Game is becoming pointless on woodman.

And I doubt adding another continent will be helpful in the least. I'm actually starting to get scared if they add another continent.

same with connery,except last few days Connery seems to have a decent fight on esamir and amerish but eh still needs merged with the other west coast server,good thing the new SimCity is coming out,be playing that a lot intill I can transfer servers or Connery is merged with the other west coast server

Go troll some other thread?

We're trying to improve the game experience on Woodman. If you play on Woodman you would also benefit fom an improved game experience, so don't try and shoot people down tht are trying to help. If you don't play on Woodman, then it's irrelevant to you anyway.

Woodman is like the unofficial crybaby server . There's more action on Woodman at 5 am GMT than there was on either Soltech or Jaeger at 9 pm local time. My three characters happen to be those 3 servers, I'm from NYC, but I rolled on Woodman for action at off-peak hours since my two local servers Soltech and Jaeger, were dead before 8 PM local and after 10:30 PM local.

Your server is not going to get merged for quite some time, you have more activity than all 3 of the US merged servers combined. (I was on Genudine but deleted the character for Woodman since it was a ghost town).

We had a similar population to the servers that got merged, in some cases we had less. As soon as it was deemed Woodman would not be merged and become the lowest EU populated server people began to leave for one of the other servers that would be merged, With the promise of a much better experience.

This immediately caused a drop in population, Straight after the merge other people who were hanging around to see if woodman would still get a merge then left after the merges since woodman was left out. Reducing the population more.

Now no new players join the low populated servers when joining a game, We have no influx of players to make up for those that left, and with every game players leave or get bored and take a break so even less players on woodman with no influx to balance it.

Already it is difficult to find a fight that is not at the Crown/Ti Alloys/Crossroads. When you find one it is because the fight at these towers has finally flowed a different way. So there is minimal fighting at the above (center of the map) if you are not a part of the 1 big fight you are effectively capping points with 1 or 2 players.

Now proposed in March comes the convenience of purchased transfers... Convenience of who? SOE? They get more money from players who either lose all progress or pay for the privilege that 80% of the community got for free because it was deemed they were not getting the best experience. These players were on servers which in some cases had more population then woodman.

I do not think it is convenience that the same month the server mergers come is the same month small percentage of players are left and the server appears to be deliberately killed off in an attempt to trap them into making a purchase or having a bad experience.

Why should i and many others who have put plenty of time and money into the game have to pay for something the rest of the player base got for free. We are not getting the Planetside 2 experience and instead are being left out unless we stump up in the very near future.

Last night when fighting at TI Alloys, neither NC/VS bothered coming in to cap the base, instead between the three factions we inadvertently accepted that territory control was pointless and no one faction has the population to take over the continent and may as well just fight it out since if the base is captured we then have to go hunting for were the players are spawning since we have no other players on the server.

With the implementation of another continent things are going to get worse. If the continent is even still up by then and SOE haven't"offered free" transfers after taking advantage of the players for an entire month of paid transfers.

Its frankly insulting that a small percentage are getting treat like this and with no official word on the matter apart from shortly after the merge we heard "populations are being watched" If the players who play on the server saw that the server was going to die before the merge you can sure as hell bet on the fact someone at SOE knew it would and banked on making money from it.

Connery is always booming when Im on. Do you get on during primetime?

He's not trolling. He is disagreeing with you and all the hyperbole a few people on Woodman have descended into, the OP included.

Yes, Woodman is a lot quieter than Miller. However Woodman is not as bad as the servers that got merged. As others have said, I spent last night fighting on Esamir and even Amerish at one point. You simply could not do that on other servers and that is because the population of Woodman is not terrible. Its not at the level of Miller or Mattherson but it is ok.

All the doomsday scenarios that you are posting achieves is:

a) causes people to pack up and go to other servers, making things worse
b) completely undermines your argument because SoE has the hard facts in front of them and you just look foolish painting the picture of a ghost town

I completely agree that Woodman needs to be merged at some point and that will be a great thign when it happens. But please lay off all the doom and gloom, it really is ok for now.

Why would ppl go away from crossroads/ti alloys/crown .. only place to get a decent infantry fights where all the flying **** aint dominating / tanks can be handled.. so before they do infantry only place, thats how it is gonna be

Anyway @ woodman, indar is the only place where there is even a little bit of action .. alltought woodman has been laggy / infantry render has been sucking after last "server performance tweaks" .. cant imagine what it would be after server merges.

Indar wasn´t capped on most Servers in the last few months, but what has this to do with server merges?

Its only going to get worse so they need to sort it now and keep players or they will lose people in the long run. But SOE will just ignore us until they put tokens in and charge us for the privilege of playing the game and seen the other continents.

Check this thread:
http://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/...dmann-asap-important-to-take-note-read.96683/

That's the fear, so stay vocal.

Hourly population graph from Sirisian's post here.

The salvation of many servers will be the large outfits - That guide their "flock" around the black hole we know as the crown. On miller this is actually happening. We see a ton of fighting outside of the crown because outfits deliberately avoid it.

We want YOU on Miller

This is what I plan to do when server tokens come out. Pay to go somewhere else is the only solution SOE will give us. At the moment I just stopped playing my character on woodman: when play time becomes boring time it is not good to continue playing.

I'll come back when server tokens will be available.
See ya.

Here are ideas I think need to be explored.

1) On Woodman, and any other struggling sever, incentivising people off Indar with XP bonuses. Prehaps not quite to the double xp weekend. But close.
2) If that doesn't work and numbers still don't pick up. Double xp weekend, only for thouse servers.
3) If by April and the situation still has not improved, consider merging it with Miller, Cobalt or Ceres. The addition of a forth contient giving these servers 2000 extra capacity.
4) If 3 is not pratical, find a way to break up the server and distribute it across the 3 other EU servers.

Its a trick businessy unfortunately, but the game only really works once you hit a critical mass. Woodman appears to dip below it a lot, as I hear does Connery.

One thing I THINK IS CLEAR.

This cannot come down to those who can afford to move off Woodman by paying, the rest stay in a ghost town. As i've said for a while now, monetizing this population imbalance issue, if SOE insists on sticking to binding characters to servers, is just, boarderline profiteering really.

Ultimately its a tragedy, but given there population is medium ish, merging them was a far harder call than all the 'low' servers. Which so far appears to be working well.

Last night the VS had nearly 50% less population as the TR had, yet on Indar, the VS had more than twice the amount of land that the TR had. The TR were barely holding on to their own Bio lab and Tech plant. I'd be embarrassed if I was TR on Woodman. You guys all have to get out of your Mossies in order to cap bases, you know?

Can't say anything about the other two continents, as I don't do PvE.

I think the difference is they want manageable queue's and not ones that are bad for the game that run into an hour or two

I'm coming, as soon as SOE lets me!

VS are always just use their chance to take some land, its not like they take it in totally equal circumstances. The reasons why its kinda hard to hold Hvar, Allatum and Peris are:
1. its boring, when i play at Indar i dont care about capturing anymore. its not just boring, i think laying dead in the coffin is twice as more funny.
2. Noone really tries to defend. Ive seen what happens, when TR defend their positions. No way to take Allatum or Hvar for NC and VS and even both of them. But...noone defends, cuz "it doesnt give us points" Ill tell you more - CORE even has a whole platoon, who always ignores this. They just chatting and discussing "who is a bigger idiot", making lines of tanks, racing from A to B on ATVs. The idea was great - hot dropping where someone need help etc. But reality - boring platoon, but everyone in it thinks that they rock. They hot drop when none needs it or where "enemies detected", not where "platoons detected".
3. Bad outfits cooperation. They still attack 250 men on a micro facility.
4. But we had Esamir and Amerish. Your leading outfits (not their best part, but still good players) tried to gate us there, but they sucked, till vanu managed to took empty Esamir.
5. The problems are still here - Indarside, Crownside. I told - i wont fight at Indar till the Crown exists and i do not fight there. Except when there are really totally noone at Esamir and Amerish. I dont see any reason why we should try to do smthn at Indar, cuz 60% of TR always at Crown, Ti etc.