108051-suggestion-allow-transfers-to-highest-pop-servers

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I was told to post this here by Lorenz. 
 
I play regularly with my wife on Widow. We are lvl 50, and 47. Widow has very little to no population playing when we do. It is always listed as low pop. I would like to be able to transfer my main to Pergo with my wife so we can find people to play with. Currently the paid server transfer option does not allow for transfer to pergo, stormtalon, or widow even though all of these servers are listed as low-med at any time during any day of the week now, citing the reason as these servers are full. Currently Pergo is the only option for me and my wife to continue enjoying our main characters, as we do not wish to reroll.
 
Tbh we probably can't afford the transfer with a 2yr old and a newborn, and we hardly have time to play as it is... but I just think if we had the option to play where other players are without having to reroll, we might stick with the game longer. As it stands we might have to quit for lack of time, or lack of interest since Widow is pretty lonely these days. We really love this game and hope to be able to find the time and money to continue playing long into the future, I'm just not sure that it's worth it at this time and I don't think you guys are seeing the empty servers as the problem they really are. Prove me wrong, figure out megaservers, mergers or paid/free transfers to populated servers and give some of us a chance to keep the interest alive. 
 
Thank you for the game, I can't praise it enough to do it justice, and no matter the outcome, I am a fan of Wildstar. 	
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The reason for the restricted transfers to the highest pop realms is to avoid extreme queue times due to the potential erratic influxes of players. On release, there was ridiculous queue times for the high pop servers. I personally do not support this.
 
I also would not like to see 10 dead servers and 3 overpopulated servers. Reminds me too much of then state of WoW.	
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			I just transferred to stormtalon a week ago if that. I would give it a few days and it should be open again. Server was only medium population when I signed up. I will tell you it's absolutely worth it. I actually got lag in the main city. I was pretty shocked to be honest with you. I would hang in there and just keep checking.	
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Would like to also mention that this is starting to form a problem.. not so much because of the actual population of my server but also because it seems to be a hot topic on discussion.
 
It seem to be a common theme to mention the 'quiet' in zone chat and in all honestly it does not look good or encouraging. It is even worse when trollish players make fun of it in chat and heartbreaking because in my humble opinion this is an excellent game and it deserves better.
I actually thought about restarting on a high population server and even made a quick character to check their capital. Definitely a big difference, both in the way that the game looked and in the way it made me feel.
For the first time I am perplexed about moving to a popular server or sticking through it until more people join.	
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			with the way things are going they are going to be forced to merge the low pop servers at some point. which might cost some money to do but atleast they can drop the cost of those extra servers at the same time	
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The reason for the restricted transfers to the highest pop realms is to avoid extreme queue times due to the potential erratic influxes of players. On release, there was ridiculous queue times for the high pop servers. I personally do not support this.
 
I also would not like to see 10 dead servers and 3 overpopulated servers. Reminds me too much of then state of WoW.
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Don't fool yourself.  WS will never have a server listed as high pop.  Ever.
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			Well you actually can transfer to higher populated servers. I've transfered with friends like week ago from dying Contagion to Hazzak. The trick is to do that when your destination realm is low populated, so in the early morning or late night :).  When it will be medium or higher you will not have it on your transfer list.	
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			Didn't Cougar say in one of the reports that they can't merge low pop servers? The combined population would be too high and they're exploring options. Take advantage of the transfers being offered.	
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Didn't Cougar say in one of the reports that they can't merge low pop servers? The combined population would be too high and they're exploring options. Take advantage of the transfers being offered.
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I'm confused how low+low does not = med, but over-full?
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I just transferred to stormtalon a week ago if that. I would give it a few days and it should be open again. Server was only medium population when I signed up. I will tell you it's absolutely worth it. I actually got lag in the main city. I was pretty shocked to be honest with you. I would hang in there and just keep checking.
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buttflap probably meant combining 5 low servers into one. /shrug
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I'm confused how low+low does not = med, but over-full?
 
Unless so many players have left from said servers, that the fear is the max playerbase (not logged in, just total) between the 2 servers merged blows through their current cap.
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I'm confused how low+low does not = med, but over-full?
 
Unless so many players have left from said servers, that the fear is the max playerbase (not logged in, just total) between the 2 servers merged blows through their current cap.
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Probably has to do with the sharding/zone instancing system.
 
While a zone may feel dead, there's probably 50 or so people actually running around in it, but they're split over 10 different instances making it feel like no one is around.
 
I can't say why Carbine hasn't felt the need to remove the system in place or make it so players can change which instance their on in a whim. It might actually cure the "my server is dead" feeling, but who knows until such a thing happens; for all we know, dead servers can have a decent population.
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Hey! Transfer to Evindra!  :D
 
Never had a queue, never lacking people! We're like the perfect middle-ground between the busier "hardcore" servers and the tumbleweeds-and-rowsdowers servers!	
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Yeah, they should remove the sharding/copy maps for a week or 2 and let us see who's really there.
 
Hell i hope there's so many people we cry for it to come back to reduce lag. At least then it would be by choice!
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