Discussion about SERVER MERGES

Lets have a discussion about server merges. How is your server doing population wise? During prime time? During the off-hours?

Mattherson, where my character is located, is a ghost town in the off-hours. It only reaches medium during prime-time. This game shines with high populations, so I can't see why server merges haven't been talked about yet.

Now that server transfers will be available & cost money, I think its pretty unlikely we will be seeing merges.

I think it will be even more likely. Once the transfers go live, everyone is going to transfer to the most populated servers, leaving the others empty. Servers may become dead because of this. This is a legitimate concern that can only be solved by merging servers.

Should just merge Helios & Genudine into Connery
Merge Jaeger into Mattherson & Soltech into Walterson
2-3 EU servers
1 Aussie

We wouldn't be having problems with pop then

Genudine being a ghost town has completely killed my interest in the game. I haven't played since double XP :/ Even on prime time, its hard to find fights, usually, just capping undefended bases.

I'd really rather see some server merges then just do a server transfer. Genudine (and other servers) are serving no purpose whatsoever. Its not like server transfers are going to make the low pop servers get any better...

If I was SOE, I'd sort that out first, or give one free transfer to existing players, or something. People paying for transfers finding out a month later that the servers are being merged and they could've gone for free is going to sow bad blood.

PS: Do we know how much a server transfer is going to cost?

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I no quite a few people who dont bother to play anymore due to the state of that server

Genudine is fine dude. VS had NC up on their warpgate. and what do the TR do? They just suck NC **** and try to take VS land. INSTEAD of actually trying to get rid of NC's bonus on the continent. NOPE. Here's their plan. Oh let's cap empty land cuz it's easier than actually fighting. If you're not playing as TR on Genudine anymore I'm glad cuz you guys seriously are a joke.

Bottom line: We don't need server mergers. The problem is not the servers, the problem is the player base who come from this spoiled generation and have that generic gamer mentality.

This is just one of SOE's last chances to milk the game before pop dies too much.

"Look guys, we solved the low pop/inbalanced factions problem! Just give us money to fix a problem we made ourselves and should fix for free!" - SOE

*people transfer and things seem okay for 2-3 weeks*

Damn, the pop here sucks too. There's 80% vanu. or 60% TR, or the pop always hits low. - Players

"Don't worry guys, you can just server transfer again!" - SOE

Well, okay. It's only x dollars. I guess it's worth it. - Players

Same problem happens again.

"Don't worry about that low pop or imbalance! Just server transfer! It's so convenient and only costs $10!" - SOE

*f u I quit* - Players

LOW POP in prime time is not a server that is fine

Connery is fine at the moment but the population decrease is noticeable. I can see population being a big concern in 2-3 months if the current rate continues. I haven't see a queue screen in weeks.

Charging for transfers won't solve the pop problem - it'll probably make it worse. That's basically charging people money to fix a problem that isn't even their fault. You don't get severs populated by milking people dry, SOE.

So you can tell the future? Oh my gosh!

The US West servers should all be merged into one.

Server definitely need to be merged, ideally one server per coast because you NEED to be on a populated server to enjoy the game. Queues are something you want in a game like this.

im on mattherson so ima wait a week after everybody done transferring and see if mattherson gets bigger or everybody leaves!

i'm fairly certain i'm going to xfer of the dead, lifeless server of Soltech. Maybe not right away, but going to be watching server pops for a week or so after patch, see what happens. Regardless merges are a must in the near future, if not already

I think the server tranfers need to be considered a little more. I think by making the game better itself. Servers will gain an increase in population.

If anything- servers will become specialized. They wont be merged. The lower pop servers may be for certain types of players thats all.

There will be a zerg minded server, mili-sim minded servers and something else.
besides that, i think the server pop issue is being a little overblown by some people. if they merged servers, then you guarantee people seeing more que screens- which isnt good.

I played on Miller - the biggest EU server, and when I took a break like a week ago it was already shadow of it's former self .

Merge the servers and maybe after that offer paid transfer .

request denied,wont happen,move along.

Screw that - have Connery merge to Genudine.