Emerald can't handle the player load!

[mikkyT]

I'm not talking about now

But later, when I am BR20, or CR4 or something, and my team decideds "hey we want to switch servers" I'm not gonna want to start over again. BEP may be trivial to you, but after a month of working hard to gain all that BEP I'm not gonna want to give it up. I worked hard for it.


At this stage in the game, you gain nothing from moving your char. Later things will be different.

You haven't got much experience with MMOs specifically SOE ones have ya bud?

They will never do a char transfer at the drop of a hat.

the only time you got one is for if a new server opened up.

If you wanted to move your level 60 wizard with 2 years (literally) playing time, you eitehr waited for a brand new server with a movelog facility or else you where stuck.

Anyway whats teh point of a group of friends moving servers unless you are trying out a new empire. Just stay on teh same one!

[LesserShade]

I'm going to try out konried tonight. Emerald's performance was disgusting.

I agree with hamma though, moving characters between servers would be nice. Leveling in this game is more of an annoyance than it is a reward system, so having to do it multiple times blows.

[Jarlo]

Matuse-- DAOC had an absolutely flawless launch.

I was on emerald as well on hrm.. Hossin. We had 3-4 continent crashes which really sucks when you are far away from a base in a tank and it POOFS. I also had some really weird lag spikes-- one when I got out of my magrider to fix it and it proceeded to warp across the base with me chasing it 8)

Still a whole shitload of fun though!

[Hamma]

I dont plan on moving. Just thinking out loud.

[Seer]

I am sure there will be other people buying this game, and they, being sensible folks, will fill out the other servers.

[EnderCN]

Matuse-- DAOC had an absolutely flawless launch.

Except the item crafting system didn't work, the majority of the world wasn't itemized past the lvl 20 zones, keeps didn't work properly, relics weren't in though they lied about it until someone tried to grab one, RvR was terribly balanced, the game lagged like mad if 40 people were in the same area for RvR and the cities had terrible lag.

Other than that DAOC was flawless.

[Big Bro]

They proved during beta that none of the servers could handle overload. I think the magic number was like 4k? That's when I started to notice lag and stuff anyways. That's why they have people monitoring it and setting up the new servers as needed.

I'm fairly certain that once Konreid and Johari reach the magic number, they'll release new servers and we'll be having a conversation about how great the Hamma server is comparatively. YES, they should name a server after you man!

[Matuse]

Ender nailed it there...DAOC was incomplete when it went to release. I was in beta for DAOC, and I quit when they announced the release date on the beta boards, because the game was so obviously not ready for prime time (well, that was one reason, the other is that DAOC had a boredom level that made EQ look like skydiving)...hell, the primary rogue class for all 3 realms went into release COMPLETELY UNTESTED.

The quality of its release from a lag/server stability point of view was superb by MMO standards, but it still had problems with crashes and lag and such.

[Big Bro]

I feel much better about a game that needs a bit of "tweaking" to acheive gameplay balance than I do about a game that crashes every now and again for "no apparent reason".

Get the basic critical things going first. If it's playable, then release it. The gameplay balance will come with time. Those that don't care to help with that can wait a few months while the rest of us have fun.

[2coasts]

Well Emerald appears to be going down in a ball of flames again tonite. I log on, get into a HART, I cant drop anywhere, im trapped on the thing, have to Alt+Cntrl+Delete, then I cant log back on to Emerald...

[d3ath4u]

Yep, just an hour ago (6:45 mst) im in my reaver, go through the hossin warpgate...and freeze, i should have known better, there was a reason that i saw 30 people, sunderer, and 2 galaxy's frozen in warp gate...sigh..i guess i thought i could make it.... I am so pissed off at emerald, if I wasnt at br10, I would switch to Markov, but o the work!!!

[Destroyeron]

It makes me wonder wether I should wait until I get broadband to buy Planetside...

[2coasts]

oh you definatly should.

Emerald seemed to be working fine when i finally reconected and played for a few hours tonie.

[powdahound]

Originally posted by Hamma
Well konried is up (second east serv) they should have brought that one up first, seems more stable

Probably seems more stable because there aren't as many players on it.

[powdahound]

Originally posted by Destroyeron
It makes me wonder wether I should wait until I get broadband to buy Planetside...

I'm having a blast on my 56k. You just can't expect to run around and gun everything down. I play engineer/medic right now, and will expand once I get more cert points.