Time to split the servers!

I can hardly ever not find anyone.

Let's face it, it's time for the Devs to bite the bullet and finally split the serves up even further. Every damn time I log on, someone more-or-less immediately sends me a tell while I'm still trying to figure out what this character should be doing tonight. I might be looking at market slots, or eyeballing my build, staring at my base bins, or just trying to pick a contact to start...it never fails.

"Want to run X Task Force?"

"Radio missions?"

"Hey, I decided to re-up! What's cooking?"

"Can you help me against this EB?"

"Zone event!!!!"

Heck, once it was even "We need a fifth for Arena Pentad," I kid you not.

I've seriously thought about hiding more often. But I'm afraid my suddenly dropping off my global list would lead my friends to conclude I was being weird. Instead, I usually man up, grab an appropriate character, and go join some random PUG, Task Force, or group of friends. Who knows when I'll get back to whatever I was trying to do.

When I DO decide to form my own teams, I'm usually too successful. I've tried a few times to run Task Forces with the minimum number of players, to keep the number of foes low and speed through...but oh no, people keep calling their buddies and soon enough we've got eight players ready to go and several more disappointed folks we've turned down. (No joke, I've had this problem.)

This can get tiresome. How am I ever going to cobble together some of my end-game builds if I can't spend a few consecutive minutes marketing?

If the Devs would finally split up a few servers to further dilute the player pool a bit, it might help.

Absolutely, we need more servers. I'm running out of character slots and I'm too cheap to buy more. I know a couple good names we could use for them too: Union and Defiant (and... whatever they are).

/signed

I have to hide when I want to solo to avoid getting invites for TFs/SFs. I solo to test my characters' build in different situations, not to avoid my friends.

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I strangely favour the idea of have access to the Euro servers for NA players and NA to the Euro, mostly because I want to play on the German server and not know what the hell is going on.

Doom/Batman in 2012

The Resistance has boobs too, and better hair!

I realise this is a joke, but I'd be all for appending the four Euro servers at the end of the queue and letting us pick from any of the 15. That way, my poor countrymen get to play on a more populated server if they wanted to, and we get... Well, Europeans get to play on more populated servers. How's that?

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Suggested for soo many times... WITH arguments.

The server list should be merged. But there are reasons why it doesnt get any dev time.

Are you guys crazy? If anything they should merge some of the servers so that it's easier to get people involved in things like Rikti Mothership and Hami raids. I'd rather apply the wait and see option until after Rogue comes out though. Maybe it will draw enough people back to the game.

We should split some servers and merge others.

That seems like a fair balance to me



ps. I like pie!!!!!

Off the whole joke thing, I say consolidating a few servers would be nice.

Why server division is not a good idea.

Welcome to the forum. You have posted one of the oft repeated suggestions, "Divide the servers."

Disclaimer

Yes. This is a cut and paste reply that I keep handy, as well as a quick bit of instruction on how to search. Neither are meant to cause fights or to be insulting. The search instructions are in, not just because forum rules say flat out to search, but to help you and anyone else reading this use the search tool effectively.

The body of the cut and paste reply is the way it is because we've seen these arguments numerous times before. They're a summary of the salient points that come up each time. They are not here to insult you, make you feel stupid or otherwise "bring you down a peg." Instead, they are meant as instruction and information. Please read through the points and the explanation behind them to see the issues that are commonly brought up in response. They may not always match your suggestion 100% - in fact, you may have explained around one or two of them - but they're there for consideration and refinement of your idea.

Yes, I do look forward to the time, with some of these suggestions, that someone not only addresses all the points, but does so exceptionally well. It'll probably be added to the end of the cut/paste reply, with credit. For now, though, read and consider the points. They really are just there to help you, and move discussion along to help ideas evolve.

If you're going to see this and say an "evil forum vet is just shooting down your idea," or "You think you're the last word because of your post count," you're wrong. Heck, if you say the second, you've just worried more about my post count than I have in the last four plus years. Tongue-in-cheek comments in here are meant as humor, not put downs.


TL,DR section.
First, my stock answer, one which I stand by and repeat with all due fervor. HELL NO.

Searching effectively

1. Click on "Search" up at the top of the forum.
2. On the left, under "Forum(s) to search," select "Suggestions and ideas."
3. On the right, Keyword Search Terms. This is probably where your problem was if you did search. Try the following, exactly as typed:

+server -pvp -"re: "

This will search for anything with "Server" in the title, including Servers, Split Servers, Divide Servers, and The Server At McDonald's is Rude. It will eliminate "PVP," so you won't see PVP server requests, and the -re: portion of it removes replies, so you'll see the root of every thread that comes up, letting you see just how many threads there are on this. (The last helps for other subjects, as well.)

4. Click the "In subject" radio button. This is a search, not a cute blonde in a bikini. Here, you want to ignore the body.

5. Leave Username Search blank.

6. Date range, Newer Than, change the 1 to a 3, and the time to Months.

7. Result format doesn't matter. Click on "Submit."

As I try this now, (12/3/08,) we have:
More Server PLz
Server Stats RSS Feed
$server modifier ofr chat
Fix the forum server
Earlyissue server
Spliting high population server
Nerf fast server
Server status
Global chat on the Character and Server Screens
Rated M server
Add Ponies, Nerf Vills, split Servers, PistolMelee
Server Visiting
Display Central Time on Server Status Page

Ignoring the smartalec reply, that's three full discussions about this topic.

You should have read one of them if (inevitably) something similar comes up in your search.

Now, on to the topic at hand....

Why server division is not a good idea.

1. Just because YOU like living in Kansas doesn't mean I can't like New York City.

Yay, you love having no lag spikes as you get near the black market/wentworths and a dead broadcast. Congrats. Enjoy Protector. Some of us - many of which you will get replies from with this subject - like *high population* servers. If we *wanted* to be on Protector, we'd *be* on Protector.

I have characters on Protector. I rarely play them (and actually moved a character OFF of Protector to finish leveling it to 50) because *I DON'T LIKE Protector.* I dislike the dryness of broadcast, the low percentage of *horrid* teams I've come across there, the lack of any gathering points- and I've got a decent personality and networking skills. For much the same reason, I typically start in Atlas Park instead of Galaxy City - I *want* to log in to a costume contest with several 50s spamming powers and nonsense arguments in broadcast.

Some of us *like* fast, active servers.

2, New York City, part 2.

In addition, servers have their own personalities. Yes, I mean that literally, there's an AI to worry about if you start hearing "The Polito form is dead, insect. Are you afraid? What is it you fear? The end of your trivial existence?" over your speakers or headset. Freedom is a mess. Virtue is the MRP server. Pinnacle is the "Drunk" server. Others have specific disorders, such as those who think they are Australian, Europe, Everquest, ect.

3. "I saw over nine thousand other people. Anarchy Assault Quest has 12!"

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Ok I got bored someone else finish it.

Maybe we could breed sentient servers.