I look at the ping for Oceania / Asia / South America and the pings on the official servers are all 400+ with zero out of forty players. But if I want to play on an official NA server I can get a ping as low as 65 on a max pop server.
I can play NA or EU but people will think I’m greifing them or cheating because I’ll always be nightcapping them and attacking their bases when they are asleep. That’s just the time I play.