More servers is not the answer...

[Zozorozo]

Actually the people who don't know anyone, will be more inclined to play on a low population server.

If they offer free transfers to people to the unpopulated servers it will lower the stress.

Its actually a good idea and had they put some forethought into things, they would have had closer to 40 servers per group instead of 25.

They also would have broken the game up into clusters or groups of say 7-10 servers instead of all 25 trying to blitz through the same Duty Finder.

Finally, if they could eliminate the client tryign to access the JP and NA/EU servers at the same time (ie have two lobby servers selected by region on the login screen) their stress would have been better managed.

[edgefu]

Yep I said this all day that the server capacity increase is an increase of severs available and not an increase in space for the servers. You'll still not get to play on the same server as friends unless most of the population moves which is highly unlikely if you play a legacy server.

[Wrendrak]

Actually the people who don't know anyone, will be more inclined to play on a low population server.

If they offer free transfers to people to the unpopulated servers it will lower the stress.

Its actually a good idea and had they put some forethought into things, they would have had closer to 40 servers per group instead of 25.

They also would have broken the game up into clusters or groups of say 7-10 servers instead of all 25 trying to blitz through the same Duty Finder.

Finally, if they could eliminate the client tryign to access the JP and NA/EU servers at the same time (ie have two lobby servers selected by region on the login screen) their stress would have been better managed.

Great ideas.

[Culex]

Actually the people who don't know anyone, will be more inclined to play on a low population server.

If they offer free transfers to people to the unpopulated servers it will lower the stress.

Its actually a good idea and had they put some forethought into things, they would have had closer to 40 servers per group instead of 25.

They also would have broken the game up into clusters or groups of say 7-10 servers instead of all 25 trying to blitz through the same Duty Finder.

Finally, if they could eliminate the client tryign to access the JP and NA/EU servers at the same time (ie have two lobby servers selected by region on the login screen) their stress would have been better managed.

I was referring to those who do choose to group or party with friends, relatives - those they know irl. I totally agree that those who are soloing may prefer a low population server. And separating JP/NA/EU lobby is a great idea. But as of right now, I have yet to form a party with my friends because I can't add them to the list when they are offline or server connection or world full or some such tripe.

Transferring to other servers is kind of annoying... something always gets changed (e.g. map uncovered, settings, etc.)

[Saythe]

Finally, if they could eliminate the client tryign to access the JP and NA/EU servers at the same time (ie have two lobby servers selected by region on the login screen) their stress would have been better managed.

This makes A LOT of sense. You should be able to tell SE where you want to play then access ONLY the NA/EU or JP servers. I've gamed online for a LONG time and I've never met anyone that has said "hey guys I'll be on later, I'm going to play with my friends in Japan" lol I mean seriously. Most people that are in NA will only play on NA servers and same with JP players, although, when Aion was in Beta Test, we had more Asian players complaining of high pings on the NA servers than anything else. You get my point though.