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When will there be a "SERVER MERGE?"

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When will there be a "SERVER MERGE?"

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Stefftastiq
03.27.2012 , 07:42 AM | #61
plz merge kai-kan with a bigger pvp server or something - think everybody whos left on the server know eachother now :-P

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vermins
03.27.2012 , 08:51 AM | #62
please need merge or transfer asap

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anaz
03.27.2012 , 08:59 AM | #63
Quote: Originally Posted by ConzarCR View Post
Enabling of server merges would be an admission of failure to EA.

I fully expect this post will be deleted for that comment, but as far as I can tell, this game is on it's deathbed with respect to subbers. The free weekenders probably have a fun time, but I doubt any would sign up considering the state the majority of the English EU servers seem to be in right now. I know I wouldn't, and I doubt I'll extend my subscription. 1.2 just doesn't look like enough to warrant it. I'll go back to WoW and actually pug some content as opposed to spamming LFM/LFG all night in Fleet. Stand outside the bank/AH in Stormwind, Argent Dawn EU and you'll see more players in 20 seconds than an entire evening on Republic Fleet, Perugas Mining Facility. I really wanted this game to succeed, but I suspected EA's puppet strings would get in the way.

For the servers where it is simply imbalanced between Rep and Imp, maybe there should be an XP bonus depending on the ratio of active players on each side...

Example:
500 total players. 300 Imp, 200 Rep.
60% Imp, therefore Republic players get 6% bonus xp (perhaps make this on kills only).

http://www.destructoid.com/star-wars...s-220955.phtml

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011...n_1171028.html

700,000 subscribers gained January and a million subcribers gained in 3 days.

Quote:
this game is on it's deathbed with respect to subbers
indeed

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lexran
03.27.2012 , 09:07 AM | #64
Please do a server merge!
I'm on Niman and the server is slowly dying!
I cannot make another character on a new server!
I will lose my gear progression, my money and on top of that I have real life friends that are playing the game cause of me. I can't tell them to start all over again! I know that if this keeps on going the will quit..
Btw I'm no hater, nor a troll. I can say with certainty that I will be the last player to quit this game! I'm a fanboi ! :P

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tmpearson
03.27.2012 , 09:10 AM | #65
Stupid is as stupid does.

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NotDonnaReed
03.27.2012 , 10:38 AM | #66
Quote: Originally Posted by BobJames View Post
I could care less if i have my original name or need to rename my toons or even change my Legacy name (doubt that one though). Being on a more populated server is reward enough. it is only a game so names mean nothing to me, but I dont like playing an MMO solo all the time because i am the only one on the planet. If I wanted that I would dust off KOTOR and go at that again.
One of my guildmates actually did that. She was playing KOTOR yesterday.

COME ON BIOWARE, MERGE THE SERVERS ALREADY!

P.S. I couldn't care less about picking a new name.

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Acutulus
03.27.2012 , 10:39 AM | #67
Please merge the servers. Fair enought there were lots of queues at launch but now there are not enought people on the servers. i think people are playing the game - there are just too many servers.

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Cyclove
03.27.2012 , 10:56 AM | #68
Wake up and do some merges please.. i left 1 lvl 50 character on Sith'ari server to find a more populated server.. lvled another one up to 50 on Rogue Moon server and now also this one has 40-50 ppl on fleet on peek times.. i subed again for another 2 months to give it a chance since i like this game.. the only thing i do the past 3 months are dailies crafting and on celebrating days a hard mode.. what you dont get? Servers are dying..
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RinqualFireburst
03.27.2012 , 10:57 AM | #69
Quote: Originally Posted by Cyclove View Post
Wake up and do some merges please.. i left 1 lvl 50 character on Sith'ari server to find a more populated server.. lvled another one up to 50 on Rogue Moon server and now also this one has 40-50 ppl on fleet on peek times.. i subed again for another 2 months to give it a chance since i like this game.. the only thing i do the past 3 months are dailies crafting and on celebrating days a hard mode.. what you dont get? Servers are dying..
Millions of people are subbed! There is no problem!

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goulet
03.27.2012 , 11:00 AM | #70
i don't expect them, nor would i find it reasonable to postpone 1.2 until transfers are in place, but that doesn't underscore the issues surrounding the release of new content relative to server population.

In particular the "going forward" aspect of it as relates to gear acquisition. In essence low pop handicaps future progression post transfer. Short of progressing your character while your server was more populated, having the gear to experience new content is severely limited. Upgrading to columi gear is nigh improbable when you play on a server that at best has 1 group forming at any time of day for Hm's. If you can't get groups for hm's the likelihood of finding more people for ops is even lower.

So when transfers go through, hopefully 200+pages of posts without a response, you're in essence creating 2 population groups, those on the populated server who have been able to progress and those who havent. Granted solving this issue is aided with the legacy system and its encouragement of rerolling, but it still carries the potential to divide the new server pop along immigrant/non immigrant lines to that server.

At the end of the day, at least for me, the ability to experience the game with people trumps being well geared on a server doing squat. I just think the longer you postpone it the more likely there is to be rehashing of the "gear vs time invested" debate, only creating more of a headache. There's a difference between re-experiencing content at the same pace as previous characters, and waiting for long periods then re-experiencing content, at least in its perception anyway. The faster its dealt with the less issues arise.

while i understand the time dedicated to perusing the forums by devs has to be at its lowest in the build up to 1.2(outside of pts), given the amount of posts/time since we began seeing these post, it would go a long way to at least here this problem has/will be discussed by the devs. i love playing the game, i just don't think its unreasonable to request the ability to continue to invest your time on characters you have been playing, i just lack the people to do that on my server, and abandoning those characters offers little incentive to start anew on a different server.
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, then to type on your keyboard and remove all doubt."