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Originally Posted by Zehn - Vhex  Wonder what the feasibility of just shutting down all extaneous servers and just having one pvp and one pve server. Now that the population is a bit more spread out, it sounds like a win-win situation. |
It's not that spread out there are usually 2-3 high end spots that see a lot of traffic not to mention the major cities -- there's somewhere around 100k active subs -- even if the engine could handle that -- it would be insane in some places. I heard the 20k per server number bandied about once so taking that number we'd need a min of 5 PvE and 1 PvP server (AFAIK totall pvp pop for all pvp servers <20k). Probably 5 US PvE 1 Euro PvE and 1 US/Euro combined PvP would give us around 12-18k active accounts per server which would solve any pop probs -- that combined with some fixes on the movement front (teleporters or Kcxiv's suggestion -- I actually prefer both - limited telepoerts to all at least 3 on each continent - and give some additional ports to arcane casters and shaman) -- would fix most of the LFG issues. Heck throw in a better LFG for shits and giggles.
And I still think they need to add a EQ style newbie dungeon to make it easier for new players to meet each other.
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Ravensign I agree. Better serious server surgery now then letting the patient bleed to death over time.
