I’m not sure but you might be able to restore deleted characters? maybe then you could ticket blizz asking that you want to make an alliance character, but deleting your horde one would stop you being able to create another character?
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I’ll try that one, Thanks…
I’ll write you how it goes
As I said I’ve actual experience running MMO servers that supported thousands of players at the same time and I know a thing or two about how you can’t just spin up extra capacity.
If what you said is true than why and how are all retail servers seemlessly connected with cross server shards?
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I would like to play the game with my friends, still cannot. Please fix server issue.
Merge , connect idk how but it shouldnt be that hard. I do not want to play on firemaw because i like its name and i feel like its my home. I want to play there because i do not have other choice. Its the only balanced pop pvp server. My friends went there for the same problem because dreadmist was dead. So fix it, do something.
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I’m not a network engineer and I honestly don’t know how blizzard does that but I think as far as individual servers are concerned you are still hosted by your world server and another player is hosted by his world server and Blizzard uses some kind of virtual supreme authority layer to authenticate events so that both servers would accept its results.
The thing is that the other player next to you is nothing more than few bits of information that your world server send to you every server tick so in theory all you need is to get that information from another server to be relayed to your server which would relay to your client and you see a player from another server. The difficult part is authority. Each individual server is authoritative, meaning if the server said it happened that means it happened. Therefore connecting 2 or more servers you start running into authority problem. What if my server says it happened and your servers says it didn’t? I’ve got the quest item but you didn’t. Therefore you need a supreme authority layer which connects both realms and validates events. Both world servers accept authority from it and confirm it to you. So even though it looks and feels like you are playing with a player from different server in fact you are simply receiving data points about his location and actions from his server through supreme authority layer and both of your world servers confirm and record these events.
I don’t think I’m too far from the truth though. If you played on cross realm servers you should know that NPC’s and player pop in very close to you, in some extreme cases even as close as 10m or so. That’s because there’s a delay associated with data transfer using that supreme authority layer. Also that’s the reason you can’t see players or NPC’s 500m or so ahead. Server simply never sends you that information to save on bandwidth. You can only imagine how much data needs to be moved around when millions of players are playing.
EDIT: There’s very easy way to test my hypothesis if it’s really as I’ve described. All you need to do is to get 2 players from 2 different servers get IP address from their respective servers. Than these 2 players should join into a party and meet each other at summoning stone. Check IP’s again. If IP’s haven’t changed that means they never moved from their respective world servers and the information about them is sent through some kind of layer as I’ve described above.
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Firemaw is gonna become monofaction alliance. Mainly horde are moving. Thanks for ruining the last balanced pvp server…
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Tbh u cant even se the ballance on firemaw, with these 4 layers i quested 4h and i saw 2 people in total, when i scanned the map /who it showed me 27+ppl but i couldnt see anyone, its like im playin on my own everytime i log in
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I’m willing to wait on queue, please unlock the server. People who don’t want to wait can migrate their chars freely that’s their problem.
I want to experience classic in the best and only server worth playing.
They will unlock Firemaw is 2 years at the emd of WotLK. You just have to be a little patient.
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There is a restore characters icon near create button. I hope you can at least restore your Horde characters that way.
That would depend on their level when deleted.
Actually, you would experience classic in retail way, FM experience has nothing with classic.
Passive requests for server balence wont work. Firemaw is litteraly the only option for PVPers atm. I am sure if there was another good option people would leave Firemaw freely to avoid the queues.
We need another healthy PVP server - MERGE Golemagg and Earthshaker! …OR Earthshaker Mograine & Patchwerk
or…
Allow level 60-70s on Firemaw to sign up for transfer which only occures once a threshold has been reached e.g. [1] once 4.5k alliance sign up to be transfered from Firemaw to Golmagg or [2] once 5k Horde sign up from Ghennas to Earthshaker etc.
I want to play TBC PVP… but all the server options are bad atm… I am sure many other people feel the same. Sort this out please?
Also, i dont understand why you dont introduce a mechanism for not allowing this to happen. Transfers and character creation should not be allowed once a 10% differential between Horde and Alliance has been reached.
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So what are active requests?
Merging is completely the wrong idea, why lose stuff, just connect the low population realms.
Any updates on you looking into the need to open free transfers FROM a server that hasn’t even unlocked the portal to the island yet? or about servers that have around 100 players stuck on 1 faction side?
Do you have any plans to introduce automated chat moderation for Classic, alike retail? The chat is unusable for various reasons:
- No slow mode
- Excessive raid marker spam in chat
- Only ads for sales of boost / services in LFG
Please take a look at Firemaw for instance.
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Greetings ,
Regarding locking up Firemaw transfers but then again be able to make a char if you own one.
I was wondering about the duration of the lockdown cause I think it would be more helpful and reasonable to allow people who got a max char there to transfer since theyre raiding already and not alllow people create a char if they dnt have a max char there as one of the measures.
Idk but I have a feeling this server will turn into an Alliance only server - slowly in the beginning and faster in the end. Free transfer was mainly used by Horde and you can already feel the difference in A/H ratio - or I was just super unlucky with my layers…
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IDK, but I can not transfer to Firemaw, despite having multiple Characters there. Cmon bois, I need the 2 additional Professions T_T
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Dont worry blizz fixed the issue … you can buy firemaw accounts with your $$$