Sharding < Server Crash

[Eloraell-moon-guard]

@Instappen-emerald-dream

What’s worth discussing are solutions, which people don’t seem interesting in doing. They just want to pick their religion, and defend it for the hell of it.

Some of us have been discussing those solutions for months. We don’t want to repeat the same argument over.

Sharding Compromise

(This is a summation as an OP of stuff discussed in a dozen sharding threads, but none seems to start the discussion with this logic.) Definitions: “Tourist” = Player who doesn’t get past L20. This assumes that the average player that gets past L20 plays for a significantly longer time, than just stopping a few levels past 20. Assumptions: Non-Tourist population: ~500,000 Tourist population: ~4,500,00 for first 3 months. Server Count: ~200 Server Cap at 3 months: 3,000 Server Cap at launc…