Asheras wrote on Sep 11
th, 2017 at 9:28am:
That's not to say that I am arguing the game is fine. The game has been losing more players than it has been gaining for a while. Populations are lower on all servers, except perhaps the default server.
Agreed.
Quote:Free server voluntary server transfers to 4 target servers would be a good idea. Sarlona, Khyber, Ghallanda and Orien should be the targets. Allow free transfers off of Wayfinder, Cannith, Thelanis, and Argo to one of those 4.
Target Servers: Sarlona, Khyber I can see as reasonable targets... But Ghallanda and Orien?
People have complained about those servers being dead as doornails for years. Orien is particularly bad for douchebags and out-of-control dupers too, unless we all got lucky and they quit.
However, the 1st law of Conservation of Assholes says that Assholes can be neither created nor destroyed, they merely change forum handles.
I'll agree Wayfinder is just for TP grinding, since there's like 10 people on it at peak hours. Why the Hell they don't just fold it into another server (whichever once has the highest concentration of German speakers or Euros in general, they must know where they're all logging in from) and call it a day is beyond me. Wasted resources and maintenance.
Cannith is hit-and-miss, sometimes it's jammed to the rafters, other times there's tumbleweeds blowing through all the public areas. There are a LOT of people running anonymous too.
I've toyed with transferring to another server from here myself, but I don't want to "start over" with a new Guild since I'm leader of a Lvl 100+ guild now. I may change my mind due to pressing "real world" issues though.
I can't really speak much to Thelanis or Argo, but both of them seemed to be roughly at par with Sarlona or Khyber when I played there.
Quote:The only tech/time investment they should do is to allow Guild Leaders of level 100 or higher guilds to submit a ticket to CS to have their guild disbanded on their current server and created on one of the 4 target servers. You have to be the guild leader and have a character on the new server to be the new guild leader. If your guild name is in use on the target, you have to a usable replacement already identified. You get your guild level, ship, and amenities back. Your guild on original server will be forcibly deleted during the process, so guild members who aren't transferring to the new server will need to find a new guild or start from scratch.
Let the population cluster more.
Level 100+ seems an arbitrary metric like noanimeo said... My Guildie dropped a LOT of real world cash into our Daedalan Kraken and all the good ship buffs well before we hit Lvl 100+.
If anything, the Guild Transfer should be based on start date, or shards spent, or both, rather than Guild Level since half the active high level guilds got there by abusing renown exploits to Hell and back before the bugs got fixed.
As for the people who don't move... Well... They're outta luck.
In the end, the game is in your inventory, so where you play doesn't matter much.
One imanginary instance is as good as another, unless one has people in it