Well, I dont think the login resetting your layer should be a thing, I dont see why that would be a thing at all when we never had layers to ‘login dodge’ before.
So you might be apart of a tm vs ss battle, and just when things are getting heated and your faction is gaining the upper hand you get dcd real quick, no worries, log back in.
Youre back.
Wait. Where is everyone.
Blizzard: “GOT EEM!” new layer for you!
How has blozzard not already thought of countering this by forcing you back into the same layer until you stay logged out for x amount of time… eg. 6 hours.
Yes, like Dynamic IP’s, that only reset every 24 hours. Seems a very good solution.
Good. The more they do this, the more Blizzard can iron out the kinks.
Working as intended.
I agree it shouldn’t but your solution could mean one layer never sees nodes depending on what people are doing in the other.
They already said they are working/thinking about solutions to people doing this.
I actually wouldn’t mind they fix serving hopping on live for this type of thing but really the solution to that would be simple not allow people to mine/herb on other servers at all.
If they don’t allow people to mine on other servers then that basically defeats the purpose of sharding/CRZ/layering/whatever you want to call it.
I feel like the best solution is to simply remove it personally. Instead just link together or merge low pop realms
It’s not just resources but rares…both NPC’s and hunter pets.
You call out in chat LFM for a dungeon run and you’ll get folks joining just so they can switch layers to check.
Don’t you remember the complaints when that happened in retail with the LFG tool ? Heck I realm hopped using the tool but only joined groups specifically made for realm hopping.
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I agree. In retail I regularly group with realId friends in low pop realms for x4 farming. It’s honestly something I’d hate to see happening in Classic
Layering is not CRZ or Sharding. It is for a single server you are not connected to other servers. I see where the confusion may be, however they aren’t the same.
Layering is sharding on a grander scale. The entire continent is sharded.
Doesn’t change anything. With layering if they don’t allow you to hop to different layers to farm nodes it also defeats the purpose of layering because a lot of people who aren’t abusing it will be getting screwed over by people who are.
guaranteed people will exploit sharding to farm 100x more Tidal Charms on the server than was intended.
not to mention mass pvp raids will be crap but they simply will not function properly with layering. People will swap “layers/shards” to avoid Tarren Mill raids, or people raiding orgrimmar/flight masters will simply disappear on your screen
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You guys need to chill, there is a reason to why beta testing exists. It’s to test these kind of bugs…
This is 100% going to get fixed before release.
Stop complaining about bugs in a beta.
Mordack…switching layers is not a bug. That is intended.
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So no matter how many layers a realm has there will be one single AH ?
Mordack, in a beta all systems are working as ‘intended’. Systems are developed in the Alpha. Betas are to test the developed systems out.
These issues with layering are not ‘bugs’, they’re fundamental to the system they have created and would require a re-do of the entire thing to fix it.
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it’s baffling how they thought layering would be a good idea in the first-place… there’s so many unintended consequences that are acquired with a system like that. Why not just have dynamic respawns instead?
should just rename the game to “Worlds of warcraft” instead of “world of warcraft” because that’s exactly what layering/sharding is.
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Exactly. Testers are literally hired and instructed to break the game as best they could so the devs know what to fix because they’re certainly going to miss some things.
The “Switching layers” only occurs when you group up so you are in the same layer as other players. You aren’t going to be able to just hop layers without having others in separate layers grouping up to do it. What everyone’s doing is making a mountain out of a mole hill.
Sure you can just hop layers…when someone yells out in chat LFM you join up and see if you switch layers.
Just like when CRZ first came out in retail and players joined groups so they could farm rares and tame rare pets in other realms.
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