Greetings
NA and EU both have sizeable communities and a lot of the top competitive NAs are from the east coast. I believe Icelandic servers would enable both communities to actually be competitive with each other. For NAs some like yoloswag could get 50ping while others like myself could range from 60-80ping. EUs would likely get 25-50 in central and western europe. I believe both parties would benfit a lot.
Myself 80ping and less is actually really playable and I think would enable a great influx in active competitive players in Europe as well as being able to do GFs between top NAs and EUs.
So far several people have come together to help get this sorted. Biggest thing right now is funding and technical help with turning a VPS into a live server that players can connect too. Once things get going I think we will have server donations open and if you want help with setting up the server message me on steam or reply on forums.
Tell me your thoughts on Icelandic server I think it would be great fun.
If you have any website you recommend for a VPS let me know right now I have two.
https://flokinet.is/vps-server.phphttps://www.orangewebsite.com/vps.phpIt looks like by Saturday we may have the server setup. Atm Scottish Unicorn is working hard to get it done and I plan on paying for the first month to see if everyone takes a likely to it.
Ping Times
As Iceland is geographically situated in the mid-atlantic, it has shorter ping times to locations in Europe than North America. Here are a few examples of nominal ping times from Iceland:
Amsterdam: 17.8ms
Budapest: 26.0ms
Glasgow: 13.0ms
London: 18.9ms
New York: 40.6ms
Halifax: 33.7ms
(sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Iceland)