I don’t understand why people don’t comprehend this. The time the ingame sun goes up and down has no bearing on when people are actually going to be playing, especially when there is only one server of it’s kind. lol.
I explained the situation. You’re being obtuse. There won’t be people doing things all the time, because there won’t be enough people.
If I’m wrong I’m wrong, but I doubt I will be. Just based on our subreddit and discord, Grob’s gonna be popping at all hours.
I’m on WrA, which is Pacific time, and I’m Eastern. There are tons of Eastern and Central people on WrA. I don’t see Grob being any different.
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One of you that this happened to really needs to make a thread about it. On discord I saw this happening left and right by guildies. Imagine release day if it is still happening. Blizzard needs to get in front of it.
I havn’t seen a poll that showed server/NA region relationship.
Link please.
Apparently I can’t include links on the forums, but there is one at the top of the /r/classicwow subreddit, and if you search “poll” on the /r/grobbulus subreddit there is one specific to timezones - the majority of respondents chose EST.
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Cool I found it. Low sample but still interesting.
You said ‘most’ on grob are eastern. I would clarify that and say the largest block of respondents are eastern, but they are not a majority.
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I am not a big fan of taking polls or using them, and I think a vast majority of players who are just waiting for the servers to go live don’t use the forums much or at all.
I do think we will see a nice healthy population though, and hoping we get a good split between the 2 factions. Will know “soon”!
Several times I got thrown onto Mankrik after getting past the login boss. The first time I saved all of my names before realizing what had happened. I spent another 40 minutes or so trying to get in to Grobbulus. I wonder how many may have had the same thing happen to them and accidentally saved names on the wrong server.
I would reckon quite a few hundred. I would still be on Mankrik if I didn’t check right before I went to sleep.
Low, etc indicates the amount of players at a given moment, I believe. A server can be low, medium or high at any point in a day.
You all need to remember that a lot of people refused to come back to the game just to reserve a name. That’s a small factor to some people. This was only a event to reserve a name and even so it got alot of players online, enough to even shut servers down and already cause issues (hence log in issues) So once launch gets here you can bet you coin pouch on it that there is going to be even more issues and alot of mad people. However I think Grobb is going to be a awesome server as long as rp community stays strong like Emerald Dream use to be and I’m deftly sticking around in till the next retail xpack comes out and they have to fix ability prunes and wpvp as well fix world defense other wise I have no reason to go back. World Defense was my endgame content for years.
I would think that majority of people serious about role playing would spend $7.50 to secure their names. I would think roleplayers would have more of an attachment to a name than anyone else. Are you planning on starting fresh with a new character, you’ve never played before?
the rp-pvp stress test server was “low” but that had hundred in starting area from what I saw. That could also of just been one of several layers. We have no well of telling as the player at this point, only blizzard.
it means rp pvp server low
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For what it’s worth, the first 45 minutes or so were kind of random. I was at the login screen at the same time as my guild, and most of them were in 5 minutes (this was on Atiesh; I’m going to make an alt on Bloodsail but not until the game goes live). I waited 35 minutes to make a character. After that though, things settled down and I could get right in. Atiesh is also “low”, but I’m not surprised. I think they made too few pvp servers and could have gone with two pve servers per NA (instead of four). We’ll see how it plays out though!
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I agree with that sentiment regarding the name reservation. Not sure yet if I will still play on Grob with that low pop indicator.
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This might effectively be true but we still don’t know how they are designating what is “low” pop and what is “full”. It could be based on traditional server load, or it could be based on layering capacity and be all relative.
Maybe the full servers are all > 5000 and the low ones are all <5000. That would be worrying to me. However, it may be that the full ones are >30000 and the low ones are still over 10000. If every server that had x amount of characters showed as “full” nobody would have any indication as to which servers might need more population to balance things out, which is why I’m thinking it’s about relative vs. total numbers.