Time to merge the US servers... again. Primetime window getting smaller and smaller.

I don't think your reasons against a server merge are in the same league as the reasons for it. Let's assume it's true that the merge causes bugs (which I've heard no other corroboration on). Even still, that's a nothing reason compared to having other people to do activities with.

As far as the name problem, I'd suggest that Bware try to come up with a way to make some modifications to a persons name with other special characters so the rename isn't that bad. You make it sound like you have to pay for a rename, but that's not true.

As far as "more will be open if needed in time", we don't need more servers, we need less.

Re-posting again this info from last year's server merge which saw all West Coast Servers merged into ONE EAST COAST SERVER "Satele Shan"


Here is all of the FAQ portion from Eric's post:

With regards to:

Since all of NA is in one datacenter, shouldn’t we just have one server?

Moving all of NA together would create a very heavily populated server.
This would introduce several challenges:

1) Players would likely experience queues accessing the server and
2) It would increase the chances for server instability and downtime.

There are also a variety of other issues, but a key concern was combining all of North America would result in substantially more character name collisions.

Fair enough to bring this up, but misses key points.

Are there as many players now as there were when this post was made, I believe you said a year ago?

The impression that I got is that as bad as things were on Jedi Covenant and Shadowlands and having several dead servers dragging down the whole game, it was still difficult for BW to see the wisdom in merging servers. So just as they managed to **** things up by moving the server to Virginia instead of somewhere in middle of the country, and just as they waited a year too late to do the last server merge, and just as they diverted resources to anthem, and just as they had the horrible command crates in the beginning of 5.0, just as we're only given one operations in almost 3 years, they will once again go the cheap route, let the game die some more, not try to invest in making one server work technologically, not make it possible to use special characters in names to manage name collisions, not look for alternatives, let things get worse and then make the merge after more players have left - that is what they will opt for.

I guess they see that as the less expensive option.

That thinking pretty much ruined this game.

Or maybe just ride out these last two servers for two more years and if they lose their license for this franchise, then just pack it up. That too is a cheap option which seems to be the smart way to bet with this management.

I think you're severely overestimating our current populations...

How is your thinking that rational?

How about a cross Server group finder. So that one can play with all, on all servers? With tick set whether one searches only on the own server or everywhere. That should solve this problem. If the engine can stand it.

You're not the first person to ask for that and while it would be ideal for many, I don't think this game can do it, or they would've by now.

The population might have dwindled, but people do return when there's new content to play or something interesting to do. That was the case with Umbara, Copero and Nathema, as well as the first week of 2017 Life Day, where there were IIRC server queues here and there.

Having two NA servers to lighten that load makes sense. They have to plan beyond the current server populations.

It's already been explained that because of the differences between USA and EU laws, they have to have separate servers for Europe and North America. If they merged all three European servers, it might not do a thing for grouping either. Even if someone is bilingual or trilingual, mot everyone wants to be forced to speak English while they're playing and a lot of anglophones don't speak French or German. So it wouldn't necessarily increase group play anyway.

Fixed it for you bro.