[SC] My server is a "ghost town".....

My server is Usa 3, and it is dead. The max I've seen on lately doesn't even approach 100.

Lets me say this, though. I love the new updates and changes , and the new events have been great!

Still have not seen many newbies and the lowers are completely empty.

Something needs to be done about this. Any ideas?

 

No matter how many times it is suggested, we cannot have the servers merged.
It will simply be a bigger ghost town -_-

 

well the servers feel like this bc there are way to many servers I mean even when the game got a huge rush of players there was still servers that was ghostly,ive said it before Do needs to cut some servers off.

 

Those Ideas were here already. If it would be possible it would be already done. Its quite hard to program it. You just type few words but it would take em probably months if not years.

 

I'm sorry that your server is not as populated as you would like.

Here is a quote from the July Producers Dialogue thread on this issue.

I hope this helps in some way
Have a nice day
Astraea

 

When was this posted and where is the update on the matter?

 

Do not hunt new players and new pilots will stay around longer!

 

Think about this when ever Do opens the test server do you realize what happens?no well ill tell you since a test server is open for every bazillion servers it gives a chances of letting many players from all around join one server and im sure we have all noticed how crowded the server can become,I mean I was lagging bad and that never happens lol if Do took notice of what they have done that could make servers full by applying this same method into action.

Sidenote: Many great games have 1-3 servers and have alot of players,you dont need 100 servers to make a game great 1-3 or even 1-10 servers will be good enough and if more servers are ever needed bc of over population then open one more.Having so many servers hat are almost dead makes players lose interest and sure some will just go to another server but most will simply leave and I know you dont want that at all.

 

If a server merge where to happen it would not be a ghost town that comment makes lil to no senses, because what your implying is all servers are dead so server merge would make it empty that logic is terrible.

 

I like your gif I saw the movie the other day awesome!

 

This was posted quite a few months back, and it is too complex of an issue to be updated frequently.
You guys think that a server merge is easy to do, but no, it's a difficult thing. Server host buildings will have to be updated with stronger computer tech for information from another server to be added into it.
^My bad

Because more UFEs and noobs will be shoved together, which would make more people leave the game >.>

 

This has already been done in another bp game, it's far from impossible.

A game that has no players is doomed anyway. This needs to happen. They have posted comments in the forums about it, so that tells you it is already under serious consideration.

Also, I asked for ideas to make it better, not just the poo poo platter. Thanks!

 

darkorbit is special

 

I play on global east, and it's getting lonesome when I only run into FE people popping me. I'm just some noob SE leo. Everyone in my server is pretty much FE or UFE already. The amount of ships I've seen that are sub-elite or less can be counted with my fingers. I hope they do something about server populations. Yeah, there would be more douches popping noobs but at least I can find solace in that there are more people I can talk to who are in the same situation as me. I can't even find a clan because the clan search literally brings up every clan ever and they're all inactive. The ones that are active of course wouldn't accept me because I'm not powerful enough.

 

It isn't DEAD. If any server, it's not it that needs to be merged. Have you ever or in the last year tried to invite people to the game so you could get credit for it and get the designer nostromo and rewards? It might just be about you and others getting involved in the game to get it back like it was and not believing it's suppose to happen on it's own. I see a lot of ships where I travel in upper, pirates, pvp maps and are more than I want to see so I could just complete my missions more freely at times. I'm also a part of USA3 so at least don't use it as an example to merge because it doesn't need any.

 

I've been playing 5 years, it's far from where it was back then. 20v20s in x-6 were common. And no I don't know anyone who wants to spend hundreds of dollars and years on a video game to become strong. No one wants designer Nostromo, btw.

It's not my responsibility to draw in new players. There are always new players, but the game isn't geared to them.

The problem is they don't stay.

 

Please stop. As someone who works with games and servers, I can tell you that this simply isn't the case. The developers of DarkOrbit have near complete control of the servers, and while merging servers isn't an easy thing to do, it's certainly far from impossible.

If the existence of the game depended on servers merging, I highly doubt BigPoint would think twice about it.

 

BigPoint is trying the server merge experiment with BSG.

 

Funny thing about BSG is that they have AI players - Hmm...why can't do that in DO Should see mass battles they have in BSG - hudemonugut...like Spaceball without the ball

 

I play BSG also and there are MASSIVE battles so many ships... Its war everyday lol.