Factions aren't the issue, server capacity is

Players choosing in which faction to play is beyond anyone to control. And by itself, it shouldn’t necessarily bring about the issues Classic WoW is facing.

The big problem with Classic WoW is how many people are allowed to play on one server. If the servers were smaller, say, capped at 2k (in total, not per faction) world PvP would flow so much better, there would actually be a struggle to mantain certain spots under control, resources would be much more available to everyone.

It feels as if the current pop cap deliberately breaks the boundries in which the game is supposed to function.

IMHO this is the real “unbalance”, not in which faction do the players decide to roll.

And to be fair, this raises one question: if Blizz stated back in the day that Classic Wow’s Medium pop realms were already beyond the largest vanilla realms… how did they not see this would be a problem?

Just some thoughts.

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Whats the current server pop? They never said anything about that lol except they’re going to mimic how it was in vanilla (something along those lines)

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The old cap was around 3.5-4k in vanilla. We have basically double that, maybe even triple or more on some servers. It’s way too much.

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Yea I’m pretty sure i saw like 80k in ironforge the other day. Feel like the servers have upwards of about 200k (repeating of course) people sometimes

Yeah, it’s crazy. At certain times, in certain realms it gets so overcrowded that it just feels as if it wasn’t supposed to be that way.

Recently re-rolled in one of the less populated realms and overall the experience is so different. It plays so much more like back in the day.

Easy enough to fix. Just delete half of all Horde toons.

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Where’s Thanos when you need him?

/summons Voidwalker

There is a blue post somewhere saying a medium pop server now has more people than a full vanilla server.

That was during the layered Phase 1. Blizzard did not simply remove layering. The populations dropped down low enough to warrant 1 layer.

Which means that statement is severely outdated

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Well since that post doesn’t exist, you gotta find it and link it

Believe what you want, you don’t matter to me.

Ahh that may be the case. It was quite a while ago. I still think server cap is much larger than vanilla.

All it took was my comment to change your mind so quickly lol

No, your comment said that post did not exist. My reply was to Ristra, who remembers it.

Lol…

(for anyone else reading that, look at the post Ristra made)

lol no

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Lol. Yes.

I have multiple accounts and accounts on both sides where I can sit there and do /who to take census estimates. On some of the bigger servers, they have more than that old cap on one single faction online at once.

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Yes, I recall reading that.

There is no server that goes above 10k concurrent users since layering was removed. Not even close.

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