Talk:Rhino/@comment-31728994-20170417235050/@comment-31269503-20170420181845

Lion: I guess so.

As an example - I could tell you that in ex-ussr countries it is not common to buy game currency with gold.

So uncommon, that kids are hacking the game or play non-stop just to farm some gold. Hence the "magnum destrier", "RDB" or "DoubleTridentFury with two light slots" alternatives to gold bots.

The closer to Europe - the less time generally spent in game, but guys wants to get more fun out of it, and that's when pay-to-make-things-faster coming into play.

And I've been also told that WesternBots (Cowboy bots? Swinger bots? Wildwest bunch?) most popular in USA.

As long as it is just a game - guys want to have fun with it, and sometimes associate themselves with some group.

That's why it was bearing clear message "soviet against nazis" at the beginning, with German Cross on Leo\Schutze\Boa\Gepard, and with all those Soviet Army signs or Cossack\Vityaz\Rog\Nata.

Later on, robot packs almost for different markets were introduced:

- England

- Japan

- USA

in addition to Russian, German, Israel and "Transatlantic", whatever it might be.

Just to make myself clear, I am NOT saying that everybody in Japan running Raijin, nor that every guy from Manhattan is Butch\Doc\Jesse owner. It is just that most Quadropods belong to Japan, and most WildBunch were sold to USA.

And about servers - they work just like CDN, so you are getting players from server closest to you in terms on latency.

That's why I'm playing with many Europeans (about 60%), a lot of Russians (you can usually tell them even if nicknames is in English), and ocassional Asian guys.

However, if you look up your League - you usually find there players from all around the world; but in your battle most of the guys are your neighbours.

So, if your internet provider due to some reason is getting better ping to Japan than to your nextdoor server - you will be playing with Japanese guys. It is not filtering, it's just latency optimisation.