why is this "MMO" totaly instanced?

Firelands says you have no clue

This is one thing I don't quite understand about servers and the "modern era".

I never played Eve, but I know they have 1 server, and regularly have 30k + concurrent online players. Guild Wars is a 100% instanced game, even so much as instancing main cities.

TOR seems to have had an opportunity (if they would have been innovative) to have very few, or even 1 per playstyle (PvE, PvP, RP PvE, RP PvP) servers.

We are on the FLEET. Why is there only 1 ship we can land on..on the fleet? Everywhere else we go, we get instanced, or if a particular planet hits a certain point, there's another version of it created (so you can have Balmorra 1 and Balmorra 2 in the current game, for example).

Why not just make 1 (or 4, in the case of the different playstyles) server, and have multiple ships in the Fleet? Say there are, currently, 200 servers - just a guess. I know that you can have 200 on one Fleet right now (and probably more), but most servers don't have that many (and many have under 50 in their prime time). Just combine all "servers" into one server, but have multiple named Capitol Ships that you pick one to "call home". Have however many capitol ships you need so one single one never crashes, and don't have the chat cross each, but allow people the opportunity to change their home base.

So, for example, a guild may form, and choose "The Defiant" as the fleet ship they meet on, and mark that as "home". But they actually would be able to travel from one ship in the fleet to another to recruit, or whatever, but would have to travel there in-game to use that chat (you could only use the chat on the ship you were on). Each ship in the fleet would be LIKE a server, but they'd not be 100% separate.

I'm sure there's many more details that need worked out, and I'm also sure the Hero Engine would struggle with something so radical, but you'd, basically, eliminate low pop servers.

Out of the whole game you picked on firelands? That's pretty weak bro.

I picked it cause i was so racked off last night that me and 3 friends couldn't quest together due to slight quest differences.

the same happened in WOTLK around the citadel. pointless and annoying. least in this game you can join your friends with a click of a button.

Trying to make an entire galaxy seamless with no loading screens and fully explorable planets is not realistic. instancing is the only way to properly do a game like this, if you're referring to planets each being separate instances.

There isn't an MMO out there that doesn't use instancing in some way. Some worlds seem more seamless than others but it's really just a mirage, and they tend to have one world or one continent only.

Seamlessness doesn't really matter in this day and age, though. Only some MMOs really pulled it off, like Asherons call, but its old tech. It's not used anymore.

You can argue that oh well ALL OF KALIMDOR IS ONE SEAMLESS CONTINENT or whatever but its not really. Its heavily instanced. Regardless, you spend most of your time in that game sitting in the main city queuing for....you guessed it...instances.

So who cares? This is a useless thread. They chose to go with instancing because that's industry standard.

8 years in WoW says you don't know what you're talking about. When's the last time you hopped onto your flying mount and tried to go from Kalimdor to the Eastern Kindoms.
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Drop the ignorance and listen to what I am about to tell you. Lets say there are 10 people online on my friends list and 4 of them need help with quests on different planets. Do you really think I am going to waste my time with 10 loading screens and those annoying useless instanced bays? Get real here, you can't defend every aspect of this game.

Thanks cancelling not worth the effort! I have a full time job and a busy hobby (paranormal investigator) now the only game I wanted to play of late is a bummer. Just not worth the energy!