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So, given that it's gotten a lot of traction lately, I'd like to write up a suggestion thread on actions that will make both PVP and PVE servers more popular with their players in the short and long term.  I have a lot of ideas I'd like to formulate for Carbine's perusal which would hopefully give people a better game experience.  However, I don't have much personal experience on PVP servers, and this has a lot more to do with communities than with overall mechanics, and I only live on one server.  So, to better understand the situations and best suggestions, I'd like to ask questions of the general community to make sure I've got my ducks in a row first.  I'm asking these questions of everyone on every server type in every region, so whoever you are, feel free to weigh in.
 
The goal is just to get a feel for what you want personally from your server type you'd like to play on.  I'm looking for real information, so I would like the inter-servertype warfare to a minimum and the rage to a minimum.  Remember, I am really, genuinely, honestly asking for your personal opinion and what you want, therefore asking everyone else for the same.  Please give people the benefit of the doubt to say what they do or don't like without taking personal offense.
 
I do my best to try for constructive, well-informed criticism whenever I make it.  If you would rather send me the answers in private message, feel free to do so.  Also, if you feel you have nothing to contribute to a question, feel free to write N/A.  Please answer the following as completely as you can:
 
1.  What type of server do you play on?  What type of server would you like to be playing on?
 
2.  Why did you choose the server you are playing on?
 
3.  What do you like best about world PVE?  What do you dislike most about it?
 
4.  What do you like best about world PVP?  What do you dislike most about it?
 
5.  What do you buy from the AH and CX regularly?  What would you buy from the AH/CX that you can't and why don't you buy it?  Have you bought/sold CREDD and what do you think is a fair price for both buying and selling?
 
6.  What would it take for you to switch to the other server type, if anything at all?
 
7.  How often do you engage in world PVE?  Do you prefer 20 man raid content, 5 man party style content, just solo content, or a combination of all of these?  Do you prefer events where you defend areas, assail them, or do you enjoy variety more than anything?  In response to some questions, I am referring specifically to world content.  20 man world content (Scorchwing, Tree), 5 man content (Nursery questlines, Ely), and solo world content (rare hunting, et al).
 
8.  How often do you engage in world PVP?  Where do you like to engage in it?  Would you prefer to have an entire area built for world PVP (Wintergrasp style), or to have smaller nodes built into other zones (Halaa style)?
 
9.  What do you think is the best size of group to coordinate for world PVE content?  World PVP?
 
10.  What PVE and/or PVP concepts would excite you and be entertaining enough to do constantly day in and day out?  What rewards do you think would entice you to complete world content daily?
 
11.  What size guild do you think should be necessary to fuel a world PVE/PVP-centric community?
 
12.  What are your feelings regarding server to server transfers?  What are your feelings regarding server to server temporary visitation?  What are your feelings regarding cross-server guilds and circles?  What are your feelings regarding a full merger of PVE and PVP servers?
 
13.  What do you like best about your current server?  What do you dislike about your current server?
 
14.  Finally, what do you think the key elements of having a good server are in addition to what was discussed above?
 
I think that's all I can think of for now that I'd need to know.  I just want a good pulse on what people want and the best way to make sure PVE and PVP players are getting exactly what they want out of their servers, as well as instituting hopefully some short- and long-term solutions to their coexistence.  I'd really value your feedback, so feel free to add an addendum if you feel there is relevant information not being covered in the questionnaire.  Thank you for participating, and please tell your friends to feel free to answer if these issues are important to them!	
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1.  What type of server do you play on?  What type of server would you like to be playing on?
PvE - PvE
 
2.  Why did you choose the server you are playing on?
Because I do not want to deal with the additional "pressure" that comes from constantly looking over my shoulder to see if someone is going to gank me when I engage a mob.
I play video games to relief myself of stress, not look for more.
 
3.  What do you like best about world PVE?  What do you dislike most about it?
That's really hard to answer. I like doing group content with people, explore places or just take on a challenge with friends.
But there's also moments I just like to explore on my own and just find pretty sights.
 
4.  What do you like best about world PVP?  What do you dislike most about it?
I don't like it at all. I really dislike having to constantly walk on my toes or to alter my gaming experience because someone is constantly interrupting what I'm doing.
 
5.  What do you buy from the AH and CX regularly?  What would you buy from the AH/CX that you can't and why don't you buy it?  Have you bought/sold CREDD and what do you think is a fair price for both buying and selling?
I'm more of a seller really. Stuff I tend to buy ends up being the stuff I do not want to farm endlessly for.
If I cannot get something within an acceptable time period, then I'd rather buy it.
 
6.  What would it take for you to switch to the other server type, if anything at all?
Not going to happen. I have a character on the PvP server, but it's just for exploring.
 
7.  How often do you engage in world PVE?  Do you prefer 20 man raid content, 5 man party style content, just solo content, or a combination of all of these?  Do you prefer events where you defend areas, assail them, or do you enjoy variety more than anything?
No preference
 
8.  How often do you engage in world PVP?  Where do you like to engage in it?  Would you prefer to have an entire area built for world PVP (Wintergrasp style), or to have smaller nodes built into other zones (Halaa style)?
N/A
 
9.  What do you think is the best size of group to coordinate for world PVE content?  World PVP?
Impossible to answer. Depends on the content, the people joining and the goal.
 
10.  What PVE and/or PVP concepts would excite you and be entertaining enough to do constantly day in and day out?  What rewards do you think would entice you to complete world content daily?
Reputation grinding at a steady pace to buy something that will last for a while, or theme'd content only available there.
Also a steady income of gold is not bad.
 
11.  What size guild do you think should be necessary to fuel a world PVE/PVP-centric community?
Again, depends on the content you're trying to clear.
 
12.  What are your feelings regarding server to server transfers?  What are your feelings regarding server to server temporary visitation?  What are your feelings regarding cross-server guilds and circles?  What are your feelings regarding a full merger of PVE and PVP servers?
N/A
 
13.  What do you like best about your current server?  What do you dislike about your current server?
Server is too new to formulate a sensible response.
 
14.  Finally, what do you think the key elements of having a good server are in addition to what was discussed above?
Stability, good community and active to boot.
The possibility to get involved into things.	
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1.  What type of server do you play on?  What type of server would you like to be playing on?
PvP server, PvP server
 
2.  Why did you choose the server you are playing on?
I like to starts fights and gank people
 
3.  What do you like best about world PVE?  What do you dislike most about it?
It's something to do in a casual/relaxed play. I don't have anything I dislike about it.
 
4.  What do you like best about world PVP?  What do you dislike most about it?
Killing someone. What I dislike about it is that not many people seem to be doing it anymore.
 
5.  What do you buy from the AH and CX regularly?  What would you buy from the AH/CX that you can't and why don't you buy it?  Have you bought/sold CREDD and what do you think is a fair price for both buying and selling?
I don't buy much except for decor items. Or a material I am short on when Im doing crafting.
 
6.  What would it take for you to switch to the other server type, if anything at all?
I would never switch to a PvE server
 
7.  How often do you engage in world PVE?  Do you prefer 20 man raid content, 5 man party style content, just solo content, or a combination of all of these?  Do you prefer events where you defend areas, assail them, or do you enjoy variety more than anything?
Pretty often, I like the 20 man content, the 5 man content and solo content. If I don't feel like playing with people or if not many people in my guild is on, I do solo. Otherwise I like to check with the guild to see what events are happening.
 
8.  How often do you engage in world PVP?  Where do you like to engage in it?  Would you prefer to have an entire area built for world PVP (Wintergrasp style), or to have smaller nodes built into other zones (Halaa style)?
I engage when I find a target. It really doesn't matter where I am(unless I'm surrounded by dommies, I might think twice). The zone doesn't matter too much, though Farside is always a fun area for open PvP.
 
9.  What do you think is the best size of group to coordinate for world PVE content?  World PVP?
PvE: 10-20.PvP: 5 - 10, but it's always fun when it's just a giant clump of chaos
 
10.  What PVE and/or PVP concepts would excite you and be entertaining enough to do constantly day in and day out?  What rewards do you think would entice you to complete world content daily?
Taking over/defending camps/cities. I don't care about the reward, as long as it was some kind of real battle involving taking over an area.
 
11.  What size guild do you think should be necessary to fuel a world PVE/PVP-centric community?
20-100
 
12.  What are your feelings regarding server to server transfers?  What are your feelings regarding server to server temporary visitation?  What are your feelings regarding cross-server guilds and circles?  What are your feelings regarding a full merger of PVE and PVP servers?
I don't care about the transfers. However there should never be a case where PvE server should be merged with a PvP server.
 
13.  What do you like best about your current server?  What do you dislike about your current server?
Still a good amount of dommies to gank. What I dislike is not enough people ganking.
 
14.  Finally, what do you think the key elements of having a good server are in addition to what was discussed above?
And active PvP community.	
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I'll bite.
 
1.  What type of server do you play on?  What type of server would you like to be playing on?
 
PvE. Id rather be on a roleplay realm, but there's just no population for it. So I'll adjust fine on a normal PvE realm.
 
2.  Why did you choose the server you are playing on?
 
I'm not a huge fan of open world forced pvp. I played Shaiya for years, I had enough ganking (on both ends) to last me a lifetime.
 
3.  What do you like best about world PVE?  What do you dislike most about it?
 
PvE realms tend to have more mature players in my personal opinion (this is not an attack on pvp players here, this is just from experience). I dislike some of the trolls and the names..don't get me started! :P
 
4.  What do you like best about world PVP?  What do you dislike most about it?
 
Sometimes it can be fun, especially organized events. I dislike it because it can get stale really fast.
 
5.  What do you buy from the AH and CX regularly?  What would you buy from the AH/CX that you can't and why don't you buy it?  Have you bought/sold CREDD and what do you think is a fair price for both buying and selling?
 
I buy housing stuff. I can't get enough. Seriously..I have a problem. I've not personally bought or sold credd, my husband has though. At the moment, it's not a fair price compared to what we're used to from Lightspire-lost a few guildies to it.
 
6.  What would it take for you to switch to the other server type, if anything at all?
 
I'd never switch to a PvP realm. 
 
7.  How often do you engage in world PVE?  Do you prefer 20 man raid content, 5 man party style content, just solo content, or a combination of all of these?  Do you prefer events where you defend areas, assail them, or do you enjoy variety more than anything?
 
I engage all the time. I enjoy variety more than anything.
 
8.  How often do you engage in world PVP?  Where do you like to engage in it?  Would you prefer to have an entire area built for world PVP (Wintergrasp style), or to have smaller nodes built into other zones (Halaa style)?
 
I only engage in open world pvp if I'm hosting events.
 
9.  What do you think is the best size of group to coordinate for world PVE content?  World PVP?
 
PvE: as many as your connection can handle. PvP: 30-40 people seems to do the trick.
 
10.  What PVE and/or PVP concepts would excite you and be entertaining enough to do constantly day in and day out?  What rewards do you think would entice you to complete world content daily?
 
Money would entice me. And a chance at a mount or something. Wildstar needs more mounts.
 
11.  What size guild do you think should be necessary to fuel a world PVE/PVP-centric community?
 
My guild seems to fuel it properly enough. We have about 170 active members.
 
12.  What are your feelings regarding server to server transfers?  What are your feelings regarding server to server temporary visitation?  What are your feelings regarding cross-server guilds and circles?  What are your feelings regarding a full merger of PVE and PVP servers?
 
I think Carbine shot themselves in the foot with the transfers from pvp to pve after they closed it initially only to reopen it and allow a mass exodus. I think servers should remain separate. There's a reason I don't play with pvp players very often (again previous experience). If they want to do a full merge of the realms, there's gonna be some crying. But it's not gonna be on my end.
 
13.  What do you like best about your current server?  What do you dislike about your current server?
 
The community on Jabbit is amazing. Everyone's been dead helpful, encouraging, and warm. I can't say I dislike anything about it so far.
 
14.  Finally, what do you think the key elements of having a good server are in addition to what was discussed above?
 
A solid community with leaders who are willing to host events.	
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1.  What type of server do you play on?  What type of server would you like to be playing on?
PVE
 
2.  Why did you choose the server you are playing on?
Not a fan of PvP
 
3.  What do you like best about world PVE?  What do you dislike most about it?
Don't have to worry about being ganked and there seems less hostility, but sometime you do just want to kill someone who is annoying you
 
4.  What do you like best about world PVP?  What do you dislike most about it?
I dont like PvP at all
 
5.  What do you buy from the AH and CX regularly?  What would you buy from the AH/CX that you can't and why don't you buy it?  Have you bought/sold CREDD and what do you think is a fair price for both buying and selling?
Decor mostly. Never bought/used CREDD yet
 
6.  What would it take for you to switch to the other server type, if anything at all?
I never would
 
7.  How often do you engage in world PVE?  Do you prefer 20 man raid content, 5 man party style content, just solo content, or a combination of all of these?  Do you prefer events where you defend areas, assail them, or do you enjoy variety more than anything?
Prefer solo content. Dont like having to group up to do world stuff like quests.
 
8.  How often do you engage in world PVP?  Where do you like to engage in it?  Would you prefer to have an entire area built for world PVP (Wintergrasp style), or to have smaller nodes built into other zones (Halaa style)?
Dont do PvP
 
9.  What do you think is the best size of group to coordinate for world PVE content?  World PVP?
I dont like it, but the best size would be 10-20 man
 
10.  What PVE and/or PVP concepts would excite you and be entertaining enough to do constantly day in and day out?  What rewards do you think would entice you to complete world content daily?
Mini events that change week-in week-out 
 
11.  What size guild do you think should be necessary to fuel a world PVE/PVP-centric community?
20+
 
12.  What are your feelings regarding server to server transfers?  What are your feelings regarding server to server temporary visitation?  What are your feelings regarding cross-server guilds and circles?  What are your feelings regarding a full merger of PVE and PVP servers?
Cross server guilds a big no. Everything else would make the game much better imo
 
13.  What do you like best about your current server?  What do you dislike about your current server?
Love the mega server size
 
14.  Finally, what do you think the key elements of having a good server are in addition to what was discussed above?
Stability and a good positive community that works together	
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I'll play. Mostly because I'm really interested in seeing other peoples answers.  
1.  What type of server do you play on?  What type of server would you like to be playing on?PvP - PvP
 
2.  Why did you choose the server you are playing on?because I've played on a PVE server in some other games and for this one it just doesn't fit with the lore. We're supposed to be warring against each other, so why be on a server that forces people to work together by colouring you yellow? Plus if you do cooperate it somehow feels so much more meaningful, because you know that the other player can turn on you and you can turn on him at any point in time and both of you have to be careful.
 
3.  What do you like best about world PVE?  What do you dislike most about it?I normally tend to do everything PVE related. I always try to 100% things on my characters first time trough the game. So I tend to like and do all. 
 
4.  What do you like best about world PVP?  What do you dislike most about it?spontaneousness. Those giant battles that come out of nowhere. Town invasions. People yelling "get that chua!" when there's a dominion stalker sneaking trough Thayd and silently assassinating people. 
 
5.  What do you buy from the AH and CX regularly?  What would you buy from the AH/CX that you can't and why don't you buy it?  Have you bought/sold CREDD and what do you think is a fair price for both buying and selling?cooking ingredients mostly at the moment. Gear that can be used for costumes. Gear upgrades for myself when I had the money for it. Runecrafting materials. What can I can't buy at the moment? Pretty much everything on this list and it's because there's no real supply anymore. 
CREDD price is fair for selling, however not too far for buying when it's such a high amount of platinum for a server that will mostly rely on vendoring. 
 
6.  What would it take for you to switch to the other server type, if anything at all?zone shards that I could choose where everyone's PvP flag would be forcibly on. 
 
7.  How often do you engage in world PVE?  Do you prefer 20 man raid content, 5 man party style content, just solo content, or a combination of all of these?  Do you prefer events where you defend areas, assail them, or do you enjoy variety more than anything?As often as I can. Recently got kind of angry because for the new content I can't do 20 mans >_<
 
8.  How often do you engage in world PVP?  Where do you like to engage in it?  Would you prefer to have an entire area built for world PVP (Wintergrasp style), or to have smaller nodes built into other zones (Halaa style)?We're trying to make it a weekly thing. Used to be as often as I can but now it can't be that often.
 
9.  What do you think is the best size of group to coordinate for world PVE content?  World PVP?As big as it can get. I remember the 200 player battles against a world boss in Guild Wars 2. Also massive 200 player battles in world versus world versus world. I feel most comfortable in an MMO when I'm surrounded by a lot of players that share my goal :D
 
10.  What PVE and/or PVP concepts would excite you and be entertaining enough to do constantly day in and day out?  What rewards do you think would entice you to complete world content daily?Contestable zones. Sandbox stuff. Something that players could use to control the content. 
 
11.  What size guild do you think should be necessary to fuel a world PVE/PVP-centric community?Minimum of 3 guilds on each size, 50 active daily people each, having in mind that not everyone will be interested in attending the same stuff :)
 
12.  What are your feelings regarding server to server transfers?  What are your feelings regarding server to server temporary visitation?  What are your feelings regarding cross-server guilds and circles?  What are your feelings regarding a full merger of PVE and PVP servers?cross server guilds and circles, yes pleasecross server raiding and auction housing, yes pleaseserver visitation, yes please! a full merger? Wouldn't want that.
 
13.  What do you like best about your current server?  What do you dislike about your current server?A few very passionate individuals are all that keeps it going. And I'm very happy that we have them. I dislike the lack of population though.
 
14.  Finally, what do you think the key elements of having a good server are in addition to what was discussed above?1- population- good community- existing ecconomy	
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1.  What type of server do you play on?  What type of server would you like to be playing on?
 
a) PVE.  b ) PVE.
 
2.  Why did you choose the server you are playing on?
 
Because I don't have patience for non-consensual PVP.
 
3.  What do you like best about world PVE?  What do you dislike most about it?
 
N/A
 
4.  What do you like best about world PVP?  What do you dislike most about it?
 
a) Varied settings in which to fight, with unknown numbers of combatants  b ) Non-consensual, ganking when trying to get stuff done.  Also, the "if it's red, it's dead" mentality.
 
5.  What do you buy from the AH and CX regularly?  What would you buy from the AH/CX that you can't and why don't you buy it?  Have you bought/sold CREDD and what do you think is a fair price for both buying and selling?
 
~10p is a fair price for CREDD.  Otherwise N/A.
 
6.  What would it take for you to switch to the other server type, if anything at all?
 
N/A
 
7.  How often do you engage in world PVE?  Do you prefer 20 man raid content, 5 man party style content, just solo content, or a combination of all of these?  Do you prefer events where you defend areas, assail them, or do you enjoy variety more than anything?
 
I do open world content for questing and then dailies to farm EG. I prefer all sizes of party content.  Variety of open world content is best.
 
8.  How often do you engage in world PVP?  Where do you like to engage in it?  Would you prefer to have an entire area built for world PVP (Wintergrasp style), or to have smaller nodes built into other zones (Halaa style)?
 
a) I don't.  b ) I would rather see an entire separate persistent continent (or moon in WS's case) specifically with nothing but PVP objectives where you are always flagged ala WvWvW from GW2 and you capture and control forts and objectives.  Control of these objectives then gives tangible benefits to the entire faction on that server for a fixed number of hours before it can be recaptured.  New drops would then expand this map with new areas and stuff.
 
9.  What do you think is the best size of group to coordinate for world PVE content?  World PVP?
 
N/A
 
10.  What PVE and/or PVP concepts would excite you and be entertaining enough to do constantly day in and day out?  What rewards do you think would entice you to complete world content daily?
 
Already do PVE for EG.  Nothing would excite me enough to do it daily beyond the EG cap because no one thing can be entertaining enough to do constantly day in and day out.  Too much of a good thing and all that.
 
11.  What size guild do you think should be necessary to fuel a world PVE/PVP-centric community?
 
World PVE-PVP centric?  I guess 20-30 since that's the largest required body count for any PVE currently.  PVP guilds can be any size for World PVP.
 
12.  What are your feelings regarding server to server transfers?  What are your feelings regarding server to server temporary visitation?  What are your feelings regarding cross-server guilds and circles?  What are your feelings regarding a full merger of PVE and PVP servers?
 
I have no strong feelings for or against any of those things except the merger of PVE and PVP servers.  That would need to be handled properly, and the game just isn't set up for that right now.
 
13.  What do you like best about your current server?  What do you dislike about your current server?
 
a) Most populated.  b ) Name.
 
14.  Finally, what do you think the key elements of having a good server are in addition to what was discussed above?
 
No asshats, player accountability, guild accountability, good server hardware, no lag and stable connections.
 
 
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1. What type of server do you play on? What type of server would you like to be playing on?
 
PvP-PvP
 
2. Why did you choose the server you are playing on?
 
This is a dual faction game... two factions at war. If you're into immersion and don't play on PvP servers in games like this, you're doing it wrong (I'm talking to all you RPers)!
 
3. What do you like best about world PVE? What do you dislike most about it?
 
Not a whole lot. Most open world mobs at 50 can still just be walked over. I grab 3-5 packs at a time on my Esper and kill them before losing my shield. Some of the quests are fun and I do enjoy world events but, for the most part, WPvE is just too easy. I'd rather be in a raid/dungeon/adventure/shiphand.
 
4. What do you like best about world PVP? What do you dislike most about it?
 
WPvP makes the game feel more like it's supposed to. You can't just do your dailies while not looking at your monitor, you have to remember that your enemy is here too... and they want blood! Immersion.
 
5. What do you buy from the AH and CX regularly? What would you buy from the AH/CX that you can't and why don't you buy it? Have you bought/sold CREDD and what do you think is a fair price for both buying and selling?
 
I feel the CREDD part is the only relevant question here, so I'll answer that one: Yes, I buy CREDD to sustain my sub. A fair price? It is a fair price. Supply and demand working at its finest here. Sellers charge too much and they won't sell; buyers get it too cheap and now all the CREDD is gone. The market fluctuates, deal with it.
 
6. What would it take for you to switch to the other server type, if anything at all?
 
The death of PvP servers.
 
7. How often do you engage in world PVE? Do you prefer 20 man raid content, 5 man party style content, just solo content, or a combination of all of these? Do you prefer events where you defend areas, assail them, or do you enjoy variety more than anything?
 
Just to clarify here: you're not lumping dungeons/raids in here, right? Because those are not open world. I enjoy the 5 man quests and events. The 20 mans are a little too target dummy-ish for me to enjoy. Some solo quests are a lot of fun, but kill quests are horribly boring... beef up mobs, please.
 
8. How often do you engage in world PVP? Where do you like to engage in it? Would you prefer to have an entire area built for world PVP (Wintergrasp style), or to have smaller nodes built into other zones (Halaa style)?
 
Nearly every day, wherever there's trouble brewing. I prefer to have a mix. A purely PvP zone would be neat, but that's pretty much just BGs. I like that some quests pit you face-to-face with the other faction just to remind you that you're still at war! So pockets are cool too.
 
9. What do you think is the best size of group to coordinate for world PVE content? World PVP?
 
5/10
 
10. What PVE and/or PVP concepts would excite you and be entertaining enough to do constantly day in and day out? What rewards do you think would entice you to complete world content daily?
 
Anything, really. As for rewards... the game is its own reward! The "I'll only do the content if it gives me a shiney trophy" mindset is just wrong. Play the game, don't just hunt gear, you'll hate every MMO with that mindset.
 
11. What size guild do you think should be necessary to fuel a world PVE/PVP-centric community?
 
I don't feel like this is a viable question. It doesn't take guilds, just willing people... that's kind of the point of WPvE/WPvP.
 
12. What are your feelings regarding server to server transfers? What are your feelings regarding server to server temporary visitation? What are your feelings regarding cross-server guilds and circles? What are your feelings regarding a full merger of PVE and PVP servers?
 
Transfers should stay open and 2-way permanently. Temp visitaion is a horrible idea that would bring the economy of one of these server crashing down. Cross-server guilds, no; circles could be a neat idea, though. A full merger of both realms seems like a terrible idea to me. There's enough people; most of you just need to try talking to them.
 
13. What do you like best about your current server? What do you dislike about your current server?
 
Hard to say since I haven't played on the PvE server.
 
14. Finally, what do you think the key elements of having a good server are in addition to what was discussed above?
 
People willing to play the game and not just complain about it so they can feel badass without actually doing anything.	
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Just to clarify here: you're not lumping dungeons/raids in here, right? Because those are not open world. I enjoy the 5 man quests and events. The 20 mans are a little too target dummy-ish for me to enjoy. Some solo quests are a lot of fun, but kill quests are horribly boring... beef up mobs, please.
 
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2. Why did you choose the server you are playing on?
 
This is a dual faction game... two factions at war. If you're into immersion and don't play on PvP servers in games like this, you're doing it wrong (I'm talking to all you RPers)!
 
 
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			This is really good information.  I'm going to keep this up for a day or so, or until it falls off the face of the GD board.  I've got a better idea of what to aim for, at any rate.  I'm feeling hopeful, there might be some fired-from-the-hip solutions Carbine could implement.  I'd like to hear from more people, though.	
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Nope! I think I can speak for more roleplayers that pvp means you don't have time to type a response- you're too busy being ganked and dying to articulate a response.
 
Anyways I tried hosting open world pvp rp events on lightspire and NO ONE showed up.
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1.  What type of server do you play on?  What type of server would you like to be playing on?
PvE - PvP
 
2.  Why did you choose the server you are playing on?
I came before the mega servers were implemented, I stayed because I enjoyed the community.
 
3.  What do you like best about world PVE?  What do you dislike most about it?
It's A LOT easier to get group quests done, I'm a dominion player so my faction has lower numbers. It kind of feels like factions have no place since we don't "hate" each other.
 
4.  What do you like best about world PVP?  What do you dislike most about it?
The hardcore crowd, iron sharpens iron. The open world PvP is basically stalkers, just stalkers.....also if you're a dominion player you are ALWAYS outnumbered.
 
5.  What do you buy from the AH and CX regularly?  What would you buy from the AH/CX that you can't and why don't you buy it?  Have you bought/sold CREDD and what do you think is a fair price for both buying and selling?
Gear, medishots, boosts, decor, FabKits, dyes. N/A . I have been purchasing CREDD since day 1, for buying atm on Entity it's about 10 plat I would say it can go higher not sure how high.
 
6.  What would it take for you to switch to the other server type, if anything at all?
A bigger player base.
 
7.  How often do you engage in world PVE?  Do you prefer 20 man raid content, 5 man party style content, just solo content, or a combination of all of these?  Do you prefer events where you defend areas, assail them, or do you enjoy variety more than anything?
All the time, on Entity the exiles have started the 8PM PST gold tree run and I come there daily for the chance of epic loot. I enjoy all type of group content but 20 man content generally gets repetitive and I find myself less engaged since I can just sit in place and Pew Pew repetitively, but not Raids, atm I love raids as they are, I'm talking about 20 man content like tree and such. I enjoy events where I attack.
 
8.  How often do you engage in world PVP?  Where do you like to engage in it?  Would you prefer to have an entire area built for world PVP (Wintergrasp style), or to have smaller nodes built into other zones (Halaa style)?
At the moment not anymore, most people on Entity won't even accept a duel. Anywhere really, open world is more fun though. An entire area built for PvP would be interesting but I'm not sure how you would appeal to the masses about this, better to go with smaller nodes.
 
9.  What do you think is the best size of group to coordinate for world PVE content?  World PVP?
I think it should be 10, it would make it more accessible, It's really annoying to sit and spam chats to try and get 20 people together. I think it should be the same for World PvP.
 
10.  What PVE and/or PVP concepts would excite you and be entertaining enough to do constantly day in and day out?  What rewards do you think would entice you to complete world content daily?
Random PvE/PvP dailies, kill 5 aurin in PvP, kill a certain WB, just more than we have now atm that would help players experience all the content.  More gold, and a chance at some nice loot.
 
11.  What size guild do you think should be necessary to fuel a world PVE/PVP-centric community?
I'm not really sure since WS has a smaller population than most mmos I've played, I will say about 30 active members.
 
12.  What are your feelings regarding server to server transfers?  What are your feelings regarding server to server temporary visitation?  What are your feelings regarding cross-server guilds and circles?  What are your feelings regarding a full merger of PVE and PVP servers?
It's good but the damage has been done. It's good too I welcome it. Cross-server guilds and circlers would be nice IMO. A full merger scares me in the sense that if not done correctly we will upset a lot of folks and lose a big chunk of the community.
 
13.  What do you like best about your current server?  What do you dislike about your current server?
People are generally friendly and helpful. It feels really "casual."
 
14.  Finally, what do you think the key elements of having a good server are in addition to what was discussed above?
The community, a healthy economy, and lots of chua. 	
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1.  What type of server do you play on?  What type of server would you like to be playing on?
PVP. I DONT GIVE A RATS @#&*.
2.  Why did you choose the server you are playing on?
BECAUSE MY FRIENDS PICKED PERGO.
3.  What do you like best about world PVE?  What do you dislike most about it?
LOPP. TOO MANY DARN QUESTS
4.  What do you like best about world PVP?  What do you dislike most about it?
NOTHING. WORLD PVP OTHER THAN PLANNED EVENTS IS FOR GRIEFERS, GANKERS AND PEOPLE WHO NEED TO FEEL GOOD ABOUT THEMSELVES BY BEATING UP ON LESS FORTUNATE.
5.  What do you buy from the AH and CX regularly?  What would you buy from the AH/CX that you can't and why don't you buy it?  Have you bought/sold CREDD and what do you think is a fair price for both buying and selling?
I DONT BUY ANYTHING FROM THERE REGULARLY. I WOULD LIKE TO BUY BRICKS FOR MY HOUSE... YES PLAIN MOTHER@#&*ING BRICKS. YES, somewhere in the 10-40P range.
6.  What would it take for you to switch to the other server type, if anything at all?
I GUESS I WOULD NEED TO GET INTERESTED BACK IN THE GAME AGAIN, PVP IS DEAD:(
7.  How often do you engage in world PVE?  Do you prefer 20 man raid content, 5 man party style content, just solo content, or a combination of all of these?  Do you prefer events where you defend areas, assail them, or do you enjoy variety more than anything?
NOT FOR SEVERAL MONTHS. THE RAIDS IN THIS GAME DID NOT INTEREST ME. I LIKE THINGS WHERE I GET INTO VEHICLES AND DO STUFF THAT IS DIFFERENT FROM NORMAL
8.  How often do you engage in world PVP?  Where do you like to engage in it?  Would you prefer to have an entire area built for world PVP (Wintergrasp style), or to have smaller nodes built into other zones (Halaa style)?
ONLY WHEN MOTHER@#&*ERS TRY TO GANK ME OR I AM FEELING PARTICULARLY D@#&Y. I LIKE TO ENGAGE ON THEIR BEHINDS. THAT WAS FUN, NOT SURE IT COULD WORK IN WILDSTAR.
9.  What do you think is the best size of group to coordinate for world PVE content?  World PVP?
EXACTLY 12
10.  What PVE and/or PVP concepts would excite you and be entertaining enough to do constantly day in and day out?  What rewards do you think would entice you to complete world content daily?
HAVING COMPETITIVE PVP THAT ACTUALLY POPPED AND WAS COMPETITIVE NOT ROLL OR GET ROLLED
11.  What size guild do you think should be necessary to fuel a world PVE/PVP-centric community?
TO BE HONEST GOOD PVP EVENTS THAT ARE WORLD PVP EVENTS SHOULD NOT BE PLANNED SHOULD BE SPONTANEOUS AND REACTION THE SAME WAY, TO MY KNOWLEDGE THERE IS NO REASON TO ATTACK ENEMY CITIES/BASES... 
12.  What are your feelings regarding server to server transfers?  What are your feelings regarding server to server temporary visitation?  What are your feelings regarding cross-server guilds and circles?  What are your feelings regarding a full merger of PVE and PVP servers?
I DONT CARE ONE WAY OR THE OTHER NEED MOAR PLAYERS
13.  What do you like best about your current server?  What do you dislike about your current server?
NOT MUCH. THE NAME SHOULD OF BEEN CALLED LOPP SHINIES
14.  Finally, what do you think the key elements of having a good server are in addition to what was discussed above?
HAVING PEOPLE ONLINE, AND NEED TO BE A LOT OF PEOPLE - HAVING PLAYED DAY 1 OF WOD SERIOUSLY GAME CRASHED IN PLACES BECAUSE 100s of 100s of people in same loations	
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			Also, if a dev can deliver any kind of statistical information on distribution, queues, prices, and AH/CX stuff, it'd be appreciated.  I know that's probably in vain; most information the devs are forbidden to give us.  However, knowing anything of that nature, or any future plans they are planning on tossing in that might help would also be appreciated if it's available.	
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1.  What type of server do you play on?  What type of server would you like to be playing on?
PVE-PvP though mostly just PvE righ tnow
 
2.  Why did you choose the server you are playing on?
PvP server is great but I got bored with it about two weeks ago and started playing exclusively PvE
3.  What do you like best about world PVE?  What do you dislike most about it?
I like how you have to dodge and really use your skills. I dislike the repetitiveness of dailies, the annoying zone traveling and running out of inventory space when I forget to revisit Thayd.  And oh yeah, Toxic DERPress.
4.  What do you like best about world PVP?  What do you dislike most about it?
 
The best thing about World PvP is that you get to have lots of fun killing Dommies. It's easy to ID folks with TheZone addon. What I dislike about it is the pointlessness of it all. Unless you're thinking in purely RP-PvP stranger danger aspects... why do it? You don't get anything, no drops, no loot, no territory. It's just pointless and after a while... boring. The Community is doing an excellent job making it interesting sometimes but in the end... it's not really the communities job to do that. Community World PvP should be the icing on the cake, not the main World PvP contnet.
 
5.  What do you buy from the AH and CX regularly?  What would you buy from the AH/CX that you can't and why don't you buy it?  Have you bought/sold CREDD and what do you think is a fair price for both buying and selling?
 
Mostly I buy materials for crafting and items for housing. Sometimes I'll buy gear for costumes. I would buy dyes but... screw that. I'm not paying 2 plat for the color blue or for heaven's sake 30 for the color white. Don't use CREDD
 
6.  What would it take for you to switch to the other server type, if anything at all?
 
World PvP content!  We should be fighting over territory... to keep supremacy over certain zones. It shouldn't be limited to BGs and 2s rating farms.
 
7.  How often do you engage in world PVE?  Do you prefer 20 man raid content, 5 man party style content, just solo content, or a combination of all of these?  Do you prefer events where you defend areas, assail them, or do you enjoy variety more than anything?
 
World PvE is what I do 90% of the time. I'm still not attuned and kinda am not interested in Raiding at all. I like events like the seige of Lightspire and defending the big tree. Not somthing like... Scorchwing where you just smack something until its dead.
 
8.  How often do you engage in world PVP?  Where do you like to engage in it?  Would you prefer to have an entire area built for world PVP (Wintergrasp style), or to have smaller nodes built into other zones (Halaa style)?
 
I mostly engage in world PvP after I'm done doing everything else. See my previous posts. I don't really see the point in it any more other than RP purposes and Rocio can brag about hunting Dommies In-character. I would like to see a zone just for PvP but only if there's a point to it.
 
9.  What do you think is the best size of group to coordinate for world PVE content?  World PVP?
 
I think 15 is an excellent number But really it's not the number that matters, it's the objective and the access. The bigger the number of people necessary, the easier the content needs to be to access. So let's say there's some world PvP content. You should have some way to invite/teleport people Realm Wide if it's something like Warplots that requires 80. Warplots can be feasible... but currently they are way too inaccessible. The rewards for WarPlots needs to be somethign really cool, like Exclusive mounts, housing items, visual effects.
 
PvE needs something too but not as much as PvP does.
 
10.  What PVE and/or PVP concepts would excite you and be entertaining enough to do constantly day in and day out?  What rewards do you think would entice you to complete world content daily?
 
PvP needs seiges of main cities. ... o.o I would be so over that.  Exile Seige of Illium would be an event I would love to have.
 
And if Dommies wanna get whipped attacking instead of defending, They can try to take Thayd.
 
PvE is pretty good as is. But we need way more open world daily content and someone please give Adventures some relevance... Maybe more World bosses. We certainly need more better rewards for world bosses.
 
11.  What size guild do you think should be necessary to fuel a world PVE/PVP-centric community?
 
20 people should be all that's needed. Coming as a guild leader, any more than that then people start dropping off the radar, it becomes unwieldy and exhausting. The Guild leader doesn't have time to play.
 
12.  What are your feelings regarding server to server transfers?  What are your feelings regarding server to server temporary visitation?  What are your feelings regarding cross-server guilds and circles?  What are your feelings regarding a full merger of PVE and PVP servers?
 
Eh... just make an alt.
 
13.  What do you like best about your current server?  What do you dislike about your current server?
 
Evin-tity is the best server ever. I love everyone there. I've never had issues with people there outside of the occasional RP spat.  Warhound... can't say the same for that.
 
14.  Finally, what do you think the key elements of having a good server are in addition to what was discussed above?
 
Population... population... It's all about population.
 
After that it's providing the means to get that population together and doing stuff. IT doesn't have to be LFR but it has to be something. Get this people playing together.	
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1.  What type of server do you play on?  What type of server would you like to be playing on?
PVE - PVP
 
 
2.  Why did you choose the server you are playing on?
Population
 
3.  What do you like best about world PVE?  What do you dislike most about it?
 dunno, nothing.
 
4.  What do you like best about world PVP?  What do you dislike most about it?
world pvp all around in any shape way or form. even ganking and grave camping. when faced in those situations I love getting together a group of people to fight back. 
 
5.  What do you buy from the AH and CX regularly?  What would you buy from the AH/CX that you can't and why don't you buy it?  Have you bought/sold CREDD and what do you think is a fair price for both buying and selling?
I use the AH/CX but for nothing specific. There's always some great gear in there I'd like to buy but currency is generally limiting lol. I have bought and sold CREDD and not I do not think it's a fair price considering the value of $20 vs in game currency that nets you vs value of in game items. ie. $20 vs 10-15 plat vs 80 plat for advanced riding. For someone selling CREDD I feel they are not getting $20 worth of plat and for those who use plat to buy CREDD are getting one heck of a raw deal.
 
6.  What would it take for you to switch to the other server type, if anything at all?
healthier population. I like the feel of people around in the environment especially when in main gathering hubs. 
 
7.  How often do you engage in world PVE?  Do you prefer 20 man raid content, 5 man party style content, just solo content, or a combination of all of these?  Do you prefer events where you defend areas, assail them, or do you enjoy variety more than anything?
Not enough. But seems being on a PVE server it's the thing to do so I will start.
 
8.  How often do you engage in world PVP?  Where do you like to engage in it?  Would you prefer to have an entire area built for world PVP (Wintergrasp style), or to have smaller nodes built into other zones (Halaa style)?
Leveling through Whitevale before switching servers was a great zone for owpvp. But I didn' get a chance to engage as much as I would've liked because that seem to be the only zone I ran into the other faction to owpvp. I like both an area and smaller nodes for world pvp. each offer unique challenges and I feel can be an answer to a raider's dungeon. 
 
9.  What do you think is the best size of group to coordinate for world PVE content?  World PVP?
 
 
10.  What PVE and/or PVP concepts would excite you and be entertaining enough to do constantly day in and day out?  What rewards do you think would entice you to complete world content daily?
Unique titles and achievement board that can be displayed online. achievement points could have more meaning and rewards for reaching certain levels. 
 
11.  What size guild do you think should be necessary to fuel a world PVE/PVP-centric community?
 
12.  What are your feelings regarding server to server transfers?  What are your feelings regarding server to server temporary visitation?  What are your feelings regarding cross-server guilds and circles?  What are your feelings regarding a full merger of PVE and PVP servers?
I do not understand why there are two types of servers. Both could be merged and for those who want to PVP, just flag. Implement a few rules to ensure fair play (ie. once you flag and engage, cool down till you can unflag or something along those lines. I'm sure this could be more extensive as well. There has been some good suggestions bandied around).
 
13.  What do you like best about your current server?  What do you dislike about your current server?
Population, good people. busy. 
 
14.  Finally, what do you think the key elements of having a good server are in addition to what was discussed above?
good population should mean healthy economy, good guilds, planned events oh and HEALTHY FACTION BALANCE or get rid of factions all together and implement a "karma" system something along the lines of Ultima Online.	
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1.  What type of server do you play on?  What type of server would you like to be playing on?
 
PVP / Warhound
 
 
2.  Why did you choose the server you are playing on?
 
I love world pvp, I wouldn't be playing Wildstar if a PVP server wasn't availible. While some people loathe getting ganked, it gets the heart pumping and spices up the daily grind. Also epic WPVP events like this are the cherry on top. 
 
3.  What do you like best about world PVE?  What do you dislike most about it?
 
Eh? The questing is alright I guess? Not sure I understand what you're asking.
 
4.  What do you like best about world PVP?  What do you dislike most about it?
 
As mentioned the fighting in World PVP is exciting. Building rivalries, rounding up friends to fight back against gank squads, making friends with the enemy to carefully kill a boss together... always watching em incase they decide to attack... I like WPVP for the same reason I like DayZ. Yes it's stressful sometimes, but it's exciting and so rewarding when you come out on top.
 
5.  What do you buy from the AH and CX regularly?  What would you buy from the AH/CX that you can't and why don't you buy it?  Have you bought/sold CREDD and what do you think is a fair price for both buying and selling?
 
Rune stuff, random bits of gear I think might look cool for a costume, I'd like to buy AMP points, but can't: mainly because I'm poor from blowing my plat on ability points... I've bought and sold credd a couple times. 10p is fair, and after that little exploit I'm happy to see it return to that price.. :P
 
 
6.  What would it take for you to switch to the other server type, if anything at all?
 
Honestly I'd quit. I've played on PVE servers in the past, and understand why others are more comfortable there, but I get bored and would never go back. I'm a PVP guy and WPVP is a huge part. If I only had instanced PVP to look forward to I'd just go play SMITE.
 
 
7.  How often do you engage in world PVE?  Do you prefer 20 man raid content, 5 man party style content, just solo content, or a combination of all of these?  Do you prefer events where you defend areas, assail them, or do you enjoy variety more than anything?
 
Ok so World PVE just means PVE in general? As prefacing with "world" implies you mean world/zone content, as that's what it means with PVP. I do all the solo stuff, housing like an obsessed person, some 5 man party stuff, and chippin away at attunement to one day tinker with raiding. Far more of a PVP person, but when I'm feeling better medically and can dedicate the long stretches of time (my play time is kind of sporadic) needed for raids, I'll try it out. Looks fun!
 
 
8.  How often do you engage in world PVP?  Where do you like to engage in it?  Would you prefer to have an entire area built for world PVP (Wintergrasp style), or to have smaller nodes built into other zones (Halaa style)?
 
All the time. Daily zone WPVP keeps me from falling asleep. We engage in regular large scale WPVP events and have a blast too! Even lowbie zones, as with my crossfaction Warhound Events LEVELING circle we call out when there's a small WPVP skirmish, and hop on our alts to help out (and be fair... rollin in with 50's is kinda rude. :P) An entire area for World PVP isn't necessary unless you play on a PVE server. Ilum basically ruined WPVP on Star Wars the Old Republic, so I'm always extremely against WPVP dedicated zones. It's artificial and is just a glorified instanced battleground. 
 
 
9.  What do you think is the best size of group to coordinate for world PVE content?  World PVP?
 
Again, this vague world pve thing is confusing. Whatever is needed for content I guess? As for World PVP I have experience organizing events, and the sweet spot is 1.5 raid groups (60 per side) for smooth gameplay with the enjoyable scale still there. Otherwise just regular WPVP stuff is fun regardless of how many show up.
 
 
10.  What PVE and/or PVP concepts would excite you and be entertaining enough to do constantly day in and day out?  What rewards do you think would entice you to complete world content daily?
 
Already do PVP stuff daily, but they could help by introducing some WPVP objectives. Like king of the hill points that when captured give a zone wide 5% buff of some sort. Don't really have much to say PVE wise. It's alright I guess.
 
11.  What size guild do you think should be necessary to fuel a world PVE/PVP-centric community?
 
It's not a single guild that carries PVE/PVP. Cooperation between many is what's made Warhound such a wonderful community.
 
 
12.  What are your feelings regarding server to server transfers?  What are your feelings regarding server to server temporary visitation?  What are your feelings regarding cross-server guilds and circles?  What are your feelings regarding a full merger of PVE and PVP servers?
 
Good that it's finally open PVE -> PVP as well. I don't mind temporary visitation, as long as it's not to come over to obnoxiously recruit and insult people for saying no. There's always an occasional person coming over from Entity temporarily (or on alts) and insulting Warhound in zone chat. I think that should be moderated.
 
EDIT: didn't notice the last part on mergers. I am aggressively (rawr) against that suggestion. The only way it'd work is if it was dramatically instanced to the point they were no different than they are now, other than 'technically' being on the same server.
 
13.  What do you like best about your current server?  What do you dislike about your current server?
 
The community on Warhound is the best of any MMO I've been on. We've had some difficult event moments in the past (shit happens) and the patience from ~100+ folks on some events is astounding. In one event random people waited patiently for 3 hours while still keeping cheerful... I mean, that's amazing to me after doing events in the past... There's a couple bad eggs, but I'm always impressed by the overall maturity of Warhound. Not anything notable I really dislike. A while back folks were worried due to the single PVP -> PVE transfers, but after surviving that and the open transfers now, we've stabilized and have been growing. I'm meeting new folks on Warhound every day! :)
 
14.  Finally, what do you think the key elements of having a good server are in addition to what was discussed above?
 
Community. I always stress this to folks trying to lead communities with a single guild. At this point Warhound is so intertwined community wise that we are regularly getting RBG's/Warplots/etc and cross-guild PVE stuff organized and enjoying all that Wildstar has to offer. The maturity of Warhound has enabled this, to the point we have crossfaction teamspeaks of folks laughing while trash-talking each other. There's pretty much zero drama here.	
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Ok so World PVE just means PVE in general? As prefacing with "world" implies you mean world/zone content, as that's what it means with PVP. I do all the solo stuff, housing like an obsessed person, some 5 man party stuff, and chippin away at attunement to one day tinker with raiding. Far more of a PVP person, but when I'm feeling better medically and can dedicate the long stretches of time (my play time is kind of sporadic) needed for raids, I'll try it out. Looks fun!
 
 
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1.  What type of server do you play on?  What type of server would you like to be playing on?
 
PvE - PvP
 
2.  Why did you choose the server you are playing on?
 
At the time, Warbringer had a severe lack of community, whereas I had friends on Evindra.
 
3.  What do you like best about world PVE?  What do you dislike most about it?
 
Best: Exploring and finding Easter eggs that the devs hid in areas that most people are unlikely to find.
 
Worst: Open world content designed for more than 5-10 people typically ends up being very boring due to repetitiveness and a lack of the difficulty that instanced PvE can offer.
 
4.  What do you like best about world PVP?  What do you dislike most about it?
 
Open world PvP is far more immersive than any other type of PvP, and makes far more sense alongside lore that depends on warring factions.
 
Right now, wPvP is stuck in the gap between PvP and PvE. In order to be prepared for wPvP, ideally you should be running around in PvP gear, but that makes you less effective for the PvE content you're trying to complete. Yet another argument for why PvP gear just needs to disappear.
 
5.  What do you buy from the AH and CX regularly?  What would you buy from the AH/CX that you can't and why don't you buy it?  Have you bought/sold CREDD and what do you think is a fair price for both buying and selling?
 
I buy crafting materials in bulk, housing decor items, and armor for costumes. Currently, I have stopped even trying to find housing items on the CX, as the UI is now horrendous.
 
I have purchased CREDD for in-game currency. I have not purchased it outside of the game. A fair break-even price for CREDD would be roughly equivalent to how much plat the person could farm in the same amount of RL time it would take them to earn $20. It's going to be different for each person.
 
6.  What would it take for you to switch to the other server type, if anything at all?
 
Balance of the two faction populations.
 
Complete removal of PvP stats from the game.
 
Open world PvP objectives and rewards (like zone-wide buffs, perhaps) that actually give wPvP a purpose.
 
7.  How often do you engage in world PVE?  Do you prefer 20 man raid content, 5 man party style content, just solo content, or a combination of all of these?  Do you prefer events where you defend areas, assail them, or do you enjoy variety more than anything?
 
Every day. I prefer a combination of all of the above, although I strongly dislike when solo quest lines lead you to an area with mostly 5-man quests. It puts a huge break in progression.
 
8.  How often do you engage in world PVP?  Where do you like to engage in it?  Would you prefer to have an entire area built for world PVP (Wintergrasp style), or to have smaller nodes built into other zones (Halaa style)?
 
Since moving to a PvE server, I do not engage in wPvP at all. The only places I very much dislike wPvP is daily zones...no one wants to spend any longer there than absolutely necessary, so having gankers guarding key mobs is irritating.
 
Separating wPvP into its own zone is akin to moving it into a large-scale battleground. It is no longer wPvP at that point. That said, I prefer to have objectives built into the entirety of the world map.
 
9.  What do you think is the best size of group to coordinate for world PVE content?  World PVP?
 
World PvE: 5
 
World PvP: 5-10
 
10.  What PVE and/or PVP concepts would excite you and be entertaining enough to do constantly day in and day out?  What rewards do you think would entice you to complete world content daily?
 
PvE: endless procedurally generated dungeon (a la Diablo or Torchlight) that scales to any group size like the housing expeditions
 
PvP: Open world objectives might do it, depending on how well they're implemented. It's unlikely that any arena or BG-style PvP will attract my attention.
 
There is no reward that would be worth doing the same thing every day. This is not a job.
 
11.  What size guild do you think should be necessary to fuel a world PVE/PVP-centric community?
 
The size of the guild is irrelevant. The size and responsiveness of the entire community is important. I don't think there is an exact number that would be ideal, but both sides of a wPvP conflict need to be roughly even in participation.
 
12.  What are your feelings regarding server to server transfers?  What are your feelings regarding server to server temporary visitation?  What are your feelings regarding cross-server guilds and circles?  What are your feelings regarding a full merger of PVE and PVP servers?
 
If Carbine is going to allow unlimited free server transfers, they may as well combine everything into one server and then create phases that support the various play styles (for an example, look at the original GW's method of selecting phases in towns). This would render the rest of the issues moot.
 
As of right now, there is no purpose to a cross-server guild or circle, other than as a chat room.
 
13.  What do you like best about your current server?  What do you dislike about your current server?
 
The population increase is great. Now we just have to get people to stop standing around idle in the hub cities. ;)
 
14.  Finally, what do you think the key elements of having a good server are in addition to what was discussed above?
 
A community with a good attitude, people who are willing to be helpful, and a diversity of play styles (like needing crafters for the economy's sake) are all important.
 
For a server's longevity, I think it is important to make leveling alts as painless as possible.	
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1.  What type of server do you play on?  What type of server would you like to be playing on?
Play on: PVE
Would like: PVE
 
2.  Why did you choose the server you are playing on?
I originally chose PVE-RP, because I expected people to be more mature and casual-friendly. 
3.  What do you like best about world PVE?  What do you dislike most about it?
Like: Exploring and finding new, fun quirky stuff and new interesting scenery. Love finding quests that set up interesting mechanics or interesting stories.
Dislike: Multiple Long, long kill-X quests in unchanging scenery (Strain areas, looking at you!).
Dislike: The difficulty in sharing quests in minor groups in open world PVE. Especially when you have to compete with your team buddy for quest objectives.
 
4.  What do you like best about world PVP?  What do you dislike most about it?
 
Like: -
Dislike: taunting and gloating behaviour, smack talk.
Dislike: Open World PVP means a two-or-more-faction setup, which means the content has to be split.
Dislike: Experience from other MMO forums makes me think PVP can never be balanced to everybody's satisfaction, which leads to both a lot of forum drama and a lot of social media badmouthing, as well as constant rebalancing which spills over to PVE. If I got a gp for every MMO forum post I've read that said "The game mechanics in this game are perfect for PVP, but the balance sucks!" (usually accompanied by an accusation of the devs being biased or incompetent), I'd rival the garden exploit...
 
5.  What do you buy from the AH and CX regularly?  What would you buy from the AH/CX that you can't and why don't you buy it?  Have you bought/sold CREDD and what do you think is a fair price for both buying and selling?
 
I buy schematics and some materials, and hunt for housing items. Weapons, Armor, potions etc I craft myself or let a friend do. There a several housing items that have not appeared yet, so I have not bought them simply because they are not available.
I have bought one CREDD very early to jumpstart my crafting, using the plat to buy some needed materials.
 
 
6.  What would it take for you to switch to the other server type, if anything at all?
 
Mature, friendly opponents without smack-talk, and a handicap system that automatically balanced up fights so that inexperienced/underequipped characters have a fighting chance. Compare how chess, go or golf use handicaps to allow at least somewhat interesting matches between opponents of different levels. 
 
7.  How often do you engage in world PVE?  Do you prefer 20 man raid content, 5 man party style content, just solo content, or a combination of all of these?  Do you prefer events where you defend areas, assail them, or do you enjoy variety more than anything?
 
I prefer spontaneous groupings that snowball in size, which unfortunately is hard to do with WS:s quest structure. I've been in some world boss hunts that worked that way, and those were very fun. I hate the idea of having to pre-arrange a group at a set time or wait an undetermined time in a queue to reach a preset group size, thus I'd love more auto-scaling content. As for events, I prefer variety. 
8.  How often do you engage in world PVP?  Where do you like to engage in it?  Would you prefer to have an entire area built for world PVP (Wintergrasp style), or to have smaller nodes built into other zones (Halaa style)?
 
Never 
9.  What do you think is the best size of group to coordinate for world PVE content?  World PVP?
I prefer content that scale with group size, so that it works for any-size groups. 
10.  What PVE and/or PVP concepts would excite you and be entertaining enough to do constantly day in and day out?  What rewards do you think would entice you to complete world content daily?
 
For me, itemization rewards matter very little, as I realize that increased item rewards just means that the content needs to be scaled up in difficulty to match to preserver the difficulty status quo. 
I would like a varying experience, and dailies are currently too fixed. 
 
11.  What size guild do you think should be necessary to fuel a world PVE/PVP-centric community?
 
I would like for guilds to be able to arrange cooperation alliances, so that minor guilds became more viable. 
12.  What are your feelings regarding server to server transfers?  What are your feelings regarding server to server temporary visitation?  What are your feelings regarding cross-server guilds and circles?  What are your feelings regarding a full merger of PVE and PVP servers?
 
Nothing I would use, and I don't think a merger would work. 
13.  What do you like best about your current server?  What do you dislike about your current server?
 
I like that it is busy, and there are several people arranging things like R12 raids or world boss hunts. 
14.  Finally, what do you think the key elements of having a good server are in addition to what was discussed above?
 
What matters most is that people have a fun experience; little boring repetition, and no waiting in queues. 	
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8.  How often do you engage in world PVP?  Where do you like to engage in it?  Would you prefer to have an entire area built for world PVP (Wintergrasp style), or to have smaller nodes built into other zones (Halaa style)?
 
Since moving to a PvE server, I do not engage in wPvP at all. The only places I very much dislike wPvP is daily zones...no one wants to spend any longer there than absolutely necessary, so having gankers guarding key mobs is irritating.
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To answer this question again, this isn't what I mean.  I am specifically referring to raid sized world content (Scorchwing), 5 man world content (nursery/Ely), and solo (rare hunting, et al).  I am not talking about instanced content, just asking about the scale of the PVE encounters.
 
I apologize for any confusion.
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1.  What type of server do you play on?  What type of server would you like to be playing on?
 
I play on a PvP server. Would like to play on a RP-PvP server, but I guess I could settle for a bigger population of RPers on the PvP realm.  :P
 
2.  Why did you choose the server you are playing on?
 
I like world PvP. RP is fun and 
 
3.  What do you like best about world PVE?  What do you dislike most about it?
 
I generally enjoy seeing people out in the open world. It's even better when you can group up and take on tougher mobs. 
 
I dislike getting quest items snatched from me, but so far that has never been an issue in Wildstar, even back when there was a much bigger population.
 
4.  What do you like best about world PVP?  What do you dislike most about it?
 
I like the most about world PvP how it brings people together. If you are levelling and you see some Exiles ganking people, you can give other players tips to avoid them or maybe group up, so that you have a chance.
 
I dislike... well, nothing about world PvP. It's a fun distraction and keeps you on your toes. I don't even mind being ganked by high level players, not that this has been an issue so far.
 
5.  What do you buy from the AH and CX regularly?  What would you buy from the AH/CX that you can't and why don't you buy it?  Have you bought/sold CREDD and what do you think is a fair price for both buying and selling?
 
I buy rarely anything from AH and CX, because I'm broke as it is. If I had money, I would likely buy crafting supplies, housing items and dyes. 
 
I haven't bought/sold CREDD. I think a fair price would be 10 platinum or more. After all, if you dish out 20 bucks you deserve to get a good amount of money and not just pennies.
 
6.  What would it take for you to switch to the other server type, if anything at all?
 
My friends switching to PvE. So far that's not an issue, since my friends are PvP addicts.
 
7.  How often do you engage in world PVE?  Do you prefer 20 man raid content, 5 man party style content, just solo content, or a combination of all of these?  Do you prefer events where you defend areas, assail them, or do you enjoy variety more than anything?  In response to some questions, I am referring specifically to world content.  20 man world content (Scorchwing, Tree), 5 man content (Nursery questlines, Ely), and solo world content (rare hunting, et al).
 
I enjoy fighting bosses the most. I think 5 man content in the open world is most fun. 20 man bosses tend to be just zerg rushed and don't provide enough of a challenge to the group as a whole.
 
I'm not much of a fan of more unique world PvE content, because it tends to be somewhat confusing, too few people participate and the time/reward ratio is normally too small.
 
8.  How often do you engage in world PVP?  Where do you like to engage in it?  Would you prefer to have an entire area built for world PVP (Wintergrasp style), or to have smaller nodes built into other zones (Halaa style)?
 
I attack players whenever I see them. Due to not seeing many people, I don't fight them very often, but that's alright. It's most fun to play on open areas where are not too many mobs and the terrain is somewhat even. otherwise I have no preference. I would prefer to have smaller nodes in several zones, than just one big zone which is essentially just a glorified battleground, separated from the rest of the world.
 
9.  What do you think is the best size of group to coordinate for world PVE content?  World PVP?
 
I'm not a huge expert on PvP in big groups, but I think it's the more the merrier for PvP, and 5 players for PvE. Maybe even up to 10 players in PvE content, but not more, with uncoordinated PuG groups for PvE it just gets too messy.
 
10.  What PVE and/or PVP concepts would excite you and be entertaining enough to do constantly day in and day out?  What rewards do you think would entice you to complete world content daily?
 
I don't think there is a type of content that I would do everyday. I prefer to do world PvP occassionaly (maybe an even per week) and world PvE even less frequently. I think good gear/tokens is good for PvE and for PvP... just drop some currency.
 
11.  What size guild do you think should be necessary to fuel a world PVE/PVP-centric community?
 
I think a guild with 15 active people should be enough. So, a 100 player guild? Maybe 150 players?
 
12.  What are your feelings regarding server to server transfers?  What are your feelings regarding server to server temporary visitation?  What are your feelings regarding cross-server guilds and circles?  What are your feelings regarding a full merger of PVE and PVP servers?
 
I think server transfers are very positive. They allow people to go where they want and balance out populations. I am not fond of temporary visitations, since it leads to a lot of drama and negativity. If I play on a PvP server, I want to be able to gank people. If people play on a PvE server, they don't want to be ganked. 
 
Cross-server circles and guilds may have potential, especially for guilds that do instanced content. I think it could be quite beneficial as a whole. But a full merge would be nonsense. This would mean to abolish PvP server ruleset completely and that's an awful idea. If people disliked PvP servers that much, they would transfer to a PvE server. There is no need to "help" them to get ot the over side with more population.
 
13.  What do you like best about your current server?  What do you dislike about your current server?
 
I like that it's a PvP server. It's pretty deserted, but reminds me of my WoW days where I played on off-peak hours on really small servers. Makes me really nostalgic. 
 
I still wish there were a bit more people around, but as long as I have my guild it's alright.
 
14.  Finally, what do you think the key elements of having a good server are in addition to what was discussed above?
 
Active guilds, server events, a sense of community. 	
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