Connect all "realms"

I am not sure if this has been answered, and I am not sure how "realms" / "servers" will work, however, I do feel like there needs to be some kind of interlinking between realms, not sure what or why, but I feel like realms segregate too much, a true MMO should be able to avoid the "feeling" - I am not saying make one server, one world, but certainly dynamics between servers could have a huge impact. I am a big believer in "data is king" the more you have the more you can do with it, so here is an "off the cuff" example of what I mean.

Trading post/Auction house cross realm items (I know this could potentially lead to over supply on items) but is that a bad thing? Surely that would simply affect the pricing, maybe it could be turned into a positive. So the most common of items don't get made redundant because they are needed in the masses for "city projects" for example. Where real supply and demand could come in to play. For example, one server needs the very basic "wood" usually there are hundreds of thousands on the market place, but today a big clan purchased most of it, the price would (as normal) inflate. Anyway, end of tangent haha.

Dev vlog question: Will there be x-realm trading?

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Noaani

Otr wrote: »

My question is how will low population be countered.

What exactly isn't in relation to low population you are concerned about?

As I have said previously, things like node construction and maintenance - which is all that Intrepid have really identified as being population dependent - are able to be adjusted.

What else is there that is concerning you?

FuryBladeborne

Otr wrote: »

My question is how will low population be countered.

Quote me what wiki say about this and post the link too, please.

The intent is to delay the issue by using high population servers (up to 50,000 registered accounts per server with 8-10k actively playing) and a limited amount of servers compared to the number of players. We will have to see if they succeed in throttling the number of new servers to an amount that works.

"Population limits will be enforced on each server.[12]

Around 8-10k concurrent users per server is projected.[13][14][15][16]
Initially there will be a limited number of registered accounts (approximately 15,000) per server to help mitigate login queues.[17]
This limit will increase over time to around 50,000 registered accounts per server.[17][18][19]
The developers intend to carefully manage server populations via the use of character creation throttles to avoid the need to merge servers.[18][20] There may be queues to get into high population servers, but the aim is to avoid excessively long queues.[19]
Part of the equation of essentially watching to make sure that we don't over populate the server selection, but at the same time making sure that there's not a queue system in place that's so long it's detrimental to the concurrency of the player's will to play so to speak. It's a tough balancing act.[19] – Steven Sharif

https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Account_management

BTW, all I had to do was go to the wiki and search "population". It was the first link and skimming halfway through yielded the answer in a few seconds. Its very quick compared to writing this thread and requesting links.

Dygz

Otr wrote: »

My question is how will low population be countered.

You could try asking that question for a Dev Livestream Update and see if Steven is willing to provide more details.
Mostly likely he will say pretty much the same thing he has already, without adding much.
Just as he almost always provides the same example of of adding a Teleport augment onto the Rush Active Skill whenever he explains how augments will work. But, there's a chance he will tease a little bit more, like when he finally mentioned augment Schools.

Noaani

Otr wrote: »

I think players who want to transfer to a new server should do that by traveling. It should be a 5 to 30 day long journey to the gates of the new realm. Longer and dangerous if the server is full, shorter if is low populated.
One could change it's mind during the journey, choose a new destination...

Still a hard no.

First of all, that does not sound at all like enjoyable gameplay. Even if it is something the player in question wants, any gameplay offered up by a game developer should be something that players are going to enjoy.

If the developers then went out of their way to make this journey enjoyable, they are now spending time (and thus money) on giving players an enjoyable way to do a thing that the developers specifically don't want players to be able to do - which is move between servers.

If a player really wants to play on a different server - so much that they would spend a month of time traveling to it - then they can just reroll on that new server.

Noaani

Otr wrote: »

Noaani wrote: »

Still a hard no.

You feel important?

Is this what people say now when they have no debate left?

FuryBladeborne

Otr wrote: »

Thanks for providing the answer, @FuryBladeborne

Aphisia

I like the idea of having separate servers, but purely for competitive bragging rights for like pvp battles and world firsts, if they do things like that. To prevent dead servers we should all be able to interact with each other by being able to change "channels" to find people to interact with and do events and such. I hate being server locked and having that server die out because people are either toxic or just not competitive enough. I think transferring servers should be free as well. I like Lost Ark's channel system and absolutely hate New World's population restrictions. They are killing their game by not letting people have alternate characters and cross realm interaction.

Ludullu

Aphisia wrote: »

I like the idea of having separate servers, but purely for competitive bragging rights for like pvp battles and world firsts, if they do things like that. To prevent dead servers we should all be able to interact with each other by being able to change "channels" to find people to interact with and do events and such. I hate being server locked and having that server die out because people are either toxic or just not competitive enough. I think transferring servers should be free as well. I like Lost Ark's channel system and absolutely hate New World's population restrictions. They are killing their game by not letting people have alternate characters and cross realm interaction.

And for some people, LA and other "channels games" are killing the feel of community in the game. When you can interact with, potentially, hundreds of thousands of people - every single interaction doesn't matter. But when you have a few thousand people on one server with maybe a few hundred at the very top of character progress, you know their names, you know their story and you're interested in interacting with all of them or ideally becoming one of the "known people".

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