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Just remember folks. The lists of servers are merging. Not any of the servers with any other servers.
When you log on, whether your in the US, EU, or anywhere in the world, you will see all the US and all the EU servers to choose from to play on.
Everyone gets more slots! (distributed among the servers one newly has access to)
Of course, this was the obvious thing that was going to happen when all the servers, East Coast, West Coast, and EU moved to Austin.
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It's real: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=255069
Just remember folks. The lists of servers are merging. Not any of the servers with any other servers. When you log on, whether your in the US, EU, or anywhere in the world, you will see all the US and all the EU servers to choose from to play on. Everyone gets more slots! (distributed among the servers one newly has access to) Of course, this was the obvious thing that was going to happen when all the servers, East Coast, West Coast, and EU moved to Austin. |
I wonder how many players we could have retained if our EU brothers and sisters had access to our 11 servers years ago. I can't argue with anyone upset that they were paying the same monthly fees and only getting 4 servers and access to a fraction of the playerbase.
But yay! The lists are finally merging!
Since I'm planning on migrating over the ocean soon I had thrown serious consideration to leaving the game since EU servers out of hours is not something I was looking forward to.
However Now I can select a (hopefully) welcoming NA server to play on too!
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Awesome announcement. This should be a very good thing.
This is a great change. 
Well, I for one welcome our new european overlords.
Just kidding. I AM your new european overlords! Muahahahahah!
Oh Hooray!
Such good news for those of us who don't work 9 to 5 and therefore play at irregular hours. I might actually get asked to join a team now
As for EU having four servers, hmmm not really, 2 English servers, a French and a German, that kinda cuts it back to two or one, depending on your viewpoint.
I relish the thought of playing with Yankees and Aussies and whoever else plays on the NA servers. Just a reminder to you all though to watch your slang and colloquialisms in chat, we speak English in England!
Exciting news
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Ah ... one of those ESL people who insists on learning a foreign language ... ;p|
Originally Posted by Breth
Just a reminder to you all though to watch your slang and colloquialisms in chat, we speak English in England!
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So you're saying we should try to restrict ourselves to the slang and colloquialisms currently popular in the British Isles? Got it. |
Originally Posted by Breth
Just a reminder to you all though to watch your slang and colloquialisms in chat, we speak English in England!
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<-- wonders if Australia and New Zealand are considered British Isles. Oh, and Hawaii.
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Honestly, were I the devs, I wouldn't have wanted to try it while the servers were spread all over the country/globe like they used to be. Quite frankly, the provider that housed the EU servers was...not great.|
Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
The thing wasn't that it was destined happen but when, and this should have happened a long time ago.
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Now that they're all essentially in the same room together,it DRASTICALLY simplifies implementation and maintenance. It's reduced to deduping and wringing coherence out of the data, not worrying that server connection A is hideously flaky and server connection B makes server connection A look like the Dalai Lama next to Chuck Manson.
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Nonono. You have that all wrong pal.|
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Well, I for one welcome our new european overlords.
Just kidding. I AM your new european overlords! Muahahahahah! |
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I think this would be great for people working different shifts and unable to play at nights, since they could find a European server where those hours work, and vise versa. Actually, I expect this will trigger some server or another to become the daytime server while the other remain the nighttime servers, possibly the ones that are currently English European, but who can say.
Yep, I figured this was why they were making the switch to the NCSoft Launcher.
The Updaters were 2 separate programs, and it would have been problematic to merge them, but since everyone uses the same launcher, even people playing different games, it is much easier to merge the lists this way.
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Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately. |
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Only by insinuation. Pretty sure the general usage of British Isles only applies to the clump of islands off the coast of France that includes England. (And possibly the Falklands off the coast of South America by right of conquest.)
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Originally Posted by GATE-keeper
<-- wonders if Australia and New Zealand are considered British Isles. Oh, and Hawaii.
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But at one point in history the British owned most of the planet|
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Only by insinuation. Pretty sure the general usage of British Isles only applies to the clump of islands off the coast of France that includes England. (And possibly the Falklands off the coast of South America by right of conquest.)
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.That of course when we had the military forces to do it,but since those nasty types in Boston threw all our tea in the water we have lost it.Looking forward to the merge.
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"Falkland Islands?|
Originally Posted by Schismatrix
Only by insinuation. Pretty sure the general usage of British Isles only applies to the clump of islands off the coast of France that includes England. (And possibly the Falklands off the coast of South America by right of conquest.)
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Oh, we need the Falkland Islands... for strategic sheep purposes!"
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Originally Posted by Prof_Radburn
But at one point in history the British owned most of the planet
.That of course when we had the military forces to do it,but since those nasty types in Boston threw all our tea in the water we have lost it.Looking forward to the merge. |
Look forward to the merge as well!
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Nope, the term "British Isles" is a geographic one, not a political one. So the Falklands aren't included, but my own fair isle is, even though we (mostly) aren't British (except for the 6 counties up North which are British, unless you're talking about Rugby in which case they're considered Irish for some reason)
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Originally Posted by Schismatrix
Only by insinuation. Pretty sure the general usage of British Isles only applies to the clump of islands off the coast of France that includes England. (And possibly the Falklands off the coast of South America by right of conquest.)
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Then explain "yarbles" to me.
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Originally Posted by Breth
Just a reminder to you all though to watch your slang and colloquialisms in chat, we speak English in England!
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That's easy, it's slang for coloured marbles. Yarble being yellow, rarble being red, blarble being blue... you get the idea?|
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Then explain "yarbles" to me.
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Next question please?
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Explain the variations between Cockney accent and RP for me then.|
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That's easy, it's slang for coloured marbles. Yarble being yellow, rarble being red, blarble being blue... you get the idea?
Next question please? |
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Originally Posted by Breth
That's easy, it's slang for coloured marbles. Yarble being yellow, rarble being red, blarble being blue... you get the idea?
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Someone mentioned a couple hours back in a global channel that there's a European/US server list merge planned, but couldn't provide a link or an announcement. Can someone confirm that this is so, or is it just the rumor mill at work?