![]() With the strategy we chose, you consistently get the best ping available. The EU region consists of four locations that are chosen randomly, so from the middle east, you could end up playing in Eastern Europe, or in Western Europe, and your ping will vary wildly between matches. What we did is settle on a strategy recommended to us by our server hosting company that gives you the best latency servers we have in the area, and avoids the whole political mess. Our mission is to increase knowledge of the Middle East among citizens of the United States and to promote a better understanding between the people of. ![]() The most cost effective place would be Israel, and that's mostly because other Middle Eastern ISPs won't peer with them, which makes the whole point moot. PC: Unzip the mod and put the folder named game from the mod in your Lifeinmiddleeast-0.8-pc folder. In Dubai, we would need two locations because half of the ISPs don't cooperate within their own country, even if other most countries would be better, and also leading to wild variations in pings for a lot of players. One Arab country after another is signing historic, game-changing peace, trade, investment, and tourism deals with Israel. For example, a server in Saudi Arabia would be great for the people there, but pretty much everyone else there would route through Europe and then back, making your pings double what they would be to EU, and the costs there for us are double as well. The short version is that the Middle East is a mess when it comes to hosting, because most countries are fighting, or at the very least uncooperative with one another. This can been seen in daily life, but it also influences the Arabic gaming. When we asked our hosting provider, they told us to avoid the region altogether. The culture in the Middle East is very different from that in the Western. We did a fair amount of research on what other games do, and what kinds of pings we could expect from various locations. The reason is due to the difficult political arena in that region. ![]() "The middle east servers are in Eastern Europe. A dev response on the ME servers (from the official forum)
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