Proactive solution to APAC pop issue.

It's amazing to me this statement. pretty much exactly how I feel, but there is soo much hate out there for this game that I was wondering if I was alone in my feelings on it..

Cheers Nerdrage, you just made my day

Narh I felt the same way. A lot of the original Midians' that have left felt the same too... no issue with the game itself, just the incestuous nature of our server nowadays. It's ironic but if we had more players, we'd get more players (if that makes sense) as a lot more would re-sub or come back from US servers.

Indeed. I logged in several times today i.e. Saturday, at various times during the day, starting at 10 AM. Last login was at 9.45 PM, and I simply couldn't be bothered to stay logged in. There were hardly any players on the fleet, and at any given login time, there was no more than one warzone in progress.

This game would truly be a fantastic refuge from real life, if only we had more population. I want a transfer or a merger., but most importantly, I want a *********** answer Bioware.

Agree with the latter part but as to latency, BW's net code is far more bandwidth intensive, and thus high pings really hurt the game play experience in environments with 16 or more characters (i.e. pvp).

Not interested in re-rolling, and if BW do give us the short straw again they'll be quick to offer a solution I feel.

Cheers mate for the details about BW's net code, very interesting and useful info

Just an update on my experiences and some thoughts.

I have a high level toon on Dalborra called amazingly enough SIlber
Level 45 scoundrel which was my original scoundrel before rerolling to Oceanic, and also a 21 sage called Citrina so for the time being Im set for alts on Dalborra. Shame but I dont like my Original legacy name Ravenlord but Im stuck with it on Dalborra it seems.

Regarding The Bastion, I rolled a jedi Guardian and he is now lvl 14 called Loredai.

To compare these with Master D is interesting. My focus is on Prime time Oceanic, its a non argument to say Yank servers have better pops in our off peek times. Oceanic prime time is all I realy care about for my mains.

Dalborra PVE Oceanic:
Pvp on Dalborra pops pretty frequently and while the standard of players is not very good, most seem friendly and reasonable. Dalborra Rep fleet is more populated than Master D fleet and there are more 50's on. Usually in Operations etc.
Ping is obviously the same.

The Bastion West Coast PVP:
Damn what an abomination that place is. Some of the worst lowbie pvp players I have ever seen in my entire life. A sad bunch of knuckle dragging, drooling air thieves.
Fleet seems about the same as Master D and the planets are similar with a slight improvement for The Bastion.
At the time the data was taken we had more 50's by a good way.
See my data on page three of this thread.
Speaking for myself I see little point in going to The Bastion for about the same pop (during our prime time) on fleet but less 50's, with very poor pvp playing standard (in the sub 50 bracket) and crap ping.

Anyone with some data or experience from the Harbinger is welcome to share.

In short, for the time being I will be staying on Master D.
Im gritting my teeth and leveling some alts, trying out some PVE and basically filling in the time till F2P.
My back up plan is Dalborra if Master D totally implodes.
My back up back up plan is West Coast probably Harbinger (but I will have to check that before going) as an absolute last resort.

Daftvahduh's info is interesting about BW's net code and it has made me refocus on the Oceanic's once again.
Bioware is obviously aware of that, hence the Oceanic servers in the first place.

Cheers

ps: These are my thoughts and experiences based of the data I collected and my play time, your mileage may vary.

I very rarely log onto any of my toons. I have several reason why I very rarely play. One of the reasons why is because of the Oceanic server dwindling populations. I like the low Latency that our servers offer us. That is one of the reasons I transfered to Dalborra.

I am hoping that F2P will help increase our servers population. But frankly I am not holding my breath. It would be nice if BW made a Decision to merge the 3 Oceanic Servers. I do find it discouraging to log in and see next to no one on the fleet, and any other planent for that matter.

Yeah, the only reason why I keep playing is because of my guild. If I was a solo player, I would have left ages ago, like a lot have. LFG is a complete waste of time, but thankfully, my guild is very active and we run a lot of flashpoints together.

What are you waiting for Bioware? The community won't bite you head of if you just tell us your waiting for F2P (granted some idiots will, but they are a minority that Don't represent the whole community) We would just appreciate something. If you say your waiting to asses the situation after F2P, Tell us so we know we are waiting. I'm sure a lot in the community would be happy to wait.

We love this game, We want the best for the Game, We want to help provide practical solutions to our server pop issues, We have waited patiently for you, Why won't you respond?

Thats kinda poor form IMO, you say you wont come onto Dalborra coz of low pop but your not really helping the matter by not logging in.

That's half the problem I think, people with this attitude, imagine all the people whom 'would come back if there was a higher pop' actually came back. How much would the pop increase by across all our servers.