SWTOR: BioWare testing the MEGA-Server

http://games.on.net/2012/09/help-star-wars-the-old-republic-test-their-new-megaservers/

If it works well, will solve the issue of low population servers.

So instead of fragmenting the population in many servers, they merge all US EAST players to one server where they all can play together.

No more servers serving as an artificial barrier.

I have no objection to this. I always thought the server segregration system was an absurd thing for themepark mmos to have anyway.

So instead of fragmenting the population in many servers, they merge all US EAST players to one server where they all can play together.

No more servers serving as an artificial barrier.

I have no objection to this. I always thought the server segregration system was an absurd thing for themepark mmos to have anyway.

Maroxad

Exactly. One of the mistakes BioWare made was to cave in to all the whinning and crying about putting up new servers when the queues were long. They should have kept the same servers but just increased the cap. This will be good for SWTOR since everyone will be on ONE server.

won't save this pathetic game.

[QUOTE="Maroxad"]

So instead of fragmenting the population in many servers, they merge all US EAST players to one server where they all can play together.

No more servers serving as an artificial barrier.

I have no objection to this. I always thought the server segregration system was an absurd thing for themepark mmos to have anyway.

FelipeInside

Exactly. One of the mistakes BioWare made was to cave in to all the whinning and crying about putting up new servers when the queues were long. They should have kept the same servers but just increased the cap. This will be good for SWTOR since everyone will be on ONE server.

One of the mistakes Bioware made was to have a shard system like this in teh first place.

They should have done it like TSW and GW2.

Nah the BIGGEST mistake bioware made was 1.2..Changing the healers half way through the year..Killing most of the healers in the game..It was the straw that killed the camels back so to speek..Myself i had to relearn how to heal a waste of a day in my eyes..After most of the healers quit the game just died a quick death...Trying to move every one to one server is showing how far this game has pummled this isnt good no matter how one looks at it..

they are reeeeeeally late on trying this

A good idea in theory but It's probably already too late with the release of Guild Wars 2 and the upcoming WoW expansion.

But it's something that future MMOs should consider doing. Got to hand to Bioware - they're nothing if not imaginative.

DCUO did this as well and it turned out quite well for what I saw the last time I was in there. Before that the worlds were quite empty.

I was thinking of the marketting of this game the other day. How it won dozens of awards a couple years before it came out. Yeah

I wonder how much this is costing them. It might be cheaper to do what Blizzard does. Put all the servers in the same building. Then just real time send character data around like they did for Cross Realm Dungeons/Raids and now Zones.

now that I think about this....expect a massive framerate dip with all those players under one hood. THe space stations already have 200-300 people on them at once and it drops the FPS down to 10-15

now that I think about this....expect a massive framerate dip with all those players under one hood. THe space stations already have 200-300 people on them at once and it drops the FPS down to 10-15

wis3boi

This was the first negative thing about it that came to mind.

I expect to see/hear many complaints about games crashing, over-heating, and slideshowing in cities, once this goes into affect.

Other than that I don't see a problem with it. If this isn't a problem, I welcome it, as I want to check it out again after its F2P. See if they fixed some of the issues introduced by previous patches.

they are reeeeeeally late on trying this

wis3boi

now that I think about this....expect a massive framerate dip with all those players under one hood. THe space stations already have 200-300 people on them at once and it drops the FPS down to 10-15

wis3boi

now that I think about this....expect a massive framerate dip with all those players under one hood. THe space stations already have 200-300 people on them at once and it drops the FPS down to 10-15

wis3boi

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now that I think about this....expect a massive framerate dip with all those players under one hood. THe space stations already have 200-300 people on them at once and it drops the FPS down to 10-15

FelipeInside

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[QUOTE="Maroxad"]

So instead of fragmenting the population in many servers, they merge all US EAST players to one server where they all can play together.

No more servers serving as an artificial barrier.

I have no objection to this. I always thought the server segregration system was an absurd thing for themepark mmos to have anyway.

Maroxad

Exactly. One of the mistakes BioWare made was to cave in to all the whinning and crying about putting up new servers when the queues were long. They should have kept the same servers but just increased the cap. This will be good for SWTOR since everyone will be on ONE server.

One of the mistakes Bioware made was to have a shard system like this in teh first place.

They should have done it like TSW and GW2.

I think Arena.net handled servers the best. Anyone I've asked, would have overflow over server queues any day of the week. Kudos to Anet. TSW had the right idea and ambition in their single-server technology but the game had some nasty data-fetching/loading, in DX9. There were some glaring flaws with that server structure, but a neat idea nonetheless.

Oh, and the horrible chat channel system errors/bugs was the final straw for me. I've never seen an MMO with broken chat like that. ever.

GW 2 just stabbed TOR in the face. I don't see any posible way this game recovers

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[QUOTE="FelipeInside"]

Exactly. One of the mistakes BioWare made was to cave in to all the whinning and crying about putting up new servers when the queues were long. They should have kept the same servers but just increased the cap. This will be good for SWTOR since everyone will be on ONE server.

Elann2008

One of the mistakes Bioware made was to have a shard system like this in teh first place.

They should have done it like TSW and GW2.

I think Arena.net handled servers the best. Anyone I've asked, would have overflow over server queues any day of the week. Kudos to Anet. TSW had the right idea and ambition in their single-server technology but the game had some nasty data-fetching/loading, in DX9. There were some glaring flaws with that server structure, but a neat idea nonetheless.

Oh, and the horrible chat channel system errors/bugs was the final straw for me. I've never seen an MMO with broken chat like that. ever.

gw2 takes the cake for me as smoothest and best crafted on release MMO I've ever played...or game in general

GW 2 just stabbed TOR in the face. I don't see any posible way this game recovers

Krelian-co

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GW 2 just stabbed TOR in the face. I don't see any posible way this game recovers

FelipeInside

to be honest, gw2 does so much more correctly that its hard to boot up swtor anymore for me.

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GW 2 just stabbed TOR in the face. I don't see any posible way this game recovers

wis3boi

to be honest, gw2 does so much more correctly that its hard to boot up swtor anymore for me.