@Sundeki
Australia+New Zealand should definitely have at least 1 server, if not secificaly dedicated, than maybe somewhere in Papua/Indonesia, somewhere in the middle where much of that region could play from ping 16-70/80, which is acceptable range, not just Australia and New Zealand.
Lemme butter you up for this idea before you scrap it, and demand dedicated Australia servers only.
For example, Europe has a population of approx 740 milion,with very good income, tech savy younger population with long tradition of gaming, and buying games through online platforms and so on, i believe i dont need to explain Europe any further.
Now having that in mind, lets take for example some newer titles like Battlefield 5, from a company that is notorious about making money at any cost, no matter how many servers they need to host.
For BF5 there are, as far as i know when i last played it about 20 days ago, only servers for Europe are in Germany and G. Britain.
I now what you are thinking, Europe is so densley packed, it doesent matter where you put servers, everyone is going to have low ping.
Well, not so much, there is great distance in the matter.
I am based in the Balkan peninsula (pop 55 milion, almost double of Australia+New Zealand, and 18 times less area than Australia alone),that has a huuuuge amount of gamers, almost every country having their own gamescom-like events yearly, and i have to play it on german servers, where i get ping from aywhere of mid 20s - low 40s, on busy weekends it gets to 70/80 and its more than fine, i kick some a**.
On brittish servers, my ping is arround 60 standard, with busy weekend peaks to 90s, which is fine too, but i prefer the German ones.
Distance between somewhere in the middle of Balkan, lets say Skopie (North Macedonia) and London is around 2300 kilometers. And to Berlin its arround 1300 kilometers (not saying that is where servers are located, but some may probably be, and its a close approximation even if they are in other cities).
With those distances having about those ping, and have in mind it would be much less stressful for your servers, they would bare way less load in general than european ones, so the distances with playable ping would be even greater.
Having said all that, also bear in mind that Taleworlds is not ElectronicArts, nor is Bannerlord same as Battlefield 5, not in scope nor in budget.
I think this sounds quite reasonable for now. If Bannerlord (godspeed) achieves success beyond our belief, then you should and i believe will get couple of servers of your own only, Australia AND New Zealand their own.