We're not making enough noise about layering

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Because of layering , count me out

Had an idea of how to perhaps find an alternative approach. Layers could act like sub realms. You pick a layer and it works just like a realm, except they share names and such so they can be merged easily when needed, but are not exactly merges because they are connected through having to share the pool of names, avoiding the “omg server merges ze game is DYING!!11” PR BS. (which btw, i think the complete opposite will happen, where there will be way more players than they anticipate now) The…

There’s also very similar ideas on the forums here by other people.

Subrealms: Classic Solution to Modern Population

I’m not going to address the lot of problems that this new “layering” system (basically sharding 2.0) they introduced to us a couple days ago bring with it, as there are many other threads that do so better than I possibly could. Instead of patching one issue at a time to eliminate exploits (which will happen as it is) and for the sake of keeping the Classic experience authentic I propose a simple solution: Subrealms. What are subrealms? Read below. It’s simple. Basically, we have a realm cal…

I just fixed Layering. Hire me Blizz

Blizzard will choose a certain number of servers and certain number of layers per server at launch. I propose to make those layers selectable by users one time at character creation. Server list: Mannorth1 Mannorth2 Mannorth3 Mannorth4 Burning Blade1 Burning Blade2 Burning Blade3 Burning Blade4 When you make a character, you choose your server, and the layer. If you want to play with your friends then you all choose “Burning Blade3” . Once you choose your layer, you are locked to it…