Two Questions for the Devs: RP Server and Legacy Naming Credits

[Momita]

Now I have a question for the Team.. If they introduce a RP-server.... Will be 2 (new and old player)? Or just 1 (old player)?

I really hope they don't split the community even more D:

[Pancakes]

Nothing stops new players to join an old server. I don't see a reason y they would make 2 separate ones. I just hope it'll be actually one of the old servers and not a new one since old players can't transfer to new servers.

[Momita]

Nothing stops new players to join an old server. I don't see a reason y they would make 2 separate ones. I just hope it'll be actually one of the old servers and not a new one since old players can't transfer to new servers.

Yes I hope it too but like new and old servers for new and old player... i'm afraid that they'll do this even for the RP server

[Coris]

What just came to my mind is, if there also will be a RP server for each datacenter? o.o

[Momita]

What just came to my mind is, if there also will be a RP server for each datacenter? o.o

MIND BLOWN





3 RP server... for 2 Type of player... 6 RP server......... Splitting community for the win!! /o/


Really hope NO. Just 1 international server =^w^=

[Coris]

That really would split everything up :/

[ArkhamNative]

MIND BLOWN
3 RP server... for 2 Type of player... 6 RP server......... Splitting community for the win!! /o/
Really hope NO. Just 1 international server =^w^=

That's just the same general argument against regional datacenters, except splitting them further into RP-labeled ones.

SE hasn't announced anything, other than saying they're waiting to finalize plans and announce around Phase 3, possibly after seeing how many of all v1 characters decide to move to different regions or servers for launch.

Most known info was covered in this dev thread: Current Plans for World Transfers

[Deli]

this bring my memory back to around jan. 26, 2013, I read a part (not in English) listed inside "The things newbie need to know, read here first". #6: translation is like:

"Besides Chinese server (there is a Chinese company purchased the license) will be in China only, all the rest are linked to Japan. No segregation between nations."

So, I asked the owner... "Isn't the Data 'servers' will have NA server, EU server, JP server?" exactly word.
He replied to me, "This is the first time I heard this!"
"I just asked the people in the forum, they said SE is only put 'data center' in each regions, but the final data will be sent to 'servers' in Japan."

That's what I thought initially when I see the data center news... however after so many NA forum threads... I went to other way (NA server, EU server, etc.)
I'm still confused.

[ArkhamNative]

I'm still confused.

It may just mean that we won't be able to play cross-server ("duty finder"?) with China.

It would probably be veryVERYvery expensive for SE to buy two private mega-bandwidth, ultra-low-latency networks from London and Los Angeles to Tokyo to carry all gamer traffic.

[Deli]

oh no Chinese due to their law, I think they have to have the server in China, so the internet police can screen all the conversation and contents. However, SE want to have the international servers... so that's why Chinese get their own Simplified Chinese version (ARR translation 80% done, and I think SE translated for them) and individual server like in WoW I think...

I digged more into the data center... this is what I found:

Originally Posted by Naoki_Yoshida
I wanted to provide more details on how the servers will work because when I briefly explained about data centers it looks like there were a lot of players that had questions about it.

What's going to happen is a player will be shown a complete list of worlds. Within the list, players will see which worlds are tied to which data centers (i.e. this world and this world is tied to the data center in Japan, this world and this world is tied to the data center in North America or Europe). Players will have the freedom of selecting any world they prefer.

This means that they can select a world that’s in the data center in their own region or they can select a world that's based off of one in another region. For example, I would choose a world based in Japan because the data centers are physically closer to me. On the other hand, a North American or European player may choose a world based off of their data center centers to keep the lag to a minimum.

So let me make it clear that we're not separating the worlds by language. For those who want to play with players outside of their region, they will have the choice of selecting a world that's located in another region. Also, through the content finder, you will be able to select a language preference so for those who only wish to play with players that speak the same language, all they have to do is set the language preference to the language of their liking.

source

I think what it says indeed, NA has NA servers; JP has JP servers. Otherwise, he didn't need to explain "For those who want to play with players outside of their region, ..." part at paragraph 4.

so.. ya...

and... maybe the forum ppl mean: "the final data for NA data centers will still go to Japan"