As many of you I started with a bunch of friends on the Fresh Start servers. Because of queues we started on a new server so we were able to play. Not knowing that queues weren’t a proper indication of the population. Now we are stuck on a server that isn’t even half full despite sitting in a 2k queue at launch. And we are noticing that server feels quite dead already with a lot of people not speaking English as well.
Please don’t wait with transfers between Fresh Start servers and merges! We need them within a week to be honest!
It’s hard to get 15 people that spend 10h+ since launch to restart now again. Just hoping they will do transfers or mergers in a timely manner. Im afraid if they wait a month most people will just quit because of the lack of population to do content with and the economy suffers greatly too.
To be honest free server transfer was the worse thing AGS ever made. That killed so many servers a year ago. They apparently learned the lesson now. Unlocking and locking server base on queues. So if u want to play with ur friends? Wait a bit and u can create a new character.
Server transfer was bad to the server economy and balance. Dominated factions being more dominant and other faction just transfer to another server. That killed my server very quickly and they have to merge on server to another.
And as a solution to op. This is only the 3rd day of fresh start. Delete ur character with ur friends and remake them to a more popular one. Yes it waste ur efforts but benefits you in the long run.
The queues were there to prevent 2500 people from starting on the beach at the same time. This was to help prevent a bottle neck in the starting zone as you are required to kill certain types of enemies. As people finished the beach and moved into the town those in queue were let in.
I understand the reasoning, but it gave a false sense of population, resulting in some servers ending up with less than 50% of their capacity after launch.