The game is playing too fast anyway, but even if we ignore that, the servers that are lagging are too full anyway, but even if we ignore that, layering. Layering is a back-up solution that works as exactly that. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than what we’ve got.
PS: I haven’t forgotten about the BG discussion. It’s just that the response I want to make it fairly complex.
Pretty much agree.
OT: Can you actually not mog the robot face, at first I didn’t recognise the forum’s “token female pandaren mage” so yeah, that helmet is a big no from me. It required me to read your name and everything.
But layering prevents RP from happening as well, no? Or do I misunderstand? When you say “layering” what do you mean other than “sharding” = splitting a zone into multiple versions and putting a portion of people into each?
A follow-up: I found what makes layering different from sharding - layering makes a copy of the entire world. The benefit is that when you cross a zone, you stay in the same shard (speaking loosely here, the shard is different, but it is not random). If that’s enough for RP, fine.
Good on the BG discussion.
Sharding is there so you don’t have everyone be in a WoD 2.0 Launch situation. If you remove sharding everyone will get this. I really dislike sharding too, but it is there to prevent constant for every single server. Except ghost town a like ones. World Server is Down or the servers constantly disconnecting you every few mins, make everyone run 50000 miles in speed and having 20+ mounts not able to move on top of each other.
Blizz simply needs to invest in new server tech that isn’t the same from 2004. They will not fix this any other way.
It does, but it feels more like two separate servers. You keep meeting the same people over and over again, and so you will primarily group with those people, so you tend to stay in the same layer.
This is another complicated topic about the “town effect” and a lot of other things, but suffice to say: WoW didn’t have realms because it was technically too difficult for the server engineers to make shards. These guys made Battle.Net and Quake 3, the most advanced network games ever made at the time. They knew what they were doing. They did it because they liked it, and they have explained it.
Kevin Jordan recalls it pretty well, and he’s on YouTube, but the explanation is like 2 hours long so…
Allan Adham, one of the founders of Blizzard, is the one who made the decision. It was a game design decision.
That’s not the only difference. There’s a cap of 50 players per shard normally, and they are drawn across hundreds of realms.
You see few people, but there are millions hidden from view. It’s like walking around outside in a vast city with blinders on, knowing only the people you already know from work (the guild)
If you’re gonna come to a RP server, atleast try and do some roleplay and join in.
Even if it’s only 5 minutes a week, that’s really all most people ask, because you then atleast show interest of it.
But if you have no intentions whatsoever to ever roleplay, pick another server.
Also remember that the roleplay servers have a Official Naming Policy to adhere to. Basically, don’t just show up with names like “Kungfumoocow” etc, but an actual character/RP names. This policy applies to all players on the server, no exceptions, and its not alot to ask either.
You can read more about it here:
Also, as should be obvious, don’t troll roleplayers or disrupt. If you see people out in the world rping, don’t start to run around them and go “hey guys whats up :))))” in /say etc. If you have no intention of joining in, don’t draw attention to yourself/be bothersome.
It did use to be this way, not so much since Legion though.
As for the serverboosts, that’s not on Blizzard, that’s on the players. They almost litterally get “boo’ed” out of the chat quite fiercely, and people report the spamms more actively than on other servers.
On normal servers people just doesn’t care. It’s the same argument as what we see on the forums when the topic arises: “Trade chat is for selling, and they are selling a service - let them be”
As AD (alliance side at least) shows, it can actually be managed quite effectively… if players really wanted to.
Remember that Roleplaying is subjective, and everyone has their own way of doing it. People on AD tend to witch hunt if you don’t have TRP3 which I find stupid.
As long as you don’t harass Roleplayers, have an appropriate name, you’re good to go. You’re welcome, AD has tons of OOCers most of my friends are OOC anyway, but most of them are nice.
Just remember; if you join an RP server, you’re an even BIGGER nerd.
If that’s not off putting enough though, you will get hounded by the server forums for not role-playing. Seems odd to me, personally. My original RP realm died due to a lack of well, everything dying, including the OOC portion of the player base. Just dried and shriveled up. All of the role-players moved to Argent Dawn.
My general thing is that… I don’t role-play with OOC characters so they’re inconsequential to me? Like. If someone is OOC around me when I’m IC, they’re just not there to me. My character can’t perceive something that does not exist. I don’t know. Maybe my immersion threshold is just higher than some people’s, lol.
Gotta say i like playing with AD guys in random dungeons, they might be less informed on the mechanics or their class, but i would rather do extra mile for a social folk than some edgy ravencrest clownx ninja puller.
Today i had a an interesting moral question from them in plaquefall:
“Why should we kill slimes, why not just show them some love?”
These are the questions i think we all must ask ourselfs…
I don’t get RP realms, do they always stay in persona, even when dungeoning and raiding?
Hypothetical scenario (SL normal/heroic dungeon):
-pulls and kills trash mob pack-
Person A: My those are frightful creatures!
Person B: Surely they are, I jest thee not. Oh no, just look at its buckle. It appears to bear the insignia of Ragnaros. Is the dreaded firelord making a return? We must warn azeroth.
*** Chat continues and such chats occur every pull of trash pack mobs ***
-Pulls and kills the boss in < 1 min
Person B: My dear companions that was truly frightful. The evil ones must be curbed from creating such horrors!
Person C: Yes, I concur.
Person A: OW, OW my hat is on fire!!! * switches head gear randomly *
- 30 minutes later they move on to boss two -
Nope.
Some do, but it’d be purely in a premade group for it, and that’s rare as rare can be.
We raid and do dungeons/BGs like your typical player too.
I wouldnt mind to meet these fan story groups in a non timed cintent tbh
Sounds refreshing if i compare to regular silent zerg rush
How i see RP servers is that they will straight up ban you for writing “in the wrong way” in chats or if you name your character they don’t approve of.
I dono if they got less strict about that stuff over the years, But that is the impression i got when reading the RP server rules.
Same same.
Ehhh that’s not a guarantee on rp servers. I played on Argent for a long time and I can tell you some guilds there are not very social. However you are correct with how incredibly active the public channels like general and trade are.
Agreed.
Roleplay servers are for exactly what they say on the tag, for people who want to roleplay. People like myself who have no such intentions of ever doing that should not go there.
chatting on /1 or /2 isn’t roleplay, as such DO NOT JOIN RP servers if you want that.
Don’t listen to these freaks, play whereever you want.
Expected strict naming rules on AD, have so far encountered plenty with joke names.