LFM social panel server

[Sandirh]

After many month i come back to ddo for enjoy some more adventures with random party. I play on Cannith (with 2 toons TR3) but i sow LFM is become really poor of members.
There are only from 5 to 7 post LFM for all heroic level (i am counting them because is the 71% of all levels). So i tryed to look around in other servers: same things, only Ghellanda have around 20-25 LFM up in heroic levels.
Anyway all servers (Ghellanda too) people must start dungeons with not full party (max 2-4 players + hires) because is a pain wait a full group.
The problem is obvius: few players spread in too servers. It is true, with solid builds is possibile solo most dungeons, but it is really sad, the true spirit of d&d (and ddo in my records since 2009) is enjoy adventures with a party.
Many big guilds in my server are whining for this problem, and many people are thinking to quit ddo for new mmo only for that reason.
So I am thinking an obvius solution: is not it possibile create a multi-server LFM for join istance from any server like GW2 and others mmo? It is an "easy" solution, don't require empower/close servers or pay a massive amount real money for tansfer. All happy, more people play, more VIP accounts up.

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[Chaimberland]

After many month i come back to ddo for enjoy some more adventures with random party. I play on Cannith (with 2 toons TR3) but i sow LFM is become really poor of members.
There are only from 5 to 7 post LFM for all heroic level (i am counting them because is the 71% of all levels). So i tryed to look around in other servers: same things, only Ghellanda have around 20-25 LFM up in heroic levels.
Anyway all servers (Ghellanda too) people must start dungeons with not full party (max 2-4 players + hires) because is a pain wait a full group.
The problem is obvius: few players spread in too servers. It is true, with solid builds is possibile solo most dungeons, but it is really sad, the true spirit of d&d (and ddo in my records since 2009) is enjoy adventures with a party.
Many big guilds in my server are whining for this problem, and many people are thinking to quit ddo for new mmo only for that reason.
So I am thinking an obvius solution: is not it possibile create a multi-server LFM for join istance from any server like GW2 and others mmo? It is an "easy" solution, don't require empower/close servers or pay a massive amount real money for tansfer. All happy, more people play, more VIP accounts up.

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This is an interesting idea. At first I thought this was going to be another "merge the servers" thread but this is a new idea. I don't know if it can be done or not but it would be neat.

[Cardtrick]

Of course I can't say for certain, not having seen the black magic that is the DDO codebase, but I doubt very, very much that this is possible.

Unlike certain other MMOs (like GW2 that you mentioned), DDO seems to be built to have the servers completely separate at a very deep level. There's absolutely no communication between the servers -- they're like completely separate games. Think about character copy to Lammania -- it's always been buggy, and now it's been completely broken for a long time. Or server transfers -- they're an expensive, manual process that takes up to several weeks.

From what I can guess, here's nothing in the engine to facilitate any type of communication between servers. Anything that does happen (like transfers) must require a manual pull from the SQL data on one server, followed by the opposite on the other server -- both portions of which are server-to-data or data-to-server, not server-to-server.

A server merge is much more realistic, since it's a one-time scripting job. A lot of work, once, and no doubt some kinks to work out, but nothing that requires fundamental changes to the game engine. And I agree, we need a server merge or something -- pugging on Cannith is really dead.

[Sandirh]

Unlike certain other MMOs (like GW2 that you mentioned), DDO seems to be built to have the servers completely separate at a very deep level. There's absolutely no communication between the servers -- they're like completely separate games

It is sad to admit, but what you have said has a big sense. So Let's hope in a "merge or something" :I