Can I play on both servers

pipelighter · October 2016

I don't like the new launcher set-up anymore than anyone else. However - while it is showing both NA and EU servers can I play on either?
I do realise that if i go to NA I will have to start from scratch but that could actually be quite interesting.

I normally play on the EU server but if I chose the NA one - can i go back to the EU on my next launch.

I hope this makes sense!

Asardes · October 2016

Yes, you can play on both, by changing the launcher option. Yesterday I was very pissed off because although Live-EU server was selected, the launcher still connected NA server. It played the intro, then sent me straight to character creation window because I had no chars created there. I actually had to restart the launcher, change the option to Live, make an abortive connect to Live, then change back to Live-EU to actually make the client pick the correct server. The toggle isn't working properly IMO or it's workings are pretty counter-intuitive. I see if it remembers my option today, or I have to use the same trick all over again.

Enodoc · October 2016

Asardes wrote: »

I see if it remembers my option today, or I have to use the same trick all over again.

It won't, you'll need to use the same trick again. But you don't actually need to log in to NA, just confirm the toggle setting for Live, and toggle it straight back. When the Announcements changes to "European PC/Mac server", then you're connected to EU (takes about 45-90 seconds to update).

Asardes · October 2016

The old launcher had that option in it, you just selected the preference server from the options. I don't know why they put the option in the game now, and made it work in such a counter-intuitive way: displays Live-EU but doesn't actually connect to it until you select Live, than Live-EU again. At least they should make the display accurate. I hate it when a program does something else than it shows. And this game does plenty of that after you log in. At least I've gotten use to that already

JasonSilverSpring · October 2016

@pipelighter you can play on both servers but I believe anything you buy with Crowns will only work on one server. I think this is true for DLC also. Now if you sub that is good for both servers.

JasonSilverSpring · October 2016

Asardes wrote: »

The old launcher had that option in it, you just selected the preference server from the options. I don't know why they put the option in the game now, and made it work in such a counter-intuitive way: displays Live-EU but doesn't actually connect to it until you select Live, than Live-EU again. At least they should make the display accurate. I hate it when a program does something else than it shows. And this game does plenty of that after you log in. At least I've gotten use to that already

I assume they made this change so that people that played on both servers do not need two copies of the game installed. The issue you note is clearly a bug which they have said they will fix.

Enodoc · October 2016

Asardes wrote: »

The old launcher had that option in it, you just selected the preference server from the options. I don't know why they put the option in the game now, and made it work in such a counter-intuitive way: displays Live-EU but doesn't actually connect to it until you select Live, than Live-EU again. At least they should make the display accurate. I hate it when a program does something else than it shows. And this game does plenty of that after you log in. At least I've gotten use to that already

The reason that it's in-game now is so that you will only need one client download. Previously, you had to have an NA client and an EU client installed to play on both servers. Now, you can play on both servers with one client and get back ~50GB of your hard drive.

The current flip-flop toggle we have to do from Live to Live-EU to actually get it to display and connect to the right server is something they're working on fixing for an upcoming incremental.

SteveCampsOut · October 2016

pipelighter wrote: »

I don't like the new launcher set-up anymore than anyone else. However - while it is showing both NA and EU servers can I play on either?
I do realise that if i go to NA I will have to start from scratch but that could actually be quite interesting.

I normally play on the EU server but if I chose the NA one - can i go back to the EU on my next launch.

I hope this makes sense!

You always could play on both with the same account, up til now though it required two copies of the software on your hard drive. Thankfully they finally figured out how to use one copy after only two years of wasting people's hard drive space.

Asardes wrote: »

Yes, you can play on both, by changing the launcher option. Yesterday I was very pissed off because although Live-EU server was selected, the launcher still connected NA server. It played the intro, then sent me straight to character creation window because I had no chars created there. I actually had to restart the launcher, change the option to Live, make an abortive connect to Live, then change back to Live-EU to actually make the client pick the correct server. The toggle isn't working properly IMO or it's workings are pretty counter-intuitive. I see if it remembers my option today, or I have to use the same trick all over again.

The toggle works. It's just sluggish. You have to actually wait for the message of the day to change from North American Server to European Server before clicking on log in. Takes anywhere from 30 to 240 seconds to do so.

Asardes · October 2016

The message says "EU" but it actually tries to connect to "NA" nevertheless. . Even after you open the select, the "EU" box is ticked though is the other option that's actually active. It's not sluggish, but actually misleading. I would try to get a few chars working on the NA server just to see how it is, but my timezone is actually GMT +2 and despite the fact I go to bed quite late, I would be probably won't ever hit prime time even for the East Coast. Probably the worst off players are those in East Asia and Australia, as they are pretty far from both servers timezone wise.

Tandor · October 2016

JasonSilverSpring wrote: »

Asardes wrote: »

The old launcher had that option in it, you just selected the preference server from the options. I don't know why they put the option in the game now, and made it work in such a counter-intuitive way: displays Live-EU but doesn't actually connect to it until you select Live, than Live-EU again. At least they should make the display accurate. I hate it when a program does something else than it shows. And this game does plenty of that after you log in. At least I've gotten use to that already

I assume they made this change so that people that played on both servers do not need two copies of the game installed. The issue you note is clearly a bug which they have said they will fix.

Plus they only have a single unified game client to update.