Many servers are languishing with less then a couple hundred players at peak playing times for their respective regions. (And now no longer available to see since AGS decided to remove that ability with the API)
These players are receiving a very poor quality experience. Do you know what a low pop server is like? Towns barely afford the upkeep on their workbenches since taxes are so few. Outpost Rush is non existant. Dungeon runs are rare. Player gold is so low since all of these activities aren’t available to them.
These people will quit and all thats left on these dead servers will be bots mining away the free resources waiting for a merge to sell them off and and sell the gold.
They’re doing it backward. Give people the transfer tokens to move where they want to be with their friends and/or company and then merge the servers having issues. It’s a win at step one and then a mild win at step two.
The way mergers are set up now makes it a win at step one but the transfers screw with server balance.
But regardless, I’m on a dying/dead server and want out. There’s no reason not to monetize the tokens now and give it a 30d cd.
Unfortunately it seems that it will come too late. Some of these people have been struggling for weeks or even months in some cases and have been given nothing but promises to fix things eventually.
The devs should be doing something immediately to alleviate the subpar experience they are receiving for playing on these servers. You can’t reasonably expect these people to keep playing.
When the housing persistency bug is fixed, merges 1.5 will come right after that, along with a token for transfer. Second token for all of us sitting on one already, according to the latest developer roundtable.
Is the housing persistence problem fixed now already? or yet to be fixed?
What is the expected time-frame of merges 1.5?
After merges round 1.5 happens, what is the expected time frame for tokens round 2 (free and/or paid)?
The problem is that round 2 tokens were spoken about in November to be expected before the end of the year 2021. If the housing problem took that long there was no update on a new expected time frame. Dev talks mentioned that things could be done AFTER this or AFTER that without clearly giving an end date.
Imagine, someone owes you money, and they say that they will pay it AFTER next week or next month sometime… yet after 3 months they still have not paid it back. Because there is no end date, they just keep jerking your chain along after the next day, after the next week, after the next month.
I am frustrated. I would like to keep my post civil, but I would like to make this point clear: I AM FRUSTRATED!
There is a current bug holding it back, the team is hard at work fixing it. As soon as there is any new information we’ll be sure to share it to everyone. We do understand the frustration.
This was mentioned. You’re not wrong there. But at this point we’re asking for an actual timeline and active updates.
It also seems insane to say there’s a bug holding it back yet I’ve watched half my faction leave to Eden with their original transfer token without a hitch. Makes no sense.
In reflection, I have no idea how the dev team decided that mergers before transfer tokens is a good idea.
Transfers 1-2 weeks prior to merges allow the servers to settle at what they would currently be, then allowing the lowest pop servers to be merged together. Having it the other way around creates worse servers and worse balance.
I’ve also spoken to plenty of company mates on Eden. They’ve had a far more invigorating game experience because they are on a high pop server. This is the way moving forward and getting those players to massive high pop servers that are supported by a higher player cap (plus let’s get some more nodes in the game for various resources).
I transferred from Cedar Forest to Eden a couple months ago and it was really a great decision. Coming from a dead server to Eden which is very active, made the game completely different for me. Way more enjoyable.
Unfortunately Eden has turned into a cesspool of toxic personalities since all the companies from Valhalla transferred over.
Also, imagine revoking the API so players can see player counts on servers just to hide the fact this transfer token bullshit is taking forever. A serious disgrace to the community is occurring.
This is my thing. I was one of the people leaving Valhalla to Eden and had to literally delete my main level 60 (by main I mean the bulk of my playtime max expertise when that patch went live etc) and level a new character. The best part is having to do the entire expertise grind again before even being able to use the garbage umbral shard system to upgrade gear. How transfers are still an issue is mind numbing
Absolutely. To reiterate, plenty of people still transferring off their first token without a hitch. Still feels like this housing bug is a non-issue based on our own data.
Offering a subpar experience for a portion of their customers seems like it would be a high priority. It’s almost as if they want people to quit. If they can’t fix the bug maybe they should hire people who can.