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deags
03.28.2012 , 06:59 AM | #171
Quote: Originally Posted by Smoggster View Post
i am on flames of the crucible server. on tatooine doing quests this morning there was 4 people on the whole of tatooine, i go to fleet and 12 people in whole on there. i que for an hour and half to get into pvp and only lasted 5 mins before said closing as not enough people .

i know some will just say reroll on a different server but thats not an option. i play for about 12 hours per week so my lvl 35 and 28 took me a while to lvl. and apart from the story line quests the others get very repeatitive even more if you lvling an alt .

please hurry and merge because if it stays like this even if the game was free to play i wouldnt play, as at mo this game is just a single player game with heroic 2/4 quests i cant do .
Wednesday morning mate, most people would be getting ready for work or already at work depending on how early you were on, i mean really many people have a typical 9-5 job or something close to it, your not going to find high numbers during the time you play regardless of the servers population..
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Gorehowler
03.28.2012 , 07:02 AM | #172
Quote: Originally Posted by Soul_of_Flames View Post
The server I play on is light. But it's consistently light. From the past 60 days, there is no real noticeable increase or decrease in population.

I think you guys are just over reacting to obvious trends. If there are more people in a server, there is going to be a higher percentage of people who decide to leave. That's just basic probability.
No, we're not over reacting. My server, The Kumumgah, can't even start a WZ anymore, cause most 50s rerolled or left. We're aprox 10 50s online in the evening. And that's empire side. Around 60 online on all planets and flashpoints..... 60 ppl on a server is not over reacting, it's a damn crisis....
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Cain-Highwind
03.28.2012 , 07:06 AM | #173
Really, i play on French server, and it's become worst and worst everydays, we lost a **** LOAD of player those last month... it's a pain to say, but i think with all those class imbalance player are disgusted and flee for other MMO..

At peak even crowded Fr server are like 100 player on each side.... "Colony indeed"

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Ionna
03.28.2012 , 07:18 AM | #174
on giradda the hutt, the ques pop every 10 mins or so in the evenings, but the rest of the day is dead. If you play off hours (night or morns or early afternoon), it's pretty much a big ol FU trying to get anything done group wise. Id hope theyd add in cross server lfg just to help with this if nothing else.

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Ulmius
03.28.2012 , 07:23 AM | #175
Quote: Originally Posted by Kriminal View Post
There's no hope, leaving 3 lvl 50's behind since 20 people in the fleet during primetime is a gosh darn joke. Not sure i'll reroll or i'll play a game where i actually can play with people.
Do what I did, play the free trial of rift. That game was pretty lame at launch but now it's really good. If you like it, then cool. If not, well it's not like it cost you anything. I'm actually switching to that game and having two of my friends from this game join me. If you have a good computer and can run it on max settings... Jesum crow that game looks amazing.

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Szadek
03.28.2012 , 07:26 AM | #176
Niman Server is Dead!

Prime Time 20 People at fleet Top
Ilum 2 or 3 lost souls
Wz take around 15 to 20 minutes to pop and wen they do all teams are broken cause miss half of the player that signed for it.

Wondering wen the game reviews will Star talking about Tor population it will be a Disgrace for BugWare!

This is the end...

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Tyraelium
03.28.2012 , 07:31 AM | #177
If you want servers to merge or close, the best thing you could do is unsubscribe and wait for this game to die.

The developers REFUSE to give paying customers a playable environment and instead choose to focus on attracting NEW players.

After a month of no acknowledgment from the game about these issues, I am gone.
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Dezzi
03.28.2012 , 08:15 AM | #178
Quote: Originally Posted by Azzras View Post
So what you're saying is that there aren't that many people online early morning on a Wednesday?

So you're saying that in order to achieve the full experience, he has to play when everyone else does? What about timezones? Differing work schedules?

The game should provide a healthy population no matter what time of the day it is--while still allowing that off-peak times will see a dip. But a dip where there's only 4 people on a planet as opposed to the 20-something on right now on my own server, then we have a problem.
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MrJohnson
03.28.2012 , 08:41 AM | #179
Quote: Originally Posted by Azzras View Post
So what you're saying is that there aren't that many people online early morning on a Wednesday?

No, I think it is a reference to the fact that server pops are declining rapidly on many servers. that simple. Need proof, just check the 60 day trend here for TOR:

http://www.torstatus.net/

This is for all servers or page back one or two to see direct links to servers people are showing there own links and information. Facts are facts, servers are dieing out and people are bailing or jumping to other high pop servers just so they can play with more people. This is not an assumption but hard fact and to contrast it I will show an example.

Server-Vornsky
http://www.torstatus.net/vornskr/his...skr/trends/60d
Feb 1st they averaged 20% Light server capacity throughout the day, as of today they averaging nearly 80%.

Server-Zakkeg Beast
http://www.torstatus.net/vornskr/his...ast/trends/60d
Feb 1st they averaged 40% or so Light server capacity throughout the day, as of today it is around 30% (that being a spike where just a couple days ago it was 0%)

Those figures alone do not do justice though. Look at a median and you will see certain servers dead and dieing in the water and a definitive trend that can not be denied (as in imagine a ruler and mentally draw a line through those plot points for all the proof you need). A few severs have stayed right at average but those servers have had a strong population base and are the exclusion. My server at prime time hours is lucky to have 20 people on a planet, maybe 100 in fleet. Just roll up another toon you say? That is stupid, a waste of my time money and effort, and just idiotic. Idiotic I say because again, re-rolling a new toon is akin to a server transfer in the first place but without having to trudge through what you already did.

We need a LFG system in place to let people have the tool to choose to utilize to play with other people. If you don't want to use it don't, but I sure will because I honestly am not subbing every month to sit around for fruitless hours on my time off trying in vain to find a group. If I wanted to play a single player game I would dust off Skyrim. If I wanted mindless PvP I would log back on my 360. I want to play an mmo.

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Tumster
03.28.2012 , 08:49 AM | #180
So when is BIOWARE gonna give its customers an indication of what its planning on doing about the massive population problems.

Before they even start losing more customers, Not because the game is bad, but becuase there is nothing to do most of the time, due to lack of players.

Last night, am on Tott Deeta server, we had a whole population of 50 rep and 50 imp side.

So i logged out to see other servers, and on the european servers, only 2 were listed as standard, every other server was light (like tott deeneta).

All today on our server, THere has been less than a total of 40 players on the rep side, and less than 50 on the imp side.

THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE ON A PIAD SERVICE.

I've played free private wow server with much higher population than this.

Patch 1.2 will not save this problem, There will still be nothing to do due to lack of players.

Give us a indication of WHAT you planning bioware ?