106977-low-server-populations-at-peak-timeserver-merge

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Hello all i very much am enjoying the game so far besides the state of arena -.-
 
My number one concern is that every single server on the EU side at peaks times is low. Looking at this over the next few weeks carbine maybe you could look at server merging because this happened on wow and ruined the game for me so many players on one faction compared to the other.
 
I mean everyone has prob noticed this by now and they are all low population already :(
 
Kind Regards 	
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I mean everyone has prob noticed this by now and they are all low population already :(
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They know. Trust me. They really really really really know.
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			Ouch ok no worries just not heard anything from carbine what they plan to do about it :(	
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Ouch ok no worries just not heard anything from carbine what they plan to do about it :(
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From what I read here on the official forums and on Reddit it seems Europeans servers are indeed in bad shape.
 
I play on Triton (EU) and it does feel very lonely, especially on the Dominion side, whatever the level of the toon I play or wherever I go. And it saddens me because  there are many things I like in this game and I would like it to succeed, but playing on a dead/ close to dead sever is a big problem for obvious reasons and a legitimate concern which has been voiced countless times.
 
There is no way I'm going to pay for transfers for something Carbine is entirely to blame. Of course there were a lot of queues at launch and it was hard on the players, but Carbine didn't have to open so many servers,,they could have gone with overflow servers such as in GW2 and waited for the populations to settle.
 
Couple of weeks ago I thought I'd unsub but eventually didn't as I really want to trust Carbine is going to address this issue soon, but I won't wait forever, and their total silence on the subject is irritating to say the least.
 
Here's what going to happen next: you'ge going to have some players commenting on how you are wrong because their servers are fine and lively. And because their servers are fine your perception is flawed and there are many more players on your server than you think and you don't know what you are talking about and blah blah blah. And then after a quick game of ping pong between those like you genuinely concerned about the population of their servers and those who call shenanigans, the thread will be locked into oblivion. And we'll continue to play on empty servers.. until we can't take it anymore.	
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You may well have missed what they said.
 
They locked a very long thread with something like: We're aware of these issues and will let you know when and if we're going to implement anything to address it. This should not be taken as a message that we 'are' going to, just that we'll let you know if and when.
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Couple of weeks ago I thought I'd unsub but eventually didn't as I really want to trust Carbine is going to address this issue soon, but I won't wait forever, and their total silence on the subject is irritating to say the least.
 
Here's what going to happen next: you'ge going to have some players commenting on how you are wrong because their servers are fine and lively. And because their servers are fine your perception is flawed and there are many more players on your server than you think and you don't know what you are talking about and blah blah blah. And then after a quick game of ping pong between those like you genuinely concerned about the population of their servers and those who call shenanigans, the thread will be locked into oblivion. And we'll continue to play on empty servers.. until we can't take it anymore.
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The thing irks me the most about the whole discussion that the side who is saying "no the servers are lively so we don't need carbine to step in" doesn't loose anything in the case a server merge happens. They only gain more people to play with.
 
But yeah as much as I don't agree with locking of the 29th page thread I can see the argument that both sides have said plenty and nothing new would come of it. Except the new threads that keep showing up like this one.
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Keep in mind, there are really only two ways to deal with this without name drama (why do I have to rename my guy, but the other guy who snagged this name doesn't?).
 
One:  Don't merge servers.  Instead, develop whatever system Blizzard came up with so that multiple realms can allow people to play in a single zone, along with all the nice transitioning stuff that lets people almost seemlessly move between servers handling different zones as need be and all that fun. 
 
Two:  Introduce a last name at the same time you merge servers.  Everyone gets to keep their current name as their first name, and they just chose another name as their new last name.  Options could decide where these names are displayed (i.e. the party interface may just list their first names). 	
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@Sandinmyeye
Truth be told I completely ignored and forgot about the whole naming issue. Especially remembering the whole "reserve name"-debacle. Which is indeed a problem and would suck for the players affected.
There don't seem to be many solutions where one side wouldn't feel cheated. So the most friendly solution to that is like Leonwolf mentioned the ability to have an "optional" last name. But I don't know how hard it would be for Carbine to implement something like that.	
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			Server mergers will come eventually unless something miraculous happens. It would be nice to see them add last names or some mechanism so people can keep their names. I just rolled characters on all the NA - PVE servers at release with the names I wanted to be able to keep. Hoped this game wouldn't go this way but every one I've played since vanilla wow has had server merges in the first year. 	
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Hey Everyone - 
 
As you can tell by the number of threads we've locked, we know all about this topic. Thanks for participating, but this thread has to go along with the others. 
 
Cheers,
 
Team WildStar	
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