Server transfers off of overflowing servers would expedite the removal of layers.
No it doesn’t.
Layering is just Phasing that doesn’t check quest progress.
The server capacity is the same regardless of layers. Layers prevents you from waiting in line for mob respawns because everyone started in the same zone.
What layering does is make a server feel less populated to preserve your gameplay experience until players spread out more.
Dumping 30k people into a single layer in a game designed to accommodate by all estimates 5k or less is a bad idea.
You add more servers to the realm as you add more layers to the realm…
That’s not how anything works.
Phase 2 will completely remove layering without affecting server capacity. You are provably wrong.
Sorry, I defer to your expertise.
I don’t have any problem with layering as long as it’s gone by phase 2, but I do wish they would at least do this. I’ve seen quite a few people around and have had to hop zones to avoid areas that are farmed to death, but I mean it’s launch week, crowded servers are part of the experience. I’d still like to see more players.
Yeah layering was and is a huge mistake, I went to STV today and was depressed to see how empty it was and then to just roll over the same 4 people. If it continues like this it’s going to be hard to play.
Having gone through two of the starting zones. I can tell you right now.
The starting zones, and even one zone after, are so packed. If there
was no layering. No one would be getting anything done.
I would hate to see those same zones without layering.
OP must be on an empty server? Because our Stormwind is a cluttered mess of hundreds crawling over every inch, and then when you find a rogue to unlock a box, you join his group and get layered into ANOTHER Stormwind cluttered with hundreds of OTHER people. Its hilarious how many people are in the city at once across all Layers. Far more than any private server has ever seen thats for SURE.
And Im on Pagle, a PvE server man.
Don’t know. On a full pvp realm and I’ll never see more than 2 dozen people in SW at any point of the day. IF isn’t any better. It’s more dead. And it’s not exactly horde dominated.
Immediately noticed this on entering silverpine to begin advancing past level 13. I think that the design of layer could improve such that it is far more limited to only the zones where EVERYONE was originally crowded starting out. Areas to be sure lots of helpers and people to trade with or give help to are around.
The fact that server hardware can support more players has nothing to do with layering. The post you linked doesn’t say the word “layering” at all.
You are conflating two unrelated things because you don’t know what you’re talking about. You’re literally so wrong that you can’t even tell what being wrong looks like.
It’s very simple logic: If layering increased server capacity, but layering got turned off, server capacity would be decreased. There are no plans to reduce server capacity, so layering doesn’t affect server capacity. Try using your brain for once.
Developers explaining the reason for layering.
Every single explanation you find will specifically state the reason for layering is to preserve the game play experience due to everyone starting the same area. Every single source says Layering will be turned off before Phase 2. When they said they increased server capacity three days ago, they didn’t say “We’re adding more layers” because that’s not what layers do.
I can explain it to you but I can’t understand it for you.
I see peoole everywhere at level 15. You must be higher lvl than most people
No thanks. I played on Nost’s launch and that was an awful experience. I haven’t noticed the world feeling less alive on any of the layering shards I’ve been on so far. Maybe I’ve just been lucky tho.
I’ve played on Herod, Westfall, and Rattlegore and there has always been tons of people everywhere. I’m really confused as to how people are saying they aren’t seeing anyone because of layering.
No dude… That will cause a tremendous caos the servers have 12 500 to 15 000 players active on classic and back on the day on vanilla the servers had 2500 - 3000 players
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The zones will suffer a massive congestions instead of take 90 hours a lv 60 that will take us 180 hours for the competition “Sorry but i sell my time very high” i dont like lose that .
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Blizzard can just add cooldowns changing layering, all cooldowns to mining, chests etc. To avoid people abuse of that
Who said layering will be gone by phase 2 ? and why?
Well…yeah…because if all 15k to 30k players were all within the same layer the game would become unstable and crash. It would not render the game in a playable state.
Uh, no? Layering was what allowed so many on the server to begin with…
You got it backwards my dude.
I haven’t really noticed a problem with it yet, still tons of people everywhere.