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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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AdamHDMI
04.01.2012 , 05:20 PM | #311
Something needs to be done by the time 1.2 hits the live servers. In Europe, everyone and their dogs are moving to The Tomb of Freedon Nadd sever due to it's booming population. I feel that BioWare opened way too many servers for launch, and now we're seeing the effects. It isn't the lack of content that is causing most people to leave, it's the server population issues...
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Dark_Hazard
04.01.2012 , 06:23 PM | #312
Yea I need to transfer my SA to my main server! I started on one server got the SA to lvl 30 then a bunch of my friends moved to a different server so I went there and made a sentinel and now I am level 50 and I want to continue my 30 !

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trueanimus
04.01.2012 , 06:31 PM | #313
Quote: Originally Posted by AdamHDMI View Post
Something needs to be done by the time 1.2 hits the live servers. In Europe, everyone and their dogs are moving to The Tomb of Freedon Nadd sever due to it's booming population. I feel that BioWare opened way too many servers for launch, and now we're seeing the effects. It isn't the lack of content that is causing most people to leave, it's the server population issues...

dont forget about the masses of people that have left due to fps issues bioware seems to love to ignore... almost my enture guild (400+ people) have left and went back to wow/rift.. only here because i have 6 level 50s i cant do any warzones or ops with and im praying they fix the fps in 1.2.. if not .. im going back to wow to play a panda i guess... and i HATE PANDAS!!!
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Touchbass
04.01.2012 , 06:44 PM | #314
Quote: Originally Posted by trueanimus View Post
dont forget about the masses of people that have left due to fps issues bioware seems to love to ignore... almost my enture guild (400+ people) have left and went back to wow/rift.. only here because i have 6 level 50s i cant do any warzones or ops with and im praying they fix the fps in 1.2.. if not .. im going back to wow to play a panda i guess... and i HATE PANDAS!!!
Yeah, all my co-workers quit already. Few friends though went back to WoW, I may join them Pandas sound a lot better then holding a lightsaber by myself for an hour in an empty fleet
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Ushela
04.01.2012 , 06:45 PM | #315
Quote: Originally Posted by LocoJediman View Post
they need to just implement cross-realm grouping/pvping. then there won't be a need for a server merge
How does that help the server economy which is non existent on low pop servers?

How does that help planets when you just need to find a group to knock out a batch of heroics?

How does that help me not feel like im playing a single player game when Im on the fleet or a planet and there are only 3 other people in the zone?

How does that help me get a 8 man group for rated pvp when there arent 7 other 50s logged on my server?

How does that help me craft items by getting the necessary materials from other crafters that I require?

The tools you mention can help some aspects, but they dont resolve the real issue at hand: The impending feeling you have all the time that you are playing single player game, and going to the auction house and finding that its EMPTY.

When you step on a fleet and there are 200+ people hustling around, and you search for earpieces and find 30 pages instead of none, then you feel like you are playing a mmo. LFG and Xserver pvp dont give you that. Only mergers/transfers can.

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UltimateKrucible
04.01.2012 , 06:48 PM | #316
Could people maybe say what server they're on when they post in this thread, and whether its EU, US or Asia?

Would be helpful to know if this is a problem on a handful of the servers ..... a sizeable number ... or the majority ...

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Touchbass
04.01.2012 , 06:49 PM | #317
Quote: Originally Posted by UltimateKrucible View Post
Could people maybe say what server they're on when they post in this thread, and whether its EU, US or Asia?

Would be helpful to know if this is a problem on a handful of the servers ..... a sizeable number ... or the majority ...
Majority ... especially republic

There are probably only 35 good servers in America out of over 100.
Our lack of a proper LFD tool will black out the sun!
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PalihoJ
04.01.2012 , 06:55 PM | #318
Quote: Originally Posted by Ushela View Post
How does that help the server economy which is non existent on low pop servers?

How does that help planets when you just need to find a group to knock out a batch of heroics?

How does that help me not feel like im playing a single player game when Im on the fleet or a planet and there are only 3 other people in the zone?

How does that help me get a 8 man group for rated pvp when there arent 7 other 50s logged on my server?

How does that help me craft items by getting the necessary materials from other crafters that I require?

The tools you mention can help some aspects, but they dont resolve the real issue at hand: The impending feeling you have all the time that you are playing single player game, and going to the auction house and finding that its EMPTY.

When you step on a fleet and there are 200+ people hustling around, and you search for earpieces and find 30 pages instead of none, then you feel like you are playing a mmo. LFG and Xserver pvp dont give you that. Only mergers/transfers can.
Good point well made

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Thornsbane
04.01.2012 , 07:41 PM | #319
Its funny, looking at the USA servers now, all are standard, a few are heavy and one is full. I wonder when the people who find themselves alone on fleet are playing.....

Maybe merges would help all servers be full all the time....if that is a good thing.

But in any case in the mean time, if you are on a real low population server, roll again on a heavy. Dont delay, dont moan about it, dont blame Bioware, dont say "I shouldnt have to!". Just do it, nice and easy solution. You wont regret it. Withing 30mins you will be loving your new toon more than ur old one.

Look at it the way it is. You made a game character on what turned out to be a low population server. If you want more people, make another game character on a high population server. No big deal.

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Carylethis
04.01.2012 , 08:11 PM | #320
Quote: Originally Posted by Thornsbane View Post
Its funny, looking at the USA servers now, all are standard, a few are heavy and one is full. I wonder when the people who find themselves alone on fleet are playing.....
Seriously, is it that you cannot read, or is it a problem with comprehension? How many times does the point have to be made that standard population servers are as likely to be ghost towns as they are to have a reasonable amount of people on them, and as a measure of population it means nothing. It's been said over and over and over again and backed up with actual population data, and still that message somehow doesn't get through to some people. It's amazing.


Quote: Originally Posted by Thornsbane View Post
But in any case in the mean time, if you are on a real low population server, roll again on a heavy. Dont delay, dont moan about it, dont blame Bioware, dont say "I shouldnt have to!". Just do it, nice and easy solution. You wont regret it. Withing 30mins you will be loving your new toon more than ur old one.

Look at it the way it is. You made a game character on what turned out to be a low population server. If you want more people, make another game character on a high population server. No big deal.
Also... No; No it's not a solution at all; I won't regret it because I won't be doing it; and if I did within 30 minutes I'd be bored of Tython (etc), and regretting the time wasted on the char creation screen. I'm not going to pay for another 3 months of a subscription to play through the same content all over again just to get back to exactly where I am now by August.