There is a huge issue with your servers AGS. That is that you ignore em totaly (or it feels like it).
Im in EU and on Fresh start server (FSS).
My server peaks at 400 and is one out of 5 FSS servers. They are all at the same amount of players roughtly except one that peaks at 800.
Im sure the same problem is on other regions and i cant understand why you dont merge 5 servers into 2 or 3 servers. This would putt the servers to a peak at 1000-1200 players and leav plenty of room to returning players.
My server cant even defend top tier towns now and its getting hard to find/keep T5 crafting/refining stations.
That combined with no OPR, Arena and really few mutation runs makes even more players leav and is just increasing the problem.
We need a merge and we need it yesterday.
And please keep this discussion off legacy vs FSS. This is not the post for that and we all want healthy server no mather if its FSS or legacy. You can not wait for cross server OPR for that dont fix this problem at all and you cant “force” players to start over on another server. Players (me included) are going to leav this game instead of starting over.
Another one. how many times it has to be told that there won’t be any merges before big patches?
they did that mistake in the past, and we do not want to see 50hours queues again just to get token and transfer somewhere else.
Oh and you do not know what players will do. There was tousands guys like you, but remember, your opinion is only your opinion. you have no idea what other player feel and think. if you can’t hold it and wait till game make a few changes, then leave it. simple is that.
nobody, literally nobody here cares if you are posting “good bye” posts or not…
this is pure gen z i see here… this stupid thinking that everyone want to know.
Merges aren’t going to fix the problems, that cause servers to degenerate.
Catering to the one percent didn’t help either, but that is almost always a fools errand. It’s not like a few people didn’t try, and warn them.
If you want to move transfer. If you are on a server that doesn’t allow transfers, you were warned before joining fresh servers they would not offer transfers, or mergers anytime soon.
At the rate people are leaving it astounds me they did not create CST servers like in KC, so that east, and west coast could duke it out on neutral ground. Still baffling so many games haven’t figured that out yet. c’est la vie !
Yes another one, and i truly hope we are keep posting those to they fix this issue. Waiting for a major patch is no valid reason to bleed players.
Please tell me how a server that peak at 1k players is at great risk to get a 50 hours queue in the near future? If there even is a risk, how does that risk compare to looseing players/customers on empty servers?
Yeah i do know what they are going to do, that are going to leav the game once and for all. From my old company we are only 2 left now. Rest have left the game or refuse to come back before the server get a higher pop. Who enjoy playing a mmo without other players?
Please quote me where i stated this is a “good bye” post from my side? Im as a player are giving em feedback on a continue problem this game has. If they decide to ignore this feedback over a long period of time that is ok and tbh good to know. But il never make a “good bye” post il just leav without saying a word like most of my mates have done.
But atleast i know that you dont really care about server pop in an MMO or player feedback in general
It might not be the perfect and everlasting fix. But it is a start when it comes to a mmo server without players. When a server gets down to under 300 peak its getting almost imposible to even defend town vs invasion and that is only going to push away the last remaining players. But if that is the goal then this is truly working. You can easly see that many servers are slowly but surly bleeding players and out of those players in 100% sure that many left due to its imposible to do any grouped content in the game (both PvP and PvE)
Then they should learn from past mistakes and put the server cap to a lower amount. Take EU as an example:
We have 5 servers that can hold 12500 players without a queue.
Those 5 servers are at peak now holdnig 2400 players and have room for 10100 players without a queue
if you take my suggestion to merge it to 3 server the max pop cap without queue is 7500 and with 2400 peak now i really cant see 5100 players are going to return and queue up the game.
But this is just guessing from my side and i truly hope that im wrong and there is wel over 5k players about to return to FSS in a few weeks.
Barely a bandaid situation, and I say that as a resident of orofena which except for primetime is lucky to see 300. Everyone that is impatient has already transferred off, but a surprising number of companies disbanded, and many players gave up on the game after being on the ptr.
Merging will fix nothing it just changes the trading post market values across the board a little, and makes getting some resources next to impossible, while starting another cycle until degeneration weeds out the bulk of the players again.
I’m not super fond of some of the upcoming changes, so like some others that are still playing, I am more just waiting it out before I too depart this sinking ship. The season pass is the gaming equivalent of over milking the cows at a dairy farm.
If you are on a fresh start server I feel for you, but again people were warned what would happen.
umm, never? The biggest mistake AGS made with mergers was doing them just before BS came out. Horrible que’s all over again like the day the game launched.
Just one question, cause everything else you wrote its probably not worth read time anyway…
are you new player? are you new in this community so your imagination is so limited? most of guys here still playing since launch or even sooner, so keep your silly, non confirmed arguments for yourself, sit down, and wait with patient and smile. Or just uninstall the game, and stop pretending like you understand things, cause you clearly do not
I agree, merging right before a big update is not the best idea. But merge can be small 3 servers with max 400player peak can be merged into one 1200player server, no reason to let people wait 2 months with no players to do content with just because you know in the future there is update.
On top of that, I don’t agree with people who think the season’s update will bring as many people back as brimstone. It doesn’t bring anywhere near the amount of hype and promise as brimstone did.
But to conclude I would say to be safe and make both sides happy, merges should have happened already, just not big merges small one to make quality of life way better for people who are struggling in their servers with basic content like OPR/arenas/wars/mutations - don’t forget wait times to do any of these are horrendous if server has 260 players online.
not sure it matters what YOU think as every patch, the numbers speak for themselves. The BS update more than doubled the population, the promise of updates ever 3 months will encourage more players than typical updates as well. Take the “me” out of it and look at it objectively and you’ll get a better perspective.
Catering only to players who left and no longer play the game, and only come back to play for a couple of weeks after big updates, while keeping players who play the game daily in the gutter of the server where you arguably can’t even play properly is just wrong. You can help remaining players to have proper fun in their server and have some empty slots waiting for “returning” players if needed. If servers at peak times have, 2100player slots left, it doesn’t matter how you plan it out splitting it (30/70,70/30,50/50) you can still make things better for current population and leave some overhead for returning players. Sleeping on it and only thinking about returning players is not the way.
Well well well. Patch is here and where are all those new players??? I remember some birdy saying people who ask for merge are wrong as servers will be overpopulated! Our server increased from 400pl peak to 500pl, wow . Still can’t do basic content normally without ridiculous wait times.
Merge servers now please. It already 2months late.
. Still can’t do basic content normally without ridiculous wait times.