Is it possible to do limited layering?

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By this I basically mean, can they not have layering for high level zones? Specifically any zone that has high level gathering nodes.

There are already videos being posted on reddit of people in beta abusing layering to mine the same node multiple times. This could really have a big effect on the economy if someone gets max level early and goes around layer hop gathering the same node several times. Or killing the same devilsaur several times.

I really hope they can find a way to have no layering for 50+ zones or some sort of other solution.

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Thatā€™s calledā€¦ sharding.

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Iā€™m pretty sure that I read that the layering would only be happening for the first month or thereabouts - pretty much just until the populations spread out to more zones. It will probably be ended by the time the first rushers get to the higher zones.

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There will be people 60 1 week in. The knowledge people have now compared to original vanilla means 4-5 days /played to 60 is very possible for most classes if you know exactly what youā€™re doing.

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People keep saying they will have it gone in weeks. Iā€™d like to see the post where they have stated it, or are we just assuming that?

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Pretty sure Ion said in an interview that basically they want to get rid of it as quickly as possible. That will be determined I guess by how the populations look.

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If thatā€™s all weā€™re going on it will stick around probably until phase two.

Thatā€™s also based on them keeping their word though, and as long as most of us have been playing we should know better.

Yea, Iā€™m looking at you Ollie shaman forum posts.
<.<

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All we can do is hope they do what they promised. At a min we know its gone before phase 2 hits, but they did say they want it done sooner.

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Well, their is the elephant in the room also. What do we do if the populations of each layer donā€™t taper off like they are hoping?

Like this:
Server A: 9000 lockout.
Shard 1: 2500 average users.
Shard 2: 1500 average users.
Shard 3: 2000 average users.
If they take those three and condense thatā€™s still a 6k population.

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Not everyone can do that, it takes even months on average people to hit 60, and not skipping or rushing content. :rofl:

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Make a 5 minutes cooldown after you changed to another ā€œchannelā€ problem fixed

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Not everyone even wants to do that. The main thing I dislike about current WoW is the whole ā€˜rush to level capā€™ attitude that the game has been redesigned around. I want to play Classic because I want to feel free to take my time to really explore and enjoy the journey like I did on alts before Cata changed everything.

Why would someone want to play Classic in a current WoW rush to cap style of play? That seems to go against the whole essence of Classic WoW.

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My solution to layering is the following:

Let you choose which layer you want to be on.
You cannot interact with people in other shards in any way.
Put a certain cap on how many people can be concurrently logged onto each layer.
Rename layers to ā€œrealms.ā€

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They said it in a interview.

They said weeks and AT MOST, first phaseā€¦definitively not 2nd phase.

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Yes absolutely, thatā€™s the magic WoW vanilla.

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So up to phase two is three months, not two weeks. We canā€™t make broad assumptions that they are going to be able to merge them all together.

In a perfect world, yes each layer will lose two thirds of itā€™s population. Then we can consolidate them, but people shouldnā€™t be saying itā€™s just, ā€œa couple of weeks.ā€ Thatā€™s just false information.

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They did say a couple of weeksā€¦ and worst case scenario end of phase 1.

They plan on just a couple of weeks

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No they plan on phase one, but they hope for two weeks. Thatā€™s why he specified up to phase two. Itā€™s all about context and wording in these dev cooler talks.

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O_o Noā€¦ they plan on a few weeks and hope not on all of phase 1.

They specified no phase 2 as a definitive cut off because of the World bosses it would affect.

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Yes, but they planned up to phase two if needed. Yes I understand they want it out within a few weeks, but that is not a guarantee.

He did specify up to the end of phase one. Which is three months. The best we can do is assume three months and hope populations die off fast and they can merge the layers.