Everyone wants to be on NA West?

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Edit: title was meant to be a question. dang.
I'm hearing a lot of 2 contradictory things lately, and I wanted to start some discussion about the contradiction.

1) Everyone (all but one outfit I read, for example) plans to be on on the North America west server. I've heard it referred to as the one actual global server.
2) People are still firmly believing they want servers split by geographic location, while at the same time everyone is actually planning to go to one server so far as I can tell.

Are the other servers really just for people who can't fit into or have good enough ping on NA West, the "real" server? Whats going to happen when everyone wants to play on NA West but really its full most all the time and we end up rolling alts we dont care about on other servers just to play?

What's going to happen when all your friends are on NA West and you can't login to join them?

[Sirisian]

I'll be playing on NA East if they have one for latency reasons. Personally this problem has been covered in a few threads. Some people really believe that locking characters to servers is the only way to form a community. I imagine that means that some servers will simply experience a character registration lock after a certain point to keep the player count reasonable. Realistically with 3 continents only 6K people per server can play at a time. That might mean 10K people registered max and then they'll slowly let people in to even out the population. Kind of complicated situation really.

If it got really bad I assume they'd create a solution.

[Ailos]

If their F2P model gathers enough attention (which it looks like it does), they'll have more than just 2 servers for NA.

With that in mind, I'm going to try all of them out first to see who's crowd I like. I get pretty much the same ping to anywhere in NA from here in Texas.

[SniperSteve]

I want NA East.

[Unforgiven]

im guessing most people on the PSU forum are closest to the NA west server, so it just seems natural, i played on the NA east server in ps1, because at the time i was stationed in north carolina, now i live in good ole Arizona, (no more gun laws!) so i will be on the NA West server, and i hope to see you all there, hopefully at my side, but probably through my scope!

[The Kush]

West side of the US has better competition.

[SKYeXile]

IF planetside 1 is anything to go off emeralds pop was about 30% more than markov, upto the CN invasion where they were even, but markovs was spread 24/7.

[SKYeXile]

Originally Posted by The Kush

West side of the US has better competition.

its because Oceanic's play there, see Blackrock, end statement.

[Synapse]

Last MMO I played was Eve Online so I guess I'm not used to this awkward server-shuffle

[Sifer2]

Which US West server? Giving the huge number of people this game will have to serve because of the Free 2 Play there will probably need to be 10 US West servers. I'll probably play on one of the East one's anyway. Or the subscriber only server if they have one.

[StumpyTheOzzie]

Originally Posted by SKYeXile

its because Oceanic's play there, see Blackrock, end statement.

Quoted for Truth.

[DirtyBird]

As SKYeXile says, the spread is 24/7 due to the Oceanic players and thats what you want in a perpetual game.
There is always something happening.

[Malorn]

In case people missed it, there won't likely be East/West coast for PS2.

http://www.planetside-universe.com/s...&postcount=101

Per RadarX

N. American servers will almost certainly be located in the same place. 10 years ago ping time could be significantly reduced just by placing them on either end of the continent, but thankfully technology has advanced.

So you can stop the east/west epeen measurements.

[Malorn]

Dallas is a great location.

[Baneblade]

I can see Dallas from my house.