I came back 4 days ago and decided to try something new with RP servers (MG Ally). And the sharding is just ruining everything. I’m the only player in SW, how am i suppose to try and discover RP ?
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if you guys follow wow on social media you might wanna try there cuz idk if theyre paying attention to this thread
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Already done, sent em a message like a minute ago on Twitter… finally…I have a use for Twitter and social media!
Now we just need 199 more people to send a message about it…
https://twitter.com/Blizzard_Ent
#forgot to deshard RP servers here.
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what is your twitter? We need to all pile in. Moon Guard is desolate and it is massively depressing now that the initial rush is over.
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Rather unfortunate to see nobody around, gotta say.
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When there is no sharding, there were over 200 people hanging out in SWC, sometimes upwards of 500.
This causes massive lag.
If you do a /who in content zones, you only see 75-100 people usually, and content zones are larger than SWC and so the people are more spread out, and these content zones oftentimes have phased quests which phases people out ontop of that.
It’s not too hard to understand that when you shard SWC and the population goes from 200-500 down to 20-30, the lag suddenly vanishes. Well, obviously it vanishes. Why is that hard to comprehend?
So you’re telling me that you did not have the same levels of lag in, say, Korthia? Or Zenith Mortis? Or Oribos? You’re saying that you’ve consistently gotten lag to that extent only in Stormwind and it goes away when people are sharded to the point where there’s a dozen people per shard?
Azure Span is much larger than Stormwind and has had lag despite being sharded. Are you getting the same levels of lag there?
Like I’m struggling to understand how you’re getting this lag only in Stormwind during Shadowlands, unsharded, that the only solution is to shard the city so much that the city is a ghost town. And your response to no one else getting lag is that we don’t notice it anymore.
You’re on an RP server, to the extent where you have $300+ worth of characters to move, and you’ve had lag to this level the entire time in Stormwind, and you’ve stubbornly stayed on this RP server despite not RPing, for years.
I’m starting to think you’re taking us all for a spin, really. Like I said, there’s one every expansion launch when we ask to get sharding turned off, and the claims are always nonsensical.
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killing rp on this game will actually be a net loss considering rpers stick around even during content lulls
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No. They did that for PvP and it killed servers, communities and guilds.
The RP servers are fine the way they are— as soon as they fix the sharding issue.
You’d be wrong.
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This is a really weird, roundabout fix for something that is as simple as just turning off the sharding altogether. It is not necessary at this point in the expansion.
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bro u corny ahh >:(
It should of been turned off by now, it completly destorys the RP community. Yet again, its sad to see RPers get the short end of the stick every time.
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I am going to keep coming here until Blizzard turns the gotdang sharding off. 
TURN 
IT OFF
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If you have Twitter, you can join us in reminding them to shut off the sharding on RP realms on their Twitter linked above.
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Occasionally I saw bits of lag in Oribos, but it was not noticeable as there’s not much to DO in Oribos other than brief crafting stints and/or just running through on your way to your next objective. I never really did questing or anything like that in there. That, and Oribos was sharded like every other zone, too. Also, I think it’s worth noting that I hated Shadowlands, and didn’t spend a whole lot of time in that expansion. There was a time I’d put 10-15 hours a week into WoW, during most of SL, I played considerably less, maybe 5 hours a week.
Korthia? Yeah, I saw lag in Korthia the first week or two. I quickly got the hang of going to Korthia between Thursday and Saturday when the lag was far less (because everybody wanted to go there Tues and Weds because of the weekly reset).
ZM? I quit during Korthia and came back during the Prepatch, so never saw ZM.
Azure Span is indeed a lagfested Hellhole, and I’ve already suggested ways they could alleviate it, such as making the soup event an instance.
I’m struggling to understand why you are assuming I said SWC is the only laghole in WoW. It is one of the major lagholes in WoW, and it is caused by this insistence that it is “good” to have 500 people mashed up in the same zone because of “RP” (when a good half of the people aren’t even there TO RP to begin with).
Okay so 30 people in SWC is too few. 500 is too many. How about 200?
Uh, RP is not the same as PvP.
People who wanted to WPvP wanted an environment where they could gank people who didn’t really want PvP.
On PvE servers, most people WPvPing just wanted to exploit the plethora of ways to get someone to accidentally flag themselves for easy kills, griefing, trolling, what-not. Of course, these people complained and whined loudly when Blizz made it 99% impossible to accidentally flag oneself, complaining about “care bears” and every other insult they could think of.
On PvP servers, the people there wanted spontaneous WPvP, and/or to prey on people who were just trying to level. WPvP is only “good” (it’s hard to say that with a straight face…) at max level, and leveling up is nearly impossible on a PvP server without lots of frustration.
Thus, when War Mode was introduced, guess what? Most people didn’t use it for leveling. Most people went into WM only at max level looking for people to gank.
Oh wait, there were no lowbies to gank, because very few lowbies wanted to use War Mode to quest because the extra gains aren’t worth being killed by max level players constantly.
Imagine that.
But, with RP…
If you made an RP toggle, the people who wanna RP would toggle it on. The people who don’t wanna RP, wouldn’t. You can’t force RP on someone who doesn’t wanna RP, like you could with PvP on an OG PvP server.
You’re comparing apples to oranges here.
EDIT: BTW, Valdrakken…
I’ve already learned rather quickly that dragonflying inside of Valdrakken is a very bad idea because of the framerate drops and how annoying it is when your flight buttons don’t respond immediately. And despite the fact that Valdrakken is in the same zone as the rest of Thaldraszus, you only get the lag when you draw close to Valdrakken.
Thankfully, IN Valdrakken, it’s rare you do anything other than a bit of crafting, AH, etc stuff. There’s not much in the way of quests that take place IN there that I’ve seen yet. They’ve somehow managed to separate Valdrakken from the rest of the zone (or maybe just distant players don’t affect lag, and that’s why SWC is so bad because all those players are cramped up in the same little area).
I even made a meme for this:
https://i.imgflip.com/74qppr.jpg
Someone with TL3 post this…
Communities are communities. There’s no reason to kill MG and WrA for your personal annoyance.
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It’s really sad. I cannot navigate Twitter, but you have my support
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Separating people who wanna do RP and people who aren’t interested in RP is not going to kill anything.
Heck, make RP the default and allow someone to choose to go to an empty shard.
You’re acting like forcing someone who’s not wanting to RP to be on the RP shard is going to “kill” the community.
Do you realize how silly you sound?
“OH NOES the people who don’t wanna RP all left the RP version of SWC! Whatever will we do!?”
Yes. It will. There’s no reason to separate anyone again. They tried that once and it failed. It killed the RP/PvP servers. It killed guilds. It killed communities.
There are lots of people on MG and WrA who don’t RP, but enjoy being around the RP. So now you want them to get shoved into another shard, not around their guildmates or friends just to be around RP? You want people in guilds where some RP and others don’t to be split up?
No. You are only thinking about yourself here and not the overall ramifications.
Never again should they try to shove people in to shards and ruin servers.
Ah, so now we’ve resorted to attempts at insults? Then you don’t deserve any more time or conversation.
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