Ah, ok, so what you are saying is there’s some risk area 52 won’t be connected or that grim batol WILL?
I think any realm that doesnt have a guild with 12/12 mythic by now should be merged.
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@Esploratore: This is currently unclear, hence my suggestions. You do have to keep in mind that I am just making predictions and there are multiple ways in which I could end up being entirely wrong. Blizzard simply has not let out enough data to account for over 120 different variables that are in play, so to speak…
True that, I see, I think area 52 should be connected, so I’d have to delete it, but probably grim batol isn’t a safe enough choice indeed, there are other realms I could go to, like blackrock, that would be a safe choice, but I was trying to make allys where preferable to keep my accounts balanced, I’d be already 51-44 for horde, else would be 52-43.
If blizzard were at least fast at giving more info, but they tended to not be in the past.
i think there is only one real way to remove the OOCers from the roleplay realms.
you have to remove the warmode bonus from RP realms
only the rp realms mind you, there is no need to touch the bonus elsewhere.
then if you offer them a free transfer to another realm, it would be worth it.]
right now the main bunch of OOCers who play on places like AD and the rest of the rp realms are only doing it for the warmode bonus they get on an aliance overpopulated realm.
AD gets the bonus, but is also mostly filled with alliance rpers.
the rest of the folks are not realy OOCers but retired roleplayers who still ocasionaly drop a bit of RP, listen to others around them ect. i know, as i’m one of them when 'im on my horde chars.
i dont seek out rp, i dont usualy take part in it but i never disrupt it knowingly and sometimes i just sit someplace out of sight to watch/listen
(did that for the AD event with saurfang. explaining to confused PvP-RP realm folks was fun, and sugesting the ocasional thing was great. shame i couldnt give the one that wanted ‘a hard boiled egg’ one but we only have herb eggs)
so yes. if you want to merge the RP realms that are NOT AD together/cross connect them (or whatever it is this thing does) then thats okay to a dgree.
but if you want to free the RP realms of OOCers, you
NEED TO REMOVE THE WARMODE BONUS FROM ROLEPLAYING REALMS
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Would be useful for realm connections to be made visible from the realm list starting with the upcoming connections. Currently you need to check realm forums (some individually) or consult a list on third-party websites.
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True, it’s horrible, not to mention how annoying it is to have to enter 30 realms separately when they in reality are 15 due to connections, example if you have chars on ghostlands and dragonblight and you want to switch from one to the other you still need to change realm selection screen, so annoying.
They already announced first EU connections 3 days ago, they are 2 Russian realms:
ОБЪЕДИНЕНИЕ ИГРОВЫХ МИРОВ «БОРЕЙСКАЯ ТУНДРА» И «ЧЕРНЫЙ ШРАМ»
What is interesting about it is that one of those realms was PvE and other was PvP before Blizzard removed PvP/PvE realm types with BFA expansion.
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The french servers desperately need this. It is a very much welcomed news.
It is a shame that it took you so long to share such news when it was teased at previous blizzcon by the game director.
Was there abother plan in development? Could we get some information regarding it?
Is this relevant to Classic realms?
No, just WoW realms.
Thanks, that’s the info I was waiting for!
Giving a look at wow progress and I realise the numbers here aren’t totally reliable cause it’s about raid progression, while some realms might be less raiding focused than others, the population data for the first realm being connected is this: Борейская тундра is pve 4562, 2023, 2539, numbers are total, horde, ally, and the 2nd realm, Черный Шрам is pvp, and numbers are 3527 816 2711, again total, horde, ally, by the looks of it this connection will lead to quite a good population, because while these numbers might not be accurate, realms that have 8,2k on wow progress are pretty good population wise, for reference stormscale has around that, and it’s been one of the highest for a long time, a bit in decline now.
Like you said it’s important to have this confirmation that ex pve and ex pvp can now be merged and this will also help at taking my decision about where to create new chars, it basically means if I make it on grim batol I’m in serious danger of being connected.
@Trelw, would you by any chance have some actual census numbers in the evening at the same time on these 2 russian realms? Would like them so much more than wow progress to estimate population.
@Esploratore: Sorry, but CP and WCR do not support Russian alphabet / realms. I also have no access to Russian realms, so I am not able to even do manual /whos for generic reference. Due to a technical glitch with Firefox, I am not even able to properly look at the post Pewpewshot linked. Does it contain information on WHEN the connection is intended to take place? This week? Later?
Russian realms can be accessed by anyone, all you need to do is switch WoW client language to Russian in Battle.net App and be able to type or copypaste something Russian for character name.
It says during next scheduled maintenance, which is this week I guess.
Damn, census plus no longer works automatically, it requires clicks, and even in the best option which is me just clicking my abilities to do emissaries, it’s not exactly ideal. Good about the russian realms though, looking forward to see the first connections for other countries.
Ohhh, look here:
- Der Realm Aman’thul wird mit dem Realm Nazjatar zusammengelegt.
- Der Realm Forscherliga wird mit dem Realm Todeswache zusammengelegt.
Looks like the first german connections started and the decision to delete todeswache seems already spot on!
Once again take this wow progress data with a grain of salt (or more) but die natchwache (forscherliga) has horde ally total 620 871 1491 and todeswache has 491 1035 1526, we will get around 3.000 in total and a noticeably alliance dominated connection which is not a lot, so they could connect more to these, it’s still like a medium realm even post connection.
As for the other one, this is aman’thul 548 1271 1819 and this is nazjatar 1877 662 2539, again not a big result, will probably need further connections, in this case the ally-horde ratio gets balanced, so a good choice for them, for this very reason I had an ally on the first realm and a horde on 2nd!
Yeah that would be sick, war mode on AD is super broken
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@Pewpewshot: Thank you. For me that does not change the situation as I would need to be able to access them in English and that is not doable.
@Esploratore: Well, we just discovered a hole in my predictions. Seems I missed Aman’Thul entirely and did not predict anything for it… 
BIG OOPSIE
They might have to offer one time deals for free guild transfers as well. It just occurred to me there might be whole guilds on the old rp-pvp servers who were only there for the PvP.
(Remembering the confusion at the event, of those from the old rp-pvp realms as before BFA they had never seen such a thing. Their realms were not connected to AD via us I think. And since my rp server is/was half to low pop they must have phased to the same org as me lol. What an education in rp, ADers performing a in game cinematic!)
So yes. If you want to fix the roleplay realms…
First turn off the warmode bonus for them
Then offer free transfer and a one time offer to guilds of a transfer off to any non rp realm.
Then you can interconnect all the rp realms but AD.
(Because AD is full enough right now that it does not need it)
And turn off the in game zone phasing again, that stuff breaks the rp!
( there were complaints that it had come back on during the saurfang event. Folks inside org were disappearing even in raid)
After a year or so, we can re evaluate AD and the other rp realms to see how many non-rp players left/stayed.
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low population as in low population on the server lists, or low population as in REAL low population, cause most of the medium servers are also low/dead.
also, is there any plans to address low factions on servers?
not to be pessimistic, but i will wait and see what actually happens. like others have said, this was brought up 7 years ago during last merges, and also was foreseen 10 years ago when faction transfer was released.
if this is a band-aid to placate us for an expansion or 2, then meh. lets see if it actually works.
and a little nod on the massive dead servers thread would have been nice 
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Hopefuly if this is true they know what they’re doing
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