[UI] Server merging is not the solution.

For years now, people have been asking for server merges, but this is not the solution. That will bring the benefit of numbers while also having many negative effects on people. People that have multiple ships on different servers will have between 2-10 ships on 1 server. seeing this, most noobs will quit, or DO will take the accounts away. Now let me suggest a better solution.

My idea is somewhat like the UBA, but for clans and servers. For example the Clan UBA will be as follows:

~The top clans of each server battle each other for 2 weeks in a series of Clan vs Clan fights similar to TDM matches. When each server has only 1 clan remaining, the servers battle each other using their top clan. Say for example there is 48 servers in the competition, then is is just knockout. There will be 24 groups of 2 clans facing each other, like the JPA. Each clan will pick 15 of their best fighters for the competition Each player has 3 lives, and when they die they are out of the whole competition UNLESS their clan comes out victorious in the battle. When the first stage is over, there will be 24 clans remaining, therefore being 24 clans left over. They will do the same thing, this time only having 2 lives each. The next stage is only 1 life each. When it is narrowed down to only 3 clans it will be a 3-way fight, with only 1 life each. The last clan standing wins.
This competition could be held every 1-2 months.


~They could do the same thing, but this time not just clans, but entire servers. Say for example, they do a series of 1v1's until there are only 50 people on each server, then do battles with the other servers until onlt 1 server remains as the victor.

There would be rewards for the winning clans and servers too, so even the noobs would benefit too.

This thread is open for discussion, so please feel free to add your thoughts to it. Thank you

if you see the need to change something about this, tel me

 

i would think it would still be unbalanced a populated servers clan fighting a servers clan with low population most of the underpopulated servers clans are not all UFE. also this would be just another event dosnt help the other 30 to 60 days of server grinding depending on if its one month or two in between

i agree merges is not the fix the game is broken with the gap from new player to UFE yes it takes work to get to ufe or a fat wallet but with the new player having nowhere to grind at without being fodder for kill counts the servers even merged will still die slowly. So if they do merge i hope they make the noob experience a little better so the servers go into a boom rather then a slow death

how to accomplish this is going to change the game and people will cry one way is make all lowers a demi zone very slow uri there for farming so the new player will venture into the uppers even if they Nerf the lowers rewards something like this will help the noob population but PO the UFEs that hunt the lowers for easy kills hmm whats more important for the games survival that guy that just likes to smash people or potential cashers that don't have a chance to get hooked on the game because their game consists of getting popped every time they leave port. that would be a cool as hell game to die all the time everyone loves that so i say give them a safe zone to grow they all will venture forth for better rewards

 

That's why i said each clan pick 15 players... im sure they can come up with 15. even with how dead the game is, people will start playing again if they have something like this.

 

i agree with lowers demilitarized

 

Your idea isn't bad but server merging isn't just for ufe players to kill more people and it wont make noobs quit. on my server at the moment noobs quit because no one helps them because there isnt many players like them its not too much about them dying so a server merge would allow a lot of noobs to work together to defeat the tough aliens for their quests while the bigger players would have plenty of people to fight and this would make events a lot more interesting and competitive too. Also on my server I see little to no people compete in Team Death Match , Sector Control and Invasion gate which are a few of my favorite activities and with more people on my server then I would be able to compete in such events and get the achievements too. I would like to see maybe a uba type activity for 5v5 against other servers like they've done on turkish servers I believe but I think a server merge for some servers will be very beneficial. Do keep in mind this is my opinion and prediction and I may be completely wrong lol.

 

Another suggestion i have is that they could open a few new servers that you can transfer ONE ship to and play there. 1 or 2 for english, and the same thing for other languages depending on the numbers.

OR they could have a server for people not fe, that they can go to and PVE untill they get basic ufe and come back to their main server.

KEep posting your ideas though.

 

Server merges, weither they be major changes or minor, are inevitable weither you like that idea or not.

We may not be losing members as fast anymore, however, new players are not distributed among the servers enough to support all servers with people willing to play. And that's if they make it past being FE.

Merging should be implemented to a degree, an example would be Russia's and Turkey's 7 servers merging. Because seriously, our playerbase is not enough for 7 servers in one region. There should be a Russia East and West, a Turkey East and West(considering their high populations), USA East Coast(not 1, 2, and 3), C.Republic 1 because that country probably doesn't need 3 servers considering it's size, along with Germany and possibly France.

Take Great Britain 1 for example. It is one of the most populated servers on Darkorbit, if not the most populated. And that's because they only have 2 servers, fit for the size of that country.

In conclusion, we really don't need 6 or 7 servers for one region, and, coming from USA East 3, an arguably dead server, we do NOT need 3 East servers, we, the entirety of the USA East Coast serverlist, are only active for one at this point.

 

Doubt any mod will take note of this but to go and add about your thought, i think a good idea would be a server war, like 10 players from each server ( which have signed up for the fight ) go against another server , such as gb1 vs gb2, east1 vs east2 etc..

winner will go on to face a winner of another match, this would make it so players arent only in competition with people on the own servers but will feel the need to grow faster to take part against other servers. Im sure a response to this would be it cant be possible or something but really its just a bigger version of UBA, which is a complete fail due to players abusing bugs in it, and maybe the winning server overall gets a prize like 50% more uri from ncps or a free gate or something.