Why do the dev’s think its a GRAND idea to merge a super popular Castle of Steel server with a almost as popular City of Brass… It will ruin Castle of Steel and you will LOSE MORE PLAYERS!
Castle of Steel is as close to perfectly balanced as possible. Please don’t go through with these horrendous merge decisions. Take a look at the population in the image below. You guys are CRAZY
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why not Orofena with city of brass?
I dont get it
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good question. But definitely shouldn’t be merging with the top 3 most active servers
I swear AGS is only ran by trolls, we don’t want huge servers merge together it will completely ruin the experience people are used too right now, merge in smaller steps at very least!
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I agree. Castle of Steel is balanced but still on the high pop end in my opinion. Merging City of Brass into us is a huge mistake, we will be over the 2k server size limit for a huge chunk of the day. And when the next update, like 3v3 Arena, is released even more will return jamming up things. All we ask is either leave Castle of Steel be, or merge a lesser server into us to keep our peak well under 2k. I know it may be to late, but maybe having a poll in each server asking the populace if they want a merge or not could have worked. @Luxendra
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Thanks for the feedback! I’ll pass it on to the team but I can’t guarantee that any changes will be made.
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Thanks for putting us into queue for Easter weekend
I agree. I have some friends that went to Orofena and Ohonoo and seeing some of these servers get merged into the largest servers seems silly. It will definitely be interesting after this week!
Hi Luxendra… I assume you’re aware, but there’s also another big discussion going on about this topic on another thread.
I just really don’t see how this can be the right move… it’s too much at once. I’m sure the metrics will show that lots of people quit or transfer to lower pop servers when merged with a big one and if there’s no smaller places to transfer to it only leaves us with former option.
The game’s had a couple of great weekends for population… it’s on an upward trend for the first time since launch pretty much… and that’s without massive mergers. Isn’t the very definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results?
Some mergers are needed… I don’t think anybody is arguing that, but I urge you to make it a more measured action. I’m a suburbs guy, not a big city guy.
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good for you, but some of us urgently need the merge is that or not to play anymore because we are on a dead server and in a transfer token, with 40 players and 20 bot, besides the npc, this kills any game and more if it’s multiplayer, open world, pvp, and there’s none of that on a dead server.
do it quick.
not an email not snail mail. please go up to them and tell them to get on the forums and talk for 2 seconds. this merger is a REALLY bad idea to do.
why not even out the dead servers with the medium so we have a few better populated servers then a super pop server that has thousands of issues in its own right. COB is fairly active in the 400-600 peaks. going to 420-620 wont change the dynamics significantly. but 1500 to 2000 will.
this is a brain dead simple concept.
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I agree that some servers need to be merged, but the way these servers are being merged seems like a rushed process. What should happen is faction metrics (% of each faction) as well as total population should be considered, and maybe other metrics too. It’s changing the game drastically for a lot of these loyal players. Sure maybe it’s tough to get an OPR going, but if the players are fine and consistently logging in why change that?
Also, people were given transfer tokens how many times? If people were going to leave the game because of server sizes then they could have just transferred. Again this seems rushed and probably needs more consideration on comparing server metrics prior to merging. I would merge smaller servers together at first and gradually build up to larger servers rather than a drastic change.
We got to this problem from taking so long to do this bleeding players to other servers. The bleeding has stopped for a month or so and now these servers have become stable population-wise. Please AGS take some time on this process.
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the only other reason i can think of for this sort of slash and burn tactic is that they want the server space for something and or they are losing it to some other AGS or AWS project.
(or not i have no idea how much space a server takes up and the costs involved)
the other merges can happen, but specifically City of Brass into Castle of Steel will PREVENT players from being able to play, unless they transfer out (Which we were one of the servers everyone is transferring to, so many people DO NOT have transfer tokens anymore).
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