I thought the point of the megaservers were to give ESO its own personality. I could be wrong on that.

Im fine with the way things are, I just wish they could get it to run better

When you say "worlds" you mean servers right? So instead of 1 EU and 1 NA megaserver, you would have like a world of warcraft system with many smaller servers. The problem with that is some servers gets deserted for various reasons, and then you need to allow people to migrate away, because how fun is it to be on an empty server? Back when I played wow I had to migrate an account twice over the course of 3 years due to the first server getting depopulated, then the originally high-pop server I migrated to, it also became depopulated after some time, so I had to migrate again. In the process I wasn't allowed to keep my guild bank (both migrations I was denied the guild bank to be tranfsferred). This was the straw that made me stop playing wow. Just as an example that going multiple smaller servers will present its own special problems.

On the other hand as a positive you tend to get to know other players more on a smaller server, especially if you play for longer. WIth megaservers it's all anonymous except from the specific guild(s) you choose to join, but you generally has low chance of meeting people again in the zones due to the instance system and the high volume of players.

I wont pretend I know much about server setups so I really dont know if there will be benefits to performance. The fact though is that they would have to rework a LOT of their server infrastructure with much most likely tons of instability to follow for a good long while, maybe years to come. Maybe the current system is better? TBH apart from todays login problems things have been working very well for quite a long while for me, I dont get logged out and I can play for hours without problems. (I dont pvp though so, maybe that's a point for your proposal. PVP could possibly be sorted better with smaller servers?)

Megaservers automatically split the population by load (ideally) rather than locking you to a specific world. Having a bunch of worlds to join wouldn't actually solve any problems, and might even cause more with managing cross-world stuff, or trying to play with friends.

To be fair each solution would have its upsides and downsides.
The megaservers phasing logic could probably do with some tweaks or it could solely be down to outdated hardware that can't keep up with todays player count + server side calculations, we'll never know.

Either way it's something that really needs to be top priority to keep the player base spending and staying for the long run.

ZaiZah wrote: »

DTAmoral wrote: »

I thought the point of the megaservers were to give ESO its own personality. I could be wrong on that.

Im fine with the way things are, I just wish they could get it to run better

The current megaserver's still phase players to a different layer, so even though theirs thousands of players online at a time and even though you can't see them all, they're still added load added to the server blades. Which when you add the server calculations for movement, skills, abilities, anti-cheat etc all add up.

This is why I personally think capped servers would be more beneficial, but yeah they could definitely do with running much better than what they are now.

Some zones are already dead as it is, I dont find it fun when there isnt a soul in sight, this would make busy zones not busy but dead zones a single player experience 100%

Kinda like what GW2 does. When a layer, I think they call it, doesn't have enough players on it you get pushed to a different layer and that layer shuts down. When it has too many players on it a new layer is created and some get pushed to it. It seems to work, I've never had issues and there are always lots of other players around to interact with.