Okay so right now it's 3:30am PST and I'm camping an NM I happen to frequent kinda often, though it's infested with gilsellers they are retarded and I usually win. Because I say that I bet I'll lose tonight. In any event, I've started to notice a pattern.
When I camp late night, much like now, the penalty will occur for a rather signifcant time after pop.
When I camp in the morning, there is seemingly no penalty at all.
When I camp in the afternoon, the penalty is rather short, sometimes doesn't exist.
When I camp in the evening, there is always a penalty right after pop.
So, there seems to be a pattern. The more it is into JP time, the worse the penalty is. But when it's in NA primetime, there is seemingly no penalty. I doubt SE would be that smart as to do that to help out against JP latency, but it seems to be a consistent pattern. Anyone else notice it?