not again...

whoopiededoo.

"there are currently 0 people playing!"

what i'm most afraid of is that it's something big. like that time there was an earthquake not quite that near here, i was all, why am i lagging so much? and felt so bad after, because it was the earthquake. the undersea cables'd been ... broken (i know that's not the right word) and all i could worry about was the slow internet connection. of all things. i was ashamed. i am ashamed.

in any case, i'm taking this as a sign that i should forget rs altogether and start work.

byebye.

home world.

as in, the server you're partial to, depending mostly on geographical location and lengths of cables and such.

geographically, i do believe australia's the best bet. more often than not i'd be at 107. note use of the apostrophe d.

when i wasn't to familiar with the concept of world select though, i just hopped over to the most crowded world. great personal satisfaction in being surrounded by tons of white dots in varrock i suppose. you could well call that a phrase, it hardly lasted long at all.

mostly i frequent worlds with 1000+ people. it's the social bit that i like, but too much gets ... overwhelming. so axe the 107 idea.

now i mainly go wherever my mouse takes me. if world select had their way on which world was "best" for me, i'd be in the vicinity of 29 and 30.

the idea of servers as worlds is pretty cute.

the idea of home worlds even more so. some kind of loyalty, i guess. then again, to me it's just pixels, so it doesn't matter so much.

apparently it does to lots of people though. i choose worlds by number of players, mainly. other thing that factors in is the world number. world numbers with the number 7, numbers when the years were significant, numbers i just happen to take a fancy to. and on my friends list, all the worlds sound vaguely familiar. 91, 107, 109, 50, 30, 16...

helps me remember who they are, if nothing else.

only worlds i avoid're the dutch servers. can't understand what anyone's saying, and in random pms the person doesn't get me when i say i don't speak that language.

i appreciate the fact that jagex's a britan-based company. appreciate the german servers too, and the dutch, finnish, swedish worlds...

still. it's kind of weird that there aren't any asian servers. not that it's strictly necessary right now, but still...

dug up an old thread on the official forums, something to the effect of 'bring back the singapore servers!' if they did that'd almost definitely be the closest server to me. being the only asian one, after all. then i read the small print ("rule 5, paragraph 40, the asterix at the bottom...") "high cost of bandwidth... members' server..."

back to sqaure one.