Comments on: Rant: Server Queue

By: Paragus

Paragus — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:16:31 +0000

If you are going to reroll, stay off Skull Throne! My queue is long enough

By: br3ntbr0

br3ntbr0 — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:38:40 +0000

I’ve posted on our guild’s trials and tribulations on this very topic ad nauseum. Volkmar had a 2 hour queue during the head start, and our Destro guild recently rerolled to Thorgrim. Now we get in the game instantly, but we wait really long stretches in between tier 2 scenario queues. For Order, they pop almost instantly. All this has me debating whether to reroll as Order somewhere and abandon my beloved Gobbo Shammy…

By: Centuri

Centuri — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:18:19 +0000

As a player that took the Golden Ticket off of an overflowing servers I can completely understand the willingness to sit it out on a full server. Especially one that is full on both sides.

On my prior server there were often 20+ players of each faction constantly running around the RvR areas. Scenario ques for T1 were around 1 minute to 10 minutes depending on which pairing you were in. T2 were 10-30 minutes as well with Empire/Chaos being the shortest ques for Destruction.

Change that to my “new” server which is suspiciously labeled Medium Medium for server pop. There are often 20+ destruction players in the RvR areas but very few order players. Que times for T1 are 15 minutes to one hour for destruction scenarios pretty much forcing players to go to Empire/Chaos as apparently that is where all the order players are. T2 scenarios are around 20-30 minutes for Stone Troll, I was in the que for Pheonix Gate for 3 hours Monday without getting in, and spent 1.5 hours in the que for MT witout getting in.

I think that many players may have tried out the new servers with their clones and quickly returned to the full realms in search of actual RvR. After all what is the advantage of getting into the game instantly if you have to wait one hour or more for RvR vs. sitting in a que for 30 minutes to get in game and wait 5 minutes for RvR?

By: Julie Whitefeather

Julie Whitefeather — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:01:10 +0000

The guild I am in is also on a high population server (Badlands for destruction and Phoenix Throne for order). I thought cloning was a great idea. However, almost to the person the entire guild (on both order and destruction sides) flatly refused to change servers. This is even in light that if you want to play more than one character in a given evening you can easily see a total of 40 minutes to an hour of waiting in que.

There are even those who insist that the server populations are not at the max the server can handle, even when Mythic says they are. I do understand how bad it is to play on a low population server, but it may come to the point that Mythic has to shove server transfers down the throats of customers. Where does the balancing act stop? Forced transfers over ques so long people quit playing?

By: Qix

Qix — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:55:13 +0000

I understand your willingness to tough it out. Waaaaay back in WoW, i transfered to a friends server, also a guild that co-workers created was there. That server was way underpopulated, and it sucked horribly. I was with friends, but nobody else! The AH felt empty!