Official launch in Australia/New Zealand

I love playing online games with the Aussies .... good sense of humor, great people!

Man, The information in this post, talking about having dedicated physical servers actually located in this country has turned this game from a maybe purchase for me to a definite thing. If the servers actually make it here you can guarantee you'll be getting my monthly subscription for a long time .
Also I wanted to say, I bought the game just yesterday so i could play on the American servers for a while, this in no way means that the latency doesn't bother me. I would be happy to re-roll, start over again on Australian servers if transfer isn't possible.
Thought I better put this post in just to let you guys at bioware know, there are a lot of us Australian's playing on the American servers but please don't take that as a message that we do not need local servers.
cheers guys, the game is awesome.

As long as we have servers named The Harbinger, The Swiftsure and The Jekk'Jekk Tarr I would be happy.

I would be ecstatic if somehow they could duplicate the above three servers in real time and host it in Oceania, so our US brethren could invade at their leisure whilst we have a decent ping

Failing that, expand the above three servers for March and give priority access to Australians/New Zealand....we already have invaded the above three servers anyway

Sounds good. I'm currently using a European English server now. Is there any benefit to transfering to a Oceanic server? Will it be quicker or less lag?

I'd be interested in an Aussie collectors edition. I've already got the standard one but if there are enough additional goodies could be convinced.

You should have lower latency on an Oceania server.

I'm based on the West Coast of Australia, pulling about 240 - 280 ms latency on a US West coast server, about 400ms on an Europe English server.

Going by prior experience with Team Fortress 2, a server in my city has a ping of about
30ms - 80ms, an Australian server based on the East Cost about 80ms - 120ms, whilst an an American server would be anywhere from 250ms - 500ms (Which is death for a first person shooter)

When the Oceania servers come out I'll be rolling my force users alts (especially Sith).

Thanks for that. I guess I'd better change servers then.

Collie = City of Collie I take it <forehead slap>

I'm in Perth so my information on lag times should be relevant. I have one character on the Europe Servers for when the US ones are too busy, so I wouldn't delete your character quite yet

Try to get on The Harbinger and The Jekk'Jekk Tarr servers for PVE and The Swiftsure for PVP, as a lot of Oceania players are on there (makes joining guilds easier)

The Harbinger has more Oceania guilds deployed there than The Jekk'Jekk Tarr from memory

If there are local servers will the maintenance downtime be diffrent to the US downtime

will auzzies be able to get Collectors editions when released in march?

Here's hoping...currently both the Europe and the America servers are taken down at the same time for maintenance.