Dead servers - an idea

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Well it’s sad but true my guild on my realm is dead atm.Been thinking on realm transferring to Silvermoon realm cause I don’t want to be a lone wolf I need to find my wolf pack.Recently started my Horde char on Dreanor and I couldn’t be happier :grin:.

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A wild Pikachu appears!

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Careful he is going to use his thunderbolt to kill this thread and call his crew to smash it run ahahaha.

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This is a good thing because I am there :wink:, but atm people flood the high pop realms, and that brings other issues in itself.

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I am really happy for that and you my lady is why I might transfer my Halicos there next month.

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I would happy to have you here my good friend :hugs::purple_heart:

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I think there is many people who would be happy to pay and “ride the revival wave” from server to server if there would be rewards involved (espeically achievements and titles and such). Once server is full and benefits stop, they would move for next one. If rewards would stay for those who were on server while ‘event’ was on, new people would not want to roll there causing natural population decline after while (because other servers with ‘event’ on would be more tempting to roll on). There is so many low pop servers i assume this event would run always on one or two servers.

EU wide AH and guilds would solve the problem permanently. It would not matter at all what server you are on, you could do everything equally well. Those 2 things are only ones that are problem on low pop server. Sharding allready ensures there is always people around (assuming not rp server), even now in Nazjatar there is players around me from all over EU servers, not just from Dragonblight/Ghostlands. So having players around is not issue, it is AH and guilds.

I do love that you suggest this all and are so willing to help low pop servers :hugs:. I am just worried that not everyone would do that system with same nice intent than you but would just hop in to grab all titles and achievements and then sail away gain (and in process making the system ineffective).

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Not if those titles/rewards were made to only be in use while on the server/char you earned them on :slight_smile:

Also thank you, something really needs to be done one way or another.

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Like vikings coming to plunder and then just sailing to the next territory lol.

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Sounds like an amazing idea although i doubt the gold bonus is healthy.

People will boost a caracter there, use the +15% gold to farm old raids for transmog and raw gold, buy tokens / pets and never really interact with the server community.

It’s really the only major issue i see, along with how to ellect these trustworthy Revival champions - there’s only so many Anna around you know.

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I guess the forums/Blizzards job for that? People could also put themselves forward, and ofc people would have to be willing.

Bad behaviour would have that status removed of course.

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Mhm, but then we can get an issue.

Overall Horde have more players than Alliance, that’s a fact. But on my server the Alliance is in a vast majority of like 3 to 1.

Would that mean that the extra reward goes to the Horde? Since they are in a vast minority on that server, or to the Alliance since they’re lacking players overall (which results in an even bigger imbalance on that server).

I still believe they should merge more servers.

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10% to the Alliance, 15% to the Horde I would think. Only Blizzard could decide as they have the data.

Server mergers would be great, but it doesn’t seem to be happening sadly :frowning:

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May be wrong but i though it would work like WM, everyone has the same base bonus but it would scale higher for the underpopulated faction.

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Just ideas at this point, there will be issues to raise and hopefully soloutions… if Blizzard just did something to help those on dying realms I would be happy - not everyone can pay real cash to move loads of characters :frowning:

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They just need to merge servers tbh. Why have we got nearly 100 servers? FF14 with a similar player base has 7. The worlds always busy there, towns are mega crowded, the game looks very alive.

It’s a good idea though, just think a server squish would be more beneficial.

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It would be very problematic system if only ones who are voted or selected would reap the benefits. Benefits would have to be for everyone in the server. Especially when extra people are needed just to make AH more busy and to get more members on the guilds, not so much to make new guilds competing for members of the existing ones or just to be around (because of sharding there is always people around anyway). Low pop servers just need lot of new players to get guilds and AH more busy and this is hard to gain with having selection/voting for those who would get rewards for rolling there. So to gain lot of new players rewards would have to be for everyone and then we would have those lost vikings sailing around the servers reaping the benefits where ever they pop up.

Sorry for being so negative about this, i really am not trying to shoot your idea down. But as someone who is on low pop server i don’t see such system helping in long run but more risking of making things worse.

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Yes they would be for all :slight_smile:

The reps would be also doing it because they have a strong sense of community and really want to make a difference :slight_smile: They would get a rep unique title because they would be putting in their own personal time. Not much different to how we have MVP’s on the forum.

I really can’t see people paying to do this, and rewards should be unique to the character and server… so the title/mount/tabard could only be used on the character and on the server it was earned (not account-wide).

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while it is good that people like you are trying to come up with ideas, the only ones that will sort of fix anything now, is an area wide AH, and cross realm guilds. anything else will be bandages, and in most cases, paper bandages.

i know you’re just brainstorming, but this is basically like a WM buff, so having 2 WM buffs. it would be a nice reward for the people refusing to pay for a transfer (like me) but wont actually make anything better.

  • i have more gold… cant buy anything cause AH empty.
  • i have more xp… no one to play with once i hit 120.
  • i have more rep… get to buy rep gated items faster, but still doesn’t increase health of my surroundings.

and giving titles or whatever for people trying to revive servers… i’ve been trying (as shown in other thread shameless plugged below) to do something to that effect, at least on Horde side.

  • i’ve made a website so people can get a bit more info,
  • i’ve manually counted nearly 30,000 characters on this server to try get accurate data on the health of the server,
  • i’ve been able to inspire a discord to be made for Horde here (i had nothing to do with its actual creation, but the guy made it because i was trying to get all the guilds to work together)
  • i’ve posted randomly links to both my website, and my forum post and advertised the discord in trade and general on both horde and (more rarely) alliance.
  • i’ve contacted over 100 Horde GM’s here suggesting we work together to have more chance of clearing raids, M+ and rated pvp

all this, and i’ve only been able to get about 5 guilds to come together officially. and of those 5, 3 sorta worked already together anyway. at least 3 of them are the 3 largest guilds here.

but by your suggestion, i would qualify for this “revival” title/reward. i would rather give all that up to have a healthy server as it changes nothing if we want to do high M+, or try mythic raid etc.

like radium says, connected AH and cross server guilds are the ONLY way things can be fixed :frowning:

sorry for weeing all over your sunshine :frowning:

shameless plug…

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But this is the issue i was trying to explain. Low pop servers just need lots more ordinary all kinds of people to buy and sell things from AH and joining to guilds. Ground folks. This cannot be achieved by giving special titles of selected few who move in. Low pop servers have already many people who do community stuff, invest on keeping guilds up and doing that stuff (just look at for example work of Vintoleth on my joint server). They just don’t have enough people joining on things they arrange or guilds they keep because there is not enough population on the server. I think it would be insult towards existing players and communities on those servers if there would be reward system where selected few would be rewarded to join the server “to fix things up”. It almost makes it sound that low population is caused by not having even few “right kind of people” on the server when the fact is there is just not enough players to populate all servers to max.

And i gotta stress every single player puts in their personal time on this game and lot of players even extra as guild leaders, community event organizers and such and so all should be equally aprechiated for the time they put in, not just people who were selected by vote or such. Not all work is visible to eyes of Blizzard or forums folks while it still exists.

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