Did this game will be more interesting if is one place where all NC West players will compare for one glory every min not just 2h/14 day in Dim CS. One Aden, one dragons, one Gainak, one heroes...
Don't sty in side, say your word and maybe, just maybe administration will hear community like year ago when they needed 3 years constant merge talk to finely they make that with making Freya.
Did this game will be more interesting if is one place where all NC West players will compare for one glory every min not just 2h/14 day in Dim CS. One Aden, one dragons, one Gainak, one heroes...
Don't sty in side, say your word and maybe, just maybe administration will hear community like year ago when they needed 3 years constant merge talk to finely they make that with making Freya.
The problem is that the player characters are unevenly distributed. Speaking for Naia, the field hunting grounds are totally empty, with the first few players coming out at around 7 pm, while the fishermen in Aden and Heine are standing shoulder to shoulder and on Aden Central Square the commercially inclined players are sitting so close together that their shop signs are almost overlapping. If you merged all servers, there would simply be no more physical space for every trader to sit down and have their shop signs still readable. John Brunner has explained this in detail in his 1968 novel "Stand on Zanzibar": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_on_Zanzibar#Title
Well my point of merge was more for active gaming part of L2, for afk shops there are 9 towns and many village where is no pvp zone, long ago before GOD Giran was main shop town, with introduce Kartia and natural daily moving of ppl in Aden central square shops start to be sit there.
The question is, how would you steer the crowds away from Aden? Somebody once suggested to put up Kartia Researchers in all major towns, which would be a good way to distribute people, like Olympiad participants are also distributed fairly evenly over the various towns (I can't imagine that among all those trade shouts anybody finds a Kartia party outside of the party rooms).
This would require work by the development department though (while a merge in itself can be done by NCWest on their own), and I have my doubts whether any hopes in that regard are realistic, mainly because of cultural differences. Koreans, like all Asians, like it crowded, so the developers do everything to squeeze players into small places, thus covering up the emptiness of the servers. Always keep in mind, on the low-population servers in Korea people are soloing castles - not because they are such mighty warriors, but because there are no defenders. Distributing Kartia instancers and shops is absolutely out of the question. Only when NCKorea merges all of their servers we can hope for a properly arranged merge over here :p
1. activity levels of all 4 servers combined is higher then 6K so can't put that into 1 server without causing major lag/net con issues
2. there will always be a need for a Euro and NA server, do a blind merger and all remaining Euro's will move to Core thus making L2 unprofitable to keep even 1 server running as u guys under estimate how many real spenders are NOT NA/LA players ;)
Relax, we will have 3 servers...the most common sense deduction from Neutron response. As a time frame, probably after NcSoft West aniversary(May-June).
Zaken is dead, players from Zaken will migrate-transfer on the closes time zone server they choose. Most likely EU players on gmt+1(Naia-Freya), other players on gmt-2(Chronos).
An update on this, the ultimate goal is migrate Zaken players to the other servers, but we are still are not finalized on the technical parts of the plan. Most likely it will involve a combination of Server Transfers and Database work to move any remaining characters. This will not happen for several months though as we are focused on the Grand Crusade update.
Did this game will be more interesting if is one place where all NC West players will compare for one glory every min not just 2h/14 day in Dim CS. One Aden, one dragons, one Gainak, one heroes...
Don't sty in side, say your word and maybe, just maybe administration will hear community like year ago when they needed 3 years constant merge talk to finely they make that with making Freya.
Comment and vote to poll pls :rolleyes:
During the siege on all servers status: High (except Zaken)
And how do you imagine the opportunity to play on the siege after merge?
The top clans from each server will just merge ending the game. Those clans don't wanna play/pvp, they farm the game for rlm. There wouldn't be enough strong people to fight the zerg and every one would leave, need at least 2 servers.
In my opinion servers should get a merge, but not into one, the best would be into two or three servers. And I think Freya should be merged with a server where strong people exist, to kick Max's ***.
One-sided servers with one clan farming everything suck.
According to Zaken's margin of error, this is not compatible.
What you see more here in the forum are discussions, a lot of fraps stuffed with drama, lots of propaganda on one side, sometimes on the other side too, exchange of flying lies.
So there is no logic here to say that Zaken is dead.
As already pointed out here, it is a matter of time that the update on the way and the amount of players will rise momentarily.
This is most likely to happen before and very close to the anniversary of L2.
And I agree that Chronos and Naia should never be incorporated by another server.
Boys, you forget one thing, threat is in forum General Discussion NOT Game Suggestions. So, discus, why yes, why no and etc, dont bla bla wtf you crazy or other personal stuff. We are not here to read your low IQ scale or basic human to human communication...
And how is "full" in cs time... remove 50coins/15box part from game and will see how much active is servers in cs time, or look how much defenders/attackers have all castle together that 2h, if there is more of 30 active pts per server I give may left hand, that mean in that 2h there is more of 200 main char players who are rdy to attack/defend 9 castles ....
Or yes, Aden is full with chars but look how much move they in daily %, 90% is 24/7 online shops from virtual machine/old-secondhand PC.
Yes, servers maybe now not have machine to survive 5k+ online chars but for sure merge will not be make tomorrow. Hardware expansions in world is very big, maybe one day in future NC West will invest in server machine who will be light even with 10k+ online chars in game server...