Is it clearly stated somewhere that the partnership is about building a whole new sim?
Nowadays? It has always been like this. Curiosity: I was recently browsing the AMS1 threads looking for some dedi server info and found the same...
The only real latency troublemaker is the one caused by the damned peer-to-peer awfulness.
Yep, that is the most likely reason. Nothing RCO can do about, that is the nature of peer-to-peer and would need to be tweaked from inside. RCO...
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