108705-carbine-please-help-the-empty-servers

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I would be all for this, but I know thats not an option for some people. Not all but enough that it's like "eh..." Now would be nice is if you could gift transfer services to people. That if i get them a transfer ticket they cant give it to anyone else and i can designate where it's going too. I know a few people who would want to come to Evindra for example, but dont want to spend the 20. However in that same light while I don't mind helping people out, I can't say I'd trust everyone with 20 bucks...


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If my server (Thunderfoot Dom) is considered at 50% (including or not including exiles) would max out a server by merging w/another 50%* server of equal population than we are in a crap load of trouble, especially considering the content they push (raid/WP). I remember pre launch Twitch show Carbine explaining that their servers could hold more than most other aaa mmo's? Pretty sure they can tell the difference between the number of players that log in and the actual CREDD users not logging in, if anything they could do what SWTOR did announce the server merges to a destination server, give the player time to do it on their own, and follow through w/the forced merge. The players not playing during that eventually will login telling them their new destination, & name change if needed. NCsoft timeline for paid transfers, like I have mentioned before I don't think the business side of W* is up to Carbine alone.


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The average queue time on Hazzak at launch was 14 hours. If by some miracle you did actually sit there and wait for that queue to go down, you'd get to position 1 in the queue, then there was a bug in the game that froze it and stopped you getting to the login screen, kicking you out and putting you back at position 6354 in the queue. I'd hardly call that being impatient. Excellent post Geno. Hoping to hear something from the devs on this one. Even planned ideas.


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Whom 'You' are you referring to? I'm quite certain you can't dish out evidence of who wanted an extra server or not.


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That's okay, even from one who never left Pergo like the other impatient folks, just not worth paying them to resolve the issue they created by trying to satisfy the entitled and impatient.


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Stop the "but my server..." mentality. One EU server won't keep the game alive over here, and Hazak is literally the only one left to consistently reach medium.


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Before merging they need to let ppl move by their own depending the language, their friends or friendly guilds etc. After that Carbine can do what ever they want with the remaining servers. As for the content that's another story. I can wait for it, or fixes etc if i m playing in a healthy server, where economy, guilds, grouping, open world activities etc are working as intended.


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And destroy altoholics alts? Create queues again in prime time? If you're going to suggest something suggest something smart. For example, announce 1 month in advance that a server will be closing and give a free transfer to other low pop servers to everyone. Guild leaders get to take all guild unlocks to whatever server they choose, others move with them. Expand each server's allowed character count to 12 to make sure that nobody will need to delete alts and those that would be late to transfer, would just be met with "select a server to transfer your characters to" screen when they do log in. If you shut down 1 pve and 1 pvp server from both sides and all languages like that, the population spread might be better.


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Guessing you are on a server that doesn't have population issues. Make a character on Rowsdower. At least make some effort to figure out what you're talking about before you open your mouth.


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A priority system wherein: Name Reservation > Date/Time character was made > Whatever else. Rename the people that drew the short end of the stick in this situation to "Name - Server Name" and give them a 1 time use rename of their character. Does it suck? Yes. Are there "losers" in this situation? Yes. There cannot always be winners. And the naming allows enough freedom for some formatting of the names so they wouldn't completely have to ditch their chosen name anyhow. Eventually you have to pick the lesser of two evils. You either merge servers because of low concurrency or you potentially lose more customers because players feel like there's no one around.


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I'm not for Evindra being rolled into any other server. We've done pretty well to not have population issues and I don't want us losing our RP server. They can merge everyone else. :)


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Notice I said "i never see anyone except for auction house in Illyum."


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How do you mega-server PVE and PVP server sets into one server? You're still going to need at least two shards, even if they're connected. DC Universe is a megaserver. You just enter a portal to swap between the PVP and PVE "phases."


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I agree that it's payer concurrency, however I disagree that if you merged servers player concurrency would somehow not go up. You're taking two populations who play at the same time, generally, and combining them. Even if the active portion of both populations remains constant compared to overall active accounts, the number of people playing concurrently still goes up. PS, I suck at wording this. :(


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Actually, all servers appear to be in a population decline, some slower than others tho. If there aren't any people around to play with hardly it's not an MMO. It's not going towards a good direction.


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I agree that Carbine needs to do something to raise concurrency. However if the population of any given server is spread out over so much time that it leads to low concurrent players(Carbine said that none of the servers dropped below 50% account load), then I don't see a problem with merging some of the servers to raise said concurrency. I could see there being a small issue immediately after the implementation of a holiday event like Christmas, but that would sort it out within a couple days, and it would most likely be far less severe than anything that happened when the servers went live(I didn't advocate more servers to be added btw, I was too busy reading cougar and tony's tweets while waiting in queue or actually playing the game).


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