Should there be server merges to try and combat current population imbalances?

Rologue

No

problem is too many servers, period. we need less servers, and maybe people on the blue side will switch to other alliances to stop with their waiting time. i dont find being steamrolled fun, nor do i find steam rolling fun. wait out the campaigns, then shut down all but 3 servers

SinisterJoint

Yes

Rologue wrote: »

problem is too many servers, period. we need less servers, and maybe people on the blue side will switch to other alliances to stop with their waiting time. i dont find being steamrolled fun, nor do i find steam rolling fun. wait out the campaigns, then shut down all but 3 servers

You do understand that merging them would give you less campaigns right? lol

Either way I voted yes but I agree with what you are saying. Shut down the campaigns when the current one ends. Create 3 campaigns, (one being oceanic), and monitor the populations. As those fill up, add 1 more... monitor that population, rinse and repeat until the population of the last server opened stops to increase. YOU NOW HAVE FULL AND BALANCED CAMPAIGNS!!

To combat the people who would effectively try to switch campaigns as soon as another opens up, change the cost of changing campaigns to something like 300k AP (or higher). This will help keep the campaigns balanced

kellemdros

Yes

Yes, if its a way to balance campaigns... also, restrict the guesting....

beravinprb19_ESO

Yes

With all due respect, I don't think waiting another 60 or so days to fix a serious problem is a viable solution. People are quitting now, not later, because of population imbalance. Almost half of the servers are empty, and the other half are controlled by one alliance.

TheBull

delete

Mendoze

Before any server merges, I think they should upgrade their servers quite a lot. I'm currently playing in EU AB, and during prime time its usually pretty much locked for yellows and reds. Blue has little less, but usually they get locked too. During prime time servers are lagging really badly, and whenever big raids clash, it's totally hopeless. Skills won't work or take seconds to trigger, people crash left and right, word freezes, eternal loading screens and other annoying stuff. So please, before any merges, make sure that current full campaigns are playable.

nukeyoo

Yes

Mendoze wrote: »

Before any server merges, I think they should upgrade their servers quite a lot.

etherin77

Maybe; depending on the leaderboard merging circumstances.

I said maybe, but what if instead of going with your own faction, make it so you choose the campaign but the side you're on is random, so as to balance out the zerg movements)
Not sure if that makes sense, it does in my head, but coffee hasn't kicked in yet...

nukeyoo

Yes

etherin77 wrote: »

I said maybe, but what if instead of going with your own faction, make it so you choose the campaign but the side you're on is random, so as to balance out the zerg movements)
Not sure if that makes sense, it does in my head, but coffee hasn't kicked in yet...

Nice idea but then you would have the issue of people possibly not getting to play with their friends/guilds. Also rendering the campaign scores more pointless than they already are.

Agrippa_Invisus

Yes

Also to chip in -- the campaigns should have been waaaaaaay shorter. By doing so, it would have let ZOS make quicker adjustments to how things are. They were 3 days, I heard, on the PTS. Just making them a week long would allow things to be shaken up constantly and keep a sense of newness to each campaign.

Instead you have campaigns that have been all but decided with 50 days left to go and no one bothering with them.

Do you think a single EP is going to be bothered with even logging into Dawnbreaker (only 5K total faction points to this date) at this point? Any that haven't already swapped homes are likely inactive accounts.

Agrippa_Invisus

Yes

That's a bit off topic there, fella.

On top of it, 1H+Shield's Deadly Bash (and stacking jewelry) is, in fact, getting nerfed.

ArcanusMagus

No

No. I'm #3 in my faction and couldn't care less about leaderboards transferring. I like my smaller server. I like that I get to know the people I'm fighting with and against. We get some bigger battles going every couple of days - 30v30 kind, and not just in keeps. If servers are merged, alot of that familiarity, and the community that engages in it, will be gone. If you don't like the size of the population on your server, move, but don't force your unhappiness on everybody. No sense in going from thread to thread demanding radical changes every other day like a snake oil salesman - gets old.

fyendiarb16_ESO

Yes

@ArcanusMagus‌

May I ask on which campaign and which faction you play? The reason I am asking is because I have been campaign hopping with my AD healer and only encounter dead campaigns with nothing to do besides a random veteran only ganksquad (my healer is only 28). So far the only active campaign for weeks has been Wabba, the rest have been ghost towns so far. Not been to all yet though.

@Everyone

A general question: is there a way to see the balance between the factions of campaigns somehow other than going there personally?

nukeyoo

Yes

fyendiarb16_ESO wrote: »

A general question: is there a way to see the balance between the factions of campaigns somehow other than going there personally?

Nothing besides word of mouth and the little population status bars next to each campaign.

fyendiarb16_ESO

Yes

@nukeyoo‌ Thanks, that dog is a good representation of how I feel about that news.

fyendiarb16_ESO

Yes

I did find http://esostats.com/ though that gives some idea.

ArcanusMagus

No

@fyendiarb16_ESO

NA Chrysamere, EP

fyendiarb16_ESO

Yes

@ArcanusMagus‌ thanks I will check it out tomorrow (stuck until then since I just checked another).

I may not be EP with that character, but if that one has some decent action, even though smaller than on Wabba, then I would be happy.