103228-should-they-lower-wildstar-server-caps

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			As most people know, wildstar has pretty high server caps, much higher than wows, anyone think they should lower these to have the realms appear to be medium and high from a wow or RIFT standpoing, this would shutup the people saying, "herpderp" wildstar is dead all servers low	
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That's probably the most useless solution to the (often legitimate) complaints I've read yet.
 
"People have a problem, so let's just... obscure the problem with underhanded tactics! What could go wrong?!"	
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As most people know, wildstar has pretty high server caps, much higher than wows, anyone think they should lower these to have the realms appear to be medium and high from a wow or RIFT standpoing, this would shutup the people saying, "herpderp" wildstar is dead all servers low
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That's probably the most useless solution to the (often legitimate) complaints I've read yet.
 
"People have a problem, so let's just... obscure the problem with underhanded tactics! What could go wrong?!"
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Its better than merging if you ask me...
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			Anytime a game merges servers, the loudest complainers shout even louder how server merges is the biggest sign of a game dead/dying.	
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I think that's an interesting play on the gamer psychology but I wouldn't want them to do that.
 
If there is really instancing like people say there is, I'd say to ditch that or change the way it works so that people don't feel like the world is empty when it may in fact not be. At the very least attempt to balance the instancing that there's close to equal amounts of players in the instances.
 
I think merging is the only real solution to servers with serious population issues. However that introduces other issues like who gets the name that they have if other people on other servers being merged have the same name. It could be pretty messy. If possible, they could open up transfers to specific factions to specific servers. For example if Server A has a high population of Exiles and Sever B has a low population of Exiles but a high population of Dominion, you can offer up server transfers for Exiles only from server A to server B.	
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Anytime a game merges servers, the loudest complainers shout even louder how server merges is the biggest sign of a game dead/dying.
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As most people know, wildstar has pretty high server caps, much higher than wows, anyone think they should lower these to have the realms appear to be medium and high from a wow or RIFT standpoing, this would shutup the people saying, "herpderp" wildstar is dead all servers low
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			Person "A" logs in on one of the few populated servers and sees a lot of people. Player "B" logs in during prime time and sees the capital city has what 5 people? Stop being oblivious just because you aren't effected doesn't mean it isn't an issue	
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TBH, this doesn't fix the issue.  A better fix might be increasing the shard caps so people don't feel so lonely out there.
 
Who knows though.  Carbine may be worried about another sudden influx, which is why they're keeping the servers open.  Most go "medium" at peak, which seems to be optimal for them.
 
I'm not against mergers for everyone else, or even megaservers that rely solely on sharding to split people up.  As long as I still got my RP PVE realm.  We don't seem to be having population issues.	
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but how is that SOLVING the issue? If a server only has (say) 1000 people on it, total and the realm says LOW - if those same 1000 people are still the only people on a server that says MEDIUM, how (honestly) is that "fixing" anything at all?
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I'm sorry "most" People know this?
 
It may just be me, but this is ONLY what Carbine "told" us.
 
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Oh look this thread again.
 
I'm sure it's a good idea to put the server to "High" and have 7 ppl in the capital and none in the daily zones.	
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Actually, he might have a point. When new people log in now, all they see is a list of Low-populated servers. But if a server were listed as Medium, it would be a much bigger incentive to join that server. So if we remove the lowest populated servers and lower the cap, chances are we'll start to see more people joining. In theory, at least. Or they could out free trials, advertise more and basically turn this into a game more people want to play. :)
 
Not saying I don't enjoy it, of course. I absolutely love it, despite all it's flaws and bugs. :)
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