-offer the lvl 58 boost to established servers
-launch a couple fresh tbc servers for each region like people have been asking for
There ya go.
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I’d rather not have the boost at all.
The problem is, that even if you get your fresh servers, which I think is actually quite likely, though you may have to wait; Blizzardvision are highly unlikely to take a back seat when it comes to monetising those servers. They’ll want boosts implemented, and probably server transfers too, which would undo the work of everyone playing on fresh servers.
Far better to scrap the boost entirely so as to avoid TBC Classic falling into a Downfallen state (see what I did there?).
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Or during pre-patch apply an exp boost to questing. That way humans will benefit while botters due to large activity will not be able to use automation due to mobs being contested (and they will be easily discovered and mass reported).
No, the easiest solution would be no fresh servers and no boost.
Both are unhealthy and equally bad.
Fresh because of player base split up, hindering influx of new players on old servers plus migration onto them, the massive horde imbalance they would cause and later down the line dead servers.
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I’m sorry, is this supposed to be a bad thing, with servers holding up to 7k players, in a game that was designed around a maximum playerbase of 2.5 - 3k per server?
I do not intend to start on a fresh server, but I am fully in support of such servers for people who want them.
According to community polls and live population data, there is no such thing as a “massive horde imbalance”. There is faction imbalance on specific servers, but the overall population is evenly distributed between alliance & horde:
https://ironforge.pro/servers/
It is and not every server has 7k players on it especially not this time around anymore. There are many with a low population and many with a very one sided one.
The correct question is, do we have enough capacity overall and also if servers can be kept lively long term. We had enough dead servers back then later.
I don’t think these are representative polls. It’s a very specific audience and obviously without any new players. Bloodelfs will be again the most favourite race, horde will rule pve and pvp through racials. No poll on this planet will convince me otherwise or that this won’t lead to a shift. Let’s try to minimize it as good as possible though.
I’m fully against fresh servers at the launch of TBC and months into it.
What happens down the line i don’t care but nobody is an island as they say and if people think fresh servers would not influence everything they are very short sighted.
There are people with hundreds of thousands of gold stocked up on multiple characters, fresh or no go blizzy
I think the idea of a fresh server is not bad at all, but the boost-to-buy is definitely.
A fresh server would be a charm for ppl that doesnt want a broken economy by bots -or- by player.
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