So that’s my point. Low servers were called dead, before they ever “came to life”. But they did eventually rise as more unaligned players joined the game and were directed to low servers.
It’s not Blizzard’s fault that people refused to go to low pop servers and preferred to wait in lines.
Had an idea of how to perhaps find an alternative approach.
Layers could act like sub realms. You pick a layer and it works just like a realm, except they share names and such so they can be merged easily when needed, but are not exactly merges because they are connected through having to share the pool of names, avoiding the “omg server merges ze game is DYING!!11” PR BS. (which btw, i think the complete opposite will happen, where there will be way more players than they anticipate now)
The cluster of permanent, locked layers could be called “realm groups” or so.
For example, you could have 1 realm Group, the “Dragonflights”.
All of them are basically their own realms, except they share name options. There could be a “warning” that because it’s a realm group, names are shared, and if absolutely necessary, these realms would be merged/connected together.
They still can counteract the tourist dropoff in case it’s necessary like this, stabilizing realms as needed while everyone gets to keep their name.
During launch, they could see the hotspots for realm groups, and open up more realms where needed adding them to the groups of realms just in case.
They could even very early on start merging realms together where there are big signs of tourist dropoff, to minimize the negative effect of a merge on the community since they do it early on.
All the while, unlike layering, allowing each community to form on their respective realms and have the vanilla experience.
Wow I check back just to see if any updates about removing layering a week or so later and this post blew up.
Last year I leveled 3 toons to 60 on a private server. The word Fresh will never mean the same thing to me again.
I did this to prepare for classic because I started in BC and just wanted to refresh my memory of things because the last time I subbed to retail was in 2015…
You can say what you want, but I have listed my reasons to why this is bad.
If it is in the game at all there is no point for me to play because then it is not really classic. I can deal with some changes, I am mainly a no changes man, but somethings are ok to change. But MINOR things, like the clock on mini map, button to land on flight path vs logging etc. Not layering.
Layering will not do a damn thing to solve the bottle neck in the starting zones.
Anyways, I read to about post 200 and then said screw it, some people were nice and others were exactly what I expect from blizzard sheep.
Have fun in Not Classic.
p.s. Also the pc crowd these days will screw over classic. I heard people getting banned for saying Naga? LOL, cant wait for the bans to come from gen chat…
This is my list I have posted in a few posts. It is not perfect nor do I care. But you tell me how you feel about how this changes “classic”
Some key points about layering, you choose if good or bad for the authentic Vanilla experience. :
I have made many edits adding to this, I might add more but this seems to be good enough to make a point.