Yes it can and will have an impact on wpvp.
If the server detects to much of a player load the other raid group you are raiding a city with will get sharded to another instance.
The same with a large rp event or anything that will have a large playerbase located in one area.
Yeah, I donāt particularly like that.
I want to play on a PvP server so I can PvP, not miss out because it got crowded.
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My personal version of tourist is not really targeting retailers. Itās more of a broad spectrum.
The players that are wanting to play Classic but have yet to feel that wall we all hit post 25ish. That point where leveling takes effort. When they hit it they might reroll but they will hit the wall again. Then eventually quit.
I remember the feeling of that wall well.
As for that idea I posted. I mean an Open betA weekend type thing. Thatās anyone and everyone.
Haha, yea for sure thatāll be funny alliance raids Cross roads spams Local defense, and thereās just a bunch of horde sitting in the town going āwtf?ā
Iām not sure if Sharding dictates chat channels is another problem. ( I may be wrong on this as well so if i am please correct me.) But if iām in shard 4 and Ike is in shard 272 and sayās Heās getting ganked, and i invite him it will change it to my shard, so they ganker will just poof vanish. Sorta like X-realms IIRC.
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No doubt. That would kill it for me.
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So if the sharding is set to 100 per shard. You think you miss out on the PvP in the other shards? How is that different than PvP in a different zone?
I have played exclusively on rp servers since WrA launched and have server hopped all over the place with other toons.
The issue isnāt that big of a deal.
Is it frustrating and highly annoying without a doubt but it isnt a make it or brake it deal and most rpāers have the creativity to overcome the obstacle.
This is what I mean. I donāt want to show up when things are getting going, only to seeā¦ nothing.
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Fair enough, tourist is such a broad term iād have no idea, i just think the biggest ship thatās going to crash with Classic will be retailers since theyāll know about it day one, and itās something new that maybe theyād want to try out, clearly that makes sense i feel. But the thing is, despite the names it DOES feel like a different game, and i do feel theyāll be the first to the most numerous to jump ship or settle in it.
As for the wall? Yea once you hit 20ās, youāll start feeling the burn. Also everyone can get effected by level burn out in general.
I do like the Open beta idea, if it deleted everything when the game launched maybe more then a weekend say a whole week, thatāll be enough time to find out if this is the game for you or not, though iām doubtful blizzard will do it.
Another idea is to have Normal servers I.E PVE servers only have Sharding? Clearly itāll effect RP and PVP too much but maybe having a PVE only shard server can be a decent medium.
Iād imagine Blizzard would have to prioritize faction ratios on PvP servers at least.
50 x 50 battle going on. You show up to join. How long before you have your own 50 x 50.
Not going to assume Blizzard has thought of the issue there but itās not a new condition.
and this is why i fight against classic having sharding. people with you are more then happy to green light stuff like sharding and give blizzard excuses to use it wherever they want
sharding can affect world pvp yes.
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We had some pretty epic battles back in the day before BGs were introduced. Hate to see this get messed with.
Once BGās are introduced, WPvP tends to taper down a bit.
So youād rather have an unstable, crashy mess than a game that you can actually play? Sorry, but I know where my priorities are.
iād rather have world events and AQ be big epic events like they are supposed to be. sharding counteracts that.
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People think that the starter zones will be unplayable at launch without sharding.
They should see what Hillsbrad is going to look like prior to BGs being added.
I remember those days, we had a lot of fun. Honestly, I donāt ever recall ever seeing a server crash due to massive fighting, and the only thing that sucked was my crappy computer chugging to keep up.
those were fun days. lots and lots of death. but fun days.
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It was a ton of fun, but as I recall pretty much no lowbie got anything done in Hillbrad =P
The only thing I can remember that gave the server some issues was if the Horde attacked Ironforge.
For some reason that seemed to be worse than even if we attacked Orgrimmar.
Now that was insane.
We need to stop talking about it, Iām dying over here.