Start merging servers before it's too late...

Server merging is needed to at-least keep the games population interested and alive, they always said its impossible but i think it could be done, the only really shackles holding them back is the choice of PvP and PvE changing and the name-base.

Because of how the servers are mapped out they would have to merge them in away were one server that was PvE Before, would have to go PvP, unless on the west coast they left Lost City un-merged and put the other 3 PvE's together.

Might be messy but all in all they have to do it this year if they want to keep them CS players interested.

West Coast:
Heavens Tear (PvE)
Sanctuary (PvE)
Lost City (PvP)
Archosaur (PvE)

East Coast:
Harshlands (PvP)
Dreamweaver (PvE)
Raging Tide (PvE)

Europe:
Lothranis (PvE)
Momaganon (PvE)

Could be;

West Coast:
Heavens Tear (PvE) + Archosaur (PvE) = PvE Serer
Lost City (PvP) + Sanctuary (PvE) = PvP Serer


East Coast:
Harshlands (PvP) + Raging Tide (PvE) = PvP Serer
Dreamweaver (PvE) = PvE Serer

Europe:
Lothranis (PvE) + Momaganon (PvE) = PvE Serer


Moving characters is possible too, they did it during PWIC, so they could even give the players the option to change servers when they became merged, for example players playing Raging Tides merging into a new PvP server who wanted to remain PvE could have the option of moving to Dreamweaver, as long as it was in the same area of servers.

well if they did ever merge servers they should set limits and rules, for example cleaning up the name database would be a massive one for them to do. Excessive alts shouldn't be allowed for the purpose of cat-shopping, the two accounts to a PC/ Connection should be expanded more to cover cat shop alts too.

Theres ALOT of small tweaks and changes that could be implemented both on and off game that would help the game so much, but as we all know they just cant be asked.

The only tweaks they do is to copied and pasted sale homepage posts, changing the dates.

Uhhhh...

Yeah.

Let's get 4-12 times more lag in West Archo, combine different economies, and smash all of the cash shoppers together.

This could end in several ways:

1) The server would crash (assuming you put ALL PVE and ALL PVP on one server, so there would be two total).
2) The game client would kill itself. It would vomit it's code all over your computer. "WTF is wrong with you! There WERE 950 catshops in W Arch, now there is 6,650 catshops in W Archo! KLJFBJLBBJKLSBJSKLBSjklkldfjklsd not enough 1's and 0's!"
3) The big TW factions would have so much trouble TWing with eachother, due to drama, resentment, and just about anything else, that you would actually see a vast majority of people leave from the QQ and anger.
4) More would leave because of the massively unstable economy.
5) Paramedic (using an example here) is a name of a cleric on Sanct. Paramedic also is a Cleric on HT. I think there's one on RT as well. Are all of them on the same account? I doubt it. Suddenly, you have a database cluster****.

Your idea, while it might make sense when looked at in a glance, doesn't really hold up if you scrutinize it. Even if you just combined W Coast, E Coast, and the weird Euro servers, you would be tossing in Archo's economy with Sanctuary's. People who were used to buying X item at 12 mil are suddenly seeing that item only for sale at 24 mil, and are suddenly very poor. They just went from a peaceful, catshop filled server, to a hellish, drama filled, troll cave with thousands of people who have been playing longer than them, and it wouldn't really be fair.

from what I can tell merging the servers won't solve the overarching problem that seems to be presenting itself here. The lack of population on some servers will not be mitigated by server mergers. All Mergers would accomplish would be the redistribution of the remaining population to other servers that may or may not appreciate the added members.

Additionally we have to factor in the fact that for whatever reason we each chose the server that we are playing on regardless of the population that happens to be present on that server. Thus it is our own decision to stay on our respective servers and ultimately not the direct responsibility of Perfect World Entertainment to accommodate us because of bad decision making on our part.

Of course I may be biased coming from one of the most heavily populated servers in the game b:surrender

LC and HT should merge, egos would be sooooooooooo conflicted..........

Tsukyini - Raging Tide wrote: »

Popcorn sales would skyrocket as the WC drama unfolds. b:chuckle

This ^.

TolanSky - Heavens Tear wrote: »

from what I can tell merging the servers won't solve the overarching problem that seems to be presenting itself here. The lack of population on some servers will not be mitigated by server mergers. All Mergers would accomplish would be the redistribution of the remaining population to other servers that may or may not appreciate the added members.

Additionally we have to factor in the fact that for whatever reason we each chose the server that we are playing on regardless of the population that happens to be present on that server. Thus it is our own decision to stay on our respective servers and ultimately not the direct responsibility of Perfect World Entertainment to accommodate us because of bad decision making on our part.

Of course I may be biased coming from one of the most heavily populated servers in the game b:surrender

Personally, I agree with this.

PWE has said in the past that character transfers will not/cannot be done, so your choice of server should have taken that into account. Sorry to say it, but PWE has no reason to merge... the players should have taken that into their own hands.b:surrender

LOL sanctuary going to full PvP. That I would love to see. Dead bodies everywhere.

Angel Spawn - and then we'd run out of space again, and need Super Blacklist Extension stones.

TolanSky - Heavens Tear wrote: »

I think Enrage at least would enjoy kicking the butt of every single Lost City Resident between here and the Moon b:pleased

or at least attempting too....

I'm not sure if PWI had a territory war playoff yet, but I believe in Lost City.

As seen here, some servers are set up for potential merging.

PvE West: Heaven's Tear, Sanctuary, and Archosaur
PvP West: Lost City
PvE East: Dreamweaver
PvE East: Raging Tide
PvP East: Harshlands

As you can see, 4/7 of the Servers do not have name exclusivity and cannot be merged.

Imo LC is already overpopulated, i c always tons of active toons in every city and hundreds of catshops. And every1 who complains about an empty world: this is even not true. During 2x drop i was flying over the world searching for a good location for screenshots. I expected that every1 is in instances to make money with boss drops. But at every corner i saw squads which were grinding mobs - in every lvl region.
The only reason why no1 is asking for more for FB anymore is that one 100+ is enough to solo every instance. Id not ask for more too.

Btw. frankie said last year in a thread that he would like the ability of switching servers and that they might work on this in future. When i remember right i I suggested in that thread instead of this a "server crossing account stash". Id put a cooldown time of 3 months on every item, so u could trade it only 1x every 3 months. This would be the way to avoid that ppl can dominate more servers. Unfortunately we all know that this forum is not a place to make suggestions cz no responsible person (=management, developer) will respond or discuss with u.


And the only way to bring rly many new players to pw would be to re-create a complete new game/graphical engine. When they would do this there would be a reason for game magazines to write about them (tbh i never read something about pw in a printed magazine and only 1x a short article about forsaken world - in comparison there r dozens of wow magazines at every kiosk..).