When will there be a "SERVER MERGE?"

to all the people who are complaining about there not being anyone on their servers anymore that is what happens when at launch you don't want to wait for the busy servers and go to a lower pop server at launch because all MMO's slow down after the first month and half the servers will die. i do think it would be nice to have a merger for all the smallest servers to relieve the problem though. but what did you expect when you joined a lower population server early in the games life.

Guilds have been merging on my server aswell.... population at peak times : 30-40 players in the fleet.

This may seem much but its not... queues can go well over 1-2 hours and half of the players is afking.

I have moved to the only high pop EU server, tomb of freedom nadd. This server is full of server switchers but who cares, at least it FEELS like an mmorpg.

All the other servers feel like single player games, I miss my toons, I have invested months of work in them and I dont get to play them anymore because it is simply impossible.

Its like I have worked on restoring a car for a year and yesterday it got stolen from me.

I have leveled a new toon to level 12, and I have given up, I have simply given up. I don't have that happy-feeling anymore, after leveling 3 characters to 50, I am DONE. Bioware can have my subscription back when they offer server transfers and nothing else.


Merging 3 dead servers won't fix anything. They will have to merge at least 5-10 servers togheter to create a decent community.

Having many empty servers is bad. Open your eyes bioware, you are NOT world of warcraft. You do NOT need 50 servers with 50 players each. Instead, have 5 servers with 500 players each. Quality > Quantity, a thing you have yet to learn.

You could always just say upon transfer - "Sorry, I'm afraid your name is currently used on this server. Please select a new one."

Not really rocket science now is it. Then you update the SQL tables to reflect that name change, and you're done. Same goes for Legacy names.


EDIT: Incidentally, I've just re-rolled on Europe's only populated server... The tomb of nar Faradd (or something similar), the problem with that though is that because everyone is jumping on that one server, there's usually a queue, whilst the rest of the servers are all standard/low.

THIS PROBLEM CANNOT BE FIXED BY PLAYERS - IT REQUIRES ~BW~ INTERVENTION...

I would be a lot more inclined to continue playing if:

BW WOULD AT LEAST ADMIT THERE'S A PROBLEM - AND THAT THEY ARE 'WORKING ON IT'!!

But they seem to be either ignoring it, ignorant of it, or unwilling to act on it. All of which are real management problems.

No, you don't understand. The name "Drunkenpig" is highly valued, at least as valuable as a legacy 41, so any transfer must allow me to keep my name.

Hi,

I am an Aussie, I play across 3 separate time zones due to my work and being on the 2nd shift and I play on the US server Van Zallow or Zellow, I always misspell that thing.

Anyway, long story short. Empire side is dead no matter what time zone I play at. I am used to logging on and getting ques easily with good players, getting a hard mode done now and then with pugs.

But now, I dont know what has happened, but as if everyone either re-rolled or are awaiting 1.2 to pop out and see how things pan out. All I can say its a dust bowl now.

For those who say maybe peeps don't like to pvp on my server, or pve, well I do both, my friends list has roughly 30 to 40 people on it that I regularly pvp or pve with.

Now, I am lucky to have 1 person online, and these guys were pretty hardcore players.



I am.. rather disapointed at the moment as the game has a lot of good content, well decent content. I would like to experience it but I am held back by the lack of people.


If I can make a parallel, this is like playing a low pop EverQuest 2 server with better graphics, but the difference being you would still get more action on EQ2.

/sigh

I think it shows a large problem over at the BW office. This issue implies to me that there is infighting at the director level on how to handle it, therefor the PR and Marketing people can't get near the issue.

The fact of the matter is, this issue is massive. People who say otherwise either have infinite amounts of time to re roll toons, are on high pop servers or have little to no business sense.

I work full time, and I am in school full time picking up a new degree. I don't have the time or the patience to re roll on another server. It's taken me 4 months of playing to get me where I am now. I'm not about to sideline my 50 and 45 toons.

A prime example of how a cross server LFG tool would benefit many players. Those who think BioWare is going to merge servers when there is a more economical way to correct low pop servers....well...dream on.