There are plans for an elongated CD to move between layers, and players can’t move out of layers while engaged in PvP.
I think there could be a list of layers dedicated to specific purposes like RP, RP-PvP, PvP etc, so that players could choose to move to a specific one in-game while still being in the same server. Like a game interface where players could see the list of layers and transfer
If you can’t layer hop then it wouldn’t really be an option. I’m honestly hoping the layer hopping restrictions are very tight because layer hopping is such an annoying meta thing. I just wanna play game, not play layer-swap manager.
Then you should ask for layers to be removed. It only exists because Blizzard is too cheap to invest in real server infrastructure. They’re bad for the game, and the layering changes are even worse.
I just don’t think it’s feasible. Older mmo’s like classic wow, ffxi, struggle with large player loads in the absence of layering or similar technologies. I don’t know if its even possible to overcome it on the older games without layering or a million different, disconnected servers. Every solution has it’s own problems.
Pservers weren’t perfect in any regard but they certainly held up better with thousands of people standing in the same location without layers than Blizzard can do with layers.
It’s because they’re a cheap company that will spend the absolute minimum to make profit. If some Russians dudes in a basement can pay to host better servers in France, Blizzard can certainly do so as well. They just don’t and sell layers as a necessity to their playerbase which is none the wiser.
I’m pretty sure the playercounts in live massively trump those of any private server
Per server it’s not that much different. Only a handful of servers will have more than 10k average pop.