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[WolvesX]

First off:

PGI already stated that there will be a one time switch thing, so that will not be the problem. Your stuff will not be lost!

Q&A: http://mwomercs.com/...67#entry1863367

Hello fellow BETA Testers!

As stated in this Q&A, euro servers are incoming, for me as a n euro player, this is great and since Clan Coyote is purly based of euro players, I got no probs incoming from there...

Some things may be complicated:

Intercontinental Units - Which server to choose?

Will there be a euro founders program, and if, can euro players merge there existing account with a eurofounders?

Interserverwarfare possible?

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Some thing really bugs me, how much aktiv players are involved in MWO?

I mean, there is no point in a splited EU server, if no one wants to play there (not enough).

What are your thoughts about server spliting?

Comments and posts are very welcome!

EDIT: Upd poll.

Edited by WolvesX, 12 March 2013 - 07:18 AM.

[Bloody Moon]

Splitting the community is a bad idea.

I think simply having the option to select the server you want to play on before each match (like game modes) would be much better.

I could go on and on why it is better but i don't think i have to as the reasons are many and quite obvious.

[WolvesX]

Bloody Moon, on 11 February 2013 - 01:05 AM, said:

Splitting the community is a bad idea.

I think simply having the option to select the server you want to play on before each match (like game modes) would be much better.

That would be great!

[Ilwrath]

Bloody Moon, on 11 February 2013 - 01:05 AM, said:

Splitting the community is a bad idea.

I think simply having the option to select the server you want to play on before each match (like game modes) would be much better.

I could go on and on why it is better but i don't think i have to as the reasons are many and quite obvious.

They can do as Tribes Ascend does. Choose server ingame before you join the que. I think splitting the community will be just fine. As long as they have the numbers ha-ha.

Will you buy EU-Founders?

Licking cold metal objects outside, touching a hot oven, rubbing chilli fingers in the eyes or urinating with em. Some things you only do once and then learn from it. No I will NOT spend cash on this before it greatly improves. Eu server or not.

Edited by Ilwrath, 11 February 2013 - 01:17 AM.

[costi]

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Licking cold objects outside, touching a hot oven, rubbing chilli fingers in the eyes or taking a **** with em. Some things you only do once and then learn from it. No I will NOT spend cash on this before it greatly improves. Eu server or not.

+1

As for the switch - I miss the option "maybe, depending on how it's implemented". If they really decide to split the playerbase (bad, bad move) I'll wait and see how the EU server goes. If they figure out a way to let me play with everyone (many suggestions given already) I'll probably switch.

[One Medic Army]

Needs an option for 2nd question:
No, not switching servers

[Taizan]

WolvesX, on 11 February 2013 - 12:51 AM, said:

Some thing really bugs me, how much aktiv players are involved in MWO?

I mean, there is no point in a splited EU server, if no one wants to play there (not enough).

What are your thoughts about server spliting?

Either PGI/IGP opens shop in EU and hosts it's own gameservers with localized content or it's hosted by big game service providers with bad support and their own payment system etc.
In the second case I will not transfer. In the first case I will transfer, although this is heavily based on where most of my active friend list is located, currently this is EU, so there would not be much of a split for me.

However for many others this division is an issue and I generally loathe splitting up services that are technically accessible from any point in the world (as we can see now) into artificial, locked regions. The idea of a regional server should be to allow players to play with lower latency, not gate them away from the rest of the community.

[Ghost_19Hz]

What if there were Euro and SEA and NA server and you could choose which one(s) you are willing to be matched up against? is that possible?

[Ilwrath]

PythonCPT, on 11 February 2013 - 01:26 AM, said:

What if there were Euro and SEA and NA server and you could choose which one(s) you are willing to be matched up against? is that possible?

Tribes Ascend does this right now, as I said earlier in the thread, so yes it is possible.

[armyof1]

I'm moving to the EU servers and maybe even find PPCs useful on moving targets. As for switching my current account to EU servers, I have to say I'm curious if it'll cost MC to do it? And depending on how much I might just open a new account instead.

Founders package really depends on what's in it for how much. But judging from what things usually cost in MC I have a feeling I won't find good value in it.

Edited by armyof1, 11 February 2013 - 01:35 AM.

[CrashieJ]

seriously. we in NA want to play with our EU brothers, we have teams with them and that's literally as realistic to CW as you can possibly get. PGI's going to shoot themselves in the foot if they don't let us play with each other. Hell I dont think that most of the EU players are going to switch if it means that they basically have to play alone from their NA bretheren.

How about we take PGI, split them into two, and then cut ties between each other. Lets see how fun THAT is.

Edited by gavilatius, 11 February 2013 - 01:43 AM.

[Jeye]

The fact they are going to split EU and NA into different servers is not good. I don't see why you would want to fragment the community. It's going to make everything more difficult and split many teams all ready formed in half. With a ping of around 100ms it's not even an issue gaming from the EU at the minute and I would rather wait until they have a shared community but with game servers hosting the matches sat in each continent. The upside is that it will halve my ping, the downside is that I won't be able to play matches with half of my unit unless I grind up a second account (which I don't have time for ) and it will make playing 8 mans even more difficult.

It's a bad move and I agree with Taizan's comment above in the way the EU servers should offer players a low latency place to host matches but without walling them off from the majority of the players who reside over the pond. It's a game breaker. I can't believe they are going ahead with it and I hope they change their minds.

When you bring in features, especially ones your going to invest a heap of cash in, it has to bring VALUE to your product. Where is the Value in this decision?

[Spiketail Drake]

I probably won't change. But they might do linked accounts across all servers. As in, you pick a server to play on at login, but not make that a permanent choice. Your accounts progress is saved on a single server that gets updated when you log out/exit the game. This way you can play with friends in all servers, unless your House/Clan is multinational. In which case there should just be a multinational server like we have now.

[CrashieJ]

Jeye, on 11 February 2013 - 01:41 AM, said:

value snip

what they could do is have a main hub server that splits into NA and EU hubs, where all calculations are compiled in the Main and NA./ EU players face off against each other via the hubs. all the CW is updated on the Main server. WE'll have lower latency with direct lines and accessibility to most of the freaking world.

[Wizard Steve]

Well EQRG is an international unit so I can't see us abandoning the NA servers so I guess I'll be staying put. My 137 ping from France has never been an issue for me.

[Ilwrath]

Game need Amsterdam and/or UK servers for those that want to play on them. If its a full split then you simply have to choose. Its far better than what we have now and there is NO arguments against it.

Just the implementation. EU servers is a must and is more important than US servers because EU always have more players for this type of game.

[Wizard Steve]

Perhaps they should just move all the NA servers to EU.

[smokefield]

they need to add the option to choose your server. otherwise it will fail.

I am playing starcraft and countless times i was forced to look on other server becasue there werent enough players to create a game.

If I switch and when I want to play there is no one around to have a game...what should I do ? everyone has his hours when he can play, is not that we can adjust our program for the hours when ppl are online, the game should be ALWAYS available for the players and if there are more servers...to let the player choose where to play, so in case on his preffered server there is no one he can go and play on another server. Any other way of splitting the community will end up badly.

[Koningswulf]

I used to play D&D online and they did have a european server but the community there always got second handed when it came to new updates and information, and that together with lower community made the servers slowly die.
I dont belive in a split community, instead I would propose that PGI made some european server where those that wanted could play, but that all servers stod under the same people as it works now and got the same treatmeant and information.

I for one will not be moving to european servers without knowing they will work and especially not if there is some other company that will handle them. its just to high a risk to get involved in another dead end.

[smokefield]

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I for one will not be moving to european servers without knowing they will work and especially not if there is some other company that will handle them. its just to high a risk to get involved in another dead end.

exactly