents to get to the top of ladder to qualify for challenger (just like what Hydra and Polt used to do).

Does anyone know what happens if two players are matched up and they're blocking mutually exclusive sets of servers (e.g player who only wants to play on Australia or Singapore vs player who only wants to play on US East and Central)?
FXOTheoRy
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States519 Posts
May 23 2019 19:18 GMT
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NinjaNight
Profile Joined January 2018
428 Posts
May 23 2019 19:24 GMT
#9
This is the great creator of woos_bot. All hail the magical woopr
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20332 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-05-23 19:45:09
May 23 2019 19:28 GMT
#10
On May 24 2019 03:44 Nathanias wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 24 2019 03:28 Majick wrote:
Wow, does it mean you can actually control who are you matched with on ladder by blocking certain IP ranges?

How does it affect the WCS Challenger ladder competition? For example, if somebody blocks Finnish IPs does it mean they cannot be matched with Serral on ladder (if he's playing from home of course)?


EU only has one server, one IP range for gamesites.

Americas has 6 servers. This just limits the servers you can get put on.


That's really silly. I had no idea it was that bad over in america since we only have 1 EU server. Australia!?

The worst that we have is being regularly being matched with russians that have poor connectivity to paris and don't speak a word of english in co-op game modes/maps so we have to either not communicate or just insta-leave.

That's an issue in WoW as well in the last few years, i guess Blizzard wants to serve that region without it being viable enough to run a dedicated server and as a result we have people with bad connections and no mutual language being dumped together without an opt-out.
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
Deleted User 291523
Profile Joined December 2012
112 Posts
May 23 2019 20:05 GMT
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Ben...
Profile Joined January 2011
Canada3485 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-05-23 20:49:23
May 23 2019 20:45 GMT
#12
On May 24 2019 04:28 Cyro wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 24 2019 03:44 Nathanias wrote:
On May 24 2019 03:28 Majick wrote:
Wow, does it mean you can actually control who are you matched with on ladder by blocking certain IP ranges?

How does it affect the WCS Challenger ladder competition? For example, if somebody blocks Finnish IPs does it mean they cannot be matched with Serral on ladder (if he's playing from home of course)?


EU only has one server, one IP range for gamesites.

Americas has 6 servers. This just limits the servers you can get put on.


That's really silly. I had no idea it was that bad over in america since we only have 1 EU server. Australia!?

The worst that we have is being regularly being matched with russians that have poor connectivity to paris and don't speak a word of english in co-op game modes/maps so we have to either not communicate or just insta-leave.

That's an issue in WoW as well in the last few years, i guess Blizzard wants to serve that region without it being viable enough to run a dedicated server and as a result we have people with bad connections and no mutual language being dumped together without an opt-out.
The funny thing is, at least for me, Australia is the least bad of all the overseas servers I've been matched with playing on NA. It's consistently around 200 ping or so for me. Singapore is over 300 ping most of the time, and Brazil is all over the place. Singapore and Brazil are often so bad that I just leave the game immediately, though I often leave games on Australia too. Playing in over 150ms latency is straight up not fun for me. Good luck defending mine drops against someone who has server advantage in 200+ ping. I had a game on Singapore where the person mine dropped while it lag spiked for a couple seconds or so, and when the game caught back up after the spike, an entire mineral line of probes was gone and the medivac was flying away. I had no chance to respond.
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JonSnowSC2
Profile Joined August 2017
2 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-05-23 21:19:48
May 23 2019 21:19 GMT
#13
If Blizzard patches this I'm rioting
fullheart2
Profile Joined April 2019
3 Posts
May 23 2019 21:59 GMT
#14
What happens if you join a custom game on one of the servers you have blacklisted?
Mage1
Profile Joined January 2018
118 Posts
May 23 2019 22:19 GMT
#15
Thank you
LaughNgamez
Profile Joined April 2015
Canada525 Posts
May 23 2019 22:21 GMT
#16
On May 24 2019 06:19 JonSnowSC2 wrote:
If Blizzard patches this I'm rioting


If Blizzard patches this it'll be ignorant for not allowing an option to block these regions by default.
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IshinShishi
Profile Joined April 2012
Japan6156 Posts
May 23 2019 23:46 GMT
#17
its kinda sad for the ppl in these regions that want to play with low ping once in a while, instead of only US servers, but fuck the minority right? xD
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Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20332 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-05-24 00:29:33
May 24 2019 00:24 GMT
#18
On May 24 2019 08:46 IshinShishi wrote:
its kinda sad for the ppl in these regions that want to play with low ping once in a while, instead of only US servers, but fuck the minority right? xD



They should be able to select the servers that they do or do not want to play on in a menu at any time, as should everybody else.

If there's a population shift and fewer games are available on undesirable servers that sucks for them, but it doesn't suck as much as forcing a whole region to roll the dice on if they have 10 ping or 200 ping or if they will be able to speak a common language with the ally that they matched with. They own the game too and did their due diligence setting up a PC and network that works well in order to get a good experience.
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
CFCryptos
Profile Joined December 2011
United States70 Posts
May 24 2019 01:17 GMT
#19
For some reason, i'm unable to use streamlabs/obs with this rule. I have to disable if I want to stream
Any thoughts?
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Darkness2k11
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Chile313 Posts
May 24 2019 01:49 GMT
#20
I mean, at this point, we could just have US based servers and delete AUS/Brazil/Singapore, this is coming from someone in southern latam. I remember it being the worst thing in the world when I got someone in the australian server and had 500 ping.
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