Discuss gameplay: Combine Servers

I'll third Pinn being awesome. Triumph was my first server and will always be "home", even though the people there can be kind of crazy / cliquish / drama queens sometimes. Pinn is my next biggest and definitely my favorite. Everyone is so easygoing it's just a pleasure whenever I team there.

As others have said. "YeahNO!"

If the server you're on isn't "busy" enough to suit your tastes, move to another server.

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If/when they ever decide to do this, they will probably make a new server and moves to there (with or without SG) will be first come first serve.

It would be a very unpopular move if they go this route and surely negative unwanted publicity. I'll leave this to the bean counters if it happens.

They won't need to merge the servers. A while back I took part in an open beta where they tested cross-server teaming and it seemed to work, if the populations drop too much and there is a lot of free bandwidth it shouldn't be a problem to implement it.

The main thing is. They've already spoken up about this. The "servers" are running in a virtualized manner now. So it doesn't really cost them any extra to have 20 servers than it does to have 10 servers.
And, as hardware capability increases, this is just going to get easier and cheaper for them.

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Oh look, it's this thread again.

Surprised the copypasta took that long to show up.

There's one thing not mentioned in there. The Op mentioned... well, a bunch of buzzwords. The only time combining servers has any "benefit" that I've seen tends to be in PVP-centric games (which COH definitely is not.) There's another NCSoft game with a bunch of people with wings trying to kill each other like this. They've combined servers a few times, since there are goals your character pretty much MUST meet to advance, get decent gear, etc. that require PVP - so they require a PVP population.

Even then, I wouldn't call it "successful." And I can't help but wonder if it's part of the reason they've had *mutliple* merges. (They're down to three servers, so there's been at LEAST two merges.)

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Been a while since I got to use this. /jpowerranger

But I'd have to change my server-specific chat binds!

The only single shard game I have played is the wonderfully ruthless space game set 25 thousand years into the future. I cannot see that game working any other way and it is FANTASTIC.

I don't see that concept working for this game. I am on Freedom and when there are a lot of people logged in the server starts to cry a bit. I don't think the resources they have in place are attuned to handling much more load than they already get.

Yay!
The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round...

It always irks me a little when people consider "high server load" to be a good thing. Those dots on the side indicate server performance, people. You don't want them to be red because then the server starts lagging and dropping people off and you start waiting in queue.

That said, I've always preferred the concept of one global server for all players to share like what Champions Online uses, not because of population issues, but because I'm sick and tired of the character I want to play not being on the same server as that my friends are playing on right now. I actually have a Free Account friend right now that I would gladly pay for. We made his one character on Victory because that's my "main" server, and now he refuses to play the game because I'm currently playing in Pinnacle.

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