Phew! Free Transfers are done

[mbartol]

Now that the free transfer period has ended, we can finally be free from all the propaganda posts.


And, yes I know not reading them is an option.

[Chai]

Queue up the "you had your chance to move" posts for every single server merge thread, by folks who will claim this was their server merge and therefore there should never evAr be any consideration for any other server merge or any other solution for concentrating players together from now until the end of time.

[Bunker]

In the coming weeks, once the free server transfer dust settles, there will be some rebuilding performed on the servers.

Many players have already started to re-organize inventory after the daily dice consolidation, thank you orein and sarlona for allowing us to visit you banks.

Some servers are going to start the rebuild stage for now thier numbers are lacking after the great exodus. This might take a while, or might not happewelcome.

Some guild's are starting the rebuild stage of thier guild ships, after making a server transfer. Others have been met with open arms to already existing guild's on Sarlona and Orein. Thank you for that and all other warm welcomes.

And some players, guild's, servers were for the most part unaffected by the free transfer period.

All and all, there are many of us that have some rebuilding, reworking, reorganization to perform.

I do hope that this has given SSG some data on how thier system can handle transfers, and also how the servers can handle traffic with the increase population on select servers.

[Aelonwy]

Queue up the "you had your chance to move" posts for every single server merge thread, by folks who will claim this was their server merge and therefore there should never evAr be any consideration for any other server merge or any other solution for concentrating players together from now until the end of time.

Gee Chai, I'm glad you're back but sometimes I hate how often you correctly predict the future. Leave some room for hope, will ya?

[Mindos]

If they really wanted you on their server, for your good, for theirs, for the good of the game, then just because FREE transfers are over, they should still care the very most, shouldn't they?
So where are the offers to pay for you to transfer to them? Surely, they could pool together for the future glory of their mega server?

I await the forum posts of bribery/exchange such as offers to buy junk for large Astral Shards if you transfer, etc.
(Hmmm, why is there not a free ticket from daily dice 100 roll that lets you have one free server transfer?)

[DarkSkysz]

Can I make an "I regreat transfering" topic then?

Because if I knew Orien was a ****** lag mess 90% of the time... I would never have transfer.

[LightBear]

Can I make an "I regreat transfering" topic then?

Because if I knew Orien was a ****** lag mess 90% of the time... I would never have transfer.

I'd rather hope for that they upp the irons where the virtuals are running on.

[KoobTheProud]

I'd rather hope for that they upp the irons where the virtuals are running on.

I don't think this is a hardware/VMS issue.

I think the problem is more likely to be location of the client vs the server. VPN strongly advised if not already in place.

Some client/server processes are less stable at a great distance. Making the client/server relationship closer can improve lag even if it does not get rid of all the residual lag due to latency between the VPN-entry and the VPN-receiver.

[Oxarhamar]

Gee Chai, I'm glad you're back but sometimes I hate how often you correctly predict the future. Leave some room for hope, will ya?

There may be those posts however this wasn’t a server merge it was temporary solution to the broken transfers during HCL after party

Some players decided to take the opportunity to move really has zero bearing on future merge or cross server grouping

[Bunker]

Can I make an "I regreat transfering" topic then?

Because if I knew Orien was a ****** lag mess 90% of the time... I would never have transfer.

I am not seeing an increase in lag compared to other servers. IE. I mainly play on Thelanis, which is a fairly busy server, and when I run on Orien, I'm not seeing much of a difference. Yes, there is lag, but not any more than Thelanis at times.

What you describe just doesn't seem to be ehat other are experiencing.

[mbartol]

Can I make an "I regreat transfering" topic then?

Because if I knew Orien was a ****** lag mess 90% of the time... I would never have transfer.

This made me laugh out loud—thanks, I needed that.

I'd rather hope for that they upp the irons where the virtuals are running on.

I really don’t think HW upgrades would have as much impact as people would hope. The issues are deeper in the game’s overall architecture and SW. The game engine has been pushed to its limits, and many add-on game designs/systems have been added over the years. Not to criticize any developer personally, but given the release history, I can’t imagine any recent development being very elegantly integrated into the overall product.
We’ve heard many times in the past about the underlying spaghetti code, and that a lot of capabilities are too hard to implement. This indicates that SSG doesn’t have a really solid understanding of the underlying architecture and code base. The game’s core foundation would need to be cleaned up in order to address the root of the lag problems.

There may be those posts however this wasn’t a server merge it was temporary solution to the broken transfers during HCL after party

Some players decided to take the opportunity to move really has zero bearing on future merge or cross server grouping

Agreed. All of this was just a player-driven band-aid. Even though I’m a solo player, I know that the game will need to improve the grouping issues to ensure it’s longevity. A true server merge seems like an obvious solution to many players, but I don’t think it would be. Even though it would consolidate portions of the population into fewer servers, the trend is to spread out the player base even further (e.g., SSG’s plan to increase level cap). The player base would still be isolated into separate servers, and it would present an image of the game being sun-setted. Not to mention that SSG would also be required to solve the game’s underlying problems in order to really support larger-population servers.

At this stage, I believe that cross-server grouping is truly the best path forward. The instanced nature of the game lends itself to this solution, and it allows the game’s whole population to group together regardless of their home server. And rather than presenting an image of shrinking, it demonstrates an exciting new expansion development for the game’s future.

[DaviMOC]

And ofcourse a post like this is much better to keep the topic alive. Gj =)

[Chai]

Gee Chai, I'm glad you're back but sometimes I hate how often you correctly predict the future. Leave some room for hope, will ya?

"Back" might be a bit of an overstatement, but we'll see what the next 14 months or so of lurking brings.

[Oxarhamar]

"Back" might be a bit of an overstatement, but we'll see what the next 14 months or so of lurking brings.

Never really left is more accurate

[Chai]

Never really left is more accurate

Nah, was legit gone for 15 months. Saw they gave players the chance to move to a different server.

Then read up on how that went.

[Oxarhamar]

Nah, was legit gone for 15 months. Saw they gave players the chance to move to a different server.

Then read up on how that went.

Here you is