AD seems to have been spared from the realm merges.
[09/09/2020]
During a scheduled maintenance period planned for 9:00 p.m. CEST on 9 September, ending at approximately 5:00 a.m. on 10 September, the following realm connection will be made:
⢠The Darkspear, Saurfang, and Terokkar realms will join the Bloodfeather, Burning Steppes, Executus, Korâgall, and Shattered Hand realms.
⢠The Darkmoon Faire and Earthen Ring realms will join the Defias Brotherhood, Ravenholdt, Scarshield Legion, Sporeggar, and The Venture Co realms.
⢠The Dragonblight and Ghostlands realms will join the Deathwing, Karazhan, Lightningâs Blade, and The Maelstrom realms.
We are planning more realm connections for low-population realms, and we will post a new notification like this one next week.
Thereâs still a chance you might be merged with Moonglade/The Shaâtar/Steamwheedle Cartel. Weâre in dire need of a merge at this point and unless weâre being included in this big server-cluster later, it leaves us either with AD, or left to die on our own.
The lag is server side and loads of realms already have lag.´
That said I can say as a former 'Glader that AD is not as bad as rumor has it, but each to their own in that regard.
Perhaps on a longer term basis we will eventually see all the remaining RP realms connected to AD, or perhaps not. I still think youâve better chances at going to the other cluster.
Oh I know. I donât mind playing on AD. Got several friends over here and played here for a bit at the beginning of BfA. I think itâs the crowd that puts a lot of people off. The biggest perk of playing on a low populated RP server is that the risk of bumping into other people during events is next to zero.
And as we have several servers in the cluster, we also get to have cool character names!
Not having random people interrupt your RP events is a great perk. Tried hosting an event on my AD char once and bumped into another group doing an unrelated thing in the same spot after half an hour. Annoying af.
idk, in the four years Iâve played here, Iâve yet to encounter a single ERPer. Either itâs an Alliance thing, or theyâve all moved to AD :^)
Itâs quite interesting reading the various RP realm forum threads about this. Thereâs a legit concern from many that they donât want to be merged with AD, which is fair, because they prefer the quiet.
What we have to consider as well is that the RP population of those realms is so low, the merge is basically going to bring a huge swarm of OOCers onto AD - so nobody wins.
Oh sweet summer child, you are from after my time. But I can still name you a handful of people I see active that I know ERP on the server.
But also naming and shaming.
It was also more meant as a jokely jab than anything else.
Itâs fine to prefer a quiet atmosphere vs the more busy one we see on AD.
Oh, I know of at least one who supposedly does it, but presumably they do so in private and not so anyone passing by can see. Iâve also heard stories about how Silvermoon used to be here before my time haha
Yeah, not everyone are able to follow whatâs going on when there are multiple different conversations going on in the same spot, or when you have 30+ people emoting in a fight. Itâs easier to keep things at a smaller scale when there are less people around overall. That being said, it would be nice to see SOME random RP in the cities sometimesâŚ
I remember WPL and Blasted Lands on Moonglade were some pretty open hotspots. I also recall a friend who has since long quit showed me someone with public emotes do the thing on the SW boats.
Horde side I know a few guilds have members who got caught a few times, but enough about this topic Iâd say.
Oh definetly. Large scale RP can be confusing at times or just outright overwhelming. Random RP in cities or out in the world is the nice thing about AD, you used to see that as well back in the days of early cata and wotlk on 'Glade but no more.
Yeah, I jumped over on AD for the Tirisfal RP-PvP stuff in the build-up for BfA, which was cool. Stuck around for a while after that, but quickly realised RP-PvP and freeform emote-RP isnât my cup of tea. Went back to Moonglade and made a new guild with some friends, doing mainly more DnD-like RP. Weâve been doing pretty well for ourselves, even if recruitment is difficult here =)
Wouldâve loved to see more city-RP, but there are only like two guilds who are interested and we donât really get along, so itâs pretty deadâŚ
I rather like the idea of a megaserver with a RP toggle of sorts. Perhaps with an additional gateway to make sure trolls donât end up abusing it. Itâd work well to separate roleplay and OOC. Of course, there will be no sharding of any kind.
Itâd be nice to have the option to have all roleplayers on the same ârealmâ.
Just eliminating the gameplay from the RP shard would do it. Make all enemies yellow and give no rewards. You can never entirely eliminate trolls, but by removing all gameplay incentive and adding the extra loop to jump through (having to activate RP mode and then run to place in question) griefers are never going to amass the numbers sufficient to derail RP-PvP events.
As long as we ensure to murder the group finder in the RP shard, or repurpose it to function only for those already in it.