suggestion 3.. bad suggestion 
rest are perfect 
point 3 is the BEST suggestion.
lets start a server in south afrika continent AFRIKA where u have ping 25 and I (from the netherlands) will have ping 250.
Then we (people from europe (UK, FR, NL, GR) all connect and see how u like the lagg that will occur...
personal I think a UK based server with mainly visitors from europe should not be on a super laggy server just because players from Afrika, asia and USA for some reason just have to play on western europe servers.
Explination: There are always like 25 players on the server. But when 4 afrika continent players join the server with ping 200. It will make the 21 other europe players lagg like hell. So we all leave server and search for a better one.
its alway players from tunesia, algeria, marocco (north afrika) that make us lagg. why they HAVE TO play on western europe servers where they have high ping. Does hosting not exist in north afrika? they dont have a public gameserver in those countries?
Anyway made 2 posts here. my ideas did not receive one singe feedback from an admin. So I guess this topic section is more for offtopic chat