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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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DarthKhaos
04.05.2012 , 07:32 AM | #601
Quote: Originally Posted by Solo_Han View Post
You would rather play on empty servers with a name you like and no one to see it, than play with other people with a second choice of your name and thousands of people who can see it?

I think the focus should be playability here. Empty MMO's aren't MMO's at all. That needs to be fixed. Regardless of names. I hate to say it, but it's a numbers game. When mergers happen (and believe me, they're going to happen sooner or later), you're always going to upset some people. So you upset the smallest demographic, which in this case, I'm sorry to say, are those like yourself, who are protective over their character names.

Sad but true I'm afraid.
You sir do not get it. To you it's just a name tacked onto some pixles to him it's a character with a life of it's own. His character. His role. I know I spend about 30mins to an hr trying to get my character to have a look and a name that matches who I envision that character to be even with the choices we have. I was working on a list of Legacy names from before EGA so when I got my first pick I was ecstatic. Then for all that go go it's disheartening. I'm a person who would make a new character with a new look and name on another server than transfer the max level one I got and have to change the name. It's THAT important to me. I have abandoned characters because I was so so about its look when I created it and as I leveled it I realized that this was not what I wanted.

So don't look down on what is important to him because it is not important to you.
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_earl
04.05.2012 , 07:52 AM | #602
im glad darth malak (pvp) is pop healthy
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Holden_Dissent
04.05.2012 , 07:59 AM | #603
Not really sure what you guys are looking for. Bioware will not do ANYTHING until after the Oceanic transfers. So coming in here every day, posting fake numbers and claiming them as FACT will not get you anywhere. You just have to wait. Raging daily will not help you. You have a few options right now.

Help Yourself: reroll to find a server you want to transfer to and play until transfers.
Wait to be Helped: play on a dead server (your words) or take a hiatus from the game and wait for transfers.


I don't consider 140 people at peak a dead server considering that's probably 40 more people than were playing on the last WoW server I played on.
It's amazing how well X-server LFG masks a population problem.

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Jederix
04.05.2012 , 08:05 AM | #604
Quote: Originally Posted by Frostvein View Post
You must not be very good at math.


5 or so servers with 2500 is not close to 50-100 light/standard servers with 500 each.
Where are these numbers coming from?
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Jederix
04.05.2012 , 08:09 AM | #605
Quote: Originally Posted by Stenrik View Post
I share your amazement that the devs haven't said ANYTHING about this.
I am mad at all the attendees of the Summit for not asking the question as well. (One woman sort of did, but her question was more about faction imbalance and the "REPUBLIC being a ghost town." Their answer was something like "we're hoping Legacy will fix imbalance."

This tells me NOTHING about their views on server populations as a whole.

I blame the summit on the fact that most of the big guilds represented probably make their homes in the high-pop servers. The attendees there are not an accurate cross-section of the player base.

I fear this will be the same case at PAX but hopefully some brave questioner will prove me wrong.
And when the answer is "We are not merging servers at this time", what will the response be then?

The same 20 people posting in huge threads about how it is a travesty, blah blah blah.

Be truthful, you only want to hear the answer you want to hear. Nothing else is going to make you happy.
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Glock_
04.05.2012 , 08:10 AM | #606
I only hope they make it happen soonish. So far Trayus is pretty low pop on rep side. End game content is doable providing you are in a decent guild, and there is some WZ you can do. but for example finding people for group q's while leveling or low FPs is just pain in a place where the sun doesnt shine all to often.

Either merge some low pop servers, or provide a free migration.

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Jederix
04.05.2012 , 08:12 AM | #607
Quote: Originally Posted by Holden_Dissent View Post
Not really sure what you guys are looking for. Bioware will not do ANYTHING until after the Oceanic transfers. So coming in here every day, posting fake numbers and claiming them as FACT will not get you anywhere. You just have to wait. Raging daily will not help you. You have a few options right now.

Help Yourself: reroll to find a server you want to transfer to and play until transfers.
Wait to be Helped: play on a dead server (your words) or take a hiatus from the game and wait for transfers.


I don't consider 140 people at peak a dead server considering that's probably 40 more people than were playing on the last WoW server I played on.
It's amazing how well X-server LFG masks a population problem.
Which is why we need an x-server LFG tool. But that is a discussion for another thread.
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Jederix
04.05.2012 , 08:13 AM | #608
Quote: Originally Posted by Glock_ View Post
I only hope they make it happen soonish. So far Trayus is pretty low pop on rep side. End game content is doable providing you are in a decent guild, and there is some WZ you can do. but for example finding people for group q's while leveling or low FPs is just pain in a place where the sun doesnt shine all to often.

Either merge some low pop servers, or provide a free migration.
And when it isn't free (because, face it, there is no reason they should be unless your server is really, really dead)?
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Holden_Dissent
04.05.2012 , 08:16 AM | #609
Quote: Originally Posted by Jederix View Post
Which is why we need an x-server LFG tool. But that is a discussion for another thread.
I'm actually neutral when it comes to X-server. But I am leaning towards using it if it'll keep these threads at a minimum.

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Jonoku
04.05.2012 , 08:17 AM | #610
Before we all think about server merges or transfers lets think of it this way. 1.2 is about to be released and i think bioware wants to see if this won't be necessary in 1.2. it'll be less important to do so they will do it a little later after 1.2 if its still low population maybe they will reconsider doing this alot earlier.