[SC] US East Coast Servers Need to be Merged

With the population count on the East 3 Server at a record Low and many can say this is true,..I really think Big Point Should merge the current US East Servers into 1 Server. This is not a hard thing to do. If Big Point want to revitalize this game,..merge the Servers and bring the 2/3 Servers into one unit. That way,.we won't be popping the same noobs countless times

 

Agreed, the server is so boring - maps are empty and tbh its like a very close community where everyone knows everything about anyone, thats how small the numbers are. I know it can be done as another game i play (european) has amalgamated with north america and i now play with Canadians on a european server.

 

Agreed, i spend close to 200dollars a week, or i used to, before the population of the server just disapeared. [USA EAST 3 BTW] and havent spent a penny in 7months. Might not be much to a company like bigpoint but thats 5,400 dollars just from me they have lost. and i know others who used to spend if not double, then triple mine back when it was more active.

 

Problem is they do not want to merge the servers they just want to shut them down. They are waiting for the game to die on low population servers and then they will close them completely. It is a lot less effort to close them instead of trying to transfer accounts in a merge like is being suggested. Also there may be players that would then have multiple accounts on one server as people opened accounts to find a better server also.

 

Now why would a company want to close down servers completely and let the game Die? Not a good practice for a Company that wants to Make Money

 

I also agree about the server merge. The active people on this server is way to low there is no fighting at all , every map is empty and there is nothing to do at all ... ( except shoot a cube and watch TV ) wich is boring.
Lets hope that Big Point will actualy do something about this or the ppl that are still active now will stop playing too .. and that will be a loss for us and loss for Big Point.

 

Hello everyone,

DarkOrbit is working on a solution for all this. Simply merging the servers is not just as easy as it might sound because when DarkOrbit was made it wasn't created with merges & such in mind. Technical complications aside, there's all sorts of concerns people have from their ranks, whether or not they play more than one server on a given account (I'd imagine plenty do), and how it the balance may be effected with it's all said and done. For example, there are a lot of calls for protection & aid for new players; if further steps are made in this direction, how may this be effected later by a server merge? The reality is there are many things they have to consider and weigh before trying to determine which option or solution may be the most viable & appropriate way forward for the community.

To say DarkOrbit is taking the time & effort to do things to and within the game just to kill the game or servers is, quite frankly, nonsense. DarkOrbit has been quite clear that they are looking into how to address server population issues and calls for merges, but it's going to take time to be done right. There is development on many fronts this way the game and community isn't left in an entirely stale state (eg, no events, no updates, no fixes) while say if the entire development team worked on strictly the server situation, or the cheats, or new maps, etc for months at a time.

The game team know this is a hot topic for the community and that's not being ignored. It is just something that we are going to have to be patient with to see how it plays out and what the exact solution comes to fruition. Rushing this and doing it incorrectly or something going terribly wrong could be just as detrimental to the game & community as ignoring the community on this all together.

Give them a chance; they are working on figuring this out, and when they have more information for us I am sure they will let us know

Regards,

 

Yup, when the change hits.

 

Ranks are not a problem,..with players EP/Honor/Rank Points,..Simple math From Top User to Lowest Noob. We on East 3 may go up or down. Microsoft Engineers say that Merging Servers ain't all that hard to do. Big Point may want to consult with them on this. But as this is a Top Subject thats been being sent to Support,.I feel that DO should look into this.

 

People asking server merge cause they want more players to fight.
And as you said "Technical complications aside, there's all sorts of concerns people have from their ranks"
Don't need to merge servers for it just create a battle map where every server players can jump and fight with anyone Not 1v1 not 2v2 Like a deatmatch (free for all )
So its not gonna effect on players rank and people can do quest too

Sorry for bad english,

 

ranks dont matter!!! we need people to kill hunt or outfit do all those things.... if top players wont get top 1 or top 10 then they will work hard to do things to make it back to top

 

THANK YOU!!!!

 

gib server transfer nao!!

 

The only thing the top 10 players do anymore is CBS and NOOB hunt. Used to be (with company loyalty) these were the ones helping protect the noobs and preventing the Company Killers from taking over the maps, now they are the ones doing the killing. Loyalty to Company has disappeared and it is now about the clan (and does not matter what company they belong to, to join the clan) as long as you help others in the clan kill noobs you are in.

Okay so you want to live with the dribble from the COMPANY. As others have stated a server merge is not that hard, a couple of lines of programming when a person logs in to reroute them and they are on the new (merged) server. The biggest issue is the fact that people play more than one server and as such could have several accounts on one server (after merge) and this is where the problem occurs. IF the programmers would have made it possible for an account to move servers as easily as they change companies, server populations would not have exploded like they did and then died. They would have found over half of the players (they created the extra servers for) were just looking for an active server, that supported the way they wanted to play. But since they had to create NEW accounts, on every server they played, while the game was fun and interesting, the game saw a major explosion in users and thus they created servers to accommodate these numbers, only to find these players found their sweet spot and let other accounts go, or lost log in information and could not recover accounts lost, either way the populations have declined to the TRUE numbers and now they are faced with which servers are truly needed and which are just stumbling on.

The easiest method of doing the merge would be to send notice of which servers were going to be shut down and ask those players to decide which server they would like to have the account moved to (this on a first come, first served basis, to prevent over populating one particular server) in the case of USA 2 and USA 3, as they are both East Coast servers, should be combined since USA 3 is so dead anyway (however, some may want to jump to USA West for a change, if they don't already have accounts there).

But then if D O waits another year putting out the lame Events, like they have lately, the game will solve its own problems and they will be able to close servers with minimal affected players as they will all have quit the game anyway. The issues with new quests, damage NOT KILL a single shot NPC (hoping no one else shoots it while you have the lock), NPC's to be killed in maps they do not exist, damage not being registered, and weak rewards for the effort, mixed with the same old rehashed Bonus Boxes, and being designed to open wallets that have recently closed as they are tired of wasting their hard earned cash on a game going no where, are all reasons people have given up on this imbalanced game and chose to play other games that have followed the example of what NOT TO DO and have flourishing games instead of a gasping for breathe one.

The biggest issue here is, somewhere along the line, someone forgot the main principle of any business, the future customers are the NEW customers of today. IF you can not keep the NEW players happy, and playing the game, the veterans will eventually grow old and quit the game and leave you with a game of nothing. Since the addition of the "Pirates" the game has started showing the true division of the players (F2P and P2P) and the UFE (P2P) have been catered to trying to keep their wallets weeping cash, and now they are drying up as they have 2 options left, farm gates or hunt noobs (which is chasing the future away from the game). As the rewards from the gates are not that interesting to players who already have everything they need from them it leaves NOOB hunting.

R I P DarkOrbit you are in a vicious circle going down without a parachute.

 

Don't you get bored of logging into the forum everyday looking for a thread where you can complain about the game in as many ways as possible?

Almost every post I see from you follows the same narrative, going on about how this game is about to die any minute now or how whatever event or change is being made has the sole intention to make the players go bankrupt.

This is some legitimate advice for you, if you dislike this game so much and have as little faith in it getting better as you seem to. Don't log back in tomorrow.
Take a break and come back in a year and see if:
1. The game still exists since you don't seem to believe it will.
2. If there has been changes made which you think are positive.

The game isnt perfect, but it can't be good for your health being this obsessed with trying to make out as if this game is some kind of hellspwan and is in some way actually dead and about to close down.

 

lol too true

 

Why doesn't DO just ask which account they want to keep if two accounts on a server(s) that are going to be merged? Also, under the ToA...you are under violation - tehehe

If you want to see what a merged server looks like - play test server. Bunch of campers that are already FE to UFE. It is DO fault for adding SO much firepower.

 

Well said!

 

Where is the TOA anymore? I have been looking for them ever since I started this account.

Sorry, off topic...

 

Is this what you're looking for? There should be a Terms & Conditions link at the bottom of the home page (darkorbit.com)

Separately, on the note of what I think suggests having more than one account is against the ToS - it's not.

DarkOrbit allows more than one account, it's what someone might do with multi-accounts that can lend to trouble

Regards,