Seeing a lot about server merges, here's an alternative to server merges.

[DarkStaoneDragon]

I'm seeing more threads concerning what's heavily populated... high pop server doesn't mean it's a good server.

ohh how well I know, the info of my character don't show it yet but I moved servers last night, to a mid sized server, bigger dosn't mean it's better especially when it comes to servers, not saying there's anything wrong with Balmung but it's not my "Cup of tea" so to say (prefer coffee anyways).

[Culfinrandir]

I'm seeing more threads concerning what's heavily populated... high pop server doesn't mean it's a good server.

That's very true, but what it usually means is that there's more in world activities that allow things like FATEs to be cleared more regularly. On low population servers most FATEs will lie there waiting to time out, which reduces the pop rate of more popular (or essential) FATEs like those for books or Beast Tribe quests.

[Jetstream_Fox]

Jenova is really bad, I'd say it's about between a mid sized server and a low server. Very hard to categorize it, but it suffers a lot and has a very erratic party finder. I can speak from experience how much better it would be if they merged the servers together, as it would help out my server immediately in all phases of the game.

[Colorful]

If it was all opt-in I wouldn't mind, but otherwise it would kill our English community on Tonberry. But otherwise a better option would be to do what Blizzard does, they use the cross realm technology to connect to smaller servers and leave the high population servers, but even then it got a lot of negative feedback for killing the community of the smaller servers.

[Roth_Trailfinder]

TC, did it not occur to you that a "mega server" is the ultimate end result of merging all the servers? How is a mega server an alternative to merging servers?

[Jetstream_Fox]

TC, did it not occur to you that a "mega server" is the ultimate end result of merging all the servers? How is a mega server an alternative to merging servers?

Like you said a mega server is all the servers. So if you let's say combine Goblin and Mateus, you'd get a bigger server, not anything close to mega, but if you combined all of aether and primal together you'd get the mega server. At least I think that's what they're talking about.

[DarkStaoneDragon]

TC, did it not occur to you that a "mega server" is the ultimate end result of merging all the servers? How is a mega server an alternative to merging servers?

Like you said a mega server is all the servers. So if you let's say combine Goblin and Mateus, you'd get a bigger server, not anything close to mega, but if you combined all of aether and primal together you'd get the mega server. At least I think that's what they're talking about.

What I was talking about is each data center is on a mega server, example all of Primal is on 1 megaserver and all of Aether is on another, I'm not talking about every server being on a megaserver.

[Atmora]

Isn't the whoel mega server thing super hard to implement? Because I played GW2 at launch and it took forever for the mega server system to actually be implemented because of technical issues and that was a game designed from the ground up around that type of server infrastructure.

[Culfinrandir]

Given that the (supposedly top-class) server architecture can't handle major releases as it stands, the horrors of it a giant server would be unspeakable.