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Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan
TBH, one of the main reasons for us having our own server farm in the first place, was maintenance times. Now they've shafted us on that, and gotten shot of our own NC office, what REALLY is the point of having EU servers anymore, hmmm?
Just merge the sodding server lists and get it over with. |
Well the only real benefit of playing on EU servers now is that you can all say "lovely weather" and you all know what the weather is like in the area
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Indeed. Just get it over with now.
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Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan
Ah, but we can't DISCUSS it there, and they didn't make a discussion thread for the announcement..
Anyway, it's pretty clear they're getting closer and closer to unifying everything, so I say to them, just get the sodding server merge over and done with, will you? Getting fed up with things now. Everything is done to convenience the US players these days, and EU gets disregarded as usual because we don't have enough numbers to count anymore. |
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Always bloody sunny with no clouds in sight?
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Originally Posted by EU_Damz
Well the only real benefit of playing on EU servers now is that you can all say "lovely weather" and you all know what the weather is like in the area
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Originally Posted by Blue Rabbit
Always bloody sunny with no clouds in sight?
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Cloudy and misty down ere
Best clear up by tonight
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Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan
TBH, one of the main reasons for us having our own server farm in the first place, was maintenance times. Now they've shafted us on that, and gotten shot of our own NC office, what REALLY is the point of having EU servers anymore, hmmm?
Just merge the sodding server lists and get it over with. |
This will effect me now, and in the long run. I am not impressed and sympathise with our friends from down under. I think a server list merge is something I fully support. (but I don't know if its possible, can a red name let us know?)
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Originally Posted by Blue Rabbit
Always bloody sunny with no clouds in sight?
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I work one junction down the motorway from where I live and the weather is rarely the same, even when it snows
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Originally Posted by EU_Damz
Well the only real benefit of playing on EU servers now is that you can all say "lovely weather" and you all know what the weather is like in the area
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All that changed when they added the market and integrated the Euro servers into the same servers as the US.|
Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan
TBH, one of the main reasons for us having our own server farm in the first place, was maintenance times. Now they've shafted us on that, and gotten shot of our own NC office, what REALLY is the point of having EU servers anymore, hmmm?
Just merge the sodding server lists and get it over with. |
I'm a UK based US server player, and the old times were much more convenient for me, but I'll live with it. It's the Aussies that get seriously messed about by this change, and I would suggest moving the maint back to its old time for their sake.
This will also screw over East coast US players who (as I sometimes did when I was working) play between 7 and 8 am before heading for work, so I'd love to know what the rationale for the change is.
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Bad for me too. 8pm to 10pm in Tokyo. My prime playing time. Now that it was all that much better before.
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Originally Posted by EU_Damz
Guys, check out the announcement section . . . . . .
Very harsh for europeans < < < < < < Think the new times are overall much much worse |
Poland here. 13:00 mon and 15:00 fri isn't killing me. I'm more bothered about the fact that they've put 'British time' as opposed to GMT, and that some barbaric parts of the world are still using am and pm instead of the eminently more sensible 24-hr clock version for announcements like this. I've got no problem with people saying 'three o clock in the morning' or 'five pee-em', but when writing it down it's absolutely bez sensu IMO 
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Ouch! Now THAT's got to hurt! Poor people in Japan...
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Technically, GMT refers to a 'static' time zone, and does not account for daylight savings. Right now, the UK is on BST, which is equivalent GMT+1, so the maintenance tomorrow will not occur at 12.00 GMT, but 11.00 GMT. I think the intention was to take account for daylight savings when communicating the server maintenance time.|
Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan
I'm more bothered about the fact that they've put 'British time' as opposed to GMT
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Of course, that doesn't address the differing dates during which daylight savings is in force in different countries...
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Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan
TBH, one of the main reasons for us having our own server farm in the first place, was maintenance times. Now they've shafted us on that, and gotten shot of our own NC office, what REALLY is the point of having EU servers anymore, hmmm?
Just merge the sodding server lists and get it over with. |
And erm Damz
About the weather however. Not that interesting for me to know what the weather is in the UK as I am not from that place. The EU is a tad bigger then your little Island
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Agreed, let's just get this over with shall we?|
Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan
TBH, one of the main reasons for us having our own server farm in the first place, was maintenance times. Now they've shafted us on that, and gotten shot of our own NC office, what REALLY is the point of having EU servers anymore, hmmm?
Just merge the sodding server lists and get it over with. |
Server list merger (not a server merge but listing the euro servers along with the US servers) would be grand and make life damn sight easier.
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This. They really should stop pretending they have any support for the EU now.|
Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan
TBH, one of the main reasons for us having our own server farm in the first place, was maintenance times. Now they've shafted us on that, and gotten shot of our own NC office, what REALLY is the point of having EU servers anymore, hmmm?
Just merge the sodding server lists and get it over with. |
Just merge the lists, let us play on all those NA servers *scratches altitus rash*
I will admit it doesn't affect me that much overall because I work 9-5, Monday-Friday, but reading how badly it is affecting those in Australia and Asia it is a bit bad.
I also kind of think the choice of days is a bit rubbish as well making it a Friday and Monday. I know if I take a long weekend just to relax it will be Monday and Friday I take off so being booted off just around the time I will be starting to play is a pain!
Also does this mean in the long run things like double xp weekends and events won't be starting till mid afternoon for EU players? I know that will be annoying for those that like to take time off to have some extra play time because rather than getting an extra full day on the Friday they will only get half a day and would have to take the Monday off as well to get that extra time back.
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I guess unifying times benefits us in a way, since US old maintenance times were Monday and Friday and for us, they started at 2 pm UK time and finished 4 pm UK time, during said period, Wentworth's and Black Market were down, so despite we had servers available, some of the game functions were not working, while at our old maintenance times, US servers didn't notice it because EU maintenance didn't take down the WW/BM servers (at least I never noticed it while playing in US servers).
I have to agree that making it Mondays and Fridays is an awful choice for us for the reasons stated on previous posts, we'll see how do they set DXP weekends, since UK Bank Holidays and other European long weekends seem lost now for gaming marathons.
At the end of the day, everytime seems more and more obvious that a server merge would be most beneficial for the game, though not having done so before Champions release could now be perceived as a sign of weakness though let's face it, as bad as CO is, it has had a certain impact in CoH playerbase whether we like it or not, but that's a different story. Regarding the merged server lists, I'd personally rather a character transfer like the old US-EU transfers so I could aglutinate all my chars from my two EU accounts into my two US accounts.
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Been saying this for years.|
Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan
TBH, one of the main reasons for us having our own server farm in the first place, was maintenance times. Now they've shafted us on that, and gotten shot of our own NC office, what REALLY is the point of having EU servers anymore, hmmm?
Just merge the sodding server lists and get it over with. |
They need to forget about how many active EU subs they have and have a look at the bloody servers.
They could also go and have a read of the none too glowing PC Gamer review about the state of the EU population.
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Originally Posted by Londoner
Been saying this for years.
They need to forget about how many active EU subs they have and have a look at the bloody servers. They could also go and have a read of the none too glowing PC Gamer review about the state of the EU population. |
Do eet! Doooo eeeeeeet!!
Even just as EU -> US Transfers would be fine with me at this stage as oppose to a Server List merge.
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Merging the servers themselves WOULD have that negative effect, yes. Merging the server LISTS, however, would not.
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Originally Posted by Nightmarer
At the end of the day, everytime seems more and more obvious that a server merge would be most beneficial for the game, though not having done so before Champions release could now be perceived as a sign of weakness though let's face it, as bad as CO is, it has had a certain impact in CoH playerbase whether we like it or not, but that's a different story. Regarding the merged server lists, I'd personally rather a character transfer like the old US-EU transfers so I could aglutinate all my chars from my two EU accounts into my two US accounts. |
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Do you really think adding 4 empty servers to a list where there are already 8 empty servers (all bar Freedom, Virtue and Infinity) would really achieve anything? |
Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan
Merging the servers themselves WOULD have that negative effect, yes. Merging the server LISTS, however, would not.
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Well, NCSoft would probably make some insta cash when everyone started moving chars to Freedom/Virtue leaving EU servers even emptier, but besides that, can't see any other benefit.
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Do you really think adding 4 empty servers to a list where there are already 8 empty servers (all bar Freedom, Virtue and Infinity) would really achieve anything?
Well, NCSoft would probably make some insta cash when everyone started moving chars to Freedom/Virtue leaving EU servers even emptier, but besides that, can't see any other benefit. |
Transfer them over and then give a free character transfer for every single character you got on your account. Which would result in being able to slowly combine the servers while they figure out how to transfer over things such as supergroups.
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You mean they haven't got enough time? What would be the point of merging lists and give free means to abandon ship immediately?|
Originally Posted by EU_Damz
Transfer them over and then give a free character transfer for every single character you got on your account. Which would result in being able to slowly combine the servers while they figure out how to transfer over things such as supergroups.
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Anyway, I guess I don't really want to know and the above are rethorical questions, sorry, not going to derail this thread further.
TBH, one of the main reasons for us having our own server farm in the first place, was maintenance times. Now they've shafted us on that, and gotten shot of our own NC office, what REALLY is the point of having EU servers anymore, hmmm?
Just merge the sodding server lists and get it over with.
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