If you live in North America, your League of Legends experience may change on August 25th, as the NA servers are moving from the west coast to a centralized location in Chicago. To go along with the move, that following weekend will have an IP Boost, you you can play more on with hopefully better ping. Or slightly worse, depending on your locations, but hopefully not too worse. To keep us up to date on the big change, Riot Ahab has a post on the league boards to help us out, saying:
The Plan
Considering the level of activity handled by the NA game servers, our main priority is ensuring maximum safety and minimum disruption. To that end, on the 25th we’ll kick off a phased, zero-downtime transfer of server activity at off-peak hours, with game starts steadily re-allocated to Chicago in escalating fashion over the course of the transfer period. Keep in mind your game starts may hop back and forth between Chicago and Portland if you’re playing during this period. By the end of the day, all games will be supported out of Chicago, with Portland reverting to a disaster-recovery backup while we continue to gather data and make any required adjustments. Tentatively, we’re shooting for around 5 AM PDT to 12 PM (noon) PDT as the transfer window, during which ranked play will be disabled.
Given our extensive preparation and the lack of downtime, the most likely outcome is that you won’t notice any disruption on your end, but we’re also preparing for any and all contingencies. For example, we already know that we’ll very likely have to troubleshoot emergent local routing issues that crop up in the days following the server move. Worst case, we encounter significant issues and temporarily roll back to the current Portland servers so you all encounter minimal downtime or disrupted play as we fix any major problems.
And there is more, and plenty of great questions answered in the thread here. So check out how this will change your game, I know being on the east coast mean my play will get better, what about you?
