107021-server-with-higher-population

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			So... It seems like all of the servers are Low pop. Which server seems active? Which server seems to have many players?	
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			Warbringer is the server I play on, they seem to have a good amount of people on the exile side. Pergo also seems to be doing decently.	
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			All low? Stormtalon is always Medium when I check it.	
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			Stormtalon on both sides.  I'm using 'The Zone' addon which shows how many people around you.  Exile side at thayd AH was at 127 people.  Domm side at the AH was at 81.  I'm mainly exile making alts lately and the starter zones are far from dead, except at around 3am which is expected.  Always enough around to get something done regardless. 	
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			Evindra is bustling.	
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			will second Evindra.. you DO NOT need to RP to be enjoying yourself on the only RP server  in the NA region.. =) either side.. altho most servers are exile heavy.. i hear dominions at least on evnindra have some newblood.. and curiosity seekers.. =D	
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will second Evindra.. you DO NOT need to RP to be enjoying yourself on the only RP server  in the NA region.. =) either side.. altho most servers are exile heavy.. i hear dominions at least on evnindra have some newblood.. and curiosity seekers.. =D
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			I went from Thunder foot to Storm Talon and it gave me a new found love for the game.  Very big difference.  I am on Dominion side by the way	
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			Stormtalon. no question	
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Evindra is bustling.
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If you are pve rule set player; stormtalon seems to have highest NA population for both exiles and dommies.
 
I moved from avatus and that was well worth the money; the difference in player count is massive.	
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Would they lose more money by disabling the fee for people who want to transfer to new servers
 
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from people leaving the game because the side effects of a low population being a discouragement
 
 
I can't say I've looked into it and decided my server is bad and low, but I have heard people say it and it makes me sad. That's not an emotion I want here, nor do I want to tell my six friends on my server to pay twenty bucks or whatever heck no	
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			People rise up, this behavior is called rent seeking!!	
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Would they lose more money by disabling the fee for people who want to transfer to new servers
 
or
 
from people leaving the game because the side effects of a low population being a discouragement
 
 
I can't say I've looked into it and decided my server is bad and low, but I have heard people say it and it makes me sad. That's not an emotion I want here, nor do I want to tell my six friends on my server to pay twenty bucks or whatever heck no
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So... It seems like all of the servers are Low pop. Which server seems active? Which server seems to have many players?
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Pergo (PVP) NA
Hazak (PVP) EU
 
Rest is up to ruleset you want to be under (PVE or PVE-RP)
 
Storm Talon for PVE, Evindra for PVE-RP
 
Dunno the Euro equivalents.
(Lightspire is the PVE-RP Euro one right?)
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Lightspire EU here ...yes, PVE-RP . 
 
It says 'Low' but there are enough members online to form 2 major guilds  <[2 guilds about to begin raiding this week]> and 2 very large casual guilds,not counting all the small bands. ( So we're looking at around at least 200~300 >>active<< players on the sever when logging in at most times).
 
I have never had issues finding people online at any time except around 3am-7am ( granted) .
 
Have not had issues finding skilled players or clearing content like skorchwing.
My only quarrel is that as far as crafting goes- Nobody seems to have enough interest in actually selling useful stuff on the AH and the odd item worth purchase is often unnecesarily priced.
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			As with the title: which of the eu server is most populated right now? I guess it would be Ascendancy or Hazak? I want to start a new character, but i dont want to make the mistake i did with Archon. I prefer pve server, but if the difference is noticable i guess i could go Hazak. And how is it on both sides? I'm thinking of starting Dominion char.	
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			Hazak is the most populated realm atm but its pvp. Ascendancy is my own server and sadly its getting more empty every week. Hazak might be pvp prefered but i assume doing pve there should be no problem.	
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Seems legit. It makes sense, if you want to spread the game's population evenly.
 
But wait, it doesn't.
 
Let me first throw something out there. I've played this game since April's beta weekends. I have two 50s both doing veteran dungeons as well as a 43 on it's way to 50.
Over the last few weeks I've noticed less and less people in Ilium on my server (Pago), primarily due to several big guilds transferring off. People try to deny the fact that servers are emptying. The past few days I've queue'd solo for Normal Crimelords, and after more than two hours in queue with no pop, given up.
And this isn't at 3am either, instead usually around 10pm est. Questing zones are bare, normal dungeon queue's 30+ are nonexistant.
 
Until now I haven't cared. I held out hope for my server, all the while knowing that if it didn't pick up I could just pay to have my toons transferred and join a community on a more populated server. I had my eye on Pergo specifically, like many other people out there. Well today I made the choice to do it. I missed seeing people in questing zones, I was tired of playing an MMO with virtually no human contact whatsoever. Then I find on the WS homepage that no paid transfers are even allowed to Pergo, Widow and Stormtalon at this point.
 
So let me get this straight. If I want to pay my own money to improve my already poor gaming experience I don't even have the option. Why would anyone pay to transfer anywhere else at this point??
It would make more sense to allow players to pay to do Carbine's work for them and condense down to a few servers of whatever they choose, then just merge the rest and eliminate some. As of now the only way to get into one of the three servers that have a decent population is to literally level yet another character starting there from scratch. That's something I just can't see myself doing yet again. Especially since it will be a class that I already have.
 
I'm not going to cause any eyerolls by giving the account cancelation speech. I, like many others, LOVE this game. However, all of my friends have left, my server is empty (Dominion), and I'm struggling to find reasons to stay.
 
EDIT: Btw, for anyone looking to transfer on EU servers, several of the high pop EU realms are locked as well. I would definitely research your destination server first before paying so that you're not disappointed!	
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The past few days I've queue'd solo for Normal Crimelords, and after more than two hours in queue with no pop, given up.
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Yeah I should have added the Crimelords comment differently. I really just wanted to illustrate the low pop issue overall and therefore the need to be in a server where you can actually shout for people. If you happen to be on a desolate server you don't even have the option most nights to find a pug in Ilium etc unless it's a 50 vet.
 
It just makes me angry since I doubt they'll merge most of the servers any time soon because that would be like admitting there is a subscription problem, and that the server low-med-high differential from other MMO's is not the reason behind it.	
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Hello guys, i bought Wildstar 4 days ago but someting is really bothering me. All the servers are low populated (EU servers), this is really bothering me. I'm level 12 right now, and i haven't seen another player or any text in global chat. It feels so empty and i've got some group qeusts, but i can't play them. I read also topics about people who has been looking for other players for hours to do a dungeon or something els.
 
This is really bothering. I'm a slow gamers, i've put a few hours in this game (level 12 right now) and i haven't seen or heart any other player. 
 
Wildstar also uses the old system, different realms. Why not the same system as Secret World, Eve online or The Elders Scroll online. One big server not different realms.
 
This game is great, but this worries me.  	
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			Yeah I ran into the same issue. Im just now starting to see other people now that Ive made it to a major faction city. 	
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Yeah I ran into the same issue. Im just now starting to see other people now that Ive made it to a major faction city. 
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Wildstar also uses the old system, different realms. Why not the same system as Secret World, Eve online or The Elders Scroll online. One big server not different realms.
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Around level 15, at the end of your current area.
 
But that's only a break into your loneliness.
Every leveling area, from 1 to 50 is empty.
 
I just hit 50 with an alt, I had to ask my guildies to be able to do the 5+ quests from the 45-50 area.
 
People are (somehow) still playing, that's not the (only) problem.
But there's no reason to come back to an old area except for the few completionists.	
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			It's worrying me too. All the doom and gloom population threads didn't bother me much because Avatus seemed to have a good population. But, it seems every day there's fewer and fewer people by the AH. Granted, they might just be off doing other things in the game, but night after night? Visiting random public skymaps just turns up barren plot rafter barren plot with all plugs broken, the player obviously being gone from the game. Even skymaps of fellow guildies. And that 'last online' list... The population hasn't fallen to the point of being broken, but I am starting to feel it. 	
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Queues are cross-server, so the only way Crimelords is not popping is due to you accidentally having 'my realm only' selected. Please check that this is not the case.
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He said Normal Crimelords, not Vet. I don't think many people run normal adventures/dungeons past the 15/20, especially since Crimelords is already so easy on vet.
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I suggest new players do research about servers before going too far with their character's development.
 
Seek the populated ones (Pergo PVP NA/ Hazak EU) (OR RP ones) and save yourself the need to re-roll later to them lol	
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			If you are worried about low pop between 1-50, wait until you start to hit the wall of veteran players tired of pugging and re-doing the same RNG based content with you. Many guilds were split in half because of this.	
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			I'm not sure how much longer my guild will be in Wildstar. There's virtually no raiders to recruit to fill up the last few spots on a roster in Caretaker. The ones that do join need all their dungeons and I'm just sick of running the damn things. 	
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			Oh, bastardy edits!	
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@OP:
 
Sadly, you can't see if a server is relatively alright or completely dead by looking at the list. I'm on a "low" server and on most daily resets we get two full Scorchwing raids. That's not to say everything is fine, I've noticed a steep pop decline too. But it's still very playable and not-dead on some low pop servers.
 
So yeah, basically what Tanka said.	
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			I play on Archon, and sadly the population seems  pretty low, I have heard that Hazak is the most populated server. Although group finder is cross-realm so finding a party to instances dont depend so much on server you choose. I am a tank and queueing for an adventure takes me about 1 minute.	
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			Go for team hazak!	
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			 Myrcalus is still crowded in thayd and how cheap credd is.	
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Myrcalus is still crowded in thayd and how cheap credd is.
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Level 12?
 
Re-Roll to Evindra!
 
We've got coffee and blueberry cookies!
 	
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Try it on Ilium, Exile outnumber dom 3:1 it feels (yet we have the 4/6 GA guild monster vs Exile having a 1/6 not sure how that works ) *shrug*
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7XVcqZodAM
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Go for team hazak!
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Please condense Realms, It's frustrating playing on such low pop servers. I'm on avatus BTW, and i really dont want to re roll after all the hard work ive put into my stalker. I'm 5/13 attuned.
 
At least offer free transfers again. The only time I get to do Vets without pugging is prime time, after that it becomes a ghost town here.	
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dominion?
 
I havent noticed exile side being low pop, always seems to be quite a few people around when I am playing	
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Thread lock inc, and being told to post in the thread about Merges that already exists by magic pony force.
 
 
That said... They can merge all they want but they touch my Evindra I'mma murder someone.
 
Also there are payed transfers so rerolling would be completely your choice. Because you don't have to!
 
I've given up on trying to tell you guys why merging is a horrible idea.	
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Please condense Realms, It's frustrating playing on such low pop servers. I'm on avatus BTW, and i really dont want to re roll after all the hard work ive put into my stalker. I'm 5/13 attuned.
 
At least offer free transfers again. The only time I get to do Vets without pugging is prime time, after that it becomes a ghost town here.
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Please condense Realms, It's frustrating playing on such low pop servers. I'm on avatus BTW, and i really dont want to re roll after all the hard work ive put into my stalker. I'm 5/13 attuned.
 
At least offer free transfers again. The only time I get to do Vets without pugging is prime time, after that it becomes a ghost town here.
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Thx for the information guys! 
 
It is a good game, bad to here these things. I will try to reach level 15 asap and visite the major faction city or start over in a different server. 	
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			Ascendancy EU (dominion side) seems pretty dead to me.	
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			Hello Carbine, i'm the guild leader of Merciless, one of the largest Dominion guilds on Rowesdower. I apologize ahead of time for the wall of text, but I hope this doesn't fall on deaf ears and you take the time to read this. By now, you should be aware of the low population server issues. If this is the first you're seeing of it, that's a whole other problem entirely.For the past two weekends, in prime time, my guild has tried hosting a server wide warplot fight. Keep in mind, we're a PVP server. We weren't able to get 40 people together from ALL of the guilds on a PVP server to do the highest form of PVP in the game. We couldn't pull FORTY PEOPLE together after an hour of spamming ahead of time, in every chat avenue we could think of. During the peak hours of activity. That was a big shot to morale for a lot of people still left on the server.Within the guild, we haven't had much in the way of new players to recruit in the past 2 weeks. We've gotten new people in the guild, but they're mostly refugees from other guilds that have transferred, and they couldn't or wouldn't pay the fee, or they have some hope that carbine still cares for the general player base.Games in general tend to have a better community when you have a few healthy servers, as opposed to many sparsely populated ones. There's people in my guild and on my server that absolutely love this game, and would throw money at you guys in any other way than a paid transfer, because it would mean leaving their friends behind.Our server's population has been dwindling steadily ever since the rocky launch of wildstar. We, the current rowesdower population, had the choice between 20hour log in ques, or transfer to a new server. Had we known that said server would fall in activity so fast, i'm sure we would have had more patience. Now, it seems, we have a new option ahead of us. 1) pay to transfer. 2) Play in a barren wasteland. 3) Quit the game entirely.First option paying for the transfer, isn't always available to everyone. Not everyone has the disposable income to throw at the game for a transfer that (at this point) should be a free service. Even the ones that can pay for it don't want to, because they don't want to leave the friends and community they've grown on in the past few months, as small as it is. Everyone paid for the box for a "MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER" online game experience. I don't mean to sound like an entitled brat, but that's just the way it is, and the way a lot of the community sees it.Second option, play in a barren wasteland. The main downsides of this are readily apparent. The only way to get a group for anything is cross server pugs, unless you're in one of the three big guilds on the server, and even then there's not always people on. On top of that though, the Auction hall and commodities exchange barely have anything on them under any category most of the time. You usually get more money vendoring materials than trying to put them on the market, because there's no demand, because there's no players.Third option, quit. Self explanatory. This is usually followed up by getting frustrated by option #2 for so long. If you care so little for the people that can't or won't pay for the transfer, you'll end up losing so many people that it wouldn't even be worth it monetarily for you to keep the server up anymore anyways.There's already a multitude of bugs that i'm sure you're all working on, but this should be your biggest and most important thing to work on. Everyone would forgive any little hiccups along the way if they had more people to play with. Please pass this along to your managers, and your manager's managers, untill it gets to the right hands. On behalf of the community of Merciless, of Rowesdower, and everyone on Nexus, thank you for your time, and we all appreciate anything you can do to help us out of this wasteland we're in.-Arishock	
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			Migration is the keyword.	
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			I don't see why people from higher population servers have to chime in and try to give us reasons to deal with it ourselves, or degrding us for making the 'wrong choice' at launch. It must be easy from your point of view.	
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			i rolled a character on Stormtalon is that a good server	
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			If you are on NA, transfer to starmtalon if you want a pve server. Or pergo for pvp server. I recommend pergo though. Do not transfer to any other servers beside those 2. they have decently equal faction balance. unlike tht RP server...	
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			This all reminds me bad days of swtor (actually there are plenty of things from swtor here). It was many ghost servers there too before "free to play". But after just 3 months? Every servers in EU is low populated all the time and im waiting for 10-40min for just simple adventure queue. First letter M in MMORPG is missing.	
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Stormtalon on both sides.  I'm using 'The Zone' addon which shows how many people around you.  Exile side at thayd AH was at 127 people.  Domm side at the AH was at 81.  I'm mainly exile making alts lately and the starter zones are far from dead, except at around 3am which is expected.  Always enough around to get something done regardless. 
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Stormtalon for Exiles.  For Dom it's meh.  Your addon is crap.  Go watch a scorch fight and notice the 1 dom for every 10 exile.  No matter what time of the day.  What's up with Exile in general, anyway?  Frickin' cutesy bunny ear retardation.  You put some anime bimbo as on a game cover and suddenly every preteen girl and Japanese man in the world wants to play them.
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Thread lock inc, and being told to post in the thread about Merges that already exists by magic pony force.
 
 
That said... They can merge all they want but they touch my Evindra I'mma murder someone.
 
Also there are payed transfers so rerolling would be completely your choice. Because you don't have to!
 
I've given up on trying to tell you guys why merging is a horrible idea.
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Thx for the information guys! 
 
It is a good game, bad to here these things. I will try to reach level 15 asap and visite the major faction city or start over in a different server. 
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