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Server Merge

RxktRxkt
in Game Suggestions
I've been messing around on Blade & Soul recently and found that they merged all servers into 2 bigger servers. Faction chat (server wide, almost like Tera's global chat) is almost always alive. Even though LFG/Broker in BnS is cross-server and BHS cannot implement this into Tera, EME can at least merge servers.

Let's have a look at other regions/games:
KTera- Is just 2 servers.
JTera- Is just 1 server. During primetime you can see 2 pages worth of LFG for dungeons. (most popular server on NA Tera/MT I see not even half a page)
Taiwan Tera- 1 server.
RU Tera- 2 servers.
Aforementioned BnS- 2 servers

Other reasons to do this asap:
Trade Broker is dead. No market, no gold movement, no players buying EMP to trade for gold.
Less people = guilds break up, some may leave in the process.
MMORPGs are a social game. Not a game to just do stuff to kill boredom


I think it's about time to follow suit and to not let this issue linger any longer.
I would touch upon other suggestions such as events or fixing other issues such as fed. bills, but changes/updates will work less efficiently on a smaller playerbase compared to a larger one. If you are going to sort out your list of issues I would say this is probably number one to do.

not sure if anyone from EME sees this so I guess I'll throw a ticket once I lose my patience. For now I'll just sit back and throw some snowballs around in Wintera for a while.

Comments

  • allofspaceandtimeallofspaceandtime ✭✭✭✭✭
    too many would quit just on losing their names alone. also those other companies probably have better servers than what we have. our most populated servers keep going down as it is, I would hate to see what would happen if they only had 1 server. also, they would have to increase the maximum characters we could have by at least double the amount. the character limit and names would be the biggest things people would have a problem with.
  • RxktRxkt ✭✭✭
    edited December 2017
    With the name issue, EME will just have to deal with that too by fixing name conflicts (i.e characters on the bigger server keep their name, or characters that were first created keep their names) and releasing unused names.

    Character limit can be solved by offering people with too many characters free transfers during a limited time to other servers. Or just delete some characters until you have space.

    It's a really huge task but needs more stressing that it needs to be done. Calling AV/CH/FF? "alive" is a depressing joke. In the past month or so I've seen a bunch of people coming to MT from those servers, and then I think of the people left behind who don't want to pay for a server transfer.
  • kamizumakamizuma ✭✭✭✭
    So what do I do if I have 81 characters?
  • allofspaceandtimeallofspaceandtime ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have max characters on av and ch, I don't want to delete any of mine. I enjoy the population that av and ch has. we can actually run things in areas that only has 1 channel, we can run on iod without having our bams taken from us by higher geared players. I would rather be able to play on the different servers anytime I want with no server issues, than to have 1 or 2 huge servers that will crash all the time because its not able to handle the population.
    we don't need server merges, we need to have whats causing the players to leave fixed. we all know why people keep leaving the game over the past couple of years and nothing has been done about it. so even if you make 1 huge server, you may wind up with the population of ff server if things don't get fixed.
  • counterpointcounterpoint mod
    kamizuma wrote: »
    So what do I do if I have 81 characters?

    This is the problem. If you collapse further, people will have to start deleting characters who have soulbound cash shop items on them, and the game currently offers no way to transfer soulbind to another character. Telling people "hey we're collapsing the servers, and you'll have to delete extra characters and all the cash shop items you paid for are now useless" is not a good answer. They need to come up with an actual solution to the issue before they consider more mergers.
  • RxktRxkt ✭✭✭
    keep those characters on their separate/individual login servers (only visible to those who have characters on them) and they would join the merged server as they log in.

    it's almost the same as increasing character limit to 18*x in a sense, but no more characters can be created.
    name conflicts would have to be solved first of course

  • Blackbirdx61Blackbirdx61 ✭✭
    edited December 2017
    Actually if they Reorganize the Servers, I personally would much prefer to see a Server Dedicated to Casual Players. That all players would have one opportunity to opt into at first. One needs not look far in General Discussion to find Threads where a player was booted, Dissed or otherwise abused by the rather famously Toxic Tera Endgame population. Giving Casual players a fresh place to start a new community and leaving the end game trolls an Island unto themselves. (which they would dearly love anyhow.) would serve both populations better. And IMHO would be much better for the game overall.
  • RxktRxkt ✭✭✭
    Blackbirdx61 wrote: »
    Actually if they Reorganize the Servers, I personally would much prefer to see a Server Dedicated to Casual Players. That all players would have one opportunity to opt into at first. One needs not look far in General Discussion to find Threads where a player was booted, Dissed or otherwise abused by the rather famously Toxic Tera Endgame population. Giving Casual players a fresh place to start a new community and leaving the end game trolls an Island unto themselves. (which they would dearly love anyhow.) would serve both populations better. And IMHO would be much better for the game overall.

    1) well just because there was an incident of 1 endgame player dissing a casual, doesn't mean the entire endgame population is like that.
    2) separating 2 different groups of players is a very bad idea for the economy. most of endgame's customers who buy carry runs are either pvp players or casual players
    3) separating 2 groups of players by "skill" also means breaking groups up. what if there are friends that are in both endgame and casual? or what if a casual player wants to get good and try to get to endgame? what if an endgame player wants to take it easy?

  • YamazukiYamazuki ✭✭✭✭✭
    BHS did talk about a potential cross server lfg recently.
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