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kimmurieloblodra
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So from what I'm gathering, 90% of the population are splitting basically on two shards, leaving the other one desolate ....
My question is, if everyone in my Guild has HOTN, and all the HOTNs and Guardians flock to these two shards, is it possible I wont be able to join them, because I can only start on the 30th?
Thanks in advance.
My question is, if everyone in my Guild has HOTN, and all the HOTNs and Guardians flock to these two shards, is it possible I wont be able to join them, because I can only start on the 30th?
Thanks in advance.
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I'm basing it on the fact that everyone is going to Dragon or Mindflayer.
May I ask you what you are basing your observations on? Plain assumptions? How do YOU know how many founders packs have been sold? How do YOU know what PWE's servers can handle?
large guilds are more likely to be predicted/shown on the forums due to their planning beforehand
Who is this everyone you're referring to, if I may ask? And how is it a fact that everyone is only playing on these two shards? Once again - based on what? 100 or so people on the forums saying they're playing there? The vast majority of people joining on or after the 30th don't ever post on here. The 4th beta weekend alone had over 20,000 players. Did they all post on here and say they're exclusively playing on Dragon and Mindflayer?
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After a few days or even the first hour or two they are sitting in large queues or they find the servers are spammed with languages after than English or something else, which they personally don't like for example.
This then normally results in people or guilds jumping to the medium or smaller population server.
They will all balance out, so there is nothing to worry about
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Fantastic. And once you're done feeling personally insulted over everything I say for absolutely no reason, maybe chill out and stop panicking over nothing. Just because you say it's a "fact" that absolutely everyone fills up two shards and ignores the third one doesn't make it a fact. There's a whole lot of people who don't care about the guilds posting on here, who don't care about what shard they play on, they just wanna get on and play and they'll pick whatever shard they get on first. Common sense.
As for what PWE's servers can handle - STO has been using a single server without multiple shards for over three years now just fine. Will there be queues, crashes and the same initial problems you see in every MMO launch? Without a doubt. But I just don't see it happening that all your friends will end up playing on one shard and you won't be allowed in on the 30th, just because of a few people getting a headstart. And once again, it's all gonna be merged into one shard in the near future, anyway.
A lot did, but doubt enough to fill a server.
Indeed. Mindflayer is going to be pure crazy and the AH prices are going to be insanely high due to the larger population. Dragon is now increasing due to people finding the name cool and people seeing the ever growing amount of people going to Mindflayer and now with the RP community now confirming that Mindflayer will be there unofficial RP server.
So Beholder is the better choice for many of us that will be playing a lot and where the server community will get to know everyone after a short period of time.
60 Drow Trickster Rogue
11 Elf Control Wizard
Server: Beholder
Guild: Praetor Lupus
Guild Website: http://www.PraetorLupus.com
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If you look at the latest interviews, the final beta weekend had 20k players in it. Seeing as all the people with founders packs had guaranteed beta access, it's relatively safe to assume there won't be more than 20k founders - if that. Lots of people who weren't founders got beta keys as well, so we're probably not even close to 20,000 founders. There's no way they'd all fill up two whole shards.
It's because this game doesn't draw in the children, so there are more people buying the 60 to 200$ packs cos most of us have a job
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11 Elf Control Wizard
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Guild: Praetor Lupus
Guild Website: http://www.PraetorLupus.com
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Of course you would. Then you wouldn't need logic to defend your point of view. Most people that make up things to support an idea would rather talk to a brick wall.
I bet if every single person who was in any of the four betas logged into STO over the course of an hour and stayed on together, they wouldn't cause a login queue. Neverwinter's the same technology.
The weekend is not going to be a problem, and on the 30th, most of those people are going to pick Beholder because it's first in the list.
I don't have any friends with founders packs, so I don't really have anybody to join and can go where I want.
From what I understand, the AH and the Exchange will be the same for all three shards anyway, as will be the database of names. It's only temporary until the get merged and there won't be shard names.
I'll probably start on Dragon, and yes, it is solely because I like the name slightly better.
As for the forums being relatively quiet, I think it is because surprisingly few people seem to know about the game. Almost none of my friends that I mentioned it to had heard of it, and those are all current or former MMO players.
Most of my friends know, but most of them don't care, simply because they dislike the idea of an F2P model.
Same, really. The respec token issue really made it harder to convince them, too, but I'm working on it. A few will try, eventually, but as it stands I will just play on my own for some time until I make friends within the community here. The upside, as you had mentioned, is that I have the freedom to play where and when I want, without waiting and coordinating. There's an advantage to everything!
(This also benefits my "I don't really know what class to start out with!" problem. I can just play two simultaneously.)
or PAY to get priority log in...I wonder if that is why there are only three servers?
Also makes you wonder ... who would be able to log in first when the HotN's and Guardians are crowding up the server? haha