05/14/24 [MAINT] PWI SERVER MAINTENANCE (COMPLETE )

heerohex#3018

Please feel free to update if needs be.

Maintenance tonight is expected to start around 23:00 PDT.

* 05/14/2024 11pm PDT (05/15/2024 8am CEST) *
All times and dates are approximate to location and use MM/DD/YY

Maintenance is expected to last approximately 4 hours, so during that time you will not be able to access the live servers.
*Maintenance times are tentative and are subject to change at any time. Actual end times will vary depending on the progress of the maintenance.

Maintenance notes:
I have not had any notes on tonights Maint, Please prep for Standard Restart Maint. I will update should I have any feedback. Thanks.

Thank you for your patience and we apologize for the inconvenience.

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Question For This Week!
Question of the week - Is it the right time to look at merging servers and what servers would you merge to which? ( To confirm nothing has been said by the GM team regarding this and I'm only asking In curiosity, other players perspectives. )

This is a can of worms question, Please be understanding and fair to all answers or they will be removed. Thanks.

Thanks.

heerohex#3018

Is it the right time to look at merging servers and what servers would you merge to which?

Hold

joshdarnit#5803

I mentioned this before, if the GMs really want to save this game they need a merge but not the merge players are expecting. From the way the game's architecture is built it is dependant on servers in fourtuples due to cross server events.

My proposed solution is as follows:
Update PWBR/PWRU/PWI all to the same update version.
Merge all PWI servers.
Merge all PWBR servers
Split PWRU servers into two large servers
Combine PWI/PWBR/PWRU1/PWRU2 into a new PWI cross server ecosystem.

I understand the economies would be completely different across different versions but I feel like it all will balance out. Since there is no cross server trading those markets will all stay self-contained. Rarely do we even use any sort of cross server communication so there doesn't really need to be a concern of language boundaries because everyone will be focused on trying to beat other servers. It would bring this game back into its competitive light similar to how E-Sports games are where they have like NA vs SEA and things like that.

Another benefit of the merge is having all the content updates across all versions on the same release schedule. This would then promote working together with other PW versions to figure out the mechanics and things like that. I feel it would strengthen and build a strong community. As it stands I rarely see anyone on these forums or even talking about the game.

Also, by combining all the PWI servers we could finally get dedicated GMs again. I feel like it would be a lot easier for dedicated GMs for the game rather than having a GM juggled around all the server and not knowing what is going on 99% of the time.

heerohex#3018

@joshdarnit#5803 Thats not possible from the get go. All these versions have a different publisher. I like to never say never tho the odds are really not great.

I'm interesting idea though.

Thanks.

fillecool226

Personnally I would just combine the 3 US server together to make a strong server and let Dawnglory alone... XD
They win every cross server nation war since a bunch of time so what I was thinking that it could be 2 servers in nation war instead of 4...

kathiawellina

Merging all servers into one and try to code the hard code for the daily/weekly events that one person can only do them 3 times per week in terms of nation wars. So there would be one at 20am european server time, one for east coast and one for west coast. But there is the limit that you can visit Nation wars only 3 times a week. Same with the other time based events. This is possible and china is probably doing that eventually by the time that they start to struggle. Better to have the coding done up front and not with one expansion. With a lot of testing and so on, cause this has the potential to break the game, if it is done wrong. If that is possible to do. Maybe when they finalize their planned engine change from Angelica to Unity/Unreal Engine, as was discussed on a press conference 1 or 2 years ago.

tammy2009

Merging Etherblade with Twilight Temple is one obvious merger. If you need a 4th server for events to avoid breaking, just swap Twilight Temple with a blank, inaccessible server that nobody enters into for xNW and so forth, and for their NR, it will just function like it does for Dawnglory and Tideswell instead of being a cross-server thing. That won't make everybody completely satisfied, but it will make the lives of the people on those 2 servers a lot more interesting and fun I think. It might even improve the overall pvp scene because it will provide a higher chance of more top-tier factions capable of giving Infamous and Sovereign a run for their money.

Merging all 3 US servers together might be a little too much. No matter which way you turn it, a bunch of people will no longer have accessible event times. What we might get is a temporary salvation for a longterm exodus. Not to say that exodus isn't happening already, but its more of a trickle, and it could become a flood. I'm really not sure.

funfunfun#3039

I know some servers have the Bard class, is that class coming to PWI International? I have heard it is and heard that it isn't. Can someone please finally tell us the reality of this?

heerohex#3018

funfunfun#3039 wrote: »

I know some servers have the Bard class, is that class coming to PWI International? I have heard it is and heard that it isn't. Can someone please finally tell us the reality of this?

We will be getting an update at some point at least that's what I've been told.

As for the bard class. I will say with 99.9% certainly no one knows for sure. The 0.01% if your a GM.

We will have to wait and see for now.

Thanks.

antonio0590

Unless PWI is planning to catch up all at once. We wont be getting the Bard class in the next big update.

We'll be getting the PvE changes first and then the Bard/class change update after.

heerohex#3018

Yeah that situation is interesting unfortunately like I said I just don't know any more about that.

Hopefully we should know more about this soon.

heerohex#3018

I can now confirm that this maintenance has been completed. I'm going to Mark this as complete.

Thanks.

heerohex#3018

This is our last call for a event gold shop feedback. I will be removing this thread later on to give feedback to the GM team.

I also have a little bit of feedback regarding TW and XTW to bring to you. Unfortunately that will have to wait till later when I'm at my computer.

Thanks.

sakti#1598

antonio0590 wrote: »

Unless PWI is planning to catch up all at once. We wont be getting the Bard class in the next big update.

We'll be getting the PvE changes first and then the Bard/class change update after.

On ruoff, they got it all in one global update.

eland20

heerohex#3018 wrote: »

Is it the right time to look at merging servers and what servers would you merge to which?

Hold

Server merge cause people to quit who leave their time-zone. Pretty sure server-merge of harshland and morai to dawnglory did so.

I think the very first part which should be fixed are the time-specific events. The players shall be able to decide themself when to play and when todo events. Since the first day, pwi forces the player to play at specifc time. leave the time-zone kills the events.