Server Mergers

[FrogDog]

To be honest, I think the way housing is set up means server mergers are almost impossible. I remember reading about the Korean servers being merged and it meant that one whole world lost their housing.

Yeah the housing is the biggest hurdle. I wish they would come up with some way to figure it out, because servers like Mateus shouldn't exist; and the incentives haven't been enough to correct it.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Yeah the housing is the biggest hurdle. I wish they would come up with some way to figure it out, because servers like Mateus shouldn't exist; and the incentives haven't been enough to correct it.

You are right, they shouldnt exist. Balmung should have been locked at the start of 3.0, and then there wouldnt be this problem. Server mergers are bad, and usually only happen when a game is on its way out, like 1.0.

[Velthice]

Yeah the housing is the biggest hurdle. I wish they would come up with some way to figure it out, because servers like Mateus shouldn't exist; and the incentives haven't been enough to correct it.

Au contraire, Balmung as it is presently shouldn't exist. Fortunately SE has been taking steps to rectify that.

[Makeda]

Yeah the housing is the biggest hurdle. I wish they would come up with some way to figure it out, because servers like Mateus shouldn't exist; and the incentives haven't been enough to correct it.

Uninstanced housing was ALMOST the worst short-sighted decision this MMO has ever made...

Carrying a copy of your entire inventory around as an active object though - is an even worse one... (read every response to why we can't have more inventory - if you understand what they say, from a tech point of view, you will be shaking your head and wondering just how a dev managed to not realize that would be a problem. Then again, I work in tech; and I'd say every company has something like this buried in it's code. Many companies have a lot more of them than SE does... devs who join later always find these things and just wonder WTF somebody was smoking... but also realize fixing them would require some major architecture revisions...)

You are right, they shouldnt exist. Balmung should have been locked at the start of 3.0, and then there wouldnt be this problem. Server mergers are bad, and usually only happen when a game is on its way out, like 1.0.

Some people actually leave games when server mergers happen because it is such a well known 'sign of the apocalypse.' Back when WoW was bleeding players, it did some mergers, and I'd wager that only served to hasten the flight and inspire a lot of people to go look for a 'WoW killer'.

[Zojha]

Well, I'd say to each his/her own. There were plenty of people actually COMPLAINING that the server got busier and honestly? If someone wants to play on a ghost server - or small town server as they'd prefer to put it -, more power to them. I don't mind having such servers for those who do.

Personally, I quite like Balmung even during EU times. The activity is like Cerberus (An EU Server) during peak times and that's a level I feel quite comfortable with. What seals the deal for me, though, really is the market board - Prices on smaller servers are outrageous. I've scouted them with alts and... lol. Things are often 2-3 times as expensive as on Balmung. Monopolies and Oligopolies galore. I couldn't even afford my alt and glamour heavy playstyle on those servers without becoming an active crafter myself. That's just a no.

[Rokke]

Why make the jump to Mateus if you didn't want a small server feel? The population is only going to keep shrinking as SB hype dies down

[Bixillarla]

No. I prefer smaller to medium pop servers. Not everyone wants to be a Balmung type server in terms of population. If they did merge servers how would they handle the housing? Someone would lose a house as you can't have 2 in the same spot.

[Jijifli]

I recently transferred off of Balmung to Mateus, and it's like a completely different (and depressing) game. Like, this transfer was hands down the worst decision I ever made in this game and there are no take backs now. If I didn't still have a character I could go back to on Balmung, this would be enough for me to quit the game over, but as it is, I feel like my main is effectively dead besides weekly raids.

I know Balmung gets a lot of flak but it has a level of activity that should really be the norm on every server. Hunts are busy, chat is active,the market is good, zones have plenty of people running around in them - it's alive in short.

Mateus has had several points since SB release, to even now, where character creation got locked. People are actually complaining that there's too many people now. Specially when there are now 0 housing plots, all gone super quickly.

[FrogDog]

Mateus has had several points since SB release, to even now, where character creation got locked. People are actually complaining that there's too many people now. Specially when there are now 0 housing plots, all gone super quickly.

Yet Rhalgr's Reach and Kugane aren't exactly bustling, and they're dead quiet. Hunts aren't active.

Where are all these people?

And when people say Balmung as it is shouldn't exist, what do they mean? A server with a healthy economy and people who talk to each other shouldn't exist?

[Tigerlilley]

I would recommend moving to a bigger server. Leviathan, Behemoth or Cactuar will all have the busy towns you're looking for. I'm on Behemoth now and hunts a busy, Kugane is busy. There are other large communities outside of Balmung!