My suspicion has been that Texas server would even out pings for more players, in that it wouldn't be as large a disparity between people with low ping and high ping. Instead, more people with low ping would be raised and those with higher lowered to a point that they're closer to each other, instead of there being such a large gap as there is now. So I plugged all the results from this thread into a spreadsheet, but I'm not exactly sure where to go from here to try and figure out what I'm after. Anyone with a mathematically oriented brain wanna help out? Either by telling me what to look for and what equations I might use, or I can link you to the googledoc spreadsheet.
In the meantime, here are the results from one method I thought might help elucidate what a move to Texas would entail, filtering out certain ranges for each location.
pings <20
current: 11
texas: 7
pings >20 <40
current: 38
texas: 12
pings >40 <60
current: 20
texas: 59
pings >60 <80
current: 29
texas: 22
pings >80
current: 18
texas: 19
You can kinda see what I meant, with most of the change being significantly more people included in the 40-60 ping range, which is probably considered an acceptable level. It feels fairer in any case, more people having more similar pings. Outliers are outliers in any scenario and will still exist, but for the majority it seems a move to Texas would help even things out by bring pings closer together.
