Is Silvermoon the Worst Designed MMO Main City?

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For the longest time I thought Shar Val from EverQuest was the WORST designed city, largely due to its size, crashing computers despite meting min requirements, corrupting Kernel files, and just generally not having an intuitive layout for any of the merchants and class trainers.

But every single time I go to Silvermoon it feels like I’m playing Marco Polo.

Although I believe EverQuest still remains tops for corrupting Kernel Files, my computer wasn’t affected to that degree, and I could still find a trainer at 5 FPS (until the patches that fixed both).

I don’t think they’re ever going to Patch Silvermoon to fix the layout of key NPCs.

What say ye? Which is worse?

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I still say that Dazar’alor the Horde capital during BFA holds that title.

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Ooooo, that’s a good nomination for worst city.

The thing is from a Role Play Standpoint it almost makes sense that the Trolls would create a psychopathic labyrinth. So I’m on the fence, but it’s a good nomination.

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the undercity imo

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Erm, no, not even close.

It’s not even the worst designed city in WoW.

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Oribos was an airport.

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I mean both of those don’t really seem confusing so much as they’re just circles. And yeah, that description of Oribos being an Airport fits. I like that. Big isn’t great but it’s not necessarily the worst.

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I hate Silvermoon. Oribos was garbage. Undercity still annoys me.

Out of all the major cities, I hate Silvermoon the most.

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My thoughts exactly.

Oribos was by far the worst-designed city in the game. Yes, it was a ‘circle’, but it was an extremely large circle that you could not fly in (and still can’t fly in), and every service was indoors and spread out way too far apart from each other.

On top of that, it was missing an AH unless you were an engineer (and still is), so if you wanted to do anything involving the AH, you had to go back to Stormwind/Orgrimmar or hope someone out in the larger circle was on a brutosaur.

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Did you play during Wrath?

Dalaran Wrath was so laggy, in addition to being in the air.

To the point that Crystalsong Forest beneath it, was underutilized because of the lag the city above caused.

Silvermoon is at least functional, I don’t lag there at all.

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Brother I played during Vanilla’s IronLag. 10 minutes of standing still before I could access an NPC due to loading issues.

But I really think for a city to be worst of the worst it has to have multiple factors, not just one.

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Lol yeah, I remember hearthing to Dalaran and taking like a 5-10 minute break, just because of how bad the loading screen was.

Pretty much every time.

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I kept a stack of Goblin Gliders in my bag so I could make it to the docks easier. Who’s idea was it to put the main hub a mile away from the zone exit?

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Shar Val hands down
Silvermoon everything is in a circle (like Iron Forge) around the center campaign hub

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Ion Hazzikostas was the head of WoW at that time.

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Glad he never went into city planning.

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Being next door to Wintergrasp didn’t help either.

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It took me a week to get my bearings in Silvermoon. But I can autopilot by reflex to anywhere I need to go now.

I’m still deeply annoyed that there’s a big area I have to carefully avoid clipping, but I’ve only actually been flagged once on one alt while absent-mindedly flying off in the wrong direction. Even my Horde characters avoid the old city just so I avoid developing any bad “oops, wrong shrine” habits.

That aside, overall I actually like the place quite a bit.

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Even though I don’t play other mmos I’m just going to say yes. I hate it.

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I like silvermoon. One of my favorite spots is a big landing on horde side that is looking out over the Isle of Quel’Danas. Many other nice little gardens around, too.

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