[GAME] Merging all servers

[TitoRukas 25]

My suggestion is to merge all servers into one world, so people from EU server is able to play with people from NA server, most of us have friends in the other server, and it will be nice to be able to play with them. 

It has some cons:

- There will be ping problems, but this can be easy to fix, separe districs in region. Ex: EU-Missions-Financial-1, NA-Missions-Financial-1, etc. (and if you want to play with other server friend you will need to sacrifice your ping)

- Repeated name in servers, I dont know how this would be fixed.

And also pros:

- You will be able to play with any friend you have in APB.

- Community will be bigger and stronger.

- More player base and players on district all hours of the day.

 

 

If you guys think more pros/cons post them so we can debate it!

[Kiida 455]

This is how APB should've been developed to begin with. It makes no sense to have separated servers across the world. If you look at MMOs like Runescape they have servers located all over the world for players to switch between freely. The problem is it's pretty much impossible to change at this point, though it might be with the upgrade to UE4 since that's basically rebuilding the game from ground up.

[Similarities 226]

Until you get a server in the middle of the ocean where everyone is going to have roughly the same ping, no. We already have Koreans playing with 400 ping to Jericho and Aussies playing with 200 ping, we'd absolutely kill any chance they have to play the game if we merge everyone to an NA/EU server, but if we put everyone on a server in the middle of the world (in terms of continents and countries), Americans and Aussies are gonna get dumpster ping. Simply put, no.

 

However, if you mean the ability to swap "worlds/servers" rather than all of us being put on the same server, then to that I say sure, why the hell not? It'd be nice to be able to swap my characters from server to server so I can play on EU during the early morning of NA, and then NA later in the evening when EU has died down a bit. It'd also allow players from Han to swap to Jericho finally.

Edited June 3, 2018 by Similarities

[TitoRukas 25]

8 minutes ago, Similarities said:

Until you get a server in the middle of the ocean where everyone is going to have roughly the same ping, no. We already have Koreans playing with 400 ping to Jericho and Aussies playing with 200 ping, we'd absolutely kill any chance they have to play the game if we merge everyone to an NA/EU server, but if we put everyone on a server in the middle of the world (in terms of continents and countries), Americans and Aussies are gonna get dumpster ping. Simply put, no.

 

However, if you mean the ability to swap "worlds/servers" rather than all of us being put on the same server, then to that I say sure, why the hell not? It'd be nice to be able to swap my characters from server to server so I can play on EU during the early morning of NA, and then NA later in the evening when EU has died down a bit. It'd also allow players from Han to swap to Jericho finally.

I mean, have all the players in one server, but the server with different distrincts depending on where is located, so if you are from EU, play on EU servers, etc. But if oyu want to play with a friend from NA you can join a NA district.

[Similarities 226]

Just now, TitoRukas said:

I mean, have all the players in one server, but the server with different distrincts depending on where is located, so if you are from EU, play on EU servers, etc. But if oyu want to play with a friend from NA you can join a NA district.

Oh, I misunderstood then, that's my fault! Sorry about that, that's a very good idea then and I agree with it. I thought you meant put everyone together on one region, sort of like how we have EU/NA now but just shove them all together. Heh.

[SalmonToastie 7]

This is a great idea! Gets rid of the server switch problem as well as boosting population during all times of the day! (And Night)

Edited June 3, 2018 by SalmonToastie

[zyde 34]

Really love the idea plus they should give everyone (that has doubled names across regions) the ability to choose a different name

[TheMessiah 430]

no and will never happen..theres servers in diferent continents 4 reason just stop with this sht=)

[TitoRukas 25]

13 minutes ago, BingoBookBG said:

no and will never happen..theres servers in diferent continents 4 reason just stop with this sht=)

I think you didnt read it XD

[TheMessiah 430]

37 minutes ago, TitoRukas said:

I think you didnt read it XD

i did..u think this must be done only because small amount of ppl have friends on other server or what..4 god know what reason on other continent..cmon

Edited June 3, 2018 by BingoBookBG

[NotZombieBiscuit 3146]

I dunno. I kind of like the different cultures that the servers have developed due to their segregation. Would be nice to see some ability to maybe cross over but a complete merge in to a singular server I am not that fond of.

[VickyFox 353]

4 hours ago, BingoBookBG said:

i did..u think this must be done only because small amount of ppl have friends on other server or what..4 god know what reason on other continent..cmon

Maybe because it's the internet and people judge people for on who they are and not where they're from?

My main 2 characters are NA because EU server was offline when I created my account, I would like my main characters to be played to a native server but that's not an option by any means.

[LilyV3 323]

yes some main character server and local mission servers would be cool, an old idea, maybe Lo can make it happen. would help people socialisioing, making events across the world and also share customisation.

[heelruby 66]

While merging everything into a single server sounds like a really bad idea to me (ping/latency), I support the idea of being able to switch freely between servers, as some mentioned above (even though right now, yeah not possible).

[AgentWatson 85]

On 6/4/2018 at 12:45 AM, NotZombieBiscuit said:

I dunno. I kind of like the different cultures that the servers have developed due to their segregation. Would be nice to see some ability to maybe cross over but a complete merge in to a singular server I am not that fond of.

Colby had the best culture, an unfortunate victim to segregation, tko is a product of Colby.

[LilyV3 323]

18 hours ago, RubyGee said:

While merging everything into a single server sounds like a really bad idea to me (ping/latency), I support the idea of being able to switch freely between servers, as some mentioned above (even though right now, yeah not possible).

 

I don't think so.

 

G1 did already merge servers, so merging does work. Creating one character masterserver where characters are stored would therefore work. and individual districts can run on local servers around the world.

Edited June 6, 2018 by LilyV3

[Nev 200]

The problem will be that the char names are server bound so if they were to do a server wide merge it will cause a lot of issues. But I think it's a good idea if they do it.

Edited June 6, 2018 by Nev

[ch4ncer 87]

No.

[Dopefish 248]

I'm having a hard time understanding the original suggestion of this topic, as merging every server into a single one would make the game unplayable for a large amount of players.

 

But the suggestion to allow for any character to join any server would be interesting, and there used to be a language option in the district selection menu that I imagined could have been used for that purpose:

 

It would require alot of work to implement though, and it would mean a loss of revenue for Little Orbit as people would have less need for multiple characters.

[Queen of Love 452]

No please.

 

[TitoRukas 25]

8 hours ago, Dopefish said:

I'm having a hard time understanding the original suggestion of this topic, as merging every server into a single one would make the game unplayable for a large amount of players.

 

But the suggestion to allow for any character to join any server would be interesting, and there used to be a language option in the district selection menu that I imagined could have been used for that purpose:

 

It would require alot of work to implement though, and it would mean a loss of revenue for Little Orbit as people would have less need for multiple characters.

What I mean its having the same servers, but in the district selection you will be able to choose what  location of the server you want, for example. EU-Action-Financial-10 or NA-Action-Waterfront

[Jota 5]

This looks very viable and promising.
So just dissolve all clans, delete all e-mails, merge, resolve name conflicts.
Find a technical solution to make instances be able to launch in different regions for the one and only game server.

Make users to be able to identify and filter the region of the instances.

[Helix Reloaded 102]

I think some people aren't understanding OP's suggestion.

His idea in my words:

 

One overall server where character/account information is stored.

Districts for the regions of the world (in the same places the main servers are right now).

Allows you to play in different servers with the same characters. (Switching servers like you would switch districts now)

 

I don't know how this would work or if it's even possible. I'm just trying to help OP get his idea across properly.

[Too_many_snowflakes 80]

I think this could go horribly wrong if it isn't done right. On a side note, will I ever be able to get my max rank out of the ghosttown that is HAN?

[Sonicdahedgie 1]

On 6/3/2018 at 7:30 AM, TitoRukas said:

I mean, have all the players in one server, but the server with different distrincts depending on where is located, so if you are from EU, play on EU servers, etc. But if oyu want to play with a friend from NA you can join a NA district.

So you want all the players on one server, but with multiple servers. Brilliant.