Open X-fers Skyfury—>Angerforge

[Axxo-skyfury]

@Biopriest-skyfury

Cherry picking I see.

Cherry picking what?

@Axxo-skyfury

Faerlina was mostly a very healthy high pop, well balanced server long after those streamers stopped playing. It wasn’t until several months into TBC Classic that the faction disparity started.

@Biopriest-skyfury

Like I said WPvP is cool and all in the very beginning of an expansion and all that but in reality, people just want to farm their primal air or fires and be done with it without having to fight some paladin and a rogue for 45 minutes.

Oh, I see. Pardon me if your subtlety wasn’t obvious. As more Horde transferred into Faerlina with paid transfers, people started talking about server imbalance and foreseeing it get worse. Alliance started transferring off, amplifying the disparity in server balance. When it was around 65:35, free transfers to Faerlina opened up for a bunch of realms that were dying, and that pretty much sealed the deal. As horde came flooding in, the Alliance Exodus was upon us.

FWIW, that isn’t cherry picking. I didn’t take a particular thing you said and respond to that while ignoring everything else. I just didn’t have any idea what you meant, because it wasn’t obvious from the context of your reply (to me).

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@Simm-skyfury

Nah there is 0 reason anything needs to be destroyed.

I agree, and not having server transfers was a major selling point for the fresh servers. “Fresh” is already not much of a thing anymore since the amount of people with great gear, epic flying, maxed professions, gold to spare is quite high (at least in my guild), so what else is there, other than being a server whose population cannot be affected by transfers?

@Simm-skyfury

Gold buying has destroyed every server in classic and that is why the fresh realms in my circle of friends are so popular.

I suspect this is a myth, or at least greatly over-emphasized. Sure gold buying is a thing, but if people are able to get multiple max-level characters with epic flying and dual spec within 2 weeks, then farming 15k+ gold isn’t that big of a deal.

I bet the prices of things on the AH on Skyfury, now that people are 70 with gold, maxed professions and they have gone up to adjust to the economy, are not much different from other servers.

@Simm-skyfury

On another topic is mirroring a second server and utilizing sharding like they do in retail just to expensive for a temporary fix on their part or really not an option. Just curious lol.

Hard to say! Because we don’t have access to the infrastructure or codebase. Something along those lines would be a great solution, imo though… and I wish it was something they could do.

From what they have stated, it doesn’t seem like it’s doable on their end within the foreseeable future.

@Aggrend-1483

I also just want to reiterate this point though; we’ve raised population caps to accommodate mega-realms to the absolute limit of current technology. I’ve seen a lot of armchair server engineers say things like “just add more hardware”, and I can’t stress it or put it any more plainly, the technology to allow more than we have on realms now does not exist. We’ve added the hardware, we’ve optimized as much as we can optimize, and the current demand on these few realms is just too much. Continuing to push our luck and find ways to reach ever higher realm caps has hit a point where we can’t go any further, and eventually something had to give. That something has given and we are going to be taking different approaches to this problem going forward.