If this server was on the East Coast, it would already be full. No one from the East wants to play on that server, which is why it is still at medium.
Our group was eyeing an RP-PvP server, but we are mostly East based.
A happy compromise, and a way to keep its population after launch, and phase 1, would be to move it to the center. Just my thoughts, anyone else?
This would be the right answer, since there’s only one server for that ruleset.
That was my thinking. Why is the East-Coast not getting an RP-PvP server? It would be a simple fix to move it to the Chicago datacenter, and appeal to everyone.
True. I hope they at least address this. It seems like their stance was to not give us any RP-PvP servers, and then, they relented, but placed the server somewhere they could justify there refusal to give us an RP-PvP server to start with.
And why would we want it to have unreasonable queues? Because you cannot handle a slight additional ping?
Grobby is fine as it is.
I’m EST and I’ll be on Grobbulus.
You shouldn’t be worried about its PST designation/LA location honestly.
If you want RP-PvP that’s the place to go.
EDIT: Yeah “No one from the East wants to play on that server, which is why it is still at medium.” is completely and utterly untrue by the way.
LOL, with one server, timezone doesn’t matter.
People from all timezones will be on it.
Maybe blizzard was right, rppvp just isn’t popular.
I rolled there and I’m on the east coast.
Yeah, its fine where it is, and if any server gets scrubbed due to lack of population at some point, it will be Grobbulus? Then you will be singing a different tune.
Now, if they simply put it in Chicago, there is only a little latency loss for everyone, and a guarantee that the server population will be healthy.
I sincerely doubt that a slightly higher ping is keeping anyone remotely interested in RPPVP away from the server. RPPVP population will be nice and stable, the population after layer collapse full, don’t you worry your pretty little head.
Our 300 member guild specifically didn’t choose it because of the location. While you rolling there from the East-Coast, is legit. The fact remains that plenty of people are not choosing it for its location.
Is your “300 member guild” a RPPVP guild?
What is the guild name?
(I doubt your entire guild is east coast based)
No, we are definitely not all East-Coast. We are the Malicious Moogles . Over 300, and most, but not all, of our members are in the East Coast region. We tested the ping difference, and it was about 35 to 40, which is not bad, but when we voted on servers, Grob was only left out because of its location. So, while your arguments are valid, so are mine.
So basically you are not even a RP guild. but are just a PVP server guild.
You are not going to get much sympathy in that case from the RPPVP crowd.
So you guys weren’t invested in RP-PvP beforehand then?
If so then it makes sense why you’d let a little extra ping (in a game designed around worse ping) keep you away.
But for those of us who wanted RP-PvP in the first place, it won’t keep us away at all.
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What am I missing?
Complaining about a 35 ms ping and not rolling on Grobb makes me think you don’t care too much about RP.
We are discussing server locations to better server everyone, and you can’t stay on topic, but would rather dive into whether we are a real RP guild?
Fellow east coast Grobmobber here too.