Universal - Common - Server

What you all think?

I have alts in a variety of servers so I can play with different groups of friends or gaming atmospheres. While I am very comfrotable with the Champions Server, was thinking how about have a neutral server, where folks from any server could virtually move their character to adventure with other players from other servers.

Let me expand a little bit on the concept...

Say I enter my main Stormfront from Champions into a special portal, kinda like its already done on FBZ. This portal does not transfer my main from Champions to this new Universal server, I am thinking of this as more along the lines of an instance which is handled by a dedicated server.

Once in this "server" instance, my name would show as Stormfront-Ch (Champions), and game wise the environment would work just the same as if I was still at Champions. A player from say Virtue, wants to join me in a Overlord Hunt, and his name in Virtue is Mantis, so in the virtual server; his name would be Mantis-Vi (Virtue).

Once we both are in the same server albeit instanced, we could do whatever players do in the game.

Now at the end of the day, when I shut my game off, just as if I was in a regular instanced mission, my character leaves the virtual/instanced server and next day when I log Stormfront, she will be at the entrance portal in champions, just like it would have occurred have tyou left the game while inside an instanced mission.

I would think a TF done at an instanced location, would keep you in the instanced situation; this would be required in the case you get disconnected during a TF.

I think, also it would be fun to have league like PvP challenges across Servers, and other grand scale cooperative events.

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Stormy

/signed only if they increase global channel capacity.

The obvious issues of server-specific names and villain/super groups aside, this would enhance my game play experience substantially.

Currently I've filled two separate servers, one for heroes and a dedicated supergroup, one with a redside and a personal villain group. I also have friends on other servers, who have used free server transfers to concentrate their favored characters onto their 'main' server, which has limited our ability to play together when we ended up with different 'main' servers.

Cross-server teaming would be wonderful.

That said, a dedicated server that can handle players from any server could, and probably would experience traffic not even seen on freedom. I'd suggest instead a way to do a 'temporary' server transfer approach.

How about this: character slots per server increased by a page, and on the first page is a 'global' character slot that says 'Visit Shard...' Clicking it brings up a server list to select from, then character list, to select a character from another server shard. Any character that has used this function zones into a inter-dimensional hub in pocket D on the new server. Names could have the server extension as noted earlier, and the dimensional tourists could not join any VG/SG on the shard they are visiting, and could not enter VG/SG mode outside of their home shard. When they log back into the local server, the character would be in the pocket D dimensional hub of their original shard.

To decrease any server-side problems of constant transfers, the shard visitor slot would have a cool-down on changing which character could be the visitor. Changing which character was the selected visitor would remove that character from any SF/TF roster in progress. Players could purchase additional shard visitor slots aside from the first free visitor slot.

This way the player can play characters from other servers, but the servers in existence would be handling them just like the 'local' characters, aside from VG/SG limitations. This would avoid the excessive traffic possible in having one 'hub' server.

So.... play on test? (as far as the PVP side of things.)

Yes, I know it doesn't transfer back. *shrug*

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i would rather they merge the 2 server lists into 1 before they make a "universal" server.

Its about time us EU players got more than 4 servers to choose from (2 of which are not in english) -.-

A developer (I don't remember who) once described the introduction of a single-server environment was something along the lines of the "hardest, most complicated thing we could do right now." That was a few years ago, however.

I do agree that the removal of server segregation would improve the gaming experience TREMENDOUSLY. Outdoor zone instancing should prevent overcrowding, and people would be exposed to a common environment shared with many others where both social interaction and teaming opportunities should be easy. The game's heavily instanced nature, in addition, would still provide a safe haven for solo players like myself, just as it always has.

Character name conflicts may be a problem, but if such a move is made I guarantee that non-unique naming would HAVE to follow.

One has to recognise the publicity downside, however, of announcing that you are merging all of your game's servers down to one.

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