The servers are all physically located in the same place.
When you log on, the list of servers you see is ordered from lowest population at the top to highest at the bottom (with the last one you actually played on at the very top).
The two highest-population servers are easily Freedom and Virtue.
EDIT: When I say the list is ordered from lowest population to highest, I mean current population/load -- the number of people actually playing on those servers at that moment. So it shuffles around a little at different times of day.
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Virtue has has a slightly higher population than Freedom throughout the week, although they're pretty much level at the weekends.
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My experience is the Freedom has a much better red-side population (Villains and Rogues) and that Virtue has the slightly better blue-side population (Heroes and Vigilantes). Both are busy servers though, with excellent networks of players on each side of the game.
Hmm, I wonder when the wiki page was last updated. Exalted's pop is definitely in the "Low" category now.
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Virtue has has a slightly higher population than Freedom throughout the week, although they're pretty much level at the weekends.
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The bubble indicate load, which Freedom can handle more of, having more hardware.
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During the migration to a single server listing (merging NA/EU lists), or perhaps sometime before that, the servers are now all virtualized. They have a giant amount of space/bandwidth/whatever and each individual server will use as much or as little as it needs of that whole.
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The bubbles DO indicate load, which is usually a reasonable proxy for population. They do NOT indicate 'percent of utilization', which is what you seem to be suggesting. The amount of hardware available has no bearing on the bubbles. They reflect how much load the player population is generating. Fifty masterminds generate a much higher load than 50 tanks. But, all other things being equal, it's more or less the same as population.
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Fifty masterminds generate a much higher load than 50 tanks. But, all other things being equal, it's more or less the same as population.
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Thanks, I never heard about this. They used to be separated - I thought half were in Virginia or something for years.
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The servers are all physically located in the same place.
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Thanks, I never heard about this. They used to be separated - I thought half were in Virginia or something for years.
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They were moved and centrally located about (year before, tops) the time the EU servers were moved and the lists combined.
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Hi all:
Can you tell me the name of the highest population server?
US, West Coast, please.