There's two servers.

NA or EU. Take your pick

So new folks thrown in with all the existing bored OP end game folks, bleh <grin>

Lol they better be. The servers are lagging to a standstill this morning, and thats with a ghosttown population.

Can only imagine what its going to be like once the wave hits. People will be thinking they walked into a dialup internet time warp.

Have they addressed the lag that is happening without all the new players?

I've been playing low level alts the last two weeks and it's way over-crowded in the 1-30 zones. Best estimate is around 'slightly less than the beta weekends'. It's abysmal trying to find anything to kill and half my quests just auto update without any intervention on my part (because so many people killing quest mobs/spamming dialogs).

BlackEar wrote: »

No new servers. Prepare for lag.

Why would new servers fix lag?

Do you know what the CPU/task load level is on the existing servers?
How about the memory load?
Network load?
I/O load?

Maybe the lag is completely in the client software?
...are you going to get a new computer?

Archaegeo wrote: »

Yeah, I have a feeling Tuesday at this rate will be unplayable in low level zones

Will be nice to have a population, but will just as quickly lose them if they feel gameplay sucks

Bit hit and miss on this really. On the one hand in MMO's people usually weather this fairly well - they expect a player shockwave / the resulting lag and (providing theres enough interest in reaching further into the game) come out on the other side regardless with a few ruffled feathers.

On the other, with ZoS messing up the starter areas/bypassing them now completely, you push people into a huge area right off the bat - which may make people feel like escaping this 'initial wave', is a process with no light at the end of the tunnel. Its one huge zone before you move on.

Normally MMO starter zones are fairly confined and to the point, and I think ZoS have missed out on utilizing the former starter areas (like khenarthi's roost) as a pressure valve for the incoming tides.

Likely the congestion in Auridon will be a nightmare (its none too great today on the lag/latency front and the zone was fairly empty 7-9am+). Guess we'll see when the time comes.

I'm planning to go greet the new people in AD so lets hope theres happy people and not lag frustrated ones -_-

the lag is real!

There won't be new servers, but it's very likely that they'll add at least one or two (but possibly even more) new PvP campaigns, which essentially act as "servers" for the PvP part.

Other zones (like Rift, Stormhaven, Auridon, etc.) will continue to create copies of themselves as needed just like they did all the time since release. There are multiple copies or even "servers" if you want, but you won't notice them.

I don't expect the TU release to have any significant impact on actual PvP (other than the campaigns being filled more often), since there's a population limit on the campaigns and that will stay in place, so the maximum number of players in the zone won't be touched, no matter whether 100k, 1m, 10m or 100m players play the game.

If you count console servers - yes. For PC/Mac - probably no.

tinythinker wrote: »

Archaegeo wrote: »

Have they announced new servers for Tuesday for the relaunch?

Zorvan wrote: »

Here's the thing. Server clusters ( or "megaservers" as some devs call them ) are only as good as the tech purchased and implemented.

Until publishers like Zenimax are willing to spend money to make money, you'll have midrange server clusters struggling to chug along as Zenimax tries to cram as many tuna ( customers ) in the can ( server ) as possible for max profits.

Paul Sage recently posted that new/more hardware isn't going to help with performance in Cyrodiil, so it is not a stretch to suspect that this answer applies to PvE performance issues as well.

If better hardware won't help at all, then that means the only place to put the blame is on the programmers coding the game. Well, so much for that.

it will feel like a madhouse now alone with people getting dumped in town and then trying to get back to starter islands

There will be 4 megaservers in total, 2 for PC and 2 for Console.

1 for EU PC and 1 for NA PC.

1 for EU Console and 1 for NA Console.

I just hope a lot of people do that one time transfer from PC to Console. Get out of my way there's way too many people in these zones these days.