Two servers?

[Saolite]

Do you think that Xsyon should have two, or more, servers? Why or why not?


Out of personal belief, the reason I would say no is for multiple reasons.


For starters, a single consistent world has far more player standing and actions ripple in it from player decisions. EvE, for example -- everyone who played EvE from 2006 to late 2009 knew who GoonSwarm were. They developed a reputation that stretched out across a single, persistent universe.

The same is true now. AAA, BoB, etc. Their actions and the actions of players effect everyone, consistently.

If you split the servers, it will become " Well our best tribe can pwn your best tribe! " without any real way of knowing ( this being after Prelude, of course ). It takes a wide variety of people to make a sandbox MMO work successfully, and Eve has proven this that it DOES work.


The second reason is for population reasons. Rather than split up a community of less than 10k players on to two servers, it would be more meaningful to keep that community together, and only expand to two servers IF the active-player count rises beyond what is acceptable for a single server to handle. And even that can be debated about, pending the other reasons why a person would say no.

[Jadzia]

I can see 2 good reasons to start with 2 servers:

1. if the population is already too high for one server. In this case its necessary, we can't do much about it.

2. The 2 servers will have 2 different PvP setup. 1 for war, no safe zones or safe zones only for like some weeks and with tribal wars, and another one with safe zones and strict PvP rules. I would agree with this setup strongly, this way PvP players wouldn't have to wait for 6-9 months to start to have fun while the more peaceful players can play in relative peace as well.

[cejay]

I can see 2 good reasons to start with 2 servers:

1. if the population is already too high for one server. In this case its necessary, we can't do much about it.

2. The 2 servers will have 2 different PvP setup. 1 for war, no safe zones or safe zones only for like some weeks and with tribal wars, and another one with safe zones and strict PvP rules. I would agree with this setup strongly, this way PvP players wouldn't have to wait for 6-9 months to start to have fun while the more peaceful players can play in relative peace as well.

Your points may or may not be valid, but a few comments:

Do they mean a pvp server and a pve server....

Or indeed 2 normal servers based on location...

Or is it one with saved totems or one without?

Would be grateful of much clarification of the survey please, as I see no point putting forward any viewpoint on what any of us may believe is a good idea until we understand the question in it's entirety...

EDIT Jad I can't believe your already wanting to seperate the playpen, without the game even launching. You can't have a sandbox pve game, you may as well go play Minecraft :-(

[darg75]

I say no to multiple servers. I like the idea of everyone being under the one roof with the one set of rules.

I am not a PvPer, my sole involvement with PvP to this point has been to be whacked and have my tools stolen. I see that as a learning experience and some additional spice to the game. I adapted the way I played and hopefully this won't be an issue for me again. If the safe zones changed or were removed, I'd adapt again.

[FabricSoftener]

I personally like the idea of my own personal server in which I only invite people I know into the world.

But with that option not really on the table I do think one large server world would be great if the bandwidth can handle it.

[Delvie]

In order to do the one world thing like EVE I believe the game has to be built from the ground up to handle the technology. Don't think Xsyon is.

Personally I'd love to keep it one world if performance doesn't suffer - but that's unrealistic. Bottom line is I want to be able to get on and play the game without horrendous lag.

The only other issue I see is what happens with server merges if that ever needs to occur.

[Saolite]

I can see 2 good reasons to start with 2 servers:

1. if the population is already too high for one server. In this case its necessary, we can't do much about it.

2. The 2 servers will have 2 different PvP setup. 1 for war, no safe zones or safe zones only for like some weeks and with tribal wars, and another one with safe zones and strict PvP rules. I would agree with this setup strongly, this way PvP players wouldn't have to wait for 6-9 months to start to have fun while the more peaceful players can play in relative peace as well.

In order to do the one world thing like EVE I believe the game has to be built from the ground up to handle the technology. Don't think Xsyon is.

Personally I'd love to keep it one world if performance doesn't suffer - but that's unrealistic. Bottom line is I want to be able to get on and play the game without horrendous lag.

The only other issue I see is what happens with server merges if that ever needs to occur.

What both of you said is one of the things where I would consider a second server necessary -- if there was lag or if performance in general suffered due to population. In which case, performance trumps all else in this case.

As to the PvP Server, that one I am somewhat leery about, as safe zones are to be removed after Prelude regardless. It would become somewhat of a moot server once all safe zones were off on the original. Although unless you mean to keep safe zones indefinitly? Which could be its own slight issue, all things considered.

[Armand]

One server, ten servers.... Wipe, no Wipe... Just launch the game already.

[Delvie]

One server, ten servers.... Wipe, no Wipe... Just launch the game already.

I 100% agree with this. I want to play for real

[cejay]

One server, ten servers.... Wipe, no Wipe... Just launch the game already.

Miraculously, I for once find myself in accord with a Hopi member! ;-)