Whatshift?

[Nubi]

Downshift
Upshift

Whatshift?

What's Downshift/upshift mean?

[mikkyT]

Im wondering this myself!

[Ruthless]

dont you know how to drive a stick?

[mikkyT]

We are talking about planetside you dolt.

And they are not called "stick" cars, they are "manual" as against the "automatic" or as I prefer to call them, the "dogem cars for the lazy bastard american" :D

[Anam Nantom]

I believe, from what I've seen, is that downshift is the server with fewer people on it. GM's have asked us to go to these in order to increase thier load and test them further.. btw.. we got near 5, 000 on a server recently, and the GM's were happy.

So, either, they are decreasing in size, or they are just called that because it's fewer people on them..

[Yang]

Upshift and Downshift are a way of explaining why there are multiple "servers".. basicly something akin to alternate realities..

[LiquidThunder]

Within the game's fiction, upshift and downshift are referring to "dimensional shifts". Each server is identicle except for the players on it, they simply represent different dimensional shifts of the planet auraxis. The shifts are slight, all of them are similar enough that the planet's geography is identicle as well as the layout of bases and the identity and equipment of all three factions, but the state of the war is obviously different. eg in one dimension, the NC controls gunuku at one moment, and in another dimension the terran controls it.



Remember though, there is NO difference in the servers!!! All rules are THE SAME on all servers at this time.
-LT

[mikkyT]

So what are they going to call the release servers???

Beryl (Upshift) - US West coast
Meryl (Downshift) - US East coast
Citrine (Leftshift) - US Central
Citrus (Rightshit) - UK
Cyprus (Backshift) - Amsterdam
Kungfu (Forwardshift) - Asia

I mean wtf, they just gonna make up more silly shift names?

[Hamma]

SmokeJumper said on the beta boards that these names probably wont be the same after release.