If you’re sitting in SWC doing nothing but sending messages, you don’t really notice it.
But when you actually try to do a quest there, especially the cooking and fishing dailies, where you have to pick up several items, then yes, you notice.
Click on a pumpkin to pick it up, wait 1.5-2 sec before you see the “cast” bar to pick it up. Right click an NPC to turn a quest in, it takes almost 2 seconds for the dialogue to appear.
or my favorite, a 50/50 chance if clicking the “COMPLETE QUEST” button will actually DO it or if you’ll click the button and nothing happens and you have to close and re-open the dialogue and try again.
EDIT: Now, to be fair, the lag is very dependent upon time-of-day. 5PM EST is ludicrous, 8AM in the morning on weekdays is not. (or, well, was since we are talking about when it wasn’t sharded)
or when youre trying to catch torches during the fire festival!!! >:(((
imo an acceptable loss for rp, because i doubt any sane greedy corporation will orient development resources towards a niche community when they can just flip an existing switch and make most of them happy
I do more things in SW than RP, you know. Grasping at straws won’t help your argument here, I have literally never experienced what you’re describing in my decade on MG. Not when I had terrible internet, nor a potato of a laptop.
This is either a specific issue on your end, or you’re getting your jollies by making stuff up for the sake of annoying people.
The good new is, if it’s the former, Valdrakken is sharded, and has an auction house. There is no reason for you to go to Stormwind at all now, when the sharding is taken off. Unless you… want to level yet more alts beyond the $300 worth of characters you say you have on the server whose fundamental unique aspect gives you so much grief.
I have, but it’s usually only pre-patch and expansion launch week where the SW/Org lag gets bad - and it’s server lag not PC lag. Slow response to abilities being pressed, mail, posting auctions, and the like.
A week or so of sharding is understandable. Afterwards not so much.
If you both do not RP and also do not want to play on the server settings that most RPers prefer, then you should not play on an RP server. Your moving to a non-RP server is the obvious solution, and the cost of doing so is no one’s problem but yours. You are the one who has chosen to play on an RP server for years despite apparently having no intention – at least, none that you’ve stated here – of participating in the server’s officially stated purpose. I suppose you could, perhaps, ask the person who originally asked you to roll on MG to foot the bill, but nobody else is responsible for the choices you made.
As was said, we already have an “RP toggle” – either log into an RP server or log into literally anywhere else.
Blizzard, please turn off sharding on RP servers. It’s a problem.
I just made a thread about this. This thread is all the way back from prepatch. They briefly unphased Stormwind for the last week of prepatch.
Now, 4 weeks after the expansions release, it’s sharded yet again. The slaughtered lamb and the area outside it is the most populated area for RP in Stormwind. When I go there, you’re lucky if you find more than one or two people.
Pre-patch was laggy when sharding was turned off. But only by what felt like half a second. Then, the very next day; no lag whatsoever. If you’re playing on your grandmas IBM laptop and can’t run a now significantly less populated but still very active city, that’s on you. I have an Alienware prebuilt that I bought in 2020 for 2300 dollars. Now that computer would cost you 1800 dollars. That is extremely cheap for a high end PC with a 3080.
Oh, and don’t get me started. When you go to the TRADE DISTRICT, of course you see a good amount of players! Yeah, let’s make sure the trade district is what’s populated on an RP server! That’s where all the roleplay happens! Ain’t nobody roleplaying in the trade district. They use the mage quarter.
People have been positive about Dragonflight, they feel like blizzard is starting to listen to feedback, I still have my doubts. The RP community is an extremely dedicated player base that will continue to play even if the expansion sucks. But now for me, who spends most of their time roleplaying, I’m suddenly no longer the target audience.
Except MG and WRA arent going to die because people cant do walk up rp. I’m in several community discords and theres events going on for both servers. Neither server is dead or dying.
Some community servers and guilds have rp on their servers as a fix. I think honestly people are being overdramatic at this point. Theres a lot of rp ti be had you just have to not be afraid of going outside of your comfort zone.
If you want RP, best thing to do is coordinate over discord and just… go there and hold RP events.
It’s what I did when I RP’d over MU* for years when the “walk-in” RP started to taper off. The veterans of the place hung out on discord and we discussed good times to meet up and we did just that.
They’re trying to say that yeah, sharding hurts the walk-up RP, so why don’t you hold events in discord where everybody agrees to go to (insert place here) and/or set something similar up?
/shrug
But that would be going out of your “comfort zone” of wanting to just walk into SWC and people be there.
You said the community will die and i said no its not. The server population won’t die off due to sharding.
Like i recently decided that i wont hinder myself to walk up rps. I’m going to rp in the world and be adventorous. Im going to events. Im going to enjoy myself and improvise.
Because there is more to roleplay than just SW. Join a couple community discords. I can provide you with links to help you out.
I would think that SWC would get boring after awhile.
I should know, I RP’d in an Egyptian-themed Temple for… wow. Probably like 18+ years. I wanted to go elsewhere on the server, but… the RP wasn’t good anywhere else so I was kinda stuck there. Not because other locales were bad, but because RPers elsewhere weren’t that good and most of the people I talked to didn’t seem willing to venture out and try other settings.
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