It’s not going to be anywhere near that - private servers are 9K+ and the population is awful. They’ve stated they’re shooting to have server populations stabilizing at “Vanilla like levels” - the layering is just for the initial rush when there’s going to be a bunch of lookie-loos.
I hear you. Let’s use some numbers as an example. This is completely made up with multiple assumptions that I think are approximate.
If Blizzard expects 50% of day 1 players to remain after Phase 1, and they desire to have a 7k server size. That means they would have at least two layers with 7k population, which will merge after Phase 1. This means 14k will be on a server on day 1.
So if 1 million people play on day 1. They will need 72,000 servers lol.
Where did they say vanilla like levels for the server?
They’ve said that a layers will hold the same number of people as a vanilla server, but that the servers themselves will hold considerably more people than the servers we had at launch because the technology is better than they had in 2004/5.
Once everyone settles into normal play times, and spread out, layers won’t be needed, even with the increased server sizes.
I may have misheard from one of the streamer interviews at the summit. Do you recall where they said that the servers will hold considerably more than vanilla?
Makes sense considering the advances in technology, just curious if you remember where that was said.
Thanks!
The video interview there they state that each layer will hold a single realms worth of players.
The video with Ion that was posted in this thread he states that the servers they’re using today have the technology to hold “many more players” than the ones they used in 2004. Around the 4:40 mark.
What they intend to set caps to they won’t tell us, only that they can have much higher populations after they disable layering than they could in 2004, that the goal is to keep the number of server low to ensure that every classic server has a healthy population, and that they will add servers if needed later.
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I really hope this works, that way we can convince them to remove cr bgs
Layering won’t be in when BG’s finally get released.
Unless they intend to keep a single server at population caps at what 5 servers in vanilla held, CRBG is needed or people will be sitting in queues for 30-60+ minutes.
They also won’t remove them. They were part of vanilla, introduced in the very patch classic is based on.
They literally said not that.
They’re Ion exact words. Watch the friggin video. I even posted where to start to hear him say it.
PS; scroll up a few posts, guy.
Yeah, until you learn about “context” jeez - pay attention to what he is actually saying…
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Comprehension isn’t hard. Especially when you can watch the video and the full context.
You’ll figure it out.