Server Merger - Page 2

TeraHertz · 2003-12-02, 02:11 PM

Well, I hope it will go well for you. You'll get some nice killage if it does. :-D

"Zerg comming this way from the East. No.. West. Wait, one comming from the north. ah, crap we're f***ed"

sutserikeru · 2003-12-02, 02:12 PM

Originally Posted by kerosene31

Thank goodness. Hopefully Emerald will have some serious action now.

My NC char is on Emerald, there is always major action. i have yet to go 20 mins without having a CR5 announce a serious battle somewhere (and its always true)

Liquidtide · 2003-12-02, 02:12 PM

Wow so there will be fighting on proabably every continent now!!! It'll be really hard to lock 7 or 8 continents anymore.

And I finally get to play with all you Emerald boys.

I wonder how the CR5 egos will blend

aiwest420 · 2003-12-02, 02:19 PM

Originally Posted by LNS0388

About fucking time.

Doppler · 2003-12-02, 02:21 PM

Personaly i'm very much looking foreward to this it's been a long time coming, plus i feel it's probly a good move for Sony.

Hamma · 2003-12-02, 02:25 PM

Originally Posted by SporkfirePS

TO account for the possibility of duplicated names on the new servers, we did a wipe of all characters taken on the 7-day trials that did not end up subscribing, which cleared up a heck of a lot of names.

Also, Customer Service is ready to assist people who have name conflicts with inactive characters. That part was not automated, since we would have had to have cleared the entire database and could irritate some people who are just taking a break. However, we are ready to help people on an individual basis during this time to get their names back from inactive characters.

Queensidecastle · 2003-12-02, 02:36 PM

hahahaha SWEET!

I am very glad that one of my characters wont get axed or force me to change sides or something. Playing 3 mains in 3 different empires is the way I play this game. I like to spread the luvin and am glad to know I wont have to axe a character I worked hard on. The Emerald battles were already just fine but the Kornried battles were really thin.

TheRagingGerbil · 2003-12-02, 02:53 PM

I can still see spying to be a problem. Have your outfit mates make alts for the various empires. Have one guy login to the enemy you are fighting, and relay all the important information.

BadAsh · 2003-12-02, 03:07 PM

Well,

With the multi-empire account possibility, I think they should just let you play all 3... one switch per 24 hour period.

Good players will help even the population out and hopefully that can be encouraged by the exp bonus, perhaps increase that for people who recently switched?

Thoughts? Concerns?

BadAsh

P.S. I believe this merger means they are not meeting their subscription expectations. Hopefully, this will being more action and fun and help maintain the populations and in time increase interest.

InfiniteStorm · 2003-12-02, 03:17 PM

I think this will help the populations in the long run. Imagine getting the 7 day trial and logging into a sancuary full of people LFS or LFSM and you check the map for the first time and there are Hotspots everywhere on the globe. Every base you go is hard fought and huge battles. I think those people will now subscribe. As opposed to logging into an empty sanctuary and spamming LFS for 10 minutes to no avail and hitting instant action and being warped to a place where there was 1 enemy and you are capping empty bases.

Good first impressions will save this game. I can't see lag jumping that much. No more anyway than being on a locked continent. This is why there are continent locks to begin with. Now, instead there will be continent locks on 3 different continents for just your empire.

Exciting times I think

Hamma · 2003-12-02, 03:23 PM

I agree

Everay · 2003-12-02, 03:36 PM

wow, a cold feeling went down my spine when i read that, trust me, every time theres a cold feeling running down my spine, like a ghost touched me, means something awesome is about to happen

Rarzo · 2003-12-02, 03:38 PM

WOW....wow...

This is big. My poor Konried...Being bought over by the larger Emerald... Oh well! BIGGER BATTLES!!!

ROCK ON!

Not to mention my character on Jahari will actually see some action!

ajohn505 · 2003-12-02, 04:01 PM

The server mergers may bring me back to the game, if someone can answer my next question:

In the announcement, the devs mention an "enhanced infrastructure" or something. When I left (one month after launch) the large battles were bogged down badly by lag. Even 20 v 20 Tower battles were a slideshow.

How's the lag now that they've done optimizations?

gonnagetyou · 2003-12-02, 04:15 PM

I hope no technical difficulties arise from the merge. I do think it is for the best. It saves Sony money, time and maitenance hours by getting rid of two servers and helps us out by increasing the populations.

I don't think allowing people a choice of two factions on a server is going to cause any problems. Very few people will actually change sides just because things aren't going their way that day. People should be used to the ups and downs in battle by now. Everyone knows there's no winners or losers in Planetside. Just a lot of fighting. What more do you need.